Bio

Introduction

Greetings! I’m your humble gun-toting blogger, Laurel. If you’re new to my blog and looking for some information on what this is all about, you’ve found the right page. Follow these links to get acquainted:

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Biography (updated 2/19/09)

I’m 23 years old, live in north Idaho, and am an on-again, off-again student studying a little of everything.

After stints driving a Zamboni and selling Vespa-style scooters, I’m now exercising real feminism by choosing to stay home with my daughter.

Politically, I’m a small-L libertarian. The über-condensed version of my political ideology: I believe in extremely limited government and extensive personal responsibility. I think our current system is the result of laziness and cowardice; citizens stopped wanting to deal with their fellow man, so they gave more and more power to the government to deal with more and more of our daily lives. If I were in charge… Well, I’ll save that for my posts. Suffice it to say things would be far different.

I was not pleased with my choices in the 2008 election, and I didn’t vote for either Socialist 1 or Socialist 2. I’m midly amused at how truly establishment HopeyChangey is turning out to be, but still disturbed by the fawning masses willing to drink the Kool-Aid. I am anticipating an ugly wake-up call for our nation.

Of the issues I’m passionate about, gun rights are at the top of the list. I am a proud gun owner and avid shooter, and look forward to returning to regular training after a long maternity leave! (I opted out of shooting while pregnant due to concerns about the noise and lead exposure.) I believe the Second Amendment exists to ensure the citizens of this great nation will always have the means to overthrow a tyrannical government. The AR-15s of today are the Brown Besses of 1776.

I consider myself to be an odd sort of deist-leaning-Christian, not really fitting into any denomination I’ve found thus far. I may chronicle my theology on the blog eventually.

My other interests are varied and a bit eclectic. I don’t read as much as I should, but I’m trying to return to the avid reading habits of my childhood. I spend a considerable amount of time each day mucking about on the internet, doing this and that – hence why I figured I might as well do something productive, and blog! I also enjoy cooking and fits of craftiness, which usually include yarn. I knit, crochet, and just recently pulled out my sewing machine for the first time in months. I start many more projects than I finish, but I forgive myself for this because Leonardo da Vinci was known to do the same thing.

On January 10, 2009, I gave birth to my first child – a daughter we named Abigail Wyoming. She’s named in honor of two revolutionary women: Abigail Adams, and Wyoming Knott from Robert Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I am proud to say she was born free in a planned homebirth, attended by midwives. I am so glad we chose midwifery care and homebirth, and absolutely believe both Abigail and myself benefitted tremendously from a drug and intervention free birth in a place I was comfortable. Needless to say, I’m a natural birth advocate!

I’ve been married to my husband, Mike – known around the comments as The Inconvenience – since summer of 2007. He’s my best friend, debate partner, and he even outshoots me, sometimes. He never beats me at Trivial Pursuit, though!

Mike, Abigail and I live with our cat, Gipper, and dogs, Joey and Artemis. Gipper is a big orange tabby with multiple personalities (two of which are named named “Destructo” and “Insaneo”), Joey is a small black and tan Chihuahua who weighs exactly half as much as Gipper, and Artemis is our black lab. Theoretically, she’s going to be our first bird dog. Theoretically.