About Christine

This too has changed as has everything else in my website. Most of it has stayed the same, but I have added a few things..it is also long, but please take the time to read it.

Bio

I attended the local high school in the 6th Grade in Northern Minnesota. I was new and didn’t know many people. If I knew what I know now, I would have changed things. I would have stood up to the bullies sooner. If any of you have read Mary Casanova’s books Chrissy and Chrissy Stands Strong, then you can kind of get a glance at what life was for me.

For some reason either because I was new or was not related to anyone or at lest at that time. Because later, my mother married a Silver which would have probably changed the way I was  treated, I was constantly teased and torment by both boys and girls. Sometimes the girls being worse than the boys. They would throw spit balls, put tacks on my seat, putting paper with names o it in my back and putting things in my hair. The nicer I tried to be, the meander they got. I even had a boy the same age ht me. Now, I don’t remember much about that time in my life and it best left there. There are no reason to remember the past when there is nothing you can do to changed it. Even if I could, I would not for I would not be the person I am now if certain things had not happen.

It got to the point where I pressed sexual harassment charge against some. At one time, it got so bad, I had a nervous breakdown. If you have read this section before, I said I wanted to do or not in those words. I look back now and knew that is not what I wanted. I didn’t understand why I was treated the way I was when it probably didn’t have anything to do with me, but the way they were treated by others.

During my senior year, I got the courage to stand up for myself and they left me alone. Even some said that they had wanted me to stick up for myself. My favorite time was that year. Everything was better and excited that I would be leaving the bad times behind me. To those people who teased me, you can kiss my ass.

I finally and greatly graduated from high school and in the summer of 1994 and enrolled at the local college. I was uncertain as to what to expect because of my bad experience at the high school, but to my amazement, everyone young and old students were very friendly and eager to learn as much as I was. Even the teachers were nice.

While going to college, I worked as a cook in the café which I enjoyed because I got to meet many different people and it help to pay for my tuition. I took business classes like typing, then key and dictation. At that time, I wanted to be a secretary or an accountant. I had a bad experience in my accounting class in high school because the teacher and I didn’t get along. He thought I was goofing off because I was reading all the time, but he didn’t realize that I had done my homework or at times it was difficult to concentrate in class. Anyways, in the end, I flunked the class. I did take accounting in college, but had the same problem. I would like to go back to college and take some Speak and Spanish class to help give me more self confidence and learn a new language.

In the summer of 1995, I was hired by the local paper mill in Minnesota as a summer employee. I worked as a store clerk, an assistant to the secretaries in the main office and the Total Quality building. Near the end, I was asked to work as a labor in the Yard Crew. Basically, they gave me a paper picker upper (no, really) and told to keep the grounds clean. I would do this all day, but after awhile I was upgraded to help planting flowers, mow and weed whack the lawns. Now this may not  seem glamours, but getting paid over $12.00 an hour, I couldn’t complain.

In 1997, I graduated from college with a clerical certificate. I then got a job working at Total Entertainment Center when it was connected to Stop N Shop before it is now known as Holiday. I love working there because I love to watch movies. I was one of the highlights of my life. Everything seem to be going my way.

But, in the late 1990’s I had my first ‘episode’. At that time I was leaving with my mother and step dad. I was rushed to the local hospital and emitted to a hospital in Duluth where I was given many tested and was finally diagnosed with an mental illness which has affected  my life.  There is no known cause and no cure. It will be with me forever…

I spend two scary weeks there where I was watch and tested to make sure that I was okay and to make sure I was given the right medication. I’m very grateful for the nurses and doctors who took care of me. Finally, I was allowed to go home.

After arriving home, I had some very hard times, dealing with my illness. But, now I have to deal with it and I go on. It will not stop me from going for my dreams. I will continue to leave my life as if I had no illness and so should everyone. Just because someone says that you can’t or don’t or shouldn’t . Listen to your heart and do what you think is right. Usually, things turn out all right.

Now, I see a doctor once a month and have gotten on medication that I don’t have so many side effects other than weight gain which I am still fighting but that is under curves section so I won’t talk about it here. I can also get very tired and take naps but working on that too..

So, now I like to read a lot and write. I do now know if I am any good at writing as it could take or has taken a long time to get publish depending where and how you do it.

I don’t hope to be famous because I am happy where I am, but won’t mind talking to people and even signing an autograph or having someone say they like my book or something I did.

Lastly, don’t ever lose faith. If you do something for someone else without thinking what you would get or do it because you want to, usually it does come back. But, if you do something selfish or what I can get, then it also comes back. Be nice and treat others as you would like to be treated..