I'm 43 going on 97...less than 1/2 way done, got lots to
still do!
I’m from Minnesota. I’m Swedish, Irish, a bit of German and a frappe of a few
other Northern European countries. I have 2 daughters. Tabitha Ann was born in
1987. Jazmin Celiia was born in 1990. I lost my daughter Natalia Tatiana to a
heart defect; hypoplastic left heart syndrome in 1989. Tabitha had my grandson
sweet Oliver in 2004. Tabitha is having my granddaughter Olivia in November
2011.
I work in a small plastic injection molding plant (about 9 miles from home) as
the Document Control administrator (chick) and industrial photographer. We are
ISO certified so I do paper work…lots of paper work. I’ve worked here since 1999.
I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2005 after living with the diagnosis of
systemic lupus erythmatosis. It is a double edged sword to be living life like
you have something when you have something totally different. they're both
rather tiring, pardon the pun. I push myself to do everything I do. Laying in
bed with the heating pad nearby and a few pain killers would be so nice and
simple, but I have to work, have to be a mom, have to be a nana...want to be a
quilter, want to be an artist. Unfortunately the quilting and creativity
usually sit there and glare meanly at me when I'm just in too much pain or too
tired to move. Sad to say muscle relaxers are my friend, but only in the
evening after work, momma-ing, nana-ing and dutiful hand fasted wife-ing are
complete.
I
was handfasted to my sweet soul mate on the 9th
of June 2007. He found me on the Internet on www.loveaccess.com
cool huh? An Internet relationship that
actually worked! We’ve been together officially since November 2006. His name’s Jim…and he’s dandy! We were
married October 31st
2011
(yup Halloween) everyone invited will be in costume…it was LOVELY!
I learned how to quilt in
1990 while on bed rest trying not to have my youngest daughter Jazmin too soon.
A in home nurse who helped me with my 3-year old Tabitha taught me. I made
Jazmin’s bunny quilt totally by hand since sitting at my sewing machine wasn’t
an option at the time. Since then I’ve made about 60 quilts of assorted sizes,
mostly patchwork a few appliqué’. I work full time now, my sweet babies are
adults and I’m a grandma now but the quilt bug raises its pin prickly head
almost daily still. I quilt mostly for charities: God's Tiny Angels in West
Virginia, Heart Babies in Minneapolis...I want to give...make someone warm,
comfortable, feel OK for the moment even if all around them is chaos. :) Must
be a momma thing, I want everyone to be happy and OK!
For fun my girls (when they
have time, now that they are grown) and I scrap book, collage, decoupage, paint
(acrylic) sketch, sculpt, well just about anything fun and crafty. We go for
nature hikes throughout the year to experience the changing of the seasons and
enjoy the plethora of local flora and fauna when allergies and biting insects
don't stop us. In the summer the kids, mine and whose ever’s are around, make
my current vehicle into an ART Car (truck, SUV, whatever) For silliness we
enter it into whatever art car parade we can get to. Oh to be that flamboyant,
+ it seems to REALLY irritate some people for some reason… go figure!?!?!companion
animals: Lilith Licks the Glass (Leopard Gecko), Helga Hiss A-Lot (Blue Tongued
Skink, Akmed I’m a Dinner Jacket (Kenyan Boa), Shamus McSuchy (Sookee) the Standard
Schnauzer, a plethora of fish, a plague of rats...
Favorite Music:
Eclectic= A
plethora of my musical tastes: Angelcorpse ~ At the Gates ~ Autopsy ~ Behemoth
~ Black Goat ~ Cadaver ~ Carcass ~ Cannibal Corpse~ Celtic Frost ~ Corrosion of
Conformity ~ Gwar~ Infester ~ Luciferion ~ Morbid Angel ~ Napalm Death ~
Necrophobic ~ Otep ~ Repulsion ~ Septic Flesh ~ Slayer ~ Sodom ~ Under The
Pagan Moon~ Dark Tranquility ~ Dismember ~ Dissection ~ Entombed ~ Gehenna ~
Graveland ~ Grotesque ~ Gutted ~ Hypocrisy ~ Immolation ~ Korn ~ Static X~
System of a Down ~ Six Feet Under ~ and just for a bit of added silliness I
also enjoy: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, the Bloodhound Gang, The Dresden
Dolls, Evenescence, Cyndi Lauper (yup I’m that old) a spattering of the
Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Mammas & the Papas, when I’m
morose the Mills Brothers but really no country unless it catches me off
guard…and no bluegrass
Favorite TV Shows:
CSI all of
them...Law& Order all of them, Mind of Mencia, the Daily show, invader
Zim...um...the 1st 48 gotta love true crime stuff...mostly the boob tube is
background noise while I flitter about sewing, cutting, cleaning, painting...to
actually sit still and watch an entire show is quite difficult.
Favorite Movies:
Love scary
movies, horror, action adventure, occasional war and comedy(in limited
quantities)that are so funny I need my inhaler! The Hills Have eyes, Donnie
Darko, Jackass the Movie, the SAW movies (Oh yes there will be blood) Full
Metal Jacket...Matrix all of them...hmmm, let's see...Mystery Science Theater
3000, anything Stephen King has had anything to do with...yup...spooky!
Favorite Books:
I like
reading true murder mysteries and anything by Stephen King and Dean
Koonze...love spooky, suspensful mysteries, true crime occasionally...I read
quite a few books on the hobby of the moment so I've a collection of acrylic
painting books, sketching books, a plethora of quilting, sewing, stuffed
beastie books...they all get used! I love books full of photography too, black
& white that I can draw from...books about artists: Maxfield Parrish, Dali,
Escher...Books on the massive assortment of religions, secular & earth get
my attention when I run outa blood & guts.
Favorite Quotations:
Be the
changes you want to see in the world - Buddha
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. - Dalai Lama
Bend Over and Insert Here ~ Angie Renkert
Elaine ~ Olie & Olivia's Neena, Tabitha, Natalia & Jazmin's mom
