Seriously. ZERO sense of direction.

I am, in essence, a cartographer by trade. I make maps. I do more than that – but unless you’re in the field – it will sound like gibberish to you, so just trust that I make maps. Sometimes I get to play with satellite photos too. I love my job. I got into the field of Geography in college because of my long time love of maps. But – my love of maps is deeper than just “Wow. Cool Map.” It’s more like, “I have no idea where in the... Read More

Not the momma.

When I go to NikkiZ’s daycare for her 9am feedings (hee – right after we feed the chickens and slop the hogs) she is often asleep. Of course, this doesn’t keep her from nursing, as she has perfected the art of sleeping and eating at the same time. This comes in handy at night when she wakes up for the nineteenth time because I’ve perfected the art of sleeping and nursing. However, without fail – when she’s done eating and I try to put her back... Read More

My mind says no…

Yesterday, NikkiZ woke up around 4:15 or so to eat, so about 4:45 I got out of bed for the day – a good 30 minutes before I usually do. Since I leave the house around 6:10 – this gave me a good chunk of time in the morning to blog, design, clean, do whatever – while NikkiZ stayed asleep. I woke up at the usual time today (around 5am) and I’m feeling cramped. I don’t think I’ll have time to get all the things done I wanted to get done. This means... Read More

You Hate Mike Freakin’ Furir too?

(Emily emailed me a suggestion to my last problem which helped me find a solution that worked.) I have gotten a lot of emails asking me if I found a way to stop Mike Furir from commenting on my site (the BASTARD) and I have, indeed. However, it only works if you run MT 3.2 (as far as I know) – but if you run MT 3.2 and you hate Mike Furir because he leaves annoying comments on your site – and maybe you have fantasies about feeding him to rabid gerbils – then... Read More

Calling all .CSS smarty-pants.

Help. Please. I have traveled the entire internet for a solution and now I come to you. If you know nothing about stylesheets or .CSS – don’t even bother reading this. It will bore you to death, I promise. WARNING: I do not use web lingo properly. Most of it is either made up or used wrong. I apologize but I don’t know any other way. Okay – my page looks all fine and dandy in Internet Explorer because it sucks and doesn’t interpret code exactly how... 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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