Hello. I’m Katie. I blog. This is it.

When I’m professional (90% of the time),  I look like this:

When I’m not professional (the other 70% of the time), I look like any one of these:

PS: I’m bad at math.

*No alcohol was abused in any of these photos.

I’m a 12 year veteran of blogging. Nope, that’s not a typo or an exaggeration.

4938504=Exaggeration.

12=True Facts.

Through the last 12 years, (and beyond), I’ve dealt with all the things in life including breakups, lost family members, severe depression, the Quarter Life Crisis, financial ruin, and several really bad haircuts.

In 2008, I was laid off from my corporate america management position.   In my exiting interview, my boss said “And don’t blog about me, the company, or anything. Or Else.”  Scared a girl straight. That’s what you get for sharing way-to-personal-stuff on the internet.

I stopped blogging . For 2 whole months. That’s a long time in blogging years. I then re-launched my blog and focused on branding myself as something other than a jobless, nearly-homeless, uneducated girl. I got out of bed,  got a game plan, got a diploma and stopped making excuses for why I wasn’t farther in life.

In 2009, I applied for my first writing job. I got it. I still have it today. In 2009, I applied for a social media and community management position. I got it. I still have it today. In 2010, I interned with Stratejoy as an Editor in Chief of the quarter life crisis blog. In 2011, Molly Mahar asked me to sign on as an official community manager. I’m still rockin’ that position.

I now pride myself in being a self-employed, twenty-something who enjoys making connections. Whether it’s a business to a brand, a wanna-be-blogger to a platform, a small-business owner to a social media strategy, or a good friend to another good friend for a date than ends in long term love (cupid, baby!), I love connections.  But I hate the game Connect 4.

I’ve had my writing published all over the internet. (Super-fly!) 2011 was the year that I took time out from doing “everything” to doing “what I could”. I realized that I have a passion for human connection and conversations.

Before you read any more, you should know: I accidentally flashed the mailman in a snowstorm. I want to work for Steve Ballmer. (I wrote him a letter) I accidentally bought my grandmother a butt plug in the shape of baby Jesus. (Yep. For real.)  I have a sick obsession with Pinterest.

I surprise/freak out people with my massive Google Skills. (I’m the Antoine Dobson of Google Searches).

Basically I’m a whole lot of crazy in one calm-cool-collected (kind of) package.

If you made it down here, we should at least talk about how cool you are.

Shoot me an e-mail: kmcolihan [at] gmail [DOT} com.