Guess so!  Here's my picture, taken at Christmas (I don't usually wear a hat around the house--I'd just gotten it for Christmas...).  I'm sorry--I've tried a million times to resize the damn thing, but I just can't.  So you'll need to read me up close and personal!

Doe

I think you get a better view with this one

I am sending the bill
Rhutobello

Hey!  The Photo-Fairy came in the middle of the night and re-sized my picture!  HOW did you do that?  Do you have any idea how many times I tried to do it myself?  Well, thank you Photo-Fairy (or whoever you are   )!

Doe

you have bi polar or some other kind of learning disability that you have been struggling with all your life,  your divorced but you have someone in your life (or about to come in your life) that is very special to you and will love you for who you are, you have someone looking out for you by the doorway your gaurdian angel who has been looking out for you for years

I sense your charismatic personality and outgoing ways to be a defense mechanism! You are generally a loving spirit but you have a stubborn side that can at times be an enemy rather than an asset. You like your independence I think. Anyways Doe, your a sensitive person and very caring and maybe you have suffered too much?

WLBG,

Well, I've had some mild depression at times, but I've never been diagnosed as bipolar.  Sometimes I've wondered if I have a learning disability, but I've always done very well academically (when I FELT like doing well academically, at least!   ) and in my writing, so I don't know.  At any rate, I've made it to 46 without any MAJOR problems!

I'm not "officially" divorced, but it's on the horizon.  And there's definite at least one "guardian angel", or something, looking out for me--always has been.

Lightning, I'm very shy and usually not a charismatic person, but when I'm feeling secure and confident (much better at that now than I used to be!) I can be pretty outgoing.  When I am, I'd say that you're dead-on in saying it's a "defense mechanism".  I can be EXTREMELY stubborn, and I do love my independence (although there are times I feel like being "looked after", too).

I guess everyone has had his or her share of suffering; I've had some, but I try to keep well aware of the fact that it's been NOTHING compared to what some others have gone through, and that I should always be grateful for that, and have empathy and compassion for others who don't have that "guardian angel" thing going on!

Thanks, guys!

Doe