Mayet - Demented - Fermented and Pickled

About me:

A Friend A Day Keeps The Doctor Away!..


How to define the undefinable. Am I a mother, a wife, a daughter, a technician, a designer, a teacher, an artist, a poet, a writer, a cousin, a photographer, a student of history, a sinner or a saint.

I am multi faceted, multi functional...a sparkling faceted gemstones cut to perfection complete with flaws that make me the individual I am.

I was taken from my mother at birth and adopted out into a wonderful Christian family and from that point on I saw the world as an alien would perhaps view it. From the outside looking in, wanting, needing, seeing all but never quite being there. Hence I grew up unique. I questioned my surroundings and my realities much more than most children who are born accepting.

My childhood was rich with experience as I spent most of it on the road with my tour company father, traveling around Australia and the outback, pitching tents around campfires under the desert stars. Exploring small towns and huge cities. Traveling endless miles through deserts and snow, mountains and valleys, beaches and bush. My time at home was spent exploring my surroundings and climbing mountains. I was very solitary as a child because quite frankly no one understood me.

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I left school early as it just didn't suit my free spirit. In hindsight it was probably the worse move i ever made as with my high IQ I could have gone on to be a rocket scientist if I wished. I had fun though learning and adventuring through life. My youth was wild, adventurous, fun and un-tameable and I eventually blossomed into me.. Mayet.

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I was 20 when I had my first daughter Krystal, her father later died of Cancer of the Larynx, an unusual small cell cancer. Krystal is now 20 and is a stunning special unique person inside and out who works part time as a model and promotions in Wollongong along with studying graphic design.

My sister Catherine died in 1988 at aged 25 in a car accident, an event that really defined and shaped the next few years of my life. I dealt badly with her death after driving past the accident on my way to work and then having the gruesome task of identifying her body then telling my parents. Dad had just had a heart attack the month before so the family was torn apart for a long time by tragedy. I left University where I was studying sociology and psychology the next year after my parents became over protective of me traveling 500 kilometres each weekend home and back to uni.

I married my first husband Keith Swan in 1992 and we found out in 1993 that he was dying and subsequently died of liver failure and hepatitis C. Unfortunately the drugs given to him by the doctors totally destroyed his liver, his body and then his mind over the next few years. We had two wonderful children Kiralea Amber Opal Swan and Kaelan Alexander Orion Swan.

Kiralea was born disabled after a dental procedure went horribly wrong during the pregnancy and the antibiotics given to me to save my life unfortunately affected her physical growth. She is a brilliant child, her memory is in the top one percent for age in Queensland (99th Percentile) but she has crippled legs, obesity and Aspergers Syndrome Autism to contend with.

In 1997 I appeared on Sale Of The Century as a contestant and got the record for the fastest "who am I" ever. It made me sit back and really contemplate my life and choices. Why was I a rebel, why wasn't I settled like everyone else. Why were my dreams different to everyone else's dreams. Today I am happy with who I am.

I met my second and current husband Glen when I bought a computer off him for Krystal in 1999. We soon spent a lot of time together, bonded by our love of computers and other technology. I worked with him in his business and we soon moved to Queensland to open a Computer Sales and Service store. I managed the store and workshop along with our sales and technical staff. Over the next few years we got married and I combined motherhood with managing a business, giving birth to Shayla in 2000, Brodie in 2002 and Kahleah in 2004. I managed our shop and staff right through my pregnancies and opened the store for work 9am sharp the day after the birth of all the kids. The babies spent their first nine months as workshop babies, with a corner of our workshop decorated and set aside for the children. Glen became ill in 2003 and we eventually closed the shop to work from home, which gave me more time with the children.

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I left Glen for his extreme emotional abuse. Some say it was the HEP C that made him that way. I don't know but I do know that it was destroying myself and the children. We walked out in December and left with just a backpack of clothes each.

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Today we are busy getting the happy back.

I love writing and I am currently putting together some of my work to be publsihed. I write children's stories and my family would love to see me take those stories and have them in book form

I like to indulge my hobbies of star gazing, sunsets and sunrises, photography, graphic art, learning everything I can, playing with my children, cooking, gardening and natural remedies, all my other vast and varied interests and mostly dreaming. For without dreams we are nothing.

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