Barb Smith Fink:  

Life Since high school, the most important and pertinent things in my life include my husband of over 21 years, my two sons, Tyler and Brian, 19 and 20, respectively, and our wonderful dogs (a Mastiff, Farley; Scotty, Gil; and Bloodhound, Viloula May--she's from Alabama, so she needed a southern name). In addition, since being layed off, I have the privilege of babysitting Tyler's lab mix, his roommate's dog, also a lab mix, and the dog of Brian's girlfriend which is, also, a mutt, but looks like a chow/dingo mix. My dog food bill is higher than our grocery bill! I'm afraid when I get old and gray, I'll be called the "dog lady!" After having been at my last job at The Wright Group, an educational publishing company, for 7 years, the company was purchased by McGraw-Hill and all operations were moved to their existing offices in other parts of the US. Needless to say, we were all layed off. I decided to take this time to stay home for awhile, lounge around and eat bon bons and watch soaps--yea right! Actually, I did decide to take some time to get some much-needed things done at home. Currently, we're finishing the last of our remodeling (I hope), which started in 1996--FINALLY! For those of you out there who have done any remodeling or additions to your homes, I think you know what I mean--it never ends! Let's see . . . my husband has worked at Boeing for approximately 16 years, and I've gone from having my own business from home (when my kids were babies) to any number of office jobs. For some reason, these companies all either were sold or went out of business . . . hmmmmm, I wonder if I should worry about t...Expand for more