Hello friends, new and old

Welcome to my new friends!
I have to ask a favor from all of you (yes even the friends I've had for a while now)
I have a hard time keeping track of more than a couple people, especially when I've come in at the middle of your stories. I would really like if you'd each send me a short summary of who you are, age, who you live with, what you're currently doing that you journal a lot about, any important people you mention a lot in your journal, etc. I'll do the same, in a journal entry, as soon as I can. It just helps if I have some background to picture when I read your entries. Thanks, and I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you better :)

A little about me-tl;dr

I've been trying to get to this since I posted saying I would, but I've been constantly sidetracked.

I'm 32, married, with a 5 year old son. We have 2 cats (Mona and Happy) and a dog (Bo). We had to put a 3rd cat (George) to sleep about a year and a half ago. :(

My son is in preschool. I think he is incredibly smart and cute but I may be biased. :P However I have had my struggles with him, due to some ongoing depression, which I have an on again-off again medication for, depending on which side of the fence I'm on about medicating depression. Sometimes I think it's great to be on a drug that makes you happy and sometimes I think it's a bunch of crap. Like, I feel cheated that I can't be just you know, happy without medication.

My husband and I have issues too. Mostly we just don't have much in common anymore. I'm very quiet and he likes to yammer on about basically anything. I like to keep to myself, and he calls this silence "awkward". I have issues with how he treats me sometimes. He's not outwardly abusive but he makes me feel like I'm always doing the wrong thing or doing something wrong.

I went to a few different colleges after I graduated high school in 1997 (yikes) but I didn't get any degree until 2004 when I graduated culinary school after 2 years. After that I had a few random cooking jobs, but after I had my son in 2006 I found the hours were too weird to continue doing if I wanted any kind of family life. So I quit working for a few years until last year when I decided to apply to work at the public school cafeterias. It was below my abilities but I figured it would work out well once my son started full time school.

I was hired, but only as a sub. Over the next few months I only got called twice. Then I got a call from someone in school admin saying they needed a bus monitor for a van of 4 teenage boys with behavioral issues who get bussed to a school out of state (only half an hour away though)

I've been doing that for about a month. It's challenging, but really no worse than dealing with my son on his worst days (and getting paid for it).

I will probably call my husband DH and my son DS from here on out (dear husband and dear son, respectively)

The boys on the bus, I call them C, D, J and Red.

Anything else, I hope it will clarify itself in my posts but if anything's grossly unclear feel free to ask.

Oh yeah, I'm also a massive New Kids on the Block fan (Blockhead). I try to keep that on the downlow here but you may see some fangirling once in a while :P

A minor detail

Oh duh, I should probably mention I have spina bifida. I have very few issues now, aside from having some bowel issues, having to self-cath and having some side effects of with sex...but I don't mention that stuff a lot here anyway. Still if you have questions feel free to ask. I've had a relatively "normal" life despite being in the hospital for a lot of the first 13 years or so of my life. Our son, fortunately, has no trace of spina bifida. It's a big concern when a woman with SB or a father with SB (my husband does not have SB) creates a child, but our son is perfectly normal. Aside from asking 500000 questions a day and having a selective hearing problem. :P