The Great Interview Experiment

Neil at Citzen of the Month had this fabulous idea, that everybody is somebody and should be interviewed. This was in response to how there are “famous bloggers” who get all sorts of fame and fortune, but they’re essentially doing the same thing as the rest of us. Just writing about stuff on the Internets. Hence, The Great interview Experiment began. In the comments of that post, you left a comment and pledged to interview the person who commented after you. Hundreds of bloggers have signed up and it’s still going. I commented after this guy who never contacted me, even after I emailed him and asked him what was up. Boo! I interviewed Rachel and her interview is here. After I whined to her about how my guy dropped the ball, she kindly offered to interview me instead. Then I was a slacker and didn’t finish it until 2 months later. Better late than never, RIGHT, LAME GUY?

Why did you begin to blog?

I don’t have a deep reason for starting to blog. Really, I was just reading a lot of blogs, and Blogger wouldn’t let you leave a comment unless you started one. I had a really boring job at the time, and lots of time online, so I was like, ah what the hell. Now, though, I love having a bit of a creative outlet, and the historian in me likes the forum for documenting adventures and such. I also love the little online community blogging creates and how I’ve met so many people I otherwise wouldn’t have, and that I’m keeping in touch with folks far away.

Who do you write for?

I sort of already answered that, I guess. For me, mostly. But I like for my blog to be accessible for anyone stumbling across it, as well as friends and family. I like to share Tacoma things and Pacific Northwest-y things with my Imaginary Internet Friends. I like to read that kind of stuff on other people’s blogs, to learn about their little corners of the world. 

What are your favorite posts?

Hmm. That’s hard. I like my travel posts a lot, like this one about the scary gondola ride in Hong Kong or this one from our Mayan ruin adventure in Belize. It’s also nice when I share something embarrassing and y’all have my back, like this one from a bad day at yoga, (I just realized this was before I lost all my comments when I switched to WordPress. You were really nice, though!) or this one from when I got poo on my purse. I don’t know! That’s a hard question. It’s like, “Let’s see! When was I most witty and entertaining?” I suppose I asked Rachel that in her interview though, so I should shut it.

Name three weird things about yourself.

I did a meme about my weird things once, and my IRL friends are still teasing/secretly admiring me about my Sunday Night Clothing Habit. I hesitate to own up to other anal-retentive activities. Well, here’s one. I keep a lot of logs. I keep a work out log. I can tell you how much and which kind of exercise I’ve done each day over the past 3 years or so. I do it to make myself feel good, or feel like a slacker, depending on how I’m doing. I also log my gas mileage. (I know! So nerdy!) I can tell you that I’ve gotten better at driving my Prius and maximizing her potential. At first I was averaging *only* about 47 or 48 miles per gallon, but now I’m getting between 50 and 53. Booyah! Because of my careful logging, I can also tell you that when I bought the car in October of last year, it was about $27 to fill up and now its $39.

Another weird thing, I wake up with what I call “hot guts”. AS SOON as I get up, I MUST guzzle a cool glass of water, followed by a glass of orange juice, and then my “fruit cycle”.

I am very picky about pens. I know that’s not too weird, everyone is particular about pens. But I hate writing with black pens. This is lame because all free pens (and we get a lot of cool ones from SB’s mom who is an NP) are always black. I also hate pens that are too wet that bleed through the paper.  My very favorite pen? These old school Bics.

Who is on your list of celebrity crushes?

George – so smooth! so classy!

Matty – I don’t know. He had me at Jason Bourne. And those forearms!

Jakey-poo – Oh, those sensitive eyes. And again, with the forearms. 

Eric Bana – um, he’s just beautiful.

Adam Levine – hot and sexy. love his music.

Alex Rodriguez – for old time’s sake. When he was a Mariner, a friend and I literally stalked him.

What is your drink of choice?

If we’re talking non-alcoholic, I love sparkling water. It is my all-the-time beverage of choice. For booziness, I’m a beer gal these days. I only started drinking beer at 30, and now it seems to be the only alcohol that doesn’t make me want to DIE in the morning. Oh, red wine, how I miss you. Vodka, tequila, we had our good times, why have you forsaken me?

Tell me an embarassing story.

That’s a hard one. I write about all my embarrassing things on the blog now. It diffuses them, somehow. Anything else embarrassing I can think of are highschool stories that were of course TRAGIC at the time but now, I’m like, meh.  Here are a few I’ve written about here: Private Bathroom Behavior and an extremely poor choice of words.

If you could go anywhere in the world that you have not been, where would it be and why? 

South America. All over. Peru! Machu Pichu! Buenos Aires! Chile! The Galapogos! Argentina! Paraguay! (I know where you are) Why? Because, damn! There’s so much to see and do and for some odd reason, I’ve never been down there. I speak Spanish for godssakes. Yes, I know, that won’t do everywhere, but it’s a good start.

British or American version of The Office?

Brittish. I’ve only seen the first two seasons of the American one, though. 

What would you do if you won the lottery tomorrow?

Quit my job, pay off debt, take a long tropical adventure and pay to bring whomever could join me, then come home and figure out how to invest what was left so that I could coast on it as long as possible. Oh, and give some to Planned Parenthood, the NRDC, and something local.

If you made it through this whole thing, you are a dear, dear friend. Here is a bright shiny medal for you: