A little bit about me…

My name is Kimberly, but most people call me Kim.  I was born and raised in the Bay Area about an hour south of San Francisco.  I still live in the South Bay and now spend much of my time with my husband and our three fur babies.  I have a huge family, 35 first cousins on my mother’s side.

I take too many pictures — this is how I document my experiences, I generally eat too much food for my own good, I LOVE my friends — they are like family (notice I said LOVE in caps), and I don’t sleep enough.  I enjoy good music, trying all types of new cuisine from food trucks to fine dining, traveling (especially to destinations with a tropical or Mediterranean climate), learning new languages, and spending lazy Sundays reading, writing, or watching a good movie or musical.  I’m a geek at heart, and I’m finally starting to own it.

My guilty pleasures are rom-coms, savory snacks (Cool Ranch chips, beef jerky, Flamin’ Hot  Cheetos, you name it), reality TV (think The Voice, The Amazing Race, Married at First Sight, and the occasional Bachelor Paradise-type show), and makeovers.  I am ashamed to say that my coping mechanism for stress went from overindulging in food to overindulging in food AND buying cosmetics.  It’s a problem.

I wish I were better at cooking, crafts, exercising (it’s just sad, but I’m working on it), and web development.  I’m a zero in this last area, and it would be extremely helpful to this blogging adventure to know more so I’m learning along the way.  The last blog I had years ago disappeared into a black hole because I forgot to renew the site.  Lesson learned.  Today’s small victories were figuring out how to map my domain to this blog and setting my domain subscription to auto-renew.  It’s the little things.

I hope to post weekly and would really appreciate your feedback about things you’re interested in hearing about.  If you take a look at the About the Blog page, you’ll see the broad topics I plan to stick to.  Future posts should include an image of some sort so stay tuned.

Until next time…