About Me


Kurt and I on our third anniversary, 2002I’m originally from Alaska. I worked as a mega web geek (I’m still a mega mega web geek and can answer any blog or other web geekery questions) prior to motherhood.  Kurt was my live-in-non-hubby for ten years. He was born in Illinois but moved to Michigan at a young age.  Kurt and I were happily unmarried until our tenth anniversary when we tied the knot in a courthouse so that I could remain a stay-at-home-mom and receive health insurance. Damn our hyper-tight-panty society and their stupid gotta-be-married-unless-you’re-gay rules. We currently live somewhere in western Washington where I spend my days putting things back in place that the toddler tornado has hidden in some other drawer across the house. Sophia, the bastard apple of our eye was born in 2007.

Activities I enjoy:

I enjoy tinkering with my blog and I hangout in a couple IRC chat rooms on the Undernet server.

I’m very interested in genealogy. My father’s side of the family is Mormon so I have a lot of information, stories, and pictures of my ancestors readily available to me. My mother’s side is an entirely different story. She is Mexican and so far accurate documentation of the family history has been difficult.

I like to go camping, hiking, biking, canoeing/kayaking, and swimming. I’ve never been downhill skiing but I did enjoy crosscountry skiing as a child in Alaska. I also liked ice skating. I’m sure I would have continued those activities had I stayed in my home state. I’m not into sports, but I do like watching hockey. I can’t ever remember all the rules, and I don’t follow the teams, but I like to watch the fights (There is just something about people pummeling each other and the crowd going nuts over a few drops of blood on the ice). I also like to watch motorcycle racing with my boyfriend the ‘ol ball ‘n chain – mostly because I like to listen to the highly excitable announcer, “He’s going to pass him, Yes he is, No he isn’t, Yes HE IS!” I haven’t seen a demolition derby in a long time, but I like those too. I’d actually like to be in one someday.

Favorites:

  • Books: Anything about real life serial killers. My favorite author is Harold Schechter.
  • Movies: Twelve Chairs (1970 Directed by Mel Brooks), Same Time Next Year (1978 with Alan Alda), In-Laws (1979 with Peter Falk), Outsiders (1983 with Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze), The Princess Bride (1987 with Cary Elwes), Forrest Gump, The World’s Fastest Indian, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  • Music: This is not a complete list, and is only in the order that it came to mind: Violent Femmes, The Cure, White Zombie, AC/DC, Tom Petty, John Cougar Mellencamp, INXS, Tears for Fears, U2, UB40, The Beatles, The Doors, NIN, Marilyn Manson (only with Trent Reznor), GNR, Aerosmith, Lindsey Buckingham, Garbage, Merrill Bainbridge “Mouth”, Peter Gabriel, Wolfgang Press (I LOVE the singer’s voice!), Alanis Morissette, L7, Smithereens
  • Food: Sushi
  • Drinks: I drink rum – all drinks require a tiny paper umbrella and a ton of sugar. Brandies and Ice wines are good too (those can be served without the umbrella).
  • Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Carry Elwes
  • Comedians: For their perspective and impeccable delivery I love… George Carlin, Lewis Black, Carlos Mencia, Penn & Teller, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Jeff Dunham.
  • Places: The Beach
  • TV Shows: M*A*S*H, Cheers, Cold Case Files, Lost, Heroes, Mind of Mencia, Bullshit, and Dexter

A bit about my other “kids”:

Petie, Spring 2002 age 6 (The white stuff on the ground is his fur!! I have two dogs. One is a Malamute (the one lying in a pile of his own fur) the other is a Husky mix. I’ve had the male since he was five weeks old (April 1996). His name is Petie. I named him when he was about two months old. At that time, he had perfect black circles around both eyes and it reminded me of the dog on the Little Rascals.

Chelan, summer 2003 age 4 (That is her usual pose) My Husky I saved from the Animal Shelter November 18th, 1999. She was about six months old at the time. I named her Chelan before she even made it home. We actually took her for a walk around the Olympic Peninsula with Petie right after we left the shelter. I named her when I pulled the maps out of the glove compartment and started looking at the wrong area of Washington. Her name comes from Lake Chelan.

Bailey, 2002 age 2 (cuddling with me) I also have a cat named Bailey. I adopted him from PAWS in Seattle in November 1st, 2000. Bailey was listed as a two-month-old Orange Tabby, but he still doesn’t look orange to me. He is more of a two-toned cream, or cream and light brown, so I named after Bailey’s Irish Cream. I almost didn’t adopt him due to his size, I thought he was actually four months old. I was afraid that a four-month-old kitten might be too old to learn how to get along with the dogs, but I took the chance anyway. I brought Bailey to the vet for his health check up and found out he really was only two months old, and he had no problem with the dogs. He wasn’t the least bit shy around them even on their first nose-to-nose encounter. He is the cuddliest kitty I’ve ever had. Bailey even snuggles with the dogs and cleans their faces, but he doesn’t like it so much when they try to clean his.