User Profile

Hi! I’m Tina and this is my page. I’m 20 years old and going to school. I’m going for my business degree as well as my computer degree. I have no siblings, but I have a dog. His name is Gizmo and he means everything to me. I’m not really good at making friends but I would love to try to be one to all that want one. My Life has been the same as most I grew up in a loving family and a nice home. My Grandmother took me in when my Mother died (Never knew my dad). I a cousin that lives with us but I call him my brother. When my grandma got sick I was 16 and my life turned upside down. My Grandmother had a stroke and we had to move to San Jose but before that are family was ripped apart. Well she was in the hospital her boyfriend tried to get her to sign over the house and custody of me over to him. When my brother tried to stop him my family turned on him and treated him like a criminal. In the dead of night her boyfriend’s daughter took me to their house and I was never allowed to talk to my brother again.
When I was just settling in to life in San Jose with my Grandma’s boyfriend I learned that life isn’t always loving. I wasn’t allowed to call any of my friend and I was not allowed to touch are watch the TV. Then I realized I was nothing but a housekeeper and cook. Everyday before school I had to wake up and make him breakfast the clean the dishes after he left then I walked to school (5 miles) then when I got home I was to clean the whole house then do my homework then cook dinner. I wasn’t allowed to make friends and for a year my life was like this. Then finally my grandma got a little better and we moved back home (I never did tell her what I went through. I didn’t want to worry her or make her feel bad). She left her boyfriend after realizing that she didn’t have the strength to handle one.
At first being back was ok but then it went to hell. I had changed so much I was having panic attacks all the time and going through depression. I was like a drone anything that made me feel any type of emotion I did it. I was terrible I cheated on my boyfriend (Someone I was always able to count on and someone I loved) I stabbed my friends in the back and was hanging around terrible people. Then one day my grandmother and I got into a fight. I wanted to call my cousin and have him come back I missed him but she didn’t want to talk to him so I had went to the bathroom and grabbed one of her pill bottles and took the whole thing. The next thing I remember I was in the hospital and my grandma was beside me crying and I knew I had to straiten up.
My grandmother finally let me talk to my cousin and with that my life started again. I finally had my family back and then one day I was listening to so music and a song came on that changed my life (Tougher Then Nails by Joe Diffie) then not only did I have my Grandmother and my Cousin but I also had a Father now to. My Lord Jesses Christ, with him in my life I’ve learned that I can go down any path I chose and no matter what I’ll never be alone. Now it’s been years since my life flipped upside down and even though I may have hated those past years I would do them all over again because they made me who I am today.
I still live at home taking care of my grandmother. I have a great job as an Americorps member. I have great Co-Workers and my job site (Reading Works). I have some close friends that stayed with me through the years and last but not least I have an amazing boy friend. Before I meet him I was still closed off but now I’m my full self again. I know I most likely bore you with my story but well there it is I hope you still want to be friends. Well Bye and thank you for reading this far. Drop by again. ~Waves Goodbye~

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