First posting

Hi everyone
Wow, this is my first time at doing a blog, so please don't shoot me down in flames if this is really boring or complete rubbish!
I think to protect the innocent (my daughter and family members) and the not so innocent (my not very nice boss I will tell you about later) I'm going to change the names. I also don't want to get hit by a lawsuit by said boss for slander!!
Where shall I start. Well I'm 38 years old, only a couple of years away from the not so dreaded 40! In fact I am looking forward to it - mad I know! You know, I was not looking forward to hitting 30. That event happened in 1998. Not helped by my husband (soon to be ex but again more on that later) being 3 years younger than me and teasing me senseless about the fact I was an old so and so and would soon be drawing my pension! He even went so far as to get the embarrassing photos of my parents - charming. I don't like to make a big fuss about my own birthday but I do like to make a big thing of it for my daughter. Well, she's only 4, you have to. Anyway, I hid the photos, threatened to castrate my husband if he did anything remotely embarrassing and my birthday came and went. Not sure what I was expecting - nuclear blowout for hitting the big 30, cannon fire. Nope, I felt no different. Plus people didn't believe I was 30. I'm lucky that I have inherited my mom's excellent skin. She is 78 but looks late 60's. When I hit 30 people thought I looked 25 and still think I look younger than i do. But you know what, I think I have enjoyed my 30's more than my 20's. I've visited several countries, had my daughter, am currently in the final stages of a divorce with my husband who I am now really good friends with and am in a great relationship with a former colleague who I have known for over 5 years and was a great support after my separation.
I tell you, staying friends with your soon to be ex husband is not easy, especially when I was the one who ended it. We were married for 9 years and have a gorgeous daughter. But he worked away a lot and we both changed from the people who got married. I took the step of saying that neither of us was really that happy and we should call it a day. You know what? The only person who was surprised was my husband. Even his parents weren't surprised saying they had known it was a matter of when not if. We have since both admitted that we knew it wasn't working but for the sake of our daughter we gave it a go. It hasn't been easy and we've worked hard but we now have a good friendship, so much so that RJ (I will call him that as those are his initials) even called me earlier for a chat. Well, actually our daughter is off school ill today so he called to see how she was but then had a chat about his boss, his ex-girlfriend giving him grief and general stuff. Yep, thats how good friends we have become, we discuss our new relationships. In fact our lawyers have said they wish most of their divorced couples were as amicable as we are as it makes their jobs a lot easier. So, here I am. Posting my first blog. Charlotte (that was going to be her name until a month before she was born) is playing and a few of my friends blog so I thought what the heck, I will give it a go. I will post again about the nightmare boss!