Fleur de Lisa

Charlotte (one of my favorite bloggers) is the guest hostess of Getting to Know You for the month of June 2007.

First, a bit about our hostess:

Curious, passionate, passionately curious, mercurial, moody, reckless, impulsive, lover of New Orleans, music, art, poetry, biographies, mythology,chocolate, oysters, coffee, massage, Merchant-Ivory films, masculine men, women who aren’t afraid to be women, and so many other things I cannot list them all.

I am a lover of life and seeker of knowledge. I am a great listener and student of human behavior.
What makes us tick?

“I hope to find out a little about what makes you tick over the course of this month!

June 2007!!! Can you believe it? Time passes so quickly, Our lives are so full of family, work and community activities that the days fly by in a blur sometimes. Now and then I stop to think about where I am in life,where I’ve been and where I want to go.

So these questions are geared toward the past 2 decades, the present and the future. Share your life with us!”

Where were you in 1987? In school? Working? Single? Married? Attached? What was important to you? What were you doing creatively? Tell us a bit about your life then. I realize some of you were children then…all the better! In June of 1987 I had just finished my junior year of high school. I had started dating my future-ex-husband by that time. Life was simple and carefree at that time; I didn’t have a care or responsibility in the world. As I always loved children, I worked as a nanny in the summertime. During the school year I just focused on school and friends and just being a teenager. I can’t say that I was doing anything terribly creative at that time. I had given up on the creative pursuits I enjoyed when I was younger- mainly jewelry making and pottery. It was going to be another twenty years until I re-discovered the joys of creativity in my life via my photography.
Where were you in 1997? What would you like to share about the nineties? In 1997 I started my current job. Just this week was my 10 year anniversary. The nineties was a decade full of big changes for me. My son, the joy of my life, was born in October of 1992. In ’93 we moved from the west coast back to the Midwest because of school. We ended up staying here and buying our first house. However, we separated in ’96 and the divorce was final in January of 1998—which happens to be the month that I first met the love of my life.
Where did you plan to be or think you’d be in 2007? Have your realized your goals? What is one thing about your present life you love and one you’d like to change? I certainly didn’t think I’d be here! (I mean that in so many ways.) I had no idea that I’d stay at this job or even in this town for so long. Things just sort of worked out that way. I have a home that I love, friends and acquaintances; my son is in a wonderful school…I’ve got roots here. My goals have changed in so many ways so I’d have to say that realizing them is an on-going and ever-evolving process. I’m very pleased with the sense of ease and contentment (but not complacency) with my life that’s come along with a little age (and perhaps wisdom too!) I’d love to see a change in the career aspect of my life. I think I’ve pretty much run the course at my current position. I no longer feel challenged or feel as if I’m learning anything new. And while what I do certainly doesn’t define who I am, I’m starting to feel very constrained by it.

How do you see your life in 2017? Do you have any goals or dreams for your future? I’ll be 47- still a youngster! My son will be 24, done with his undergrad and perhaps working on graduate school? I don’t know what I’ll be doing (outside of celebrating my 19th anniversary. ) As much as I love our current home and the fact that we have roots here, I don’t like living in Indianapolis all that much, especially in the winter time. I stay here mainly for Ian, so he can go to the fantastic school that he attends, be near (at least physically) to his father and be close to my parents. I stay in the job I have due to the fact that it pays well enough for me to afford Ian’s steep school tuition and it allows me the flexibility I need to be able to be a good parent to him. What is best for him weighs heavily into my major decisions. He’ll be grown and his own man in 2017, so I’m certain that my priorities and goals will be quite different.

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