About Me

In a few short months, I will have had this website up for one year. So I figured it was due time to include a page about me. After all, I get many requests wondering what it is I do and why I have this website about Ragdolls.

I am a 29-year old female, desperately trying to make a living from home, so that I never have to return to the working world of every day office work again.

Let’s rewind a bit. I was born and raised in Kansas City, MO.

After graduating from a private high school in Kansas City, I spent my freshman year at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. I decided that I didn’t mesh well with southern women, so I applied to the University of Kansas (where a lot of my high school friends were attending) and transferred there. My first semester there, I realized it was a mistake to transfer there. All my high school friends were settled into their new group of friends and the Greek Life there was a little too much for me to handle.

So my second semester of my sophomore year, I decided to commute back and forth from Lawrence to my parents’ home in KCMO (Kansas City, MO). At that time (late 90s), my little brother had gotten into this thing called “AOL”. I decided to mess around on it a bit and see what I could find.

All of a sudden, I found myself chatting in Spanish with a lady from Albuquerque, NM. Well, yes, I was studying Spanish in college and planned on getting a degree in it. Somehow I lost my connection after we had spoken for 20 minutes and wasn’t able to thank her for her time (after all, she was helping me with my Spanish, not visa versa!). Since she had a weird screen name that I couldn’t remember, I decided to do a member search for Albuquerque, NM. It was there that I found a gentleman with my same last name. Never had I met someone with my same last name, other than my cousins!

So he and I started chatting, and after the course of several months, we met and I moved to Albuquerque for the summer to see if I wanted to move there permanently and transfer to the University of New Mexico to finish up my Bachelors Degree.

Sure enough after the first summer, I was in love with New Mexico (still am, actually). Unfortunately (and fortunately), I had signed up to go abroad to Santiago de Compostela, Spain for that fall semester. So I said good-bye to the boy and New Mexico (with promises to return) and headed to Spain.

Santiago de Compostela is located in Northern Spain above Portugal. It is a beautiful, beautiful place, but please bring your rain jacket! The very opposite of New Mexico!

After the fall semester was over, I returned to New Mexico and finished my Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of New Mexico. In hindsight, I should have started there from the very beginning, but I suppose things happen in the time and manner they are supposed to.

Yes, the man I moved to New Mexico for stayed in the picture. We fell in love and dated for about a total of 5 years (we had a couple of break-ups in between due to my selfishness and immaturity (I was 8 years his senior).

When I left to return to Kansas City, after college, to pursue my Masters in Spanish in the summers in Middlebury, VT, our relationship started to fall apart. In spite of efforts from both sides to try and keep it together, it didn’t happen. Time, distance and life schedules were not on our sides. I no longer talk to him and it saddens me even as I write this. He was my best friend for those five years and I am sure I will always miss him, but I wish him well.

Like I said, I returned to Kansas City. Mostly because I am totally crazy about my cat, Rags . Rags is a seal mitted Ragdoll cat who was given to me and my three siblings when I was 10-years old. Rags and his brother, Cosby, who died at 10 months old, were replacement cats for my first Ragdoll cat, Skittles, who died at the age of 2. I got Skittles (age appropriately named) from my grandparents as a birthday present when I was 8.

While back in KC, I worked as a substitute teacher and a field hockey coach for the private school I attended as a school girl. Before my first summer in Middlebury, VT, I went on a trip through Europe for three months by myself. It was one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life. I went to several different countries and saw over 17 famous cities.

In the process of getting my Masters in Spanish from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT, I attended the University of Missouri-Kansas City to get a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies. Sounds sort of hokey, I know. It was the best program I could find outside of the Southwestern United States that would allow me to study Chicanas (Mexican-American women). So I did and my Masters Thesis became a book, which is available for purchase on Amazon.com:

After completing both of my Masters degrees in August of 2004, I started the job hunting process while substitute teaching again. I finally found a job the following February and began to work as a Customer Service Representative for a local roofing manufacturing company.

A month later, my little sister had finally convinced me to start dating her high school math teacher, Bill, who I eventually fell in love with. Bill and I are still together today, and he will most likely be my husband someday.

I stayed with that company and moved up in the ranks, leaving the company 2 and a half years later as the Inside Sales and Customer Service Manager. I left because I was so miserable I couldn’t see straight, my boss was a complete imbecile who didn’t follow through with anything and lied through his teeth...

I came home with high inspirations of working from home and making it big. It’s been a long road, one I am still walking on, but would prefer to be running on. I honestly believe there is a lot of money to be made from building websites. Besides Floppycats.com, I also have a website about Antioxidant-Fruits. I hope to hell, I am right. I would hate to return to an office.

I do have a disease of the thyroid, called Graves Disease , so right now I am still on Cobra from the roofing manufacturing company, wondering how in the hell, I can get health insurance again. I have been flat out rejected time and time again. I could marry Bill before we actually have a wedding, but for moral reasons I would like to avoid that.

That’s it for now…

Do you have any questions about me or why I created this site? Please contact me