Who the hell is This Tigs person?

The basics:

My name is Michelle but most call me Tigs these days.

I am female in my 30's 

No kids 1 cat (who is AWESOME!) 

I type so badly it has been dubbed it's own language by my friends "Tiggish" If you have a problem with this you should probably leave now. I am working on it but I will not be policed for how i spell or type! 

Due to a VERY old lady T-boneing my car a few years ago, which even with a seat belt on left a chunk of my  head in the windshield I have a VERY bad memory!! Please never take it personal that i forget things alot!

Do you like me ever wonder about the people that run these pages on Facebook? Why do they do it? What are they like? Are they nice? Do they care about their fans or just trying to get theirs? Will they help me if I ask? 

I wonder these things maybe I am the only one maybe I am not, If you care to know about me I will tell you. I have not lived an ordinary life by far, but that story will be left for my book I plan to write one day :P I will instead tell you how I got here spending my days running a FB page and hunting down crazy deals. 

 Four years ago I was living in Blackburg VA.  It is an awesome college town home to VA Tech!  It is truly the sweetest town I have ever lived in. I worked as a baker downtown, and loved my job very much! It gave me access to a lot of the kinds of people i enjoy spending time with.  Being the awesome baker and person I am :P I made alot of friends very fast!  Constant dinner parties, keggers lol, scavenger hunts that ended in me having one side of my hair lopped off! :)  I  never got the chance to go to college instead I had went to a 2 year culinary school, so I had never experience college life. It truly is the best years I think! 

Then Monday April 16th 2007 the VA Tech shootings happened, now it wasn't until 2 years later when my baby sister passed away suddenly that i realized the impact the shootings had on me. I shut down I lost a dear friend that day her name was Julia it was the first time i had ever lost someone close to me. We were not bff's, we did not see each other every day, but she always made an effort to stop by the bakery or apt and see me hang out give me kool books to read. Many times we sat on the lawn having lunch. I eventually had to quit my job at the bakery, It was just to painful I would swear to you that I often caught Julia out of the corner of my eye in the bakery all the time. 

 This lead to a dark time I guess you could say. I moved to Oklahoma didn't work, only left the house to go grocery shopping. After a year in OK my baby sister Heather passed away very suddenly, in her sleep, she was only 29 and has a daughter not even in her teens yet. Devastated is an understatement. I could never explain to you what that did to me on this blog or face to face I will only say a piece of me is gone now that I will never get back, the guilt I have for not being there the last year of her life is something I still struggle with. 

 So back to Oklahoma for another year of not working, not going no where and gaining about 75 pounds.  So locked inside my head i could not see or ear anything. After a year of that, One of the first days of spring, I was sitting on my couch with the patio door open and a breeze came across my face bringing in the smell of spring I stood up right then and knew i had to leave Oklahoma, that enough time had been spent wallowing in regret and self-pity. So I left eventually moving to Alabama where I am now.

Thru this time of withdrawal from life there was really only one person I talked to, Andi, She was always there for me she helped me so much after my sister passed, Gently and sometimes rough with her sharp tongue, and quick wit, she helped pull me out of the darkness, Andi and I have never met in real life, we met thru Facebook gaming and hit it off at once. It is amazing how close to someone you have never seen face to face, Every day i was laughing out loud, tears rolling down my cheeks, my boyfriend would come in and say "What are you and Andi up to now?"  Again I can not  describe what she meant to me. 

 Last Oct Andi took her own life 20 mins after trying to reach me on yahoo messenger. Even typing that brought me to a jarring abrupt stop. I want to say now about my dear friend that she had recently been put on some new medicine, I will always believe in my heart it was this medicine that caused her to do this. You know I saw a commercial the other night for a joint pain medication that had suicidal thoughts as a side effect. REALLY? ( anyway thats a debate for another time)  It goes with out saying that this was a devastating loss. To put it in perceptive of how close Andi and I were w/o ever meeting, her husband and daughter did not even  say anything on Facebook about her passing until personally talking to me.  Everyone in our lives knew what we meant to one another. Needless to say I begin to loose any and all progress that I had made,  again I lost a piece of me, again i am wracked with guilt, How could i forget yahoo that day? How of all the days in all my life. 

 At the first of this year I made a promise to myself to pull myself up by the shoe straps and get on with my life,No one I have lost would want me to live my life in pain and regret. It has been a slow hard progress I will not lie But I am making progress. I have a good life I do my best to appreciate that. 

 I have always enjoyed helping people, Growing up my home burned down 3 times, I learned quick that what material possessions you have are here today and gone tomorrow, they mean nothing and are easily replaced. It is only your relationships you create with others that last and have any real meaning.  After watching Extreme couponing on TLC It reminded me how much i used to love couponing! I do not know how or when i got away from using coupons But i do know this about couponing,  That it has the power to change peoples lives for the better. We are living in very tough times. People need help. I have always had very good organizational skills, I make a great manager. After doing this a few times I was like I can not keep this to myself I have to tell people. 

So that is what brought me to create my Fb page. It was began only to help my friends people I knew I never thought it would grow at all, but I am very happy to see it grow. I love talking to you guys, interacting like with my give aways,the enjoyment I get back is well worth the stamp and envelope to send you a few coupons! I am still learning myself  thats why I made the page so we could learn together.  Have somewhere it's ok to ask the so called "dumb questions"  I am even at the point now I am thinking of making a true business out of this one day. Teaching people how to shop and save money, to have a better quality of life.  I am pretty sure if i invested the time it would succeed. Not only could I make it my employment by maybe having classes or what not but I would meet new people which I love to do, but I will be able to truly help them. Helping people gives me a sense of worth I guess, Like my life has a meaningful purpose. 

I desire very much for the page to be more than just a place to post deals, but to be more, somewhere we can help and support each other,  Meet new friends, Help each other win contests and save money, share deals, sales, coupons you may find! My wall is always open to you guys! s long as I never get alot of spam it always will be! Thank you for being in my life! I appreciate you guys so much! I have locked myself up so tight, talking and interacting with you helps so much and means the world to me especially considering I still am living like a shut it. >.< It WILL get better this I know! 

 If you have made it this far you are indeed a special person! I hope my typos did not burn your eyes to bad! 

So that is why I am here. Thank everyone for being here as well! Soon we will all be Coupon Queens and maybe even make some friends along the way!

Sincerely,

Tigs

(Michelle Hensley)

**UPDATE** Please go HERE FOR A SIMPLE THANK YOU!

Yes this is a emo pic but one of the few I actually like :P

You can tell this was written almost a year ago when I could not even imagine having 1,000 fans!

Much less the almost 10k I have now! THANK YOU SO MUCH!