About me

My name is Stephanie. I see you've found my blog, Smells Like Kittenz. I'm so glad you did-- and I'm sure you're so glad you did, too. This blog is awesome. It's a great mixture of posts about all types of sweet stuff that I love. And who wouldn't want to read about that stuff?

It would help to know a little about me, and about why I like the stuff I like. Right now, I live in Valatie (yeah, it's pronounced Vuh-lay-shuh) with with my fiance and best pal, Sean, and my two fat and spoiled cats, Jacques and Uter. Valatie's a cozy suburb of Albany, New York. I'm happy because we have a yard and a gigantic kitchen, and I can do most of the stuff I want to do here; like have a garden, brew beer, barbeque animals, and play horseshoes. Even so, I daydream about the house we'll eventually buy that has a couple acres of land... so I can do a few other things that I can't do here, like have chickens and goats, have a greenhouse and a smokehouse, have snowmobiles, and have my sister Lindsey over to the house and not have to worry about the neighbors hearing her swearing on the back lawn. You know, all the things I could do in Treadwell, where I grew up.

Treadwell is where I learned all the things I needed to know to be this cool. It's where I learned to hunt, to wire an electrical socket, to can food, to garden in manure, to press apples to make (hard) cider, to spackle up a hole in the wall, to filet a fish, to change spark plugs... you know, all the important stuff. When you have a teacher like my dad, if you don't emerge as self-sufficient as a mountain man, then there's obviously something wrong with you. (Clearly, there's nothing wrong with me-- I know how to do all this fun stuff, PLUS I enjoy making toilet humor jokes all day. Why else would Sean want to marry me?)

Treadwell, as amazing as it is, is a small town-- and it's pretty common for a girl to want to GET OUT for a while. So I travel. A lot. In fact, I never, ever have any money in my savings account-- because $400, to me, looks more like a plane ticket to somewhere cool than an emergency fund. I mean, every single day a person is stuck at work could easily be considered a dire emergency worthy of busting into the savings account for a plane ticket, amiright? So, I've traveled to many countries in Europe, most of the states in America, and most of the provinces in Canada; and I have lived for six months in Australia. I have no intentions of stopping any time soon, either. I'm going to be that annoying woman on the airplane with my kids screaming the whole flight-- because I'm not about to stay home just because the dude in front of Sean Jr. is pissed that his seat is getting kicked for 9 hours straight. There's a whole world out there to see, and we only have a limited amount of time on this earth to see it-- so don't waste any time, for any reason.

So yeah. That's me in a nutshell. 

I love Sean and the cats. I love my family. I love my friends. I love laughing. I love to see the world. I love to take photos of stuff.

I love where I come from. I love where I'm going. 

And hey, I'd love to share it all with you.