About Me

Jan. 12th, 2026 10:03 am
paynesgrey: Don't Grow Up, it's a TRAP (dontgrow)
Some of you are new to my journal, so I'm just going to give a short bio on me in case there's any confusion:

Name: Heather
 
City: Chicago suburbs
 
I'm married to a man who is a Case Manager for Early Intervention, serving children with disabilities ages 0-3. I work as a User Experience Design consultant for a large IT consulting company, where I get to work for many clients. Right now I'm working for a client that is a well known brand of truck rentals. ;) I love to design and I love my job because I get to work from home, I have great benefits and so much flexibility. I'm also a proud volunteer for the Girl Scouts of America and a Troop mom of a Brownie.
 
I have a young daughter. She's my star and the light of my life. 

We have three pets; a Treeing Walker Coonhound named Holly (8), a beagle named Heidi (4) and a scrappy brown tiger tabby cat named Bastet (5).
 
I also freelance, doing graphic design, web design and editing. Also tarot reading.

I'm also a self-published author and try to do more original writing for publication.
 
We bought a house in 2016 and it was a good deal, but it needs a lot of upkeep so I will be talking about it for awhile, especially the landscaping and the garage. 
 
Hobbies include reading, writing, drawing, gardening, and baking. 

Fandoms: I'm not very active in fandom anymore. I occasionally join a Big Bang or fic event, but otherwise I focus on finishing WIPs and doing short stories when I have time. I have varied interests in shows, from asian dramas to anime to the Marvel series. 

Regular Fandoms: Doctor Who, The Apothecary Diaries, Heaven's Official Blessing, Yuri on Ice, MDZS, Inuyasha, Sailor Moon, Heroes, Love in the Air, Guardian, Star Wars, Marvel, Harry Potter, Good Omens, and Fence. I am addicted to Asian dramas, especially BL.
 
Politics are: LGBQT-advocate, super liberal, democratic socialist and Green. I am NEVER-Trump. 
 
Sexuality: I consider myself pansexual, though I've been married to my husband and the love of my life since 2008.
 
I consider myself a Dharma Pagan. Basically someone who follows Buddhist and Goddess-worship ideologies.
 
I have generalized anxiety and depression, and I work through it with my art, writing, and online journaling.
 
paynesgrey: Protest Sign (witches)
Stolen from [personal profile] author_by_night 

BASIC INFORMATION
 
NAME: Heather (Paynesgrey, or Quirky is alright too)
 
AGE AND BIRTHDATE: 38, December 9th
 
SIGN: Sagittarius 
 
LOCATION: Chicago suburbs
 
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
 
EDUCATION: Associate's in Graphic Design, Bachelor in Fine Arts - Illustration with a minor in English, and a trade diploma in Web Design
 
OCCUPATION: UI Developer/Designer
 
OCCUPATIONAL HISTORY: I started out in the product design business, and after 8 years of pure misery, I changed me career, went back to school, and became a web designer. I'm much much happier. 
 
CAREER GOALS: I want to be able to have a job that pays enough so my husband can stay at home with my kid. I like my work and my current job, and I'm pretty happy at this point. I'd like to learn more coding languages though to improve my skillset.
 
FAMILY
 
PARENTS: My stepfather died of pancreatic cancer in 2013. My mom is still around, on her third childhood, wild and free. She is retired, loves gardening, tattoos, her much younger boyfriend, her cats, grandchild and her car. My biological father is still alive, but I don't consider him my dad.
 
SIBLINGS: Step-sister, step-brother, and "adopted" sister Beth Ann, my longest and best friend
 
CHILDREN: a daughter, Juliet, 2
 
SPOUSE: husband, same age as me, Joe, is a case manager for Early Intervention
 
PETS: two dogs, coonhound Holly and schnauzer-mix Malachy. My beagle Whiskey passed away this last Christmas.

IDENTITY AND BELIEFS
 
SEXUAL ORIENTATION/RELATIONSHIPS: Cisgender, pansexual, married almost eleven years.
 
MENTAL HEALTH: I have chronic anxiety and depression. I'm medicated! But yeah...
 
PHYSICAL HEALTH:  I'm a little overweight but I'm trying to change that and get rid of this baby fat! I'm trying to work out every day and so far so good.
 
POLITICAL LEANING: Democratic Socialist
 
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Paganism and Witchcraft
 
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English, HTML and CSS
 
BODY IMAGE: I just want to fit into my favorite jeans again, and for my wedding ring to fit.
 
TATTOOS/PIERCINGS: 2 tattoos, one of a tiger lily on my back and the other a pentagram on my right calf. I used to have piercings but my eczema gets so bad that I just didn't want to break out from them anymore. So they are closed up.

JUST-FOR-FUN PERSONALITY STUFF
 
MBTI: INFJ
 
HARRY POTTER HOUSE: Ravenclaw
 
YOUR LIVEJOURNAL USERNAME MEANING:  paynesgrey is a color, which is not quite black, like a dark, deep bluish gray. I had an art teacher who used to scream at us to "use more paynesgrey!" "no black, only paynesgrey" so I took that as username because I honestly hated that guy, but when I graduated he came up to me and told me I'd really improved. So I changed my mind about him, but some of my friends from Illustration will always know that phrase "Use more paynesgrey" haha!
 
THINGS I POST ABOUT: real life, my job, my daughter and husband, my dogs, writing, books I'm reading, tv shows I'm watching, anime I'm watching, web design, art, news and social issues, movies and dumb, pointless stuff
 
INTERESTS
 
HOBBIES: reading, writing, painting, drawing, baking, playing with my dogs, teaching a toddler not to bite and hit, de-cluttering, and sometimes repairing old technology
 
TV SHOWS: Live PD, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Fruits Basket, Arrow, Star Trek: Discovery, Heroes, Inuyasha, Yuri on Ice, Mr. Robot, and I'm sure there's more but I'm behind on a lot of shows right now.
 
MUSIC: Billie Ellish, Ellie Goulding, Lana Del Rey, Halsey, Huntress, No Doubt, the Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Sleater Kinney, Peaches, L7, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, the Rapture, Imagine Dragons, Shonen Knife, Carrie Underwood, Little Big Town, Maddie and Tae, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga, Madonna and so much more
 
THINGS I DON'T LIKE: Prejudice, Religious nuts, transphobia, homophobia, Republicans, Donald Trump, rapists, child molesters, Judges that let rapists go free,  old white men stuck in the past, wasps, stink bugs, mosquitos, reality TV about clueless, annoying rich people
 
RANDOM THINGS THAT MAKE ME SMILE: dog videos, cat videos, videos about people being great human beings, my husband's lame jokes, my daughter's laugh, and my dogs being dogs, and pictures of pizza and sushi

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