I'm Kate and I'm rediscovering my creative freedom.
My husband and I have recently moved away from an extremely toxic family member who nearly destroyed both of us and we are rebuilding our personalities, our marriage, our lives, and our dreams without that person.
Before I got entangled with this person, I used to write, dance, choreograph, and collect old music. I'm also learning piano, ASL, German, drawing, and apparently also HTML. I have always felt (very strongly) that I was created to create, and I want to return to that place of peace and fulfillment.
I'm currently creating a small dance studio in our spare room so I can dance and choreograph again.
I also plan on copying my personal blog off of Big G's hosting platform and moving it here as Big G's AI support makes me squirrely, but for now you can read it here.
My World
Last update: 30 Nov 2025; 12:24am
Mood: Finally relaxing
Reading: Mort (Terry Pratchett)
Listening to: Connie Scott, Christmas In Your Heart
Current project: This website AKA learning HTML/CSS
Contemporary Christian Music from the 1980s and '90s has been my special interest since I was four years old. My dad had/has a sizable collection of records (a portion of which are now in my collection). This special interest has expanded to include '90s/early '00s dancepop, vapourwave/early '90s jazz, and 8-bit music.
(In which Kate tries to find her sense of humour again.)
The Plants
Spider One
We adopted this plant from a good friend of ours when she moved and couldn't bring it with her.
Spider Two
This was sitting in the 'free/please take' area of our apartment. At that time we didn't have any spider plants, so I took it.
Croton
I've always wanted one of these, then one day the local grocery store brought some in. The leaves were pretty damaged when I picked it up, but she's flourishing now. Will probably have to re-pot her in the spring.
Prayer plant
$2 at the grocery store. She was doing really well (had to re-pot last year because it grew so much), and now in the last couple months things have taken a bad turn. It only has one leaf left -- all the others turned yellow, then died. Repotted to drier soil and put a humidifier nearby, but so far no improvement. This is the plant I'm most worried about.
Basil plant
Currently we are fighting with some spider mites. I'm monitoring the situation daily and so far she's standing strong. She's isolated and in a big bright window and so far still producing tons of delicious basil for us. I seem to have the worst luck with edible plants, so I'm really hoping we can pull through this spider mite thing.
Aloe Vera
My oldest (still-living) plant. $9 at Wal-Mart back in like 2022 and it's still happy as a clam. By far my least dramatic plant.
Pepper plant
Inherited from a friend of ours who ended up with half a dozen of these and couldn't maintain all of them. My husband loves hot peppers so we agreed to take one. It has yet to produce any actual peppers, but I suspect that's an owner problem more than a plant problem. It produces a lot of beautiful green leaves and white flowers though. This is definitely my most dramatic plant. If it doesn't get watered for more than 36 hours it will die a spectacular, floppy death, only to recover within five minutes when watered.
Christmas cactus
A Christmas gift from a relative in 2024. Produces lovely pinkish-orange flowers twice a year apparently. Currently blooming (Nov 2025).
