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jennifer78 (56)in #balloons • 6 years ago (edited)

I recently turned 4o years old. I have social anxiety disorder along with general anxiety. I have been diagnosed with borderline agoraphobia. I try not to leave the comforts of my living quarters unless necessary or when I know it’s not going to be crowded when I need to grocery shop. I have had several occasions where I have nearly lost my life. I’ve even coded once, so I can honestly say that I have died at least once. Some of these things I can work on, some can’t be done. I also suffer from fibromyalgia and arthritis. I can blame the arthritis on the car accident.

Part of the agoraphobic issues come from a previous job. I was a 911 dispatcher on and off for 12 years. I will probably share stories from those glory days.

Did I also mention that I am a cancer survivor? Yup! Ovarian and cervical cancer. I must have nine lives. I'm a very lucky girl. This past year I made a bucket list of things I wanted to do.

I used to make fanvids, but after having to completely wipe my hard drive from my laptop, my Adobe Premiere won’t reinstall because of corrupt files and I can’t find my license key. I have managed to find some of my old fanvids, which now looking back on them, some aren't so great! I blame it on a learning curve!

Things I like:

Photography (taking photos and looking at beautiful photos that make me wish I were at that place)
Dogs (I have a Yorkshire Terrier named Chewbacca)
Science Fiction (More Star Wars than Star Trek, but love JJ Abrams reboot of Star Trek)
Crafting (I make pop culture magnets, menu planners and customized recipe cards that I sell on Etsy located here https://www.etsy.com/shop/OddsandEnds0978 )
Tweeting (as I’ve recently started to do this on a regular basis)
Being goofy to help relieve some of my anxiety (which usually leads to someone requesting me to lip sync them a song)
Karaoke (while I do not drink very often, maybe once in a blue moon, if I sing at karaoke, I always have to have one drink of liquid courage to get me up on stage)
Foo Fighters (desperately want to see them in concert)
Movies, music, reading, Netflix, Hulu
Cooking (I’ve won 5 Blue Ribbons)