OH HI! I’m Laura, but a large chunk of friends/family call me Rah.

Please, call me rah :)

This is my personal blog with a mash-up of creative jaunts and the goings on in my life.

I live in Sydney’s inner-western suburbs with my husband, Dan.

Cats

Our life is dominated by our two cats; Elvis, a DSH with a penchant for my freshly-baked cupcakes and Bear, a Devon Rex cross who spends his days wishing dead birds would fall from the sky. We have reached the final stage of our Litter Kwitter training and when we graduate we will have a giant party and invite all of Sydney to watch us gloat about our brilliance of training the cats to pee and poop in the toilet like us humans.

My youth and my roots

My middle name is Rose. I was born in Grafton — the Jacaranda city — as the result of an emergency caesarean section because the umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck. I was in intensive care for three weeks. I have two older sisters and four beautiful nephews. Until I was 8, our family ran the local drive-in and have memories of a life full of popcorn, choc tops and changing film spools in the projector room. Mum and I moved to Sydney after Dad died of cancer when I was 8. Every day I fight being an ACOA; some days are harder than others.

Some of my family know about my blog. Some of them found out about my blog in ways that I wasn’t expecting, and at a time when my blogging was at its most vulnerable. I have been told that my “blogging lifestyle” isn’t appreciated. I accept that they don’t necessarily agree with my choices. I will only blog about family in a general context nowadays.

Day job

I work a desk job for God. Seriously. While I’m a baptised Catholic, my faith has been tested for as long as I can remember and would call myself a hopeful agnostic. I love my job and love that I can accept my “status” and still work with some of the most genuine bible people I’ll ever know.

Some of my work people know about my blog. I’m okay with that. I refuse to blog about my work specifically, but will happily blog about working life.

Hobbies

In recent years, I’ve developed a reputation as a bit of a cupcake nutbag.

I’m not very good at cooking, but I love baking. I have a very, very sweet tooth.

This blogging caper

I have blogged at varying locations, but mostly yayme.com, rainbowtatt.wordpress.com and now, here at rainbowtatt.com.

My first post at my wordpress.com blog was 23 October 2006, after my yayme.com blog was hacked and content lost forever (lesson: database backup, you guys!). I bought rainbowtatt.com in March 2008. But for a while I ported everything over to be merged with my business name, but in September 2009 I made my triumphant return.

What’s a rainbowtatt?

I have a tattoo of a rainbow on my arse. Well, more accurately, on my tailbone.

I got it in 1997, when I was 19. My friend Julie and I wanted to get tattoos and we went to the Illustrated Man in Sydney.

You can read the rainbow tattoo story here.