personal affects.

hello.  

my name is stephanie & i am 28 years old.  i've lived in south carolina, north dakota & from the east coast to the mountains of north carolina.  i just moved to arkansas & i'm loving every minute of it.  i have a fine art degree in graphic design & a master of education.  i've always been an artist & i live to the beat of my own drum.

look at that face!

the love of my life is a 12 lb, black,  chiweenie who is basically allergic to being alive.  his name is howard & we've been best friends since april 2012.  i adopted him 3 days after my heart was shattered by the man i thought i wanted to marry.  i may have adopted him, but he rescued me.    my sister says we saved each other.


life is too short to only live half-way.  i am resolved to make the most of every moment that i have left; ring out every ounce of experience i can find.  i want to really live life - take risks, do things that scare me, grab every opportunity by the horns, do the unexpected & make waves.

i'll add color to your life if you'll let me.  

i'm embracing who i am & i'm learning that the people who put me in boxes aren't people who could give me the room i needed to grow.  i'm learning that sometimes growing up means letting go.  

due to the nature of who i am, a lot of random things happen in my life on a day-to-day basis.  in high school my friends called me dopey (after that dwarf in snow white) & ever since finding nemo i haven't been able to escape the nickname dory.  every time i start a new job or move to a new place i don't tell anyone my nickname & usually about 3 weeks in someone says "you are just like dory in finding nemo!".  i'm not surprised so much by it anymore.  it's just who i am.  i also think this means that me & ellen should be bffls...or she should at least get me tickets to the premier of finding dory.  

johanna + me on our way to a taylor swift concert.

i'm an identical twin.  i can't put words on paper that describe my love for that woman.  johanna is my best friend, my advocate, my competitor, the devil on my shoulder & the angel in my ear.  we will always call it "our birthday", spill the beans about christmas presents & watch tv shows together on skype.  i couldn't have picked  better human to share my face, my birthday or my fingerprints. 

life is pretty damn good right now.  i'm finally living the life that was always meant for me & i'm loving it more than expected.