About Bitterkat

First let me explain the name BITTERKAT. All the computers in our house are named *something*KAT. When we set up a home server and needed a domain name, Robert picked BITTERKAT because he loves him some beer, especially hoppy beer. Thus the bitter. I liked the name so much and the cute little bitterkat logo he drew that I ended up picking it for my blog name as well.

So yeah. I'm not really a BITTER person. I'm quite happy.

I live in Seattle (Ballard) with my husband (Robert/Bobbert), my son (Sid/the boy), my daughter (Miss-s/the Dot/Dot/Niki), and 3 cats that create more fur than I know what to do with. (We also invite the occasional foster kitten/cat into our home because no strings attached furry love is pretty nice.)

I was born in 1969, the most awesome year ever. I'm an Aquarius and a lefty. I was born in Utah. I was raised a Mormon and I met a Mormon farm boy during my first year of college. We then fled to Asia and got married...

So the story goes...a long, long, long time ago I lived in Taiwan and THEN LATER decided to study Mandarin at The University of Washington.  One day I got a letter from the university telling me I needed to declare a major. It just so happened that was about the time I found out I was pregnant.  I looked over my credits...the majority of them were language courses  (Chinese and Thai) and psychology courses (mostly leaning towards Women's Studies...they were somehow related?). Hm. So I picked CHINESE because don't wanna be boring, right?! And now? Yes, I have a bachelor's degree in Chinese. It's quite useful for eavesdropping on people on the bus.

(Soon after declaring my major I discovered that I loved statistics and data. Oh well. I just wanted to get the heck out of college at that point. Baby was born and then I got REALLY BUSY with kids and trying to keep them fed. I suppose some people can do it all but I could not.)

So what have I been up to since then? Well, my love for data all worked out in the end. I get to play with databases and layouts and computers all day now. I won't bore you with details of my current job except to say I am an IT whore.

I like cheese.

I love BACON.

I spend much of my free time watching movies, gardening, drinking wine and cooking. Some of my favorite recipes are listed here in this blog, even!

Questions? Comments? Fire me an email.