The setting of my life

I live in Western Canada and not in a metropolis city. Rather I live in a "city" that has much more persona of a small-town trying to be a big city, than an actual city. Cities tend to have a different feel to them. Here, you can see your big trucks driving around on the roads like they're cars, covered in mud from 4x4'ing in someone's private unknown wilderness or see people walking around, still dressed in traditional canadian lumberjack flannel jackets. Young males aren't usually seen walking around in casual business attire or suits with suitcases, rushing to their jobs after parking their nice new cars. They tend to run around in baseball caps backwards and the usual t-shirts, jeans combo or the newly acquired screaming Emo look, possibly having jumped off the bus or parked their truck. This is very distinctly redneck land. Women dressing appropriately here, dont even get me started. Either the average business "get-up" is jeans and a shirt that might have classified as "nice" in 1985 or something looking closer to scrubs. Mullets are still popular on women or it's short hair. Then you have the other side of the spectrum and the girls are figuratively screeching skank with how they dress. Don't get me wrong, there are the other kinds, nicely dressed, caring for their outwards appearance and how they carry themselves, it's just the proportions are slighted towards rednecks and their mates and other types I dare not categorize. I guess that may make me seem rather judgemental. I'm hoping I'm not as I strive not to be but sometimes I can't help it. People are people and it takes all kinds to make a world and to share it.

Night life is basically non-existent here save for a few bars, pubs, good restaurants (and crappy) and movie theaters and the odd play or performance. I think I have some envy of the bigger cities as they have choices. Here, we just rotate, rinse and repeat. Summer usually consists of bonfires at someone's out of town cabin, drinking and laughing or the same kind of behaviour at a lake or river. Winter months means moving indoors and doing the same thing at a pub or a bar or a restaurant. Anything of interest, like theater, plays, musicals, local artists, etc. is rather limited and in saying that, I'm also limited in friends who actually have an interest in participating in things like this. It's rather dry. The big excitement here seems to be when the fair is here, monster truck racing, race track races or some old hair band shows up.

So, that's the setting of the city I live in.

About me? I'm 29 and I'm a single mother to 2 boys. I've been single for 5 years. I work full-time in a corporate environment as an analyst and rather enjoy my job. I went to school for a fairly long period of time to get to where I am and I have some sense of pride in that accomplishment. I'm fiercely independent and rather opinionated. I've gotten myself into some frustrating situations, relationship wise and I'm sure I'll explain those things in further postings. A lot of the drama in my life tends to arise from either the way things go at work or my personal life involving men or friends. What I talk about in here will be my opinions/frustrations in these departments OR my never-ending thoughts on life, news, philosophy, stupid facts I've learnt and possibly my children. I'm doubting it will be about my children very often unless it's something extremely frustrating or highly enlightening. There are more than enough blogs from women drivelling on about how wonderful their children are and how they're the next Plato or something of the like. I won't waste my time or yours on these trivial things. I have my memories, videos and pictures of my children, for me and them and their future.