This blog should prove interesting and very humorous to its readers. It will span many different subjects and will most likely generate exceptional amounts of hate mail because anybody who knows us well know we have “slightly” offensive personalities and speaking habits. They love us anyway for keeping their lives interesting and full of laughter, shock and awe. Though Jeremy’s parents do disapprove of our vulgarity. Everybody else is used to us and ignores or enjoys it. So, I hope you enjoy your visit here.

Hate mail is welcomed from all at this address: marla{at}misadventuresofmarla{dot}com

All of our friends and family are in Pennsylvania or scattered to other farther parts of the country. So this blog should make it easier for everybody to keep up to date on us without us having to physically call everybody with “reports”. We have far too many people we would have to call and we are really terrible at getting around to making phone calls. So, this way, everybody can come here at their leisure and read about how our lives are going without making us repeat it over 100 different phone calls.

I guess I should tell you a little about myself.

For those of you who do not know me, I’m Marla. I live with my boyfriend Jeremy. At the moment we live in North Carolina. We absolutely HATE living in the south. I will not get into it here but I’m sure you will hear all about it from time to time in blog posts.

Jeremy works for one of the “top” airlines…and he hates it. He does however love getting free flights and that’s why he is there. That and the pay isn’t too awful.

I have a deep love of crafting and D-I-Y projects. Every so often I get to sell something I’ve made and that is wonderful.

I am a firm believer in working for yourself, doing anything that makes you happy. That is why I have no “traditional” job at the moment. Although, most people who hear this just say it is because I’m lazy. Of all the jobs I have held, working from home doing what I like is the best one. I figure, I’m happy for once in my life doing what I do, so if that means I’m lazy….

We’re in the process of buying our first home! Yes, it is in North Carolina. We figure we better take advantage of the housing market being down while we can. If it weren’t for the RECESSION (say it again, RECESSION. See, it is not that hard to say Mr. Bush!) we would not have been able to buy a house until our 30s or so. So, we’ll just put up with the south for a few more years while saving up to move into a better house in a better state. I am hoping for somewhere closer to our home state of Pennsylvania eventually. So, over the course of the next few months you will probably read mostly about our plans for making the house “our own”. We close on the house June 27th, 2008.

We also have three “kids”. Our lovely black cats affectionately named Angelique (from dark shadows), Tittie Boy Lick’ums, (Named by his other owner, Jeremy’s little brother Chris), and Graves. (Also named by Chris & his family. We adopted Graves because Chris could not have pets where he lives. Graves nicknames include: Tittie Graves, Gravy, Graveyard, Gravestone, Little Pisser, and a few more.)  Tittie boy got his name because when he was a kitten he had the hilarious habit of plopping down in front of company and preceding to lick himself for most of their visit. He was quite the conversational piece. He still is actually. In fact, in the last couple of months he has taken to defecating on our dining room carpet daily. This you will hear about constantly as it is most irritating. We have taken him to the vet and found out that there is absolutely nothing wrong with him health wise. The vet suggested numerous ways to stop this problem and none have worked. We have changed to expensive litter, added two more litter pans, tried changing the litter after every time it was used, “carpeting” the dining room in foil at the vets suggestion, tried medication for his bowels as the vet also suggested, and the list continues. He is still shitting everywhere. Also, you will rarely hear me call Angelique by her name. She received a nickname following her brother’s name: Tittie girl. These are our children and we love them.

Our kitty Tittie Boy

Angelique Our Dark Shadows Kitty

Graves the kitten

::Update: October 4th 2008 ::

It has been suggested, by a number of readers that my language is unprofessional and offensive. (Hi Aunt Janet, Randy, and everybody else! *waves frantically* Love you guys and thanks for reading! Oh, the new rating at the top was inspired by you guys!)

I would like to address this.

This blog is nothing more than a personal blog. It is not ment to be professional or G-rated. I do have business ventures in blogs, not this one. Those other blogs are G-rated, professional, informative, and generating very nice reviews and traffic. Those other blogs are NOT linked to this blog. I have taken “precautions” to insure that my personal stuff can not be linked to my “professional” ventures. Meaning, those blogs have a special email address they are linked too, a more “professional” username that is not shared with anything personal, carefully contructed profiles, and I do not use my real name or other personal information.

Yes, I am aware that I have advertisers on this blog. Yes, I am aware that somebody may not click those ads because they saw the word FUCK four times out of 58+ posts. I know that while this blog is meant for those who know me, that many strangers find this blog everyday. Because of that reason, I have ads. This is where targeting the right audience comes in. If I optimize this blog properly, target the right audience, then the majority of people coming here will here will be of like minds searching for content similar to what I write, and possibly not so thin skinned as to be offended by the mere sight of such a common word. Them and family and friends. As a last resort, I’ll take the ads down. No big deal. But so help me god those fucks will stay!

So, fear not everybody, the real things I’m working on are safe. Now, I do link this blog to my etsy account. Why? My etsy is not a source of income I’m worried about. I do not expect to support myself solely from my crafts. I’m realistic. My crafts are not that great for one. For two, I have my sights on something a bit more lucrative if I can just get the hang of it. Also, because most of the things I sell on etsy are more directed at alternative tastes like myself, I’m not all that worried if they stumble upon this blog and see that it has some bad words. To be honest, I have “tamed” down my blog a lot compared to how  I normally speak in a friendly, casual environment. I am professional and charming when I need to be. This blog is not one of those times.  This blog is where I am myself for my own benefit, and the benefit of those who adore me as I am.

I guess I’ll close with this:

To all potential consumers reading this blog. I hope you have a sense if humor. If not, please get up from your computer and back away slowly. This blog is not for you.
To all potential consumers with a sense of humor, enjoy your visit and head over to misadventuresofmarla.etsy.com for polymer clay and knitted goodies.

Marla

Marla of Misadventures of Marla

I look dead.