This is me. Before Satan took over my life. Just kidding. Kinda.
My name is Kim. I have been using the online name “Zoot” since a million years ago as it’s a derivative of an assortment of nicknames I had growing up. I’m not good at the “About Me” type info, but I have an About Me category you can read entries from. That might be entertaining. Let me know.
The important facts? I was born in Tennessee, I currently live in Alabama. I have three kids. They are 14, 3, and 1. It was not my intention to have my kids this spread out. My oldest child is from a previous marriage. He was 8 when I married MrZ. We were going to have kids immediately, but my eventual diagnosis as a repeat aborter threw any sort of schedule out the window. My endometriosis, fibroids, and nasty habit of miscarrying spontaneously forced us to leave our schedule up to Mother Nature and my OB/Gyn.
I started this blog in January of 2004 at Typepad. I eventually moved to my own domain and didn’t realized I could bring my old entries with me, so I just copied and pasted a few of the ones I thought were “good.” Hence the minimal content the first few months of 2004. This blog has seen me through a number of miscarriages, two childbirths, the purchase of a home and the death of one dog and My father. My Dad loved my blog and even periodically left comments. Where I once used this site to discuss the pain of pregnancy losses, I lately talk a lot about Grief. Other than that, I use it mostly to document our lives for our kids to look back on one day, but also as a way to be part of the online community I’ve discovered in the years since.
Things I Like/Love/Wanna Make Out With
Harry Potter, weird socks, Ellen, Krispy Kremes, the Twilight saga, pedicures, my camera, clean sheets, Super Target, pajama pants, Diet Coke, Hazelnut Coffeemate, Pens, Dave Mathews Band, pottery, butterflies, Birkenstocks, sterling silver jewelery, southern food, french fries dipped in Frostys, Angelina Jolie, bubble baths, Tennessee Vols (GO BIG ORANGE!), Smoky Mountains, being pro-choice, Rachel Maddow, Ellen DeGeneres (yes…I know…), my feet, the color red, DOVE products, the South, tattoos, piercings, tuna in a pouch, go-tarts, President Obama, silicone cookware…
Want to know more? I exist other places online as well
My MySpace Profile (which rarely gets updated)
About This Site
Once upon a time I started nine million different blogs on blogger and hated them all because they were all ugly and annoying and I never got the hang of “blogging”. I even wrote an entry telling people how to start a blog based on my experiences. I kept trying to use Movable Type since so many sites used that, but I couldn’t figure it out because MT has to be run on the server that hosts your blog, not on your personal computer, and that was long before I understood what those words meant. I just got pissed off that I couldnt get it to “install” and gave up. Then, I found Typepad. I went through many domain names and many, many, MANY ugly designs before I arrived at this here blog you are reading today. If you missed all of the middle phases? Be glad. There were a lot of large purple letters and pictures of my tattoos. I make no apologies for those designs, but I am very glad I am no longer using them. I am also very glad I learned how to use Movable Type. FINALLY. Update – 11/2006 – I made the switch to Wordpress. I did it because (a) There is a huge user community I love and (b) my new job used Wordpess so it gave me more experience. So far? I’m loving it.
