I know I had you at cat pictures, but those are at the end.
I grew up along the Idaho-Oregon border in a teeny, tiny town called Weiser, ID. It absolutely does not rhyme with "wiser". Instead, it sounds exactly the same as "wheezer", but way less cool than the band (sorry, hometown). If you want to know what it was like growing up there, just watch Napoleon Dynamite. Nailed it. Aside from natural beauty, the yummy vegetable fried rice at the Golden Horse Chinese restaurant, awesome stories about the horrifying Jackalope, and Sasquatch sightings, rural Idaho didn't thrill me much.
Here is a collection of stuff about me in no particular order to satisfy your enquiring mind. If you aren't curious (and I don't blame you) just skip to the cat pictures.:
I grew up along the Idaho-Oregon border in a teeny, tiny town called Weiser, ID. It absolutely does not rhyme with "wiser". Instead, it sounds exactly the same as "wheezer", but way less cool than the band (sorry, hometown). If you want to know what it was like growing up there, just watch Napoleon Dynamite. Nailed it. Aside from natural beauty, the yummy vegetable fried rice at the Golden Horse Chinese restaurant, awesome stories about the horrifying Jackalope, and Sasquatch sightings, rural Idaho didn't thrill me much.
Here is a collection of stuff about me in no particular order to satisfy your enquiring mind. If you aren't curious (and I don't blame you) just skip to the cat pictures.:
- I'm a certified Sundoor Firewalk Instructor.
- My graduate degree brought me to the Lehigh Valley of PA. Veni. Vedi. Velcro. I came. I saw. I stuck around.
- I was in a ballet company in high school, which is why I never, ever wear open-toed shoes. *shudder*
- Quite sure a friend and I were chased by Bigfoot in the Oregon woods, but I was too terrified to look over my shoulder.
- Indian food is pretty much like crack to me. That and cheese, which is actually addictive. No really, it has casomorphins in it that act in the brain in a similar way to opioid drugs.
- I've got insider knowledge about that last bullet point after spending over a decade managing addiction treatment centers.
- My Wendy Froud (she sculpted Yoda!) doll is the reason I learned to sculpt art dolls. My artwork is over in the 'Elven Elysium' tab.
- I adore weird landmarks. If it's a giant statue or the world's largest pothole, I'm so there. My favorite pointless attraction is the World's Largest Ball of twine in Cawker City, KS. My friend and I added our own bit of twine to it's magestic bulk.
- My loves include Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, X-Men, Master's of the Universe, Star Trek, and awful B-movies.
- As a last vestige of my rural upbringing, even today, I drive a big ol' truck.
- I love bulleted lists and math.
Yay! You made it to the cat pictures! In fairness they're all pictures of the same cat. Kokopelli. He's a rescue from Peacable Kingdom in Allentown. Poor little guy was the victim of some serious abuse as a kitten, I got him when he was about 8 weeks. Maybe it's his tragic past or maybe it's the bengal genes his vet thinks he has, but he is one weird cat. He loves the vanilla part of Kinder eggs and is obsessed with that orange quilt he helped me make.
Oh and that's me displaying my weeping angel heritage proudly. Don't blink.
Oh and that's me displaying my weeping angel heritage proudly. Don't blink.
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