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Milwaukee, WI, USA
female, age 79
single, 2 children
Speaks: English
Joined Feb 9, 2006

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You would think it simple to talk about your own good qualities, your favorite this-and-thats,  your passion about specific causes,  political philosophies, and so on.   But it isn't.   It's easier to list one's bad "stuff" I think.

I love animals a lot, and feel so much pain when I hear stories of cruelty and abuse done to them by ignorant humans. There are times I'd rather spend  with a group of kittens/cats or puppies/dogs than human beings.   Pets are more fun, I think.  There is no competition between human and animal.  The dog or the cat just takes us as we are, no questions asked.   That makes friendship between human and animal so much more comfortable.

I was very happy after I retired and still physically able to indulge myself doing volunteer work at the Humane Society shelter in my city.   And then I had another two great days a week volunteering at "my" hospital,  an enormous medical center which included a prestigious medical college.   But arthritis and a stinky back problem put the kibosh on both volunteer projects --- the work at the hospital and the animal shelter was physically just a tad too much for my creaky old bones.  lol

My daughter bought my first computer for me five years ago.  I took to it like a duck to water.....right from the get-go I found myself mesmerized by the unbelievable scope of the Internet, and every year since that Christmas of 1999 I have continued to learn more about the "web",  maintain my  two sites (one is a blogpage).   There is no end to learning something new!

I don' t read as much as I used to, before the peecee I'd average a book a week.   Now,  not so much.   I used to sew my own clothes and my two daughter's things, but no more.  No time for sewing anymore.  Don't want to, anyway!    How everything changes as the years go by.  I would never have dreamed I would be sitting in front of a computer monitor for about 6 hours every day--sometimes more, sometimes less--and never run out of "stuff" to do at the P.C. besides "talking" to friends all over the country and a few in the U.K. right now.

I live in a "retirement community",  the new term for big apartment complexes where us old folk live the easy life.  LOL   And it really is easy.  We have a beautiful dining room in which to eat lunch or dinner, as we like.  A big "activity room" with fitness equipment on one end, tables and chairs all over for parties and/or meetings.  Whatever.   A van to take some of us without cars to the grocery store or to various entertainment locales.  Yes, "retirement communities" are the latest rage I think.  It's pretty neat.

I am a political junkie.   Voted Republican years ago but after 1979 I changed.   Decided the Democrats were better for me personally (I wasn't rich enough to be Republican anymore).  Discovered the women's movement and marched for E.R.A., marched and bellowed across the street from abortion clinics holding Pro-Choice placards.  (The pro-life zealots had dibs on the front entrance of the clinics, with their rosaries and pictures of in-utero embryos to scare women out of going into the clinic to "murder" their child).

Found a  happy home in  the Democratic party.   Ran for Alderman in my District in 1988,  lost the primary by 59 votes.   Went to the Democratic convention in San Francisco in 1988 and that sealed the deal for me and the Lefties.

After I got married in Germany to another member of the U.S. Air Force (he was simply "Air Force",  I was a W.A.F., "Women in the Air Force".)  Got pregnant and was discharged.   Husband stayed pin the A.F.  for 20 years and then retired from Air Force.  We divorced in 1979 and my  life, as I look back now, truly began.  Thru no effort on my part I wound up working for the CIA in Investigative Forensics.  That's about all I can say about that.  Retired from "that" in 1993.   And here I am.