30-Something, Flirty, and Thriving - You can't make this stuff up

Part 2: Feel Me (pain and happiness)         Sometimes in life, things seem to happen all at once. "When it rains it pours", right?  On may the 9th my mom and I were involved in a car accident when someone pulled out in front of us.  Immediately after the accident, we tried to get out of the car, but the car was so messed up that the doors would not open. That is a scary feeling!! At first, I didn't think I was hurt, but I think that was the adrenaline.  We went to the emergency room to be checked out to be sure. Thank God my mom wasn't hurt, just sore. I however chipped the bone in my thumb, busted my lip and nose, broke the wire on my braces, and had pretty bad internal bruising. I know that it could have been so much worse so I certainly count my blessings! "And pennies make dimes and dimes make dollars, Dollars buy gas and longneck bottles, Beer gets a barefoot country girl swayin, To a song that's playin on the radio station. Bad times make t

I’d like to ask you a question. What do you see when you look at me? Do you see a woman who has a big heart that has been broken more times than I’d like to count?   Do you see the little girl that was made fun of for being fat growing up, and struggled with her weight from a very young age? Do you see the little girl that spent a few years with just her mom, because her parents were divorced when she was 1 ½? How about the number of stamps I have on my passport? We have all been guilty of looking at someone and judging them by the way they look, but what does it take for you to see past what’s on the outside and see what is on the inside?   What’s the old cliché? Don’t judge a book by its cover. I am still finding out who I am but let me tell you what I see when I look at me. When I look at myself in the mirror, regardless of what society says, I don’t see a “Fat” person, I see a normal person, even further than that A PERSON. I was a SHY little girl that