ToughCheeseSmallPaws Face Hugger   USA
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Hello, in the fashion of others, I thought i would post a short bio.
I'm Nicole, I live in the Northern part of Cincinnati, and I'm generally weird.
I've lived in the Southern Ohio valley my entire life, but would rather be somewhere as weird as I am, but that's okay because I'm having fun weirding up Cincinnati since I've come to terms that I'm just an odd individual and will never fit in with the societal standards.
I am a full time artist and twilight as a pharmacy tech part time. I really am bothered by how insurance companies are screwing people at my pharmacy and get more peeved when they get angry at me for it (don't shoot the messenger!). The art stuff- I'm sure everybody's seen a bit of my work somewhere on here at one point; I work mostly in pencil mediums at the moment but at heart, I'm a traditional printmaker. I love screen prints, I love dry points, and I love linocuts. I really cold careless for etching, but that's just me. I've been making art ever since I could hold something, whether it was my interpretation of Guernica on the living room wall with crayons (I was quite the muralist as a kid it seems) or just on boring ol' paper, I was encouraged to draw by my parents. Mostly because it kept me quiet and gave me something to do at dog shows.
Speaking of which- my parents. My parents were dog breeders- Newfoundlands specifically. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_(dog)
if you don't know). They also showed said dogs, so I was basically raised by dogs on the road at dog shows... so I have a very weird understanding of dogs and other animals, but not people because I'm often confounded by their behavior. My father is an electrician for a family operated company here in Cincy while my mother is a vet tech. I grew up either at dog shows or at the vet's office helping sick animals or watching the surgeries asking what is what, so at an early age I understood about death and about icky guts.
I am married to the most wonderful man ever. I might be biased. Tim and I have been married for 2 years now (wow, 2 years already?) and have our first house (for 2 years, it was a busy week... seriously). Tim does IT work as a SQL DBA for a company who contracts him out to other big name companies, but he can mostly work from home which is nice, since he has multiple sclerosis and has some issue getting around every now and then.
I am owned by 3 cats (Trinity, Odysseus, and Hedwig- descending age and rank in the feline hierarchy), 1 dog (the most superfantabulous corgi named Ziggy), 2 sugar gliders (Tater and Pistol), 1 snake (Faust), 1 tarantula (Rosey- she's Tim's... I'm not afraid of spiders, but I just don't want to hold her), 3 female betta in a 44 gal. tank with some rosey barbs, danios, and Tim's giant plecco, and a male betta who is alone in his own 5 gallon tank. There are also 3 breeder mice who are living it up making snake food and being fed organic foods and a mix I specially blend for them. No one in this house goes unspoiled. Trinity and Ziggy have horrible table manners and know we're suckers for begging (or demanding anymore), Hedwig goes where she pleases in the house, Odysseus is Tim's bet friend, and I'm a suggie slave running to their beckoning barks at 2 am to give chin scratchies and mealies.
I became interested in sugar gliders after (I hate admitting this) going to the reptile show in Cincinnati. There were some breeders there and I fell in love with the large eyes and the extreme cuteness of it all. I knew they existed, as Doug said, but didn't know they could be pets. So I went home armed with pictures of suggies and asked my husband (who has D&D every other sunday which always landed on the day of the reptile show) and he said perhaps. So I waited for him to secure his job, I did research (holy heck am I glad I did research), and after about 8 months of hemming and hawing and visiting the suggies every time at the monthly reptile show, I got 2 rescues from Craig's list from a couple of really nice college kids who couldn't care for them anymore because of time and money. I figured that if I were going out to get a pet, I'd do rescue because I also help out with SAAP (Stray Animal Adoption Program) and every other animal in this house is a rescue (including the snake and spider).
I don't have a favorite color but have summed it down to everything but yellow. I HATE the color yellow- everything yellow I can think of is icky, and I just don't want to deal with it- so in my art, if something's yellow, it's usually a representation of how I feel about it... I am a coffee addict and they know my orders both at the Caribou Coffee here in Blue Ash and the Alreddy Cafe in Sharonville. I love love love to cook- which is something rather new within the last 3 years since before that it was baked chicken and a can of veggies. I'm also the grill master- if it's edible, I can grill it. I love smoking ribs on the grill and this year for Thanksgiving we smoked the turkey for the tastiest turkey we've ever devoured. I cannot bake for the life of me though, but that's where Tim shines- he's the baker in this household making everything from scratch from ganache to icing to cake and even truffles and caramel. Oh my goodness I've put on weight, but dang, it's worth it. I also have an unhealthy love for Dr. Who, Monty Python, David Bowie, and some other brits... don't know why, but I do. I also love bad movies- Troma films are hysterical, but I'd rather watch really good movies- so either end of the spectrum really. Favorite Movie hands down is Hedwig and the Angry Inch, followed by the mini series Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, and then topped with Labyrinth and Equilibrium.
So yeah... I guess that sums me up.
sjones5254 Goofy Gorillatoes SC, USA 2415 Posts ToughCheeseSmallPaws Face Hugger USA 579 Posts Yellow- uric acid, urine, pus, snot, smoker's teeth, white walls over time, fungus, toenails, adipose tissue, stomach acid, bile, dog/cat/baby vomit, std's, half bleached stains, gingivitis, slime molds, decay, bacterial growth in cultures, jaundice... I could go on for days about how I loathe the color yellow.
AshleyJ Glider USA 158 Posts quote:
Originally posted by ToughCheeseSmallPaws
Yellow- uric acid, urine, pus, snot, smoker's teeth, white walls over time, fungus, toenails, adipose tissue, stomach acid, bile, dog/cat/baby vomit, std's, half bleached stains, gingivitis, slime molds, decay, bacterial growth in cultures, jaundice... I could go on for days about how I loathe the color yellow.
 That made me laugh! Nice to meet you!
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Nicole
I was also a pharmacy tech, at Target (yay) and I HATE the color yellow...no idea why, just do. 
