About Vivid Muse

I’m the happy wife of Chooch! We met while working in the same Agency, he on one coast, me on the other. He came to my office for assignment which is when we met. Both having VERY recently gone through painful divorces, we shied away from romance but stayed in contact after he returned to his coast. Over many months we im’d, exchanged emails, and started talking on the phone. This expanded to MANY hours on the phone each day as we got to know and appreciate each other.

Finding so much in common with each other was a very cool surprise, I couldn’t remember anyone that I’d shared so many interests with: musical tastes, photography, literature, family, and literally countless others. We started dating on another business trip of his to the East Coast, it made sense because we had already fallen in love over the phone. That was pretty much it, my sons adored him and my mother couldn’t seem to imagine me ever finding anyone as wonderful as him (neither could I). He got a job out here, moved, and it’s been total blended family chaos ever since!

This is because I am the proud mother of two boys from a previous marriage, and lucky step-mother to Chooch’s son from his previous marriage. They are all amazing and dynamic boys, similar and yet immensely different from each other. Bright AND clever, funny, friendly, serious and playful, perfect in their imperfections. They are the joy and heartbreak of every mothers’ dreams.

I am a college student, late-bloomer, working towards a Bachelor’s Degree in Business (yawn). While not something I dreamed of as an ideal career, it will pay the bills with many optional careers being available to me upon completion. For my studies, I enjoy Accounting and Spanish, primarily because they “make sense” to me more than any of the others and I’ve struggled less with those.

My interests run to many areas, few that I have truly explored. The majority of my non-college, non-childrearing time goes to computers. Mainly playing a MMORPG named City of Heroes, with a neglected Lord of the Rings Online account that I hope to delve into more very soon. I greatly enjoy photography. Though I use a digital camera I am one of “those” that dreams of a dark room to develop 35 mm film in. A bit archaic, but it’s a dream I’ve had since I first entered double digits and is hard to let go. I enjoy “creating” whether it be scrapbook pages, cross-stitching pieces, crocheting, painting of ceramics, writing, beading, or whatever the medium may be. I have not spent nearly enough time expending my creative juices and am hoping to be able to spend more time on that once classes end and I have more than just mental exhaustion at the end of the day.

I also have a sister, a brother and a father. I lost my mother to breast cancer in January of 2006, in exactly the horrifying deterioration that you beg and pray that your loved one won’t endure. She was literally what held my family together, evidenced by how we are with her gone. She remains a bigger than life presence in the lives of her children, and we still struggle with our loss of such an amazing and unconditional source of love, adoration and nurturing.