Hi! My name is Tess — real name: Austin Brittany — and this is my blog! I’m in my mid-30s, disabled, and have a intense love for cats. (I have an intense love for a lot of things, but like… it’s cats.) I have chronic pain along with other chronic conditions, and blog about those things openly. While my actual career path was more in management, self-employment, and customer service, I started coding and maintaining websites in 2003, and it has all led me here. A custom WordPress theme I coded too much, and absolutely no desire to show the world what I can actually code and thus accomplish. :’)

I can come off like a real mean person — while I like to think that while I definitely have Resting Bitch Face, I also definitely think I have Active Bitch Voice — but in reality, I’m super sensitive, and I feel emotion very intensely. I’m not easily irritated, offended, or critical, but I also don’t put up with a lot of shit, and therefore keep my friends in a small circle. My best friend is my younger sister by a year and fourteen days (Irish twins!), and my soulmate/partner-in-crime is Chris.