Welcome to AmyUhrich.com–if you haven’t already guessed, a website/blog run by Amy Uhrich (coincidentally, me).

I’ve always been a fickle person.  Pair that with perfectionism and you’ve got a girl who’s never satisfied.  I’ve never been able to stick to just one project, or hobby, or career.  Likewise, I can’t blog about just one subject.  This website is an attempt to meld all my interests together in one place.  I hope to prove that a twenty-something fashion-obsessed creative writer with an unquenchable love for tarot and the arts can make her way in the blogging and business world.

This website is my venue for sharing tarot, fashion, art, literature, music, and anything else that strikes my fancy (believe me, this changes often).  In addition to blogging I offer professional tarot readings, independently published poetry, and various creative and fashion-related goodies.  My goal is to create a unique and delicious aesthetic; to live magically and highlight the wonder in life.

BASICS

Full Name: Amy Lynn Uhrich
Surname Pronunciation: “You-rick.” It’s German.
Age: 24 years old
Birthday: August 23, 1985
Sun Sign: Virgo (cusp)
Citizenship: Canadian
Born: Fort St. James, British Columbia, Canada
Currently Living: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Height: 5’2″ (short)
Relationship Status: Taken
Political Views: Liberal, if any
Religious Views: Pantheism

CAREER ACTIVITIES

  • Blogger at AmyUhrich.com
  • Professional Tarot Reader
  • Editor-in-Chief of Word Parade Books
  • Creative Nonfiction Writer
  • Graduate Student at Chatham University

More detailed professional info at LinkedIn.

SOCIAL MEDIA

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LIKES

Exploring • writing • self-improvement • tarot • garlic • poetry • drawing • fancy cheeses • fast cars • indie music • films • Michael Jackson • baking • tattoos • shopping • restaurants • cemeteries • soap • paper • dolls • concrete • androgyny • Aisaka Taiga • knee socks • pianos • shortbread cookies • fine art • Laffy Taffy • swimming • fashion • breaking rules • rabbits • Star Trek remixesStar Trek parodies • boots • anime • animals • web design • photography • psychology

DISLIKES

Moths • dentists • indie music snobs • incompetence • heavy drinking • spiders • small talk • inconsistencies • uptight people • unhelpful product reviews • grammar/spelling errors • ignorant celebrity-bashing • anteaters • pointless voicemail messages • know-it-alls • goody-two-shoes • driving • assumptions • foreign-language-whisperers • rice pudding • politics

RANDOM FACTS

  • I once put a kitten in a mailbox.
  • I sometimes talk to myself.
  • I *love* giving gifts.
  • Coconut air fresheners make me nauseous.
  • I’m a synesthete (ie. I’m utterly convinced that numbers, letters, and calendar days and months have spatial locations and colors).
  • I feel completely at peace in cemeteries.
  • I refuse to wear fur but love leather.
  • I have a habit of spilling vanilla extract.
  • I steal other people’s snacks out of workplace mini-fridges.
  • I like walking alone at night.
  • I have a soap fetish.
  • I don’t believe in dating.
  • I have a compulsion to buy things I rarely wear–like party dresses and bathing suits.
  • I adore taking (reputable) personality tests and surveys.  I’d probably do it for a living if I could.
  • I used to have special socks to wear on the trampoline.
  • I present a much clearer and more accurate version of myself in writing than I do in person.
  • I’m obsessed with epiphany.
  • I have fallen in love five times.
  • I have a passionate desire to dress Lolita (neo-Victorian) a lot.
  • I’m a classic introvert.
  • I have, at one time or another, towel-dried wet rabbits.
  • I chew my nails and pick at my mascara.
  • I have never dyed my hair, and don’t plan to.
  • I adopt other people’s laughs.
  • I have (with friends, on multiple occasions, at night) broken into and run amok in a campus building which shall remain nameless.
  • I have lied about many things.

FAVORITES

Films: Across the Universe, Amélie, Beyond the Sea, Casino Royale, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, The Fountain, Gone With the Wind, Goodfellas, Inception, Kamikaze Girls, Lolita (1997), Marie Antoinette (2006), Memento, Once, Perfume (2006), The Prestige, Run Lola Run, The Secret of Nimh, Slumdog Millionaire, Thirteen, Troy, Vanilla Sky, The Virgin Suicides, Zodiac

TV Series/Anime: Adventure Time, American Dad, Battlestar Gallactica, Dollhouse, E.R., Family Guy, Futurama, King of the Hill, Mushishi, The O.C., Ouran High School Host Club, The Simpsons, Toradora

Music: Adele, Aqualung, Band of Horses, the Beatles, Beirut, Ben Folds, the Brunettes, Cat Power, Coldplay, Eisley, Elton John, Emily Haines (& the Soft Skeleton), Fight Like Apes, Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions, Imogen Heap, Kate Nash, the Mars Volta, Mates of State, Matt & Kim, Matthew Good [Band], Metric, Michael Jackson, the National, Pilate, Pink Floyd, Pony Up!, Queen, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Sam Roberts, the Shins, Sigur Rós, Silverchair, Smashing Pumpkins, Sparta, Travis, Vampire Weekend, the Weakerthans, Wilco

Books: Ariel (Sylvia Plath); The Boys of My Youth (Jo Ann Beard); Flying at Night (Ted Kooser); The Fourth Genre (Robert L. Root, editor); Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (Ted Kooser); Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov); Lying (Lauren Slater); Short Takes (Judith Kitchen, editor); Smoke (Dorianne Laux); Swamp Songs: The Making of an Unruly Woman (Sheryl St. Germain); Who Will Know Us? (Gary Soto)