What to say? I'm one of those people that always has a devil of a time figuring out what to write about myself. For vital statistics that I'm willing to give out to perfect strangers, my birthday is February 10 (yes, showering me with presents is encouraged), I'm a child of the 80's, both physically and in the fact that I love Care Bears and My Little Ponies, and I've lived in Utah my entire life.

I've had a presence online since 1997 under variations of the name Firebyrd. Though I had the misfortune of having started out on AOL 3.0 because that was the service my dad got, even that wasn't enough to keep me from what has become one of my true loves-the Internet. What's better than to have something that you can waste hours of your time on and come away no better than you started one day, then the next learn more than you would in a week of college courses? If nothing else, I can say that I've learned far more about human nature than I knew before as well as the very strange things that the lunatic fringe do.

I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormons. Because of this, I don't drink alcohol, coffee, or tea, smoke, or take illegal drugs, and actually never have. If you talk about that sort of thing, I'm just going to have to nod my head and smile, because I know nothing about brands or mixed drinks or what expresso is. Also, despite the day and age we live in, I believe that sex of marriage is wrong, and, while I likely won't say anything, I don't agree with it. I realize it's not any of my business, however, and I try not to press my beliefs on others, though I do love to talk about religion (mine or anyone else's). I find it very interesting even when I don't agree.

I'm a voracious reader. At last count, we had over 800 books. I have to admit that I haven't read them all, having rescued a number of them from my parents' basement, but I'm working on that. I'll occasionally branch out, but usually stick with science fiction and fantasy. I also claim to like writing, drawing, painting and the like, though sometimes it seems more like I enjoy simply having something finished rather than the actual process. I'm also into gaming, though I mostly stick with console-based games. I currently have a Colecovision, a Nintendo Entertainment System, a Super Nintendo Entertainment Systems, a Sega Genesis, and a Playstation 2, as well as several portable systems. I have far too many games to list off the top of my head. I'm not much of a tv watcher generally, but I do enjoy Angel, The Simpsons, and Seinfeld, and absolutely adore Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Mmm, Spike. My latest hobby is to customize My Little Ponies, redoing them in forms never seen before, and, at least some of them, would never have been imagined as children's toys.

I also love animals. I've had numerous pets throughout my life, from rats to lizards to rabbits to fish to cats to birds and so on and so forth. My current menagerie doesn't seem like a whole lot to me, but tends to make people pop their eyes out in astonishment about how many pets we have. We have several cats, Salem, Freya, and Skadi, four cockatiels, Bahamut, Wyvern, Valefor, and Elvis, and a couple other parrots.

Fortunately for my sanity, I'm not one of those crazy old ladies with a ton of pets and nothing else in her life. Yet. I'm somewhat tempted to become one because of the hilarity of my 90 year old grandpa solemnly telling me that I shouldn't be. When you add in all the in-laws and steps, I have a very large family, and we usually spend Sunday evenings with one side or the other (hence my rare appearance online during that time every week). Also, I'm sometimes a member of Wasatch Avian Education Society, and actually got wrangled into being interim president for a while last year.

I have a chronic illness called fibromyalgia, which has made life difficult the past few years. While ideally I'd love to complete college in a flash and go on the vet school, the reality is that I'm probably not going to. I do hope to finish, though it might end up by being an B.S. in Art rather than Zoology as I'd prefer. Of course, Art has the beauty of not having to take chemistry classes, so I'm very tempted to go that direction. Whatever the case, I'll probably end up majoring in one of them and minoring in the other. I've now started a business selling some of my art online. This is for my more professional pieces, though-any custom My Little Ponies I have for sale will be listed on my Customs page under the art section of this website.