I’ve finally managed to have a moment to say hello! HELLO GIRLS!!!

This is Christina, your old RA. Laura introduced me to the blog itself, and Shira wrote instructions on how to use it about two months ago. Clearly, I’ve been pretty busy . . . but I’ve enjoyed “spying” on all of you. It’s in my RA nature.

I’m an English teacher at a LI high school. I enjoy my career immensely, although it provides a tremendous amount of work and homework . . . more than I ever anticipated. Of course, the flip side is all of the glorious vacation time, and the ability to interact with interesting, spunky teenagers who are smack dab in the middle of puberty. Ahhhhhhhhhh, makes for many entertaining stories to tell at cocktail parties. I don’t really go to cocktail parties, but I’m sure that I’d be the life of the gathering if I was invited to one, what with all of these crazy stories.

I’m still living at home with my parents . . . yes, I know. I’m getting to be too old to be here, but I’m just about at the point where I can put a down payment on a co-op which is the plan, instead of renting at an astronomical rate. I’m looking to move out in the summer/fall, looking FORWARD to moving out 🙂

My long term bf and I broke up in October. It’s been really difficult dealing with this, because I thought that he was “the one.” The breakup was also very unexpected, and sort of left me breathless. I’m just starting to date again, and I’m still shaky, but I’m hoping that I get that old “pimp mamma” swerve back, like a second wind.

I’m actually recovering from a serious car accident that I had in February, and a mysterious blood clot that popped up last November, and I have to go to physical therapy right now. I’ll be sure to write more soon . . . I hope that everybody is well and I just want to say how PROUD I am of all of you . . . it seems that you’re all doing what is working for you at this point.

Until next time . . .
Christina