Jess is Great, in 2008!

Recently, my best friend told me the exact thing I needed to hear to stop being a door mat. "Do you like everyone?" she asked." I replied, "No," and she said, "Then not everyone has to like you!" Believe it or not, as simple as those words my be, they freed me.

My entire life, I've lived on egg shells. Always afraid I'm going to say or do something to make someone angry or not like me, no matter how it affects me. The truth is, living that way can really make you attract the scum of the earth; those people that think it's ok to walk all over you. I'm saying it outloud and proud as I type Katie...."It's OK! The WHOLE world doesn't have to like me for ME to go on living!"

In taking what my friend said VERY much to heart, I've been motivated to not only change my life, but to find out who I really am. For, when you stop doing and living ONLY for others, you start to realize what it is that you love; what those things are in life that make YOU who you are.

So this year, it's time for me to make some changes. I'm going to be Jessica, the non-doormat, who knows (or at least is on the way to knowing) who she is! And here's an announcement to go with it...

If you are reading this, and your my REAL friend, you support me making these changes in my life, and you are with me through and through...through good times and bad....Let me know and KNOW that truly in my heart I love you as my friend, and your friendship means the world to me. I love you for who you are, and I appreciate that you love me for ME, even if that means we don't always agree! If you are reading this and you're pretending to be my friend, you only want to be my friend when it benefits you, you only want to be my friend in the good times or you just dont care....then to you I say, BYE! Seriously! I'm tired, I'm starting fresh, and I have too many FANTASTIC people and things in my life to be bothered!

I am proud to say... I am Italian and English. I'm a mom and a wife and my husband and kids come first. I'm short, overweight (but not for long ), and I have health problems I'm trying to fix. I'm a lover of music and dancing and ALL the arts. I have lived all over the US. I ate squirrel and LIKED IT! I like to go fishing and hunting. I can be afriad of the dark. I have a horrible sweet tooth and would love nothing more than to travel to Italy and drown in a sea of cannoli. I'm a Catholic. I'm a Conservative Republican who has the utmost respect and admiration for all those who serve our country. I hate people who think they deserve respect when they don't give it to others. I'm an RSVP crazy person. And Katie, although she may not always know, is by FAR my best friend, but more than that she's an inspiration to me in my quest for my cause...."Jess is Great in 2008!"

I wish everyone a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2008! God bless you all!