Jennie Joy:
CLASS OF 1978
Toledo High SchoolClass of 1978
Toledo, OR
Arcadia Elementary SchoolClass of 1971
Toledo, OR
Burgess Elementary SchoolClass of 1969
Toledo, OR
Mary Harrison Elementary SchoolClass of 1968
Toledo, OR
Methodist Church Kindergarten SchoolClass of 1966
Toledo, OR
Jennie's Story
Well, it's been 30 years since high school graduation. I left Toledo that summer and moved to Beaverton. I worked for Tektronix several years and was married to foreign exchange student Mohammad Daker for a year (wow the green card warning people told me about ended up being true. go figure).
After 5 years I decided I wanted to go to college after all. I packed my bags and went south to Eugene and attended Anarchy-U (UofO), I got a BA in Communications and Film (thought I'd be the next Spielburg). After graduation in '89 I met and married an Army sargent freind of Deanna Davis' named Norm Phillips. We married and that one stuck for 5 years. Most of them he was still in the service and we didn't live together. The year and a half we did live together proved he wasn't really interested in being married. During those years I was working at OSU in Corvallis.
About a year after my divorce I met my current husband on the internet. After months of talking about how rotten human beings are and what we expected out of life, it hit that we clicked. So we married the summer of '96 and I moved to Maryland. I raised 3 step children (2 boys 1 girl) and became a mother in my own right with son Mitchell (born in '97). He was born a few months before my dad died (his middle name is Robert after both my dad and brother who are now deceased). I worked 5 years at the Machinists Union Education Center and quit to stay at home with the two remaining kids.
We live in Southern Maryland, but spent last winter in Montana (a short lived dream come true). We had to return due to a glitch in the sale of our home in Maryland. Maryland has it's good points, the Chesapeake bay and Patuxant river are beautiful, we live near water. Before we moved to and from Montana we had a boat and enjoyed summer on the water. We sold both the boat and the canoe (and all the other toys) before moving to Montana with the belief we wouldn't be back. The intent was to get skiis and snow mobiles.
Montana was cold but beautiful. We lived 18 miles out of Helena up the MacDonald Pass, near the continental divide, on 20 acres that backed up into the national forest. The house w...Expand for more
as a 3 story log home with great views and had the gourmet kitchen I have always dreamed of (it was a rental) and Chrismas was magic there. I learned though that log homes without finished drywalled insulated interior walls during 30 below weather is really really yucky. I also learned I missed my ranch style home, old creaky knees hate steps. Now that we are back, I miss the views, the baby moose that came and stole the neighboring ranchers cow hay. And all the crazy mule deer that was an infestation in the city of Helena.
What people would be surprised about the changes in me. I now enjoy outdoor activities. Not quite as fussy as I use to be (although my girly side is still intact, I love getting my bi-weekly mani-pedi & facial, massages and spa days, shopping, lunches out, etc). I just finished a class in Hunter Safety (100% on my test). I actually plan to hunt this fall. Since in Maryland I have become an avid fisherman (we go blue crabbing too), we get rock fish, blue fish, spots and croakers. We ice fished in Montana for yellow perch, unfortunatly didn't get to try fly fishing in the rivers.
I'm not so shy anymore, and pretty much say what is on my mind. I feel like I have finally grown into me. Talk about your late bloomers. As I get older I get much more sappy and sentimental. I miss even the people who were mean to me in school. I want to see how everyone has changed. I have long forgiven the wrongs done to me and hope I can be forgiven the wrongs I have done to others. It is pretty cool being an adult :) I like myself much better now that I'm grown up. I don't punish myself any more for not being perfect or for not being someone elses ideal of who or what I should be. Confidence is a pretty neat thing, I like it a lot. It took many years to learn to tell someone to p*ss off if they took issue with me undeserved. I love that I no longer cry, wilt and fade under other peoples assessments of me. I'll reach out, but am not offended when someone does not reach back.
Well I guess that is about me and my current life in a nutshell. I'll make changes to this profile as the evolution occurs.
Take good care, and live happy.
Jen
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