Day 10: Create an imaginary character you could have used in your life this year. Tell us about this being.

Oh gosh.  I could go so many different ways with this.  But...

In my imaginary ideal world, there is a being that I would probably title a "fixer".  Not a fixer in the mafia sense, necessarily, but someone who I can go to and tell them everything that's bothering me, everything that's frustrating, everything that hurts, and their job is to fix it for me.  Kind of like a bodyguard for drama.

My fixer would be a big, burly, stoic looking guy.  He'd dress all in black, and wear sunglasses 24/7, and have a short-ish ponytail, hair pulled back slick against his scalp.  Clean shaven to show off the strength of his jaw, for intimidation purposes.  He wouldn't be pretty, either.  And he'd follow me around, just sort of lurking in the shadows, far enough away as to not be a nuisance, but close enough that I could summon him with a snap of my fingers to deal with anyone, or anything, that was giving me grief.

When my ex husband started pulling drama this year, my fixer would have intimidated the crap out of him for me, so I didn't have to deal with all the legalese and freak-outed-ness.  When OBF's wife started pulling drama, my fixer would have set her straight, and saved me (and OBF, and LIBF) a shit ton of pain and suffering.  My fixer would have dealt with my mother, and kept her from being a condescending, rude, bitch at my sister's wedding.  He'd have gotten LIBF's grandmother to get herself a damned financial planner instead of making the messes she's made that we had to clean up.  He'd have dealt with LIBF's mother's shit too, because that ended up in my lap as well.  He'd intimidate my kid into doing his homework on time and without temper tantrums.

My fixer... Would be my brick wall against the rest of the outside world.  So that I could focus on the things that I wanted to focus on, instead of the things I ended up having to focus on.  A protector, standing over me, with a constant and persistent "don't fuck with tess" written all over his face.  And his biceps.