About Carly

I am Carly. I’m married to Kyle, the Greatest Person in the World, and we live in Salt Lake City, Utah, with my parents. That's right. Because that's how awesome we are.

In addition to being Mrs. Greatest Person in the World and that-girl-who-still-lives-with-her-parents, I’m also a lawyer, photographer, entrepreneur, Disneyphile, dieter, author, bargain-hunter, mediator, designer, and super blogger. I do some of these things much better than I do others and I do some of these things without any talent for them at all. Kyle would tell you that I’m also a cook, seamstress, laundress, future baby carrier, fire starter, and general stone around his neck, but that’s why he doesn’t get to blog.

Despite graduating with my J.D. and passing the Ohio bar, I do not practice law. I work for a non-profit organization that seeks to improve the life of citizens and schoolchildren and therefore I make far less money than the average American human. The joy of not selling out is lukewarm at best in the face of two hundred thousand dollars in student loans, but the universe compensated me by sending me a cute guy with a full head of hair and a talent for making guinea pig obstacle courses. In the end, my life is pretty awesome.

In other web lives I have been vnllacpcake, anais131, LaneyLn, shakespeares-grl, zachsgirl, miss flip flop, anais-aphrodite, SLCpunkette, and, most recently, thatdisneygirl. It took more than ten years of online identities to realize that I should probably just be Carly for a while. So here I am. Being Carly.

Friends With Blogs

A Short Interview with a Tall Person

Why do you blog?

I blog because I have an intense compulsion to document things. I’m addicted to writing and photographs. When I don’t blog I fill up journals, make sketches, and write long lists on the back of grocery receipts. Blogging is a lot easier.

When did you start blogging?

Tricky question. I’ve been journaling as long as I’ve been writing…which would make it about 22 years now. The online writing started when I was 16 or 17, but I’m not exactly sure. In addition to my compulsion to document things, I have a compulsion to destroy evidence. For this reason, many of my blogs and writings are no longer in existence.

Why should I read this blog?

I have no idea. I don’t even know how you got this far. If you’re still reading, maybe you should tell me why you’re still reading and then I’ll pass that along to other people who ask me.

Who does your website?

I do, with a lot of help from the nameless faces at Blogger.com.

