Theresa Tuesday

Well, hello everyone. It is Theresa Tuesday once again.

For those of you who don't know me well. I live with a lovely family who are good friends of mine. A year ago I was renting a room in another friend's home when I needed to find a new residence. Thought I had a place all picked out in a 55+ community with a couple other women like me- widowed/single and needing to save money while having a comfortable place to call home. When I went for the last interview and pick up keys, the other ladies were honestly taken aback that I had to work EVERY DAY to pay my bills and not live in the truck. Needless to say I was the perfect fit they had in mind after all. Instead of cards on Monday, grandkids on Tuesday, water aerobics on Wednesday, senior citizen center on Thursday, etc..... I was locked into a 40 hour a week work schedule, seeing my best friend on Fridays and sleeping and cleaning on the weekends! I just was not the fit they had envisioned. So i needed to find a place to go and quick.
Luckily my friends offered me a soft place to land and sooooo Theresa Tuesday was born! 

My friends are big foodies. They cook a verity of cuisine and I am lucky enough to asked to share with them. Since I do not particularly like to cook, I first suggested I bring home Mexican food on Tuesday because many places have Taco Tuesday. This quickly evolved into Theresa Tuesday as you can get burned out on $1 tacos quickly.....

So right now I am asking the group what they would like for dinner tonight.....I want an Arby's roast beef on a bed of jasmine rice with a side of chicken nuggets from Burger King and marshmallow Sunday from 31 flavors!

Hello Again

Well, here we are 4 years later and I am no further in my blogging than I was before. I am even more mature, my kids are 26 and 24, I am living in Utah-Salt Lake area, and have a full time job. Woo Hoo!

I am trying to remember who I wanted to be when I grew up. That dream is gone-and was when I married- had planned to be an artist by night and a teacher by day. I was NOT going to be a SADIE- a married lady with kids. But never say never, I became what I always feared. I knew if I married and had kids that would become my passion and I would lose my dreams.

Well, that did happen, I would not have it any other way. I have 2 highly intelligent, productive offspring who have never even hinted that we should appear on a daytime talk show for dysfunctional families.Oh, I'm saying we are not dysfunctional, we are, but so is everyone else....we just don't need help on national TV to deal with it.

Right now I would like to find my passion again and take on the world like I had planned so long ago. I wanted to create something that people could look at and enjoy or want for their own or be encouraged to share with others. I am a fiber artist to a certain extent. I want to move further into that world but I am frustrated with the fear and self doubt that I have holding me back. There is a place in the world for everyone, I believe. I am trying to talk myself into getting on with life. My kids have! I am whining that I don't have a clear path in my life.

I was thrown a curve ball 8 years ago when my husband of 21 years had a heart attack at the age of 44 and left me when he had specifically told me he would never leave me. Well, there's never again! I finished raising up the youngest, helped the oldest get to community college and on to the university of her choice, then did the same with her brother,The empty nest I was soooo looking forward to was staring me in the face and I did not know what to do with myself...I had been a partner for too many years to think about this next step in life on my own.Then best friend a girl can have suggested relocation and now I am staring at mountains with snow still on them in June.( A real change from San Diego for 30 years!) 

I have found that this community is so different from anything I have encountered as an adult. The fact that I am not remarried throws people off. I am NOT a grandmother, I am well read and educated, I have some really liberal ways of thinking and don't mind voicing my "different" opinions often. Some of this reminds me of trying to talk to my Mother in the 1970"s!

I am in the unique position to be anything I want to be and I am trying. I dye my hair a "controversial color, I drive a pick up truck, I do not go to church but am spiritual, I am my own person as I have never been before. I just need to take the next step and fling caution to the wind and be an artist, even it is only me who thinks I am!

Thanks for stopping by and listening!

Theresa