To start this new blog off I'd like to thank Sabrina Lemons for inspiring me to write my own blog after seeing how great hers was! Imitation they say is the highest form of flattery. Secondly I wish I had thought to start this on the first but alas, if wishing made it so..That having been said a bit about me seems appropriate.
I used to live in a small city east of Tulsa, Oklahoma called Catoosa. Catoosa is famous for Route 66 and the large blue whale, although there isn't enough money one could pay me to swim in this body of water, with all due respect to the city who is planning to refurbish this supposed once flourishing landmark http://www.theroadwanderer.net/66Oklahoma/catoosa.htm and there is talk that a jogging path is going to be built in this area as well; also most recently the Cherokee Nation has built the Hard Rock Casino and Hotel and Golf Course http://www.cherokeestarrewards.com/Pages/default.aspx so my point in mentioning this is that my neighborhood is flourishing and growing and since my apartment complex is brand new I surmise that puts proof to it.
I live with my calico cat Sookie St. James who was a feral feline before I rescued her and we've lived together for two years now, and if truth be told I often think I ought to have created a blog solely to Sookie and what it was like to trap her in the humane trap and the drama at the vet office and bringing her home and setting to the tasks of getting to know one another and the joys of domestication. Although Sookie took to being house bound technically very quickly. I digress, Sookie is what is referred to as a Feline Retriever, in that one day I was sitting in my captains chair and she brought me one her many toy mice and dropped it over my shoulder and right into my lap and looked at me as if to say, "Hey, do you mind playing with me"? So I threw it for her and she immediately ran to "fetch" it and brought it straight back to me and up on to the chair, and back over my shoulder and into my lap; I was shocked to say the very least. Sookie is a true feral, and daily I build trust with her, and she for me. She loves her toys, her 8 foot cat mansion and the occasional can food treat and her twice daily freshened litter box. Sookie is quite the talker and often as I sit down to do some writing or if I am in the kitchen creating a new concoction she will bring me a "mouse" to throw for her and getting very verbal if I don't immediately drop what I am doing and pay her heed.
One of truest passions in life is cooking, and baking and grilling out and entertaining. I am a true FOODIE, although you couldn't tell it by looking at me honestly. You really CAN trust a skinny cook and here's why; I feed you the fattening food and live vicariously through your calorie intake! lol Thanks though. Nothing in life gives me quite the satisfaction of waking up before dawn and putting something on to slow cook or rise, or put something in the fridge to marinate. I love to feed people, and often say I ought to have worked at a college frat or sorority house so I could feed the masses comfort foods. I like to talk about food and have only just discovered what is called "food porn", no Hustler it isn't but food is truly an art form which I am going to dedicate a lot of time here throughout the year talking about.
I love to read, actually I am addicted to the written word, especially Jane Austen, J.K. Rowling, Stephanie Meyer, Dean Koontz, and Tom Clancy etc..and I recently discovered e-books via Kindle for PC which is shockingly free and a beautiful, user friendly piece of software. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000426311 at the end of 2010 I'd decided that I had read SO many that I could potentially be able to write my own novella so I've set to that task with due diligence. By due diligence I mean I've put a million books on writing a novel on my Amazon wish list http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/ref=gno_listpop_wi
Lastly and possible equally significantly, I am 36 and recently single with no children so in Austen's time I would be considered a spinster for sure, although I don't feel like one. I will also be writing about that voyage as well this, I guess this is enough to be going on with, as Sookie's patience for me to throw this mouse has seem to reach it's limits.
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