About Me

Majel came home with us on September 3rd. She is approximately 2 years old and is a rescue from the Springlake Animal Shelter in Iron Mountain. She is a gentle, naive, lady - my first girl kitty that wasn't a foster - and likes to play tug of war. She is fearless but not aggressive. You can't even get her to bite! She is a HUGE talker and is working on being a snuggler when she isn't playing with drawstrings from pants or catnip eggs. She likes to wash her tags on her collar just like Linus did. (I keep collars on my cats because I'm an overprotective mama-bear, but my cats are NEVER outdoor cats). She is named Majel (pronounced May jull) after Star Trek's creator Gene Roddenberry's wife Majel Barrett Roddenberry. Majel also means help and she is a big help. She has a slit in her ear that looks like the Vulcan salute. We tried countless names but this is the one she responds the most to. Majel does not jump hardly at all, and is the smallest cat I've ever had, at 9.6 pounds. Linus was a whopping 14.6 pounds, so I'm used to big kitties.
Mandarin was Linus's dear brother. They adopted each other. We adopted him from the animal shelter when he was 9 months old. It was February 3rd, I believe. LeAnn - my step-daughter - decided that Linus was lonely - which he was - and that he needed a brother - which he did - so I went to the animal shelter, working for HOURS with Mandarin until I brought him home and then he decided he wanted nothing to do with me until the last few months. He absolutely worshipped Linus, LeAnn and still does my husband. He and Majel are working out their kinks. Mandarin enjoys chewing up plastic, having stickers put on him, and being blown at. You blow at him, he comes over and slaps you then runs away. Mandarin is a talker, but he talks more to himself than anyone else. He swears a lot too. Mandarin likes to balance on doors, walk across hangers in the closet, and walk across door thresholds. He is a clown and an acrobat. He is also very spoiled. Mandarin obviously got his name because he was orange, but also my husband is produce assistant manager at the local grocery store and I am deathly allergic to oranges, so we thought it would be funny for me to have an orange to cuddle with.

So we know by now that I am an animal lover - especially cats - and that I had a lovely cat named Linus and now have a cat named Majel and a cat named Mandarin. What you may not know is well a lot. I love books, writing, reading, I knit, I am obsessed with Star Trek, www.thedarktower.com, and for some strange reason the Rocky Horror Picture Show!


I was born October 10, 1981 in Shreveport, Louisiana, the third of four children - the youngest being a boy. My father and an Indian nurse delivered me because the doctor had snuck out to go golfing! I ended up moving to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with my father's job at the paper mill transferring, and have lived here all but two years since then. I moved when I was three. When I was 18 I moved to Mississippi. It was supposed to be for 3 months, but I ran out of money and it ended up being 2 years where I learned about life, rescuing animals, and who I was and who I wanted to be. That's where Linus came into my life. When I came back, I met my husband shortly after moving back, and we've been together since then in 2002. We got married in 2005 the year his daughter died - who also taught me more about who I wanted to be. She was our everything. His father-in-law died the day we were married. I was rushing to get the wedding put together because my father-in-law was dying of cancer. They gave him a year; he died within the month. April of 2007 we lost my father unexpectedly. He died in his sleep at my home.

Yeah, a lot has happened in my life, and I don't want to do my full biography here. Just a quick taste.

I am very happy with my husband, and grieving as fast as I can!

I have some very supportive friends, and some not so, but people give what they can.

I give. I am a giver and a lover. I am a "gentle soul" as my mother says.

I work at a bookstore and Wendy's. I am a person of diverse talents and interests. More to come with time...