About Me
Hi there. I'm Kimberlyn, and I live in Lansing, Michigan. I grew up in the Kalamazoo area , went to Michigan State University to get my B.A. in education, got a job working for a local school district, and have lived here permanently ever since.
In 2003 I bought my first home, a 1926 bungalow with some elements of the Arts and Crafts movement. It has a lot of character, which is a nice way of saying that it's a fixer-upper. And for the past ten years, it has basically gone unchanged with the exception of a front porch remodel. In 2005 the housing market crashed, and now the bungalow is worth less than what I paid for it. Originally I didn't know how long I would stay; now I've resigned myself to being in this thing for the long haul, and so I've also resigned myself to the fact that in order to be happy here, I need to reduce HomeSuck levels.
What is HomeSuck? Allow me to explain by first defining WorldSuck. According to Urban Dictionary, WorldSuck is "a scale used to quantify the bad in the world." The term was coined by VlogBrothers Hank and John Green during their Brotherhood 2.0 project. (If you want to know more about WorldSuck, you can watch this. If you want to know more about the VlogBrothers, you can read this. I am a big fan, so they will probably get mentioned from time to time around these parts.) I am adapting their term; therefore, HomeSuck is a scale used to quantify the bad here at Bungalow 312. Now, some of you might be thinking that this is a pretty pessimistic way to look at my home, and you'd be in good company. My best friend told me that I notice the suck levels of just about everything, and she's pretty much right. But I think that this is a good thing. You can't decrease suck levels if you don't notice the suck in the first place, and so the world needs people like me.
What else should you know about me? I am crafty (the creative kind, not the sly and wily kind, although once in a while I am sly and wily). Mainly I like to knit, but you will see me dabble in other crafts. As I mentioned before, I teach, and I think that the education reform movement is a bunch of baloney. I'm opinionated, and from time to time I will climb up on my soapbox about that as well as other issues. I'm a foodie and would love to be a locavore but I don't know how to make that work 100% of the time. Mark Bittman and Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver are pretty much dead on, and I feel strongly that our food industry is broken, big-time, and we need to work at decreasing FoodSuck as a result. (See how I'm opinionated?) I don't have human kids of my own, and I've grown to like it that way, but I'm an auntie to three Kidlets who will make an appearance around here from time to time. I have one canine and one feline kid: Maelie, an English setter who is always looking for critters in the backyard, and Scooter, a tabby who is always looking for food.
If you've found me here from my Blogger site, I would like to let you know that you can always go back to it by clicking here.
Thanks for stopping by, and I hope that you will stick around to see what's going on here at Bungalow 312.
In 2003 I bought my first home, a 1926 bungalow with some elements of the Arts and Crafts movement. It has a lot of character, which is a nice way of saying that it's a fixer-upper. And for the past ten years, it has basically gone unchanged with the exception of a front porch remodel. In 2005 the housing market crashed, and now the bungalow is worth less than what I paid for it. Originally I didn't know how long I would stay; now I've resigned myself to being in this thing for the long haul, and so I've also resigned myself to the fact that in order to be happy here, I need to reduce HomeSuck levels.
What is HomeSuck? Allow me to explain by first defining WorldSuck. According to Urban Dictionary, WorldSuck is "a scale used to quantify the bad in the world." The term was coined by VlogBrothers Hank and John Green during their Brotherhood 2.0 project. (If you want to know more about WorldSuck, you can watch this. If you want to know more about the VlogBrothers, you can read this. I am a big fan, so they will probably get mentioned from time to time around these parts.) I am adapting their term; therefore, HomeSuck is a scale used to quantify the bad here at Bungalow 312. Now, some of you might be thinking that this is a pretty pessimistic way to look at my home, and you'd be in good company. My best friend told me that I notice the suck levels of just about everything, and she's pretty much right. But I think that this is a good thing. You can't decrease suck levels if you don't notice the suck in the first place, and so the world needs people like me.
What else should you know about me? I am crafty (the creative kind, not the sly and wily kind, although once in a while I am sly and wily). Mainly I like to knit, but you will see me dabble in other crafts. As I mentioned before, I teach, and I think that the education reform movement is a bunch of baloney. I'm opinionated, and from time to time I will climb up on my soapbox about that as well as other issues. I'm a foodie and would love to be a locavore but I don't know how to make that work 100% of the time. Mark Bittman and Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver are pretty much dead on, and I feel strongly that our food industry is broken, big-time, and we need to work at decreasing FoodSuck as a result. (See how I'm opinionated?) I don't have human kids of my own, and I've grown to like it that way, but I'm an auntie to three Kidlets who will make an appearance around here from time to time. I have one canine and one feline kid: Maelie, an English setter who is always looking for critters in the backyard, and Scooter, a tabby who is always looking for food.
If you've found me here from my Blogger site, I would like to let you know that you can always go back to it by clicking here.
Thanks for stopping by, and I hope that you will stick around to see what's going on here at Bungalow 312.