I am tired of starting over and am ready for the real thing, I have worked hard for everything in my life and am now ready to slow down and start smelling the roses. I am from Kansas City been here all my life. As a kid I was so honery they would send me to my grandparents in the summer to keep me out of trouble and keep my sister from beating the hell out of me--we still dont get along. I would spend two weeks at the beginning of summer on my grandma's 2000 acre working farm-she had me killing chickens and cooking them for the farm hands when I was about 8-9 I would plant the garden with her do the laundry in a old wash tub and on Sundays we would go to church and to the dairy bee for susie Q's and a strawberry shake (my wekaness) At night I would draw pictures and listen to the bullfrogs sing and watch the million of fireflys across the fields. Then they would send me to Alabama where my other grandma lived and I would learn the ways of the south. My Parents wanted me to have a northern education and a southern atude. So I can be a lady all dressed up and pretty with the best of manners or I can be found wrestling one of my boys to the ground and or standing in a pond fishing because it was cooler that way. I am only scared of spiders. That being my only fear some would call stupidity but I have this Great faith in mankind and all of its creatures and know If I dont mess with them they wont mess with me. Then I grew up: I had a child with my first boyfriend when I was 19 which included a shotgun wedding that ended shortly after and I went with my second boyfriend and had my second son 7 years later. His father left me when I was 5 months pregnant which led to the third husband that I swear to this day has a 666 tattooed soemwhere on his body he was straight from hell and abused me terribly-I have no emotional scars from this only physical I went thru my therapy and it is over-It just made me a stronger person and make me believe in God more. I am a highly intelligent person and use it whenever possible-although that blonde thing runs deep. LOL my 4th boyfriend I was with for 6 years and the poor thing had two mive strokes and no insurance or family so to speak so I took care of him physically and financially for 8 months, it broke me finacially and I had to put him in a nursing home so the state could take care of him. I am a simple person with simple needs. I love to garen and this is the first year in twenty I havent had one,. I love the beauty that is around me I love to take pic's now that the boys are all grown and away from home I have more time for myself. I also like picnics and anything to do twith being outside I like to go to area festivals listen to Jazz music (even though I like all kinds of music). I worked corporate america for as long as I could stand it I am too energetic to be tied to a desk so started working retail about 8 years ago. I went from a cashier to the district manager of 11 convenience stores in about 6 months I did that for awhile and am now just managing one cell phone store and I see my elderly parents everyday and do what I can with them to take care of them. I know soon though I will be completely alone-there health is failing more and more everyday-So I am hoping to find a friend that I can share things with. I love anything to do with the outdoors. I can bait my own hook I can cook like ther is no tommorrow and I always love the one I'm with. I like to have a hug a couple times a day and I like the smile from across the room that lets you know everything is gonna be allright. I have my own house and have for thirteen years. i raised my boys by myself so I am not looking for anyone to support me just somebody to sit on the proch with at the end of the day and maybe listen to the bullfrogs and the milllion of fireflys in the sky. Oh and I love thunder storms.