Purging.

Its that time of year for my house, when I go through all of the “storage” and purge it of items that I forgot we had or that we havent used in more than an year. I mean, I am a one-woman “Clean Sweep Team”. However, this year – I am doing a much more thorough job of it this time around than I usually do. MrZoot is finally coming around and seeing the light. He is finally letting me get rid of those items he’s been holding onto forever. Like... Read More

My Love of Spray Butter.

Can I just say this one thing? That no calorie spray butter you can get ROCKS MY WORLD. If you like butter, but you are “dieting” – buy it. Now. Seriously. What are you waiting on. It has ZERO calories! And it tastes like butter. Man, I’ve been coating EVERYTHING with that stuff. It makes that diet popcorn actually taste like popcorn. Or at least butter, instead of tasting like the newspaper. With Salt.  Read More

My Folding Dining Room Table

Its been 2 years since I started living in the real world, post-college, and I am trying to be a little more classy and sophisticated. Shut UP. For example, the black lacquer bedroom set I got for 35 dollars from a couple moving to Colorado is a TAD outdated. I mean – who doesnt love black lacquer? But this stuff had MIRRORS and GOLD TRIM. I heard Debbie Gibson singing and bangle bracelets jingling every time I walked into my bedroom. VH1 could use my bedroom as the... Read More

In the Beginning…

Random photo taken of me and D sometime in 2004 You want to know a secret? Its not really January 7th, 2004. Its really August 5th, 2004. I am simply backdating this as an effort to put some sort of introduction to this blog. Some background information – if you will. See? I did start blogging sometime around the beginning of January, 2004. Like all bloggers, I wasnt sure, in the beginning, what I wanted to be about on my blog. Would I do one entry a day? Like a journal?... Read More

Hi. I’m Kim.

This is my blog that I've been writing on since January, 2004. I call myself Zoot as it's a derivative of an old childhood nickname. I used to write about my struggles to have children, but eventually I succeeded and now, I write a lot about those kids. I don't use my kid's exact names simply because if someone Googles their very unique names in the future, I don't want them stumbling upon my entries about boobsweat. I mean, would you hire someone whose Mom writes openly about such topics? NO. YOU WOULD NOT.

I love taking pictures and carry my camera (almost) everywhere I go. This means you'll see a lot of photos on this site. I also periodically post recipes I like as I've been slowly (but surely) learning to cook and I like to share my discoveries. Finally? I'm an annoying pop culture fanatic so I'll periodically ramble about Hunger Games or the latest Parks and Recreation.

I hope you like it here. If not? Please don't tell me. I cry easily.
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