101 in 1001

Start Date: October 20, 2009
End Date: July 16, 2012

1. Write 1 fiction book: (0/1)

2. Write 2 nonfiction books: (0/2)

3. Read 5 "classics" that I haven't read before: (0/5)

4. Read 25 memoirs: (3/25)

5. Release 2 books into the wild with Bookcrossing.com: (0/2)

6. Drink three glasses of water per day: (?/1001)

7. Participate in 1 Disney sports event: (0/1)

8. Send 10 cards to friends just because (1/10)

9. Sell 5 things on Etsy: (0/5)

10. Learn 1 new craft: (0/1)

11. Get a new car: (0/1)

12. Go on a Disney cruise: (0/1)

13. Do 10 days of volunteer work: (0/10)

14. Send a random care package to a friend: (1/1)

15. Run a community benefit 5K: (0/1)

16. Run a community benefit 10K: (0/1)

17. Get an article published in a magazine: (0/1)

18. Make it all the way through 10 push ups: (0/1)

19. Go down 2 clothing sizes: (0/2)

20. Finish editing our wedding video: (0/1)

21. Go to 5 cities I've never been to: (0/5)

22. Make myself an article of clothing: (0/1)

23. Make Kyle an article of clothing: (0/1)

24. Swap 10 books on paperbackswap.com: (10/10)

25. Take Kyle camping: (0/1)

26. Take a fitness class I've never taken: (0/1)

27. Take a girls' trip: (0/1)

28. Join a church: (0/1)

29. Write 3 thank you notes for outstanding service/product etc. (0/3)

30. Visit the new Walt Disney museum in San Francisco: (0/1)

31. Take a Lifelong Learning class from the U of U: (0/1)

32. Join a book club: (1/1)

33. Learn to play Backgammon: (0/1)

34. Teach both my cats to do a trick on command: (0/2)

35. Change my name to my married name: (0/1)

36. Have a pizza delivered to a friend in another city as a surprise: (0/1)

37. Attend a high school creative arts production where I don't know anyone in it: (0/1)

38. Take Kyle to see a stage play: (0/1)

39. Take Kyle to see a musical: (0/1)

40. Take Kyle to see an opera: (0/1)

41. Take Kyle to see a ballet: (0/1)

42. Buy something from 5 different Etsy stores (0/5)

43. Give out 10 business cards: (0/10)

44. Throw a holiday party: (0/1)

45. Host a game night: (0/1)

46. Wake up to photograph the sunrise and share the pictures: (0/1)

47. Learn how to play a new song on the piano: (0/1)

48. Take myself to see a movie Kyle doesn't want to see: (0/1)

49. Get my name in a newspaper (for a good reason, this time!): (0/1)

50. Reconnect with a grade school friend I've drifted away from: (0/1)

51. Buy Kyle something nice just because: (0/1)

52. Fill up the journal sitting on my nightstand: (0/1)

53. Drink that bottle of wine Kyle brought back from Italy in 2004: (0/1)

54. Make something for someone's new baby: (0/1)

55. Send out an engagement card when I hear that someone's engaged: (0/1)

56. Do a portrait in charcoal and share it: (0/1)

57. Make up a really cute nursery for future Baby Morgan: (0/1)

58. Try 10 new restaurants (1/10)

59. Surprise someone with dinner for their family: (0/1)

60. Take a trip to visit Schovy in Texas: (0/1)

61. Watch Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and An American Tale: (0/3)

62. Wear a bikini in public: (0/1)

63. Learn how to play a song on the guitar: (0/1)

64. Scan my WDWCP scrapbook into the computer and share it: (0/1)

65. Attend an outdoor concert: (0/1)

66. Attend a book signing: (0/1)

67. Attend a benefit auction: (0/1)

68. Make an appointment to get my skin mapped: (0/1)

69. Make a family history movie of some sort: (0/1)

70. Meet five friends from the internet in person: (3/5)

71. Make something for Kyle from his mom's recipes: (0/1)

72. Make some sort of traditional chinese dish I haven't made before: (0/1)

73. Attend a religious service for a religion I don't know much about: (0/1)

74. Help my mom publish a cookbook: (0/1)

75. Help my dad buy a new computer: (0/1)

76. Stay in bed for an entire Saturday (preferably with Kyle): (0/1)

77. Find a reason to wear that blue dress again: (0/1)

78. Do a free family portrait session for a friend: (0/1)

79. Buy a "new" outfit from the thrift store: (0/1)

80. Try a kind of meat I've never had before: (0/1)

81. Try a kind of fruit I've never had before: (0/1)

82. Try a kind of vegetable I've never had before: (1/1)

83. Make cookies from scratch and mail them to five people: (0/5)

84. Go an entire week without eating meat: (0/1)

85. Go an entire week without eating cheese: (0/1)

86. Take a massage class with Kyle: (0/1)

87. Visit Universal Orlando for the first time ever: (0/1)

88. Volunteer to host a baby shower, wedding shower, or birthday party: (0/1)

89. Volunteer at a conference and attend for free: (0/1)

90. Make popovers: (0/1)

91. Send out a first anniversary card a year after someone's wedding: (0/1)

92. Attend a midnight movie premiere: (0/1)

93. Serve breakfast for dinner: (0/1)

94. Spend a night in Vegas with Kyle: (0/1)

95. Visit a historical attraction in Utah that I've never seen: (0/1)

96. Start a new Christmas tradition: (0/1)

97. Photoblog my food every day: (?/1001)

98. Hit 100 followers on one of my blogs: (96/100)

99. Inspire someone else to do 101 goals in 1001 days: (1/1)

100. Donate $5 per failed goal on Kyle's 30th birthday to a charity of his choice

101. At day 1001 celebrate accomplishments and create a new 101 list for the next 1001 days