What to do?...

This is a very new style of writing to me, also, but I'm still willing to try. I've been reading everyone's posts with great interest. All of this seems to come so easily to some of you. I want to make certain I come up with something new yet believable. It's still a struggle at this point but I'm attempting to not get frustrated, hoping someone will say something that will spark an idea in me.
Everything I'm throwing out here is completely changeable. So far, this has all been jotted down as little bites of info, with the intent to turn it into an outline so I have some direction in my mind.
I was leaning toward a 50ish woman named Kate Richardson. Name for posting to the Website to be Katydid (or didn't?)(Too cutesy/silly?) I wanted someone old enough to have had education, children and a career but also someone young enough to embark on a new career/adventure/change in the same 'ol life. Bored with other moms who only seem interested in gossip, eating, and American Idol, etc...kids out of school, she leaves her former identity as school teacher/mom to do what? I was actually leaning toward photography, here. Tired with taking local portraits she embarks on a photographic adventure of sorts, leading on forays out-of-town, from covered bridges to cemetery headstones...
I was leaning toward the Earl of Sandwich topic only because I thought his being a work-a-holic would translate well into Kate's husband being a Type A personality, always working, with no real friends since he's the boss. You know it's lonely at the top and spouses of his employees only want to get to know Kate so they have some sort of influence over their spouse’s career aspirations. Hubby with no time, or being too tired at the end of a day, to talk to Kate nudges her in the direction of Internet...shopping at the site, at first, but then finding people to talk to...interesting and interested...new topics...okay to quote Emerson and not get laughed at...equally okay to be playful and off topic...Then an opportunity to travel, with a friend, taking photos along the way to add to her portfolio?
Is this horrible? Am I even close to being on the right track?
I like the ending Mike came up with...it's kind of nice for me to see where we will all end up eventually. Anyway, nothing I've written is in stone. Feel free to tear it all asunder.
Pam