I started this blog in 2005 because I had just married and ran away to live in NYC with my new husband. I like to write and my Mormon upbringing impressed upon me the absolute importance of journaling. I still make Jello and can whip up a mighty good casserole too, so it wasn't all bad, the Mormonism. I'm not Mormon anymore. Stopped believing in my early twenties, was super-pissed about it throughout my mid-twenties, came to grips with it in my latter-twenties and officially resigned when the church helped raise funds in support of Proposition 8 in 2008. You'll find I like to get upon my Soap Box now and again and ballyhoo but I'm not half as angry about things as I used to be. Some family members and childhood friends shake their heads at me, the apostate, but that's okay, I shake my head right back which makes for, you know, a lot of head-shaking.

I met my husband, my new savior, at a rock gig in Salt Lake City in August of 2004 and married him a few weeks later. It felt right. It was right. You can read all about it here. Go on, it's a good story.

We moved to Brooklyn, New York for a few years. In 2007, after more than a decade of touring the world with his band Marah my husband decided to quit. He was tired. It was time.

We moved back to Utah where we now live with our dogs Max and Milo and our new baby daughter Violet. I work as an executive producer for a local news station.

I swear. A lot. People who say swearing is evidence of a lack of intelligence annoy me. When I stub my toe the only thing that makes it feel better is a nice, hearty FUCK! Often only MOTHERFUCKER will suffice. And I am smart. Smarter than a lot of people who don't swear.

I like beer, Howard Stern, beer, documentaries (including True Life and 16 And Pregnant on MTV) and then the dramatic, gritty ones that indicate I am a serious film-goer. And beer. Did I say beer? A dry, red wine is nice too. I like to know about people and their lives. I hate romantic comedies. Would rather watch paint dry than a romantic comedy. Except for awesome 80's movies generally starring Molly Ringwald and directed by the late John Hughes. I'm not saying that to be all movie elitist or anything, I just don't like romantic comedies, they make me feel awkward, fidgety and eye roll-y. I read a lot. That includes In Touch, Us Weekly and Star. People magazine is good too. I am stubborn but easily influenced by persuasive people. I change my mind a lot.

Oh! And if presented with the choice of nachos or a big slab of cheesecake I will choose the nachos every time. This, I believe, is an integral part of understanding who I am. Nachos.