A Bit of History / Fall On Your Knees

Hello people! This is my second post to my blog, and I figured that I would post a bit of background information about myself. I am 20 years old and I was born and raised in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. I love it here, though I would also like to leave someday just to see what the outside world is like. I have never really lived anywhere else, though I did spend some of my summers in Chisholm, a rural farming area with a fairly high concentration of Mennonites and Quakers. I also spent a few summers on Manitoulin Island, which is on Lake Huron.

I come from a mixed family. I have my mom, who was remarried when I was 7, so I also have a step-dad, Cliff. Cliff has two daughters, Jess and Hil, and Jess has an almost three year old son, Noah. I have my dad, who has also been remarried, then divorced again, and he is now with another woman with whom he had a son, my two year old half-brother, Thomas. My mom and dad had another child aside from myself, my full-brother, Chad. With so much blending, and marrying, and remarrying, just imagine the family chaos!

Speaking of marriage, I am getting married on September 20th, 2008 to the love of my life, Karl. If you check my profile, you should see a picture of us together. That picture was taken almost exactly two years ago, shortly after we started dating when we were 18 and in High School. High school seems like ages ago...

I went to college and graduated from a program called Office Administration. I want to go back for one more year so I can be a medical transcriber, but I won't be going back until September of 2008 (it's going to be a crazy month!). In the meantime, I work as a Customer Service Representative for an American cell phone company, Sprint. In layman's terms: I answer phone calls from the company's customers who have all kinds of crazy questions. For example, here is an *almost* direct quote from a call I had a few days ago:

Customer: "Hello, I needs you to track my phone calls on (date) during (hours). I needs to know what cellular towers my phones was working on sos I can prove to the police that I did not commit a crime they is blaming me of... And don't tell me y'all can't do it, 'cause I knows you can; I seen it on CSI!"

Needless to say, there are some really good days, some really bad days, and some days that make you laugh so hard that you almost pee your pants!

For now, that's pretty much all I'll tell about myself. When some more interesting things arrise, I'll post them.

Also, I just wanted to let you all know (you all being the millions of people who just so happen to be reading my blog) that I am starting a new book: Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald, a Canadian author. It's her debut novel, and so far I'm only about 10 pages in, but I am already hooked. So hooked, in fact, that I am going to head to bed to read now!

I'll post my thoughts on this book in a few days when I've finished it!