Well, I started this site in May of 2004.\u00a0 so that’s a ridiculously long time of writing here, and til a while ago I’ve never had an “about me.”\u00a0 It takes me a really, really long time to accomplish things most of the time. But if you’ve done any reading on the site, you’ve probably learned quite a bit about me already.<\/p>\n
so anyway, I’m Grace Hughes, and i live in Springfield, Illinois with my sweet husband Kevin.\u00a0 We’ve been married since 2006, and we have now have five inside and two outside kitties, which is beyond the pale of number of cats a person ought to have.\u00a0 But it just happened, we didn’t say, “hey, let’s see how many cats will fit in the house.”\u00a0 Insiders include Les Paul, Riley, Sweetie, Lovey, and Pumpkin.\u00a0 We found Les Paul in the Menards parking lot back in 2011, and then Riley came to us in March a few years ago, and Sweetie arrived a couple of Aprils ago.\u00a0 Lovey, a feral cat, had been hanging out on our front porch all winter and Kevin kept feeding her and bought her a heated kitty house, and she finally warmed up to him and we brought her inside in a couple of Aprils past.\u00a0 She’s adjusting to life with all the other cats and us ok I guess, except I still make her very nervous.\u00a0 it takes time.<\/p>\n
In Dec. 2021, Mom’s friend Wanda passed away and we immediately adopted her four pound, elderly cat named Marley.\u00a0 They were going to put her to sleep!\u00a0 So we took her without even thinking about it. She had one and a half wonderful years with us, and passed away in September 2023.<\/p>\n
Wanda had two outside cats named Pumpkin and Harley, bonded brothers who lived outside her house for all seven years of their lives, and the whole thing is too much of a story for now, suffice to say that we now have Pumpkin inside even though he acts more like an outside cat.\u00a0 We love him but he’s very challenging.<\/p>\n
Our two outside cats are Spot and Lemon Drop, both very good kitties but we just can’t have anybody else living with us.<\/p>\n
We used to have a wonderful dog, Mollie, who i wrote about quite a lot, but she died in 2013, and our cat Chester passed away on January 4th 2018, and our sweet cat Winnie died on Jan. 19th, 2019. My dear, late friend Christine created this blog for me, but as the years went by it sort of fell into disrepair, so i found this great guy named Gary, who reinvented it for me.<\/p>\n I started writing this blog because for a brief moment, in 2004,\u00a0 I wrote a humor column for a local weekly paper.\u00a0 My column was called “grace about town,” and i wrote about stuff going on in Springfield, and about my escapades here.\u00a0 But when i started writing the column i realized there was so much more i wanted to write about, hence “graceuncensored.”<\/p>\n I did have fun writing the column, though, and every week I’d include a different goofy photo of myself along with it.\u00a0 It seemed to be very popular; people would stop me on the street and say how much they liked it, and they’d write me fan mail, and one time a woman told me that at Christmas her family read aloud my column about a decorative Christmas ashtray that I’d made in high school.\u00a0 I was excited that for the first time in my life, people were actually reading what I wrote and I felt like a real writer.<\/p>\n But unfortunately, the powers that be at the paper didn’t like me, it was weird,\u00a0 and the editor fired me.\u00a0 Well, he didn’t actually fire me; he wanted me to write for the paper, but not my column anymore.\u00a0 He told me he “didn’t like feature articles.” \u00a0hmm.\u00a0 I got mad (i’ve only been mad about four times in my life) and I told him I didn’t want to write for them at all.<\/p>\n but it was a good experience because it prompted me to start this website, and then a friend said that i should create a one-woman show.\u00a0 That sounded fun to me, and I wrote and performed the first one in 2004.\u00a0 Kevin had read my column in the paper and then my blog. He wrote me a fan letter and came to my first show, introduced himself to me and the rest is history.\u00a0 So even though writing the column ended badly, it was the catalyst for profound and wonderful changes in my life.<\/p>\n Up til now, today, the only really notable accomplishment (besides marrying Kevin) i’ve done is to make a movie.\u00a0 That was almost 30 years ago, though, so I think it’s finally time to get more things accomplished.\u00a0 The movie, BTW, is called “Hope’s Happy Birthday,” and I did most of the stuff on the film by myself, and was quite proud of it, but then never had the wherewithal to actually get it out there in the world.\u00a0 There’s a link to it here on the site so you can watch it if you want.<\/p>\n ok then,<\/p>\n grace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I started this site in May of 2004.\u00a0 so that’s a ridiculously long time of writing here, and til a while ago I’ve never had an “about me.”\u00a0 It takes me a really, really long time to accomplish things most of the time. 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He wrote me a fan letter and came to my first show, introduced himself to me and the rest is history.\u00a0 So even though writing the column ended badly, it was the catalyst for profound and wonderful changes in my life.\n\nUp til now, today, the only really notable accomplishment (besides marrying Kevin) i've done is to make a movie.\u00a0 That was almost 30 years ago, though, so I think it's finally time to get more things accomplished.\u00a0 The movie, BTW, is called \"Hope's Happy Birthday,\" and I did most of the stuff on the film by myself, and was quite proud of it, but then never had the wherewithal to actually get it out there in the world.\u00a0 There's a link to it here on the site so you can watch it if you want.\n\nRight now, the coronavirus has taken over the planet.\u00a0 It's a very weird time and the whole world is anxious and scared and depressed sometimes or most of the time.\u00a0 Hopefully by the time i update this \"about me\" again, things will be better.\n\nHa ha about that last paragraph; I'm lying in bed and decided to update this page and i laughed out loud at the irony of that paragraph because I tested positive for Covid yesterday morning, December 10th, 2023.\u00a0 I felt sick on Friday afternoon and got worse all day and thought it was a bad cold because colds are going around like crazy right now as well as the flu because nobody's immune to them because nobody's been sick for a long time.\u00a0 I hadn't been sick for three years, a very long time.\n\nBut ha ha again it wasn't a cold or the flu and hopefully the next time I update this I'll be all better and Kevin won't get the Covid and we for sure won't have any more cats.\n\nok then,\n\ngrace","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14673","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6JLYy-3OF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14673"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21418,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14673\/revisions\/21418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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