So you shared your face with us, but what makes you YOU?

[Prognathodon]

Pretty boring childhood/adolescence, as an introvert bookworm. I turned 50 last year, been married to Dracos for over half my life now. We both grew up in Michigan, met at Michigan Tech, got married after I graduated, and ended up in the Chicago area because that’s where he got a job.

In the last year Dracos left his job as a software test engineer, got his CDL, and became a truck driver. Our adult son was tired of working at Little Caesar’s, got his CDL, and now he’s on the road, too. So it’s me, all the snakes, the skink, the tortoise, and the three dogs except on weekends. It was a year of big changes!

I’m an un-Civil Engineer, and a lifer with the State of Illinois, working in floodplain management. Dracos and I have a side business that started out making and selling leather goods like belts, pouches, etc. to medieval reenactors (SCA). With the changes mentioned above I’ve re-directed the business, doing more on Etsy and smaller one-day shows that I take less stuff to. I have waaayyy too many hobbies, currently making doll clothes and hand-bound books more than doing leatherworking. Partly because the dining/work room is a shambles.

Thank Dog for e-books, or our house would have imploded under the weight of all the books - all three of us humans are readers. The offspring still prefers paper, and there’s some things that I can’t get electronically and/or want in paper, so there’s still plenty of books around.

For extra personal-life excitement, I’m monogamous with a poly spouse. Adjusting to that was . . . Interesting. A good marriage counselor, therapist, and anti-depressants helped. Turns out that some of the relentless drive to Make All The Things was to shut up the internal monologue, which was getting more and more un-shut-uppable because of depression. Now it can be nice and quiet in my head, yay!

I’m very jealous of Dakski’s Formula car and Porsche 911. I’ve wanted a 911 since high school - actually I do have a pretty red 914, about a foot long.


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