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Having this blank web template staring at me is a little like moving into a new apartment.  And since I have a deep-seated desire to be a techno-nerd girl, I feel like this step has gotten me a smidge closer to my dream.  I've had my own domain for a long, long time. For whatever reason, I just never moved ahead with doing anything with it. What's a PlazaJen, you ask? Well, it's the nickname my husband gave me when we first began dating, and it helped his fellow schoolteachers keep straight which Jennifer he was going out with. (Yes, there was another Jennifer. But I won the prize! Ha!) I was LemonZest back in the day, but for my first three years in town, I lived on the Plaza, and though we live in south Kansas City, I still work on the Plaza. And besides, PlazaJen sounds better than "SouthSiiiideJen", anyway.  I met my husband on an old Mac I bought from my first KC employer, and we chatted online via my 14.4kb modem. I kicked it old school. But sadly, I did not have the module you put the phone receiver on. He did, though. We're well-matched in oh-so-many ways.

So well-matched, we got married in Jamaica five years ago, have three black labs, a big garden and a house that truly is our home. I work in advertising, and I'm a knitting addict. I  have more yarn than I can knit in this lifetime. My husband knows not to give it to Goodwill if I should meet with a hapless industrial accident. Speaking of death, my father died two years ago after a ferociously brief fight with cancer, and my life was forever changed. Gratefully, though, I have wonderful people in my life, both here and online, and while it will always be a journey, things have gotten a lot, lot better. Losing a parent (or anyone you love) is easily summed up into two words: It Sucks.

I'm a bit crazy, my mind is always whirring, I don't enjoy hard labor, and I always have a snarky or funny thing to say, even if I choose not to say it. My father instilled in me the need to find humor in everything, and apart from his death, I'd say I've done a pretty good job at it.  I love Thai food, I have road rage, I'm not particularly patient, and I believe in right and wrong, justice, and karma.  I think you should stand up and be counted, and if you never speak up, the course won't change. My mouth has gotten me into trouble a lot in my life. But I don't stop. Thanks for visiting. My blog is my daily/weekly/monthly annal of my life, and while I'm smart about editing for content, I rarely take out the colorful language. Enjoy, or move on to cute kittens.