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Hi, I'm Kendra, but most people call me Ken. I live in Maine and grew up in Maine, but spent a couple years in other places on the eastern seaboard while married to my now estranged husband. I went to college for fashion design, but don't work in that field professionally as I am disabled.

I do make clothes for myself, both for everyday wear and for SCA events. If you don't know, the SCA is the Society for Creative Anachronisms. It's basically medieval re-enactment. It's a lot of fun and a great way to dress up in interesting clothes and get away from the world. I have learned so much about so many interesting things. Every summer I go to the Great Northeastern War, it's always a wild weekend.

About me everyday? I spend a lot of my time writing. I write young adult fiction with a horror bent to it and adult romance. I also write weekly reports for a website. Basically it's a play by play and review of WWE RAW on Monday nights. Hey, it doesn't pay much, but it looks good on my writing resume. If you want to read it, go to www.rajah.com. I don't claim to be great, but it keeps me busy since I can't work.

Every November I am involved in NaNoWriMo. It's an online challenge to write a 50K word novel in 30 days. '08 will be my sixth year doing it and I have finish more than 50K words each of the previous five years. This year will be my forth year as a NaNo Municipal Liaison. Basically it's like trying to herd cats. I get as many of the local nano writers together for parties, hand holding, write-ins, therapy sessions and celebrations. If you write at all please check out www.nanowrimo.org

Last year NaNo started a new challenge. Last June was the first ever Script Frenzy. It's a challenge to write a 20K word script (screen or stage) in 30 days. Most of us (published and unpublished) novelists had never written a script before. It's a lot of fun. I'm also the local ML for this. It was crazy and scary but I'm psyched that I got in on the first year of this. Please, check out SF at www.scriptfrenzy.org

Well my shaved hair is growing back again. While I loved all the little kids running around GNEW 2006 looking for the exploded Furby (my hair was pink when we shave it in the middle of the SCA event), I doubt I'll be drastically cutting it any time soon. I'm really glad I had both a mohawk and shaved my head, but now I'm really wanting my hair back. I got hot this past summer and wanted to shave it again, but I managed to make it through without resorting to the clippers. It's growing out, but I still have a long chunk in the front that was part of my mohawk - It's hot pink. It's a cut little bob right now, but I want piggy tails again damn it!

Usually I dress kind of 80's punk. I spent too many years dressing the way other people thought I should. College I was finding myself, and too busy to explore. While married and the boyfriend after, my clothing was tightly controlled. My ex-husband had to approve my clothes if we were going to be anywhere his friends would be - It was disgusting! Now I'm dressing the way I want and everyone else be damned. I feel so free to be me. I just wish I could afford to get all the tattoos I want. Any local artist who's willing to help me out with this? *grin*

And now for something completely different. I have Crohn's Disease. I'm always interested in talking to others who have it. I've had it for over 27 years and willing to answer questions from people who are newly diagnosed. And that's all I'm going to say about that.

I have a big fat orange tabby cat. He's actually a Hemmingway cat that I got when I was living in the Florida Keys. His name is Kapok and does everything possible to show me how much he loves me. As soon as I walk in the door he's screaming and yelling his love. At night he has to sleep on my hip or chest. 24 pounds of cat makes it hard to breath when he's on your chest. I love him dearly and I owe a lot to him. He kept me sane while I was married. Since then I promised him I'd do everything in my power to give him the best life he can possibly have. I think I've lived up to that. I baby him terribly, but that doesn't mean he gets everything he wants. He'd love to go outside, but I know it's too dangerous for him.

Since I originally wrote this I moved in with my boyfriend and his three kids that he has 99% custody of. The boys (2) are teenagers and the little girl is 5. If that's not enough to make a household crazy enough, there's four cats (Kapok being one of them) and a dog. Kapok is joined by Piggey Cuddles was here before I got here. She's a beautiful white chubby cat with grey swirls on her head and the last half of her tail. She's none too bright. Most of the time she's extremely sweet, but sometimes that one insane braincell kicks in and she goes crazy - claws and teeth out - for no apparent reason. Jules Verne is under a year old. He's a long haired orange fuzz ball with huge hands and feet. He isn't completely double pawed, but he does have extra fingers and toes. He's our little home improvement specialist. Whenever we're doing anything around the house, he has to inspect and be involved. He's so inquisitive about how things are built and what you're doing to things. Twiddles, formally known as Twilight, is just a baby. He was born the middle of August and brought to us unannounced by the middle child. He was upset and brought home a kitten. We were not thrilled, but it was a blessing in diguise. He's become bast friends with Jules and they play constantly. Twiddles has really given Jules something to do and a lot of fun. They're alway playing hard and enjoying each other. Brady is the dog and what a big dog he is. He's 92lbs of neurotic Briard. He's a pure bred dog, but as he does not get along with other dogs he could not be bred and showing was hard. He did win a couple of awards when he was young, but his attitude made it so the breeders/showers could not keep him. He came to live with the family I now call my own. While he's a sweet loveable lump, he really is an emotional mess. He's afraid of the oven, the Dremmel, the drill, bells other than the ones on the cats' collars, the vacuum and anything that clicks or beeps. He is a total spaz. When he's not freaking out he tries to herd you. As long as you push back and don't let him push you into a corner or onto the sofa, you're fine. If you let him herd you once, he will contantly do it. The first time I met him I pushed back and have had very little trouble since. We're also planning on adding a couple of rats into the household mix. Yes, we're a little crazy, but we love critters and they know I love ratties. Just today we finished setting up the rat cage and shelving for the cage. It's very high, so as the cats (hopefully) cannot bother them. But, just in case the cats have some wild ideas, I have bungie corded the cage down to the shelf! We pushed the cage around as if we had paws and it only went so far an slid back. So I feel safe. The cage is completely set up, right down to water bottle and bedding - just need ratties!

- I also try to live by a rule I made for myself many years ago...

Never regret the things you've done, only the things you've dared not do.

- It's hard to do sometimes, but it helps me keep some perspective on life and reminds me to live my life to it's fullest.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more inexplicable.

...There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

My estranged husband in divorce court. I was served with papers, my lawyer responded, but he never responded to my lawyer from there. It seems as though he got a divorce in absentia. The thing is that it isn't legal as I did respond. I'm trying to get copies of the divorce decree so I can follow up from there. If things are as I expect, it's not legal and he's a bigamist.

I'd love to meet a few people who are dead - Dorothy Parker, Eleanor Roosevelt and both of my grandfathers and my great grandmother Rachael. I'd also like to meet certain fashion designers, most pro wrestlers working today and some from the past.

If you want to be my friend and I don't already know you, please send me an email so I can find out who you are and what you're about. Otherwise I will not respond. I hate to have to do this, but I'm getting a lot of requests from people who just want to build their numbers or are not interested in getting to know me. So please, think about it first, and send me an email if you are someone I don't already know.