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1. First Name: E. [if you know, you know]
2. Age: 51
3. Location: Austin, TX
4. Occupation: work from home Contractor
5. Significant Other(s): Husband Thax
6. Kids: None. Turns out I had a bicornuate uterus the whole time so probably never could have, even if I had wanted to.
7. Siblings: 1 sister H. --11 years younger than me, 1 brother A. -- 5 or 6 years younger than me, stepbrother sineater 6 months younger than me, foster brother, 6 months older than me but he fibs about his age on his FB. There's an ex stepbro somewhere out there from my father's second marriage but the divorce happened when he was 5 or 6 and I was 11 or 12 so we didn't stay in touch or even think to.
8. Pets: 3 dogs. Boba- 60 lbs, 7 or 8 yrs old black bassett-lab (we think), Liam - 20 lbs, 9-10 years old brown terrier mix, Sunny - 20 lbs, white terrier mix. Liam is the oldest, Sunny will be 2 in May-ish. They're all rescues, so ages and breeds are approximate. We adopted Boba from the Bastrop animal shelter, we got Liam when someone posted about a stray 'corgi' on a facebook corgi group, and Sunny was hit by a car and hiding in our neighbors' flower bed. The neighbors didn't seem to be doing anything to help, and no one responded to social media posts about her, so Thax had me go and get her the day after he posted her photos around.
9. List the 3 biggest things going on in your life:
10. Where and for what did you go to school?: High school in San Antonio, first try at college was a year at Tulane (psych major,I think?), then ACC for a while, then DePauw University in Greencastle IN where I finally got my shit together and got a bachelor's degree (Writing, minor in religion).
11. Parents: Divorced when I was 5 or so. Mom has been remarried twice, ex stepdad, father of my sister, has passed away now. Father died of cancer in 2012. Father remarried once, I haven't stayed in touch with his ex wife or her kid. We weren't close. She was kind of a nut. Stepdad has been 'dad' since I was 15. He's a good man and I love and respect him a lot. Out of all the father figures he and my uncle B are the ones who feel most father-like to me. Mom and stepdad live in a big ol Victorian sprawl in Greencastle where I went to college, thanks to stepdad's working at the college so I got to go for free (ish).
12. Who are some of your closest friends? Between pandemic and mental health crisis that started in 2016, peaked in 2018, and has slowly been getting better, I don't feel all that close to anyone. I like seeing people on facebook and what not but that's about all I have 'spoons' for these days. We take the dogs to the dog park most weekends, and we have a friend-couple that bring their dog and meet us there. They are the most consistent people we see anymore. They were our friend Flavio's 'other couple' that he hung out with. He and the husband of that couple would play through video games at their house and they'd all go out for dinner regularly. And we were Flavio's steampunk & beer & traveling friends. We didn't hang out much before Flavio died but we've started doin the dog park thing so I guess those are our 'closest' friends right now. I miss people somewhat, sometimes, but I wouldn't really know how to get anything social started again, at this point.
2. Age: 51
3. Location: Austin, TX
4. Occupation: work from home Contractor
5. Significant Other(s): Husband Thax
6. Kids: None. Turns out I had a bicornuate uterus the whole time so probably never could have, even if I had wanted to.
7. Siblings: 1 sister H. --11 years younger than me, 1 brother A. -- 5 or 6 years younger than me, stepbrother sineater 6 months younger than me, foster brother, 6 months older than me but he fibs about his age on his FB. There's an ex stepbro somewhere out there from my father's second marriage but the divorce happened when he was 5 or 6 and I was 11 or 12 so we didn't stay in touch or even think to.
8. Pets: 3 dogs. Boba- 60 lbs, 7 or 8 yrs old black bassett-lab (we think), Liam - 20 lbs, 9-10 years old brown terrier mix, Sunny - 20 lbs, white terrier mix. Liam is the oldest, Sunny will be 2 in May-ish. They're all rescues, so ages and breeds are approximate. We adopted Boba from the Bastrop animal shelter, we got Liam when someone posted about a stray 'corgi' on a facebook corgi group, and Sunny was hit by a car and hiding in our neighbors' flower bed. The neighbors didn't seem to be doing anything to help, and no one responded to social media posts about her, so Thax had me go and get her the day after he posted her photos around.
9. List the 3 biggest things going on in your life:
- planning a birthday/end of contract mini vacation where we'll take the dogs to the beach
- brother A may be paroling out of prison in June
- mom is having some health stuff
10. Where and for what did you go to school?: High school in San Antonio, first try at college was a year at Tulane (psych major,I think?), then ACC for a while, then DePauw University in Greencastle IN where I finally got my shit together and got a bachelor's degree (Writing, minor in religion).
11. Parents: Divorced when I was 5 or so. Mom has been remarried twice, ex stepdad, father of my sister, has passed away now. Father died of cancer in 2012. Father remarried once, I haven't stayed in touch with his ex wife or her kid. We weren't close. She was kind of a nut. Stepdad has been 'dad' since I was 15. He's a good man and I love and respect him a lot. Out of all the father figures he and my uncle B are the ones who feel most father-like to me. Mom and stepdad live in a big ol Victorian sprawl in Greencastle where I went to college, thanks to stepdad's working at the college so I got to go for free (ish).
12. Who are some of your closest friends? Between pandemic and mental health crisis that started in 2016, peaked in 2018, and has slowly been getting better, I don't feel all that close to anyone. I like seeing people on facebook and what not but that's about all I have 'spoons' for these days. We take the dogs to the dog park most weekends, and we have a friend-couple that bring their dog and meet us there. They are the most consistent people we see anymore. They were our friend Flavio's 'other couple' that he hung out with. He and the husband of that couple would play through video games at their house and they'd all go out for dinner regularly. And we were Flavio's steampunk & beer & traveling friends. We didn't hang out much before Flavio died but we've started doin the dog park thing so I guess those are our 'closest' friends right now. I miss people somewhat, sometimes, but I wouldn't really know how to get anything social started again, at this point.
