About

I was tagged to say a few personal (non-horsey?) things about myself.

1.) My online name lytha is from a Mercedes Lackey book. ML writes about sentient horses. Are there any other fantasy authors who do this? I miss reading books like that. You can look at my interests lists in my profile to see other books/tv/movies I love.







But the short story is, I'm a Trekkie. 'Specially NextGen: )








2.) I have had more jobs than I can remember at any given time. Including temp jobs, I have done so many different things. I've been a private nurse's aid, a data entry slave, I've driven carriage horses in downtown Seattle (scary scary!!), I've been a personal care assistant for handicapped people (feeding, bathing, and dressing them every day), I've cut the fat off beef jerky for OhBoyOberto (that was actually a nice job, except someone played KUBE all day long), I've worked at a St. Bernard kennel cleaning poop, and a grooming shop bathing dogs (fun!), I was a barista (espresso) in the U district, I filled donuts til they exploded at Dunkin Donuts, and my latest, favorite job: working as a Technical Writer for software firms. We'll see if I can manage to do that in Germany (so far no luck). (The photo is my hometown. I've only ever lived in Seattle before 2007.)

3.) I have had more cars than most people, I think, cuz I got my first car at 16. Let's see: Pontiac, Volvo, K car, Subaru, Accord, Civic, Ibiza, and Chevy trucks (2). You already know the story about my horse trailers: ) I can say with total confidence that if you drive a Honda, your chances are when you turn the key, it will start for you. If you drive a Volvo, on the other hand, you can enjoy looking at it, touching it, polishing it, but probably not driving it. Strangely, even though I've been driving since 1987, I only learned to drive a stick in 2000. I was very bad at it at first, as you can imagine. I still never use the clutch to slow a car down. That's what the brakes are for. (The truck pictured is my Silverado. It's for sale if anyone in the PNW needs a horse truck. Now would be a very good time for us.)

4.) Watermelon is my favorite God-made food, and Doritos are my favorite man-made food. I can eat gummi bears til I'm sick, and then I'll eat some more. I live in Haribo land, and I usually don't buy gummi bears, cuz I'll just eat them til I OD and still want more. My favorite cuisines are Thai and Indian. But we don't eat out much. (The picture is me in a hotel somewhere on the east coast on our honeymoon this year. Of course I wouldn't cut open a watermelon on my own bed!)

5.) I'm more German than German. I wash my car every week, sometimes more. And since washing a car on the street (driveway) is illegal in Germany, the local do-it-yourself car wash gets a lot of our money. But I've learned how to wash that car so fast I only spend 3.50 Euros per wash. This week I had to spray 6 inches of snow off the car to wash it. At that point I knew I was a little nuts. It was dirty again that evening - there's snow everywhere still. *sigh* (Picture is me compulsively washing my truck this summer before, or was that the after our 3 day Olympic peninsula roadtrip? I couldn't drive it dirty, and I couldn't return it dirty to its waiting spot at my dad's house!)

6.) I'm a Bible-reading Christian, and happy to have a Christian man. I never thought I'd find one, I just had to go a lot further away than I thought to find him. (Picture is of Joerg sitting outside the New York City Public Library, taking a break from Geocaching.)

Enough about Lytha.