About
Hello, my name is Katie. I am first and foremost, the mother of one pretty amazing teenager. There are days that I am unsure if he is amazing in the “extraordinary human being whom I adore spending time with” sense of the word or just an amazing pain in my ass… I am sure he will get over this with age. On the whole he is a great kid and I wouldn’t trade him for the world. I am also the wife of a pretty bad ass barber. He is my co-pilot, and more often than not, my conscience (he pretty much keeps me from telling everyone what exactly it is that I think of them or what they have done on a regular and unedited basis). I am also a daughter; sister, aunt, niece, granddaughter, and a friend to those brave souls who choose to voluntarily spend time with me. Obviously my family and friends mean a great deal to me (mess with them and I will cut you… OK not really, but I may make you cry nonetheless).
I spent many years struggling to find me in all that I thought I “should” be doing. I thought that I had to be just one thing for many of those years and could never choose what that one thing was to be. I have led a pretty interesting life thus far and hope that I continue to have many great adventures (but perhaps these good times could be more easily won once in a while. yeah, that would be nice wouldn’t it? Meh, we all need our pipe dreams). I have been a lot of things so far; I was a “Dead Head” in the early years, I have been a waitress and sales associate… I devoted the first five years of my son’s life to being a stay at home mother and went back to work in the medical field once he was old enough to go to school. I started as a CNA in the home care industry where I did a lot of hospice work. That job made me sad after a few years so I moved on to my work as a “Birth Control Fairy”. I did this at a very busy and well-known family planning clinic and I truly loved what I did there. Unfortunately I was stricken by a rare illness in 2006 which has left me unable to continue working and after struggling to grasp what has happened to me for a few years, I realized that I have yet another chance to reinvent myself, which I dearly love doing.
This is the part of my story where all the pretentious gobbledygook regarding following ones dreams comes in… the short and sweet of it is, I love art and creating nifty things; I also love writing and writing nifty things. I really have nothing but time on my hands these days and in an epic “DOH!” moment, I realized that I should be filling this time by doing things that I love. In the fall of 2009, I enrolled at the Art Institute and am pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Graphic Design. My hope is to hone my crafts and gain the experience and knowledge I need to make a career of doing what I love and so far, this experience has been rewarding beyond words.
Not that my new life as a mother/wife/student affords me a lot of time (that was the point in going back to school though… to use up some of that free time), but I have goals for my writing as well. One of these days I will actually finish one of the several novels I have started but my ultimate writing goal at present is to become a contributor to This American Life. We will see how that goes… I suppose things would move along more quickly if I pulled up my big girl panties and submitted some stories.
In the meantime, you will find my writings here… you better belt yourself into your chair though; sometimes reading my thoughts can be a bumpy ride. As is previously indicated, I also do more serious writing but generally keep that to myself and will continue to do so until I publish these mysterious bits of fiction (you know, I don’t want some wanker stealing my work or something like that).
I do hope you enjoy my blog, if you don’t that is alright too… it is you who has to live with your ultimate suckiness.
