Daily Spotlight- Kathy Pitt

With so much gender discrimination surrounding the upcoming election, I want to be part of the solution, not the problem. That's why I'm putting my own mom in the daily spotlight. The employee picture from 1998 doesn't do her justice, but she's a beautiful lady. So when I get a better one I'm updating this piece!

My mom is the greatest lady I know. So great, in fact, that I went a good 23 years or so honestly believing that all women were low maintenance and laid back and not crazy and really good at cooking. How naive I was. Seriously though, mom is an amazing lady. She got me interested in art at a young age because she could pretty much replicate any style and make it look really easy. To this day she swears she's not an artist but I think it's because she's either ridiculously humble or she just thinks people that call themselves artists are pretentious idiots. I'll never know. But man, she's good. I really don't want to say anything even jokingly bad about my mom. But she really is probably the most trusting person in the world. And I say trusting instead of gullible because it's not as rude. Maybe it's the Provo upbringing or just the wishful assumptions that her kids wouldn't grow up to be jerks, but I could say anything to my mom and as long as I kept a straight face, she would believe it. No matter how ridiculous or impossible it is, she would just buy it. Sometimes even after I start laughing about it. And then I feel bad enough not to do it for a couple weeks. Also, in high school I bought the Chili Peppers cd "One Hot Minute". Mom used to always want to read my cd covers to see how obscene they were. I ended up having to pay for Tool's Aenema like 3 times because it was before MP3s were invented. But she's looking at the back and she just stops and looks at me with the most disgusted look saying "Pea, Jim? Pea?" And to this day I don't know what part of that question was funnier. The fact that she mistook pea for pee? The fact that she thought pee was the most obscene word in the English language anyway? The fact that the whole CD was riddled with the F-word but she couldn't get past Pea? I'll never know. But that's one of the many reasons I love my mom. She is the best.