Ann Hopkins:  

Life Hello to everyone, For the past twenty five years or so, my life has been anything but boring. If I had to pick the best thing - it would be having my two children. It all started in 1997 and that has been the most important thing to me ever since. We live in a small town in Texas where things are backwards. We live with only one grocery store and dollar store and people congregate at certain gas stations in the morning. However, we're never more than 45 minutes from any Walmart in several far more sophistocated places. We like to go to Austin and shop at The Goodwill and go to great restaurants. I can't say I have any career to brag about and really never have. But my life has been real exciting at times and I've met a lot of wonderful people over the years, living in many places. My career ambitions over the years brought me into a lot of different kinds of jobs. Some clerical, sales, social work, waitressing, and some extremes between management and what many would call lowly manuel labor. I got a college degree in 1988 - B.A in General Studies at Northeast Louisiana University. I took mostly writing classes. It was supposed to be like a public relations degree only it took less time and money. I met so many great people then and that was weird to me at the time because I never thought I'd meet so many great people in a small town in Lousiana but it proved to be the opposite. I still like to go back whenever i can. I like to see the same people after 20 years. Big cities to me are great for opportunities but i found them too impersonal and always ended up going back to where the opportunities were pretty much squat but where it felt good to be. However, I enjoyed going to college for a year or so in Austin Texas and would not trade that for anything either. For the past decade or so- I've spent most of my spare time renovating houses. Not just interior design. I have picked linolium off the floor with a screwdriver and a hammer for months, painted whole exteriors and once powersanded a old hardwood floor and inhaled too much polyurathene. My latest ambitions have included going to Beauty School. In the meantime, I work in the kitchen at a small cafe. Being creative with the salads makes me happy. I get to use real flowers sometimes and so it's not dealing with iceberg lettuce types. On a more serious note, I would like to have a career and would like to make more money. We plan to stay here in our small town where people enjoy bonfires and fireworks at night pretty much all year at any given time. Update for 2008 - over two years later - I did not go to beauty school. Instead, I've been working my way up in restaraunt kitchens and now work all alone in a kitchen. It's enjoyable. But I still need to make more money. Also, for some reason, my bio says I graduated from Santa Rosa High and I did not. I went to Lutheran High in St. Petersburg Florida and I want to say I really got a great deal of good out of going there and miss a lot of the people. If it were not for going there, I am quite sure I would never have made it to college. Not to mention a lot of great friends that I made that changed my life. So for anyone reading th...Expand for more