About Shae

skinnyshae began in November 2010 as a diet, fitness and beauty blog focusing on how much I hated diet, fitness and beauty.

Not much has changed since the inception (Leonardo DiCaprio squinty face), but I have made great strides to improve my attitude toward fitness and health in little less than a  year.

And my attitude change is thanks to this blog and all of the wonderful people I have met in the blogosphere. Encouragement is key, folks.

Luckily, I am not solely a complainer of all things diet, fitness and beauty. I am also quite ridiculous, nonsensical and weird.

If you continue reading, you’ll find out soon enough that I am a strange, strange little person.

A strange, strange little person (literally little) who has a loving husband – henceforth referred to as a noun: “Husband,” and two absolutely irritating lovely fuzzy children. A club-footed kitty called Hobbes and a German Shepherd dog called Ivan.

Don’t let “skinnyshae” fool you. I am no skinny girl. I am small (short stature, creepy tiny feet and hands), but I am by no means skinny. The point of skinnyshae is not really to become skinny physically, but it is to reclaim the attitude of confidence and esteem with which the term skinny is associated.

I used to be stellar happy with myself in high school! I’m 24 now, and I’m insecure?

Not cool. Must fix.

And that’s why this blog exists. (And recipes, FAIL cooking, fitness “for the WINs,” and a lot of complaints. Occasionally, I put make up on for a beauty blog.)

The blog will also incorporate the awesomeness that is my life…

Outside of the blog, I am a graduate student at Wichita State University, and I used to teach public speaking at the university. After actively searching for a job for almost two years, I found one at a family-owned bank in Wichita. I am the marketing specialist, which means I do a lot of research and am officially getting paid to be a geek.

I. Love. My. Job.

I am disgustingly dedicated to school, so much so that I occasionally forget how to act like a human being in public. (Awkwardness abounds! And you get to hear these stories.)

At home, I am slightly domestic. Most of the time I don’t feel like cooking, and cleaning? Oh, fundeath.

I hope you can take away from skinnyshae what I have: a positive attitude about getting fit (or sometimes an attitude that says, “Shut up, and do it.”)

Enjoy!

:)