Hi I'm Amanda. I'm 30, single, proud fur mama to 2 kitties. I live in the Virginia Beach, Virginia (US) area and I work in accounting/finance.
I've been lurking for quite some time. I was so happy when I discovered this site because I was always a bit concerned that there was something wrong with my morbid curiosity surrounding death. To know that there are so many others who do the same thing makes me relieved. haha
My mother was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor when I was 5 and passed in 1995, when I was 10. I think that started my curiosity, plus I've always been a knowledge seeker. When my 28-year-old cousin, John McCurdy passed in 2006 of a random gymnastics accident, I was affected tremendously. It was such a freak thing, plus we were very close, and he had overcome so many challenges in life to finally find happiness in gymnastics...just to die by cracking his skull open on the concrete floor of the gym. It was traumatic.
I've dealt with, IMO, a lot of death so far in my 30 years. This site is sort of a therapy for me. I don't wanna sound stalkerish but I feel like I already know a lot of you well, just from reading an obscene amount of threads on this site. LOL it's addicting! But yeah, many of you have made me laugh out loud! I love how Kevansvault details exactly what he would do to these disgusting murderers and rapists and child molesters, if he were able to exact retribution. He's right on the money. I like how Peacebe... seems to be the caring mom type. She's always so empathetic toward the victims and seems to really feel their pain. I like how Bowie will put people in their place if they start going off on irrelevant rabbit trails. Plus she always introduces new ideas and viewpoints to threads that make me think "Hmm, I never thought of that but you make perfect sense...".
Anyway, sorry for the rant here. As you can tell I'm excited to be here and I hope I don't screw up posting or linking articles during my noob stage.
^ this is the only emoticon I've learned so far lol