Bethany...
I know it's a little early (not really, it's already tomorrow for Zonie and a few others) but I don't know if I'm staying up late tonight and I'm always running late in the mornings. Anyways, here's a bit about me and I'll get up a new picture or two when the firstborn heathen returns the camera. Please ask lots of questions so I don't feel like a failure.
First and foremost, I’d like to come clean and let everyone know that while you all know me as bethany, my real name is in fact Bethany. Whew! I feel so much better now that I’ve come clean with that. For those of you that have been around for a while, I was veronicagrogan thedarktower.net but I haven’t gone by that in quite some time. Now that the formalities are over, let’s get started....
I am an Alabama girl, born and bred. I love living in the South and having so much history all around me. I am one of seven siblings but was the “baby” for 16 years. Sadly, I was usurped in one fell swoop and became the middle child of five in one afternoon when the adoption of my younger brother and sister was finalized. If you’ve been paying attention, you should know that I have three lovely girls (all of them have hair of gold, like their mother) and they keep me very busy.
Reading has always been a part of my life, I honestly cannot remember not being able to read. My grandmother has always loved telling the story of how one day when I was no more than 2, I picked up the newspaper and just began reading to my cousin. The very first book I checked out from the library was Black Beauty when I was only 5 years old. The librarian broke my heart and made me cry when she initially refused to let me have the book and tried to foist stupid Babar on me. However, she, with open mouthed wonder, allowed me to have free run of the library when I astounded her with my reading ability. I was a voracious reader from that point on, devouring everything from VC Andrews to Harold Robbins to all of the classics while still in elementary school. Asking me to remember what books I read when and in what order is like asking an alcoholic to chronicle all of their drinks. However, I do know that when I was about 11, my Daddy dropped off a bag of books for me that included a little tome called Pet Semetary. I can’t remember if I had read any SK prior to that but I know that’s the book that hooked me.
Fast forward several years, and I’m married to my high school sweetheart and expecting my first baby. I was stockpiling books to have on hand for when I was on maternity leave and came across two SK books that I’d never heard of–The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three–for a quarter each. I bought them, read them, tossed them and never gave them another thought until I came across The Waste Lands in a used book store and realized that I had stumbled across something much bigger than I had ever thought. How was I to know that the fifty cents I spent back in September 1991 was really admission to an entirely new world? When I finally got a computer in January 2004, thedarktower.net was literally the first website I checked out and I was instantly a fan. I was very shy and did not post much because I was still leery of the “internet freaks”. However, the seeds of some very good friendships were planted there and I am still enjoying the benefits today.
When I’m not playing around online or raising my daughters, I work with my state’s version of Child Protective Services.
Originally Posted by bethany
.. I really didn't like stuffed animals. I did have a rag doll that my great grandmother made me named Catalou. Now, I have a keepsake/heirloom bear that is made from mother's baby blanket. I need to post a pic of him.
