Tremendous Blondette

This is the personal blog of the quasi-blonde,  Katie Leas. I bought this domain in 2005 with no real clue about what to do with it. It was a bit of a lark and the name- ha! Well, it has a ring to it doesn’t it?

I work in Internet Marketing but sometimes still wonder how I ended up there. In school, I was always good at everything, except computers and keyboarding class. To be honest, I cried about going to my computer classes. (I was in keyboarding class when the OJ verdict was released. I was not yet born when JFK or MLK jr were shot.)

I believe it was the old Windows 95 computer I had my freshman year of college that took away my fear–and a few lab reports. I was a lot less afraid of breaking the darn thing when it was so good at breaking itself. (insert blue screen.) From there, I moved on to Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE. OOHHH AHHHH.

Eventually, I was all over ICQ and AIM meeting and chatting with strangers (and a roommate  or two) and friends. I hated Lars Ulrich with a passion and I had a dedicated hard drive for mp3s. (shared with my brother)

I entered college as a Creative Writing major. Then I was a Secondary Education (English) major. And then I was a Professional Writing (yes, still English) major. And then I was double major– Professional Writing and Psychology. I gave up on the second major after a minor incident involving retaking of Calculus (I totally got an A in it in high school but *yawn* in college) setting me back on time for math credits. (too bad the stats class I aced in high school didn’t count.) (conceited much? )

Somewhere in there, I realized a few important things: I loved the internet and was no longer afraid of computers- in fact, I was getting pretty good with them; my favorite and best writing pieces were personal essays; and people liked me.

Five years after I started my college journey, I graduated and moved home to Kansas City where I still reside. (Yes, part of KC–in fact most of KC- is in the state of Missouri and not Kansas.)

People call me a cat lady, and okay, I have 3 cats, but really I’m quite fun when I’m not giggling at cats.

My biggest fear is the unknown.

What do you want to know about me?