Interview time!

If you haven't seen this going around, let me explain. Someone interviews you, you in turn answer the questions in your journal, then you allow others to ask to be interviewed and they go to post their responses to your questions in their journals, and on and on.

So it begins. From pigri:

1- amy or emily?

Tough one. I think the answer is that I always want t like Emily more, but I end up enjoying Amy's stuff more, in actuality.

2- what is your favorite U.S. city?

Easy. San Francisco.

3- do you believe in soulmates?

I do. But I know that most of us aren't actually lucky enough to find their's in the lifetime we're given.

4- what do you collect?

Stitching supplies and yarns. Those squashed pennies you get at tourist traps.

5- have you ever regularly watched a daytime soap opera?

Yes. Capitol (junior high), Santa Barbara (juniour high and HS), Days of our Lives (spottily through college)

Leave me a comment if you want me to interview you.

This morning

Woke up the first time around 7:15 to hear Widget singing to herself in the crib. Stuffed my head under the pillow in a desperate attempt to drown her out and catch a few more minutes sleep.

Pull my head back out from the pillow around 8:00, to hear a little sing-songy voice asking "Mommy, Where AAAAARE you?".

Giggle heartily for about 5 minutes, then roll out of bed to retrieve the Widget.

Interview No. 2

These would be from cider

1 - If you had the opportunity to either go up in a hot air balloon or going scuba diving, which would you choose?

I think scuba diving. I love the idea of hot air ballooning far more, but heights have started to make me terribly dizzy, and I'm afraid I wouldn't enjoy it. But I'd still probably do it.

2 - What was your favorite cereal growing up?

Hmmmm. I'm not sure I can remember. Probably Golden Grahams, because it was the closest we got to a sugary cereal in my house.

3 - Describe one of your most memorable family get-togethers.

Wow. This is sad, but I cannot think of a memorable family get-together. Memorable trips, maybe, but not get togethers. We're a pretty boring lot, I guess.

4 - What was the name of your first pet, and what type of animal was it?

The first pet I actually liked? (I refuse to count the cat my parents had before I was born, with whom I shared a mutual dislike) The dog we got when I was 5 or 6 - a sidewalk setter named Missy. She was a sweetheart. The first pet I actually owned myself was an awesome Teddy Bear hampster named Tarzan. He liked to climb accross the top of his cage, hanging by his teeth (hence the name).

5 - Were you grounded as a teenager? If so, describe one of the reasons behind the grounding.

Heh. Countless times, usually not for more than a day or two. There were three that were notable though:
1. The summer before my freshman year I had a boyfriend I wasn't supposed to have. We were off hanging out together, and the friend who was my cover story called my house looking for me (Thanks, Becky) Needless to say, when I diddly-bopped home two hours later, my parents were fuming.

2. The next summer, my sister and I decided it would be a good idea to go parking with some boys. And it wasn't a BAD idea until the cops showed up. Both of us? Under 16. I had to give the cops my Catholic School high school ID. Oh yeah.

3. I don't even remember why, but I got into one HELL of a fight with my mom - like, smacking each other around the kitchen kind of fight. I was grounded for a loooong time after that.


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Mermil's interview

1. Why do you call your li'l sprout Widget?
Because all (most) TIM babies get "online" names. Sometimes it's based on their parent's names, sometimes it's just made up. We hadn't come up with anything good, and one day smurfbrother asked me "when the widget" was due. I liked it, and it because her online name.

2. How do you know pantsie?
Through TinyTim (see tinytim. She's better freinds with some of my good friends than we are friends between us, but I'd say she's the epitome of "people I wish I knew better than I do".

3. What's your favorite store in the world?
Can I choose two? Sephora, because I adore going around and trying out all the wacky makeup that's out there. I almost never buy anything though. More obscurely, I love Nordic Needle in Fargo ND. Simply the largest, most well stocked and friendly stitching store I have even been in. Thier annual catalog stays in my browsing pile for months and months.

4. What's your user name mean?
Absolutely nothing. I could NOT find a unique username to work with AIM, so I just started typing seven letter combinations until I found something I liked enough to use.

5. Comedy or drama?
Drama

Interview number 3. Or is it 4?

These came from pantsie

1. If money grew on trees in your backyard, what far away place would you want to visit and why?
If Europe counts as "far away" then Italy. I'd love to take months to travel around the whole of the country, from the cities to the small places. I'm fascinated by the history, the art, the culture, and enchanted by the food. If that's not far enough away, then I'd pick Australia - it seems so similar and so different from the US at the same time, and full of interesting things I won't find anywhere else.

2. If you could have a never-ending supply of any product on the market today, what product would you choose?
Thread Gatherer Silk N' Colors thread - it's a hand dyed, varigated Silk embroidery floss that I ADORE. I could use it every day for the rest of my life and not run out of projects to do with it. At $6.00/skein, I can't buy very much of it.

3. Let's say you were on Jeopardy!. Let's say you had the ability to choose what the "Final Jeopardy" category would be. From which category would you choose to answer a question?
Probably something to do with words. I good at words.

4. What value of yours and Wiley's would you most want your daughter to appreciate when it comes time for her to start her own life as an adult?
An ability to amuse herself. I don't know if that counts as a "value", but it's something that has served me well, and a lack of it drives me bonkers in other people - I wasn't put on this earth to entertain other people.

5. If you could have a theme song in the "Soundtrack of Your Life", what would that theme song be?
Probably "Hammer and a Nail" by Indigo Girls. Its message is one I try to remember, and don't manage to often enough. My alter ego informs me that it should be "Wild Side", by Motlet Crue.

Interview # 5

Asked by misfitina

1. Where do you see yourself this time next year/what would you like to accomplish?
If all goes according to plan, next year, I'll be halfway through getting my Masters of Library Science at URI, and hopefully have found a paying intership at one of the many papers in Boston to gain the experience I'll need to get a job. Maybe looking around at a wider geographical range for places to job hunt and move to. Boston's beginning to lose its charm for me.

2. What is your favorite peice of jewelry?
I think my tongue stud wins here... mostly because it's fun to fidget with (and I'm an incurable fidget), and because people don't expect me t have one, and it surprises them. A close second would be my wedding set, because it's fairly unique and very *me*

3. If you could save the Mona Lisa or the Magna Charta in a fire, which would you and why?
Mona Lisa. I chose that because what's important about the Magna Charta is the words of it, and the ideas that they express. Even if the original burned, we have its words reproduced elsewhere, and the ideas that it embodies are already embedded in our culture, whereas with the Mona Lisa, the opposite is true - that seeing the original is what matters, and reproductions don't do it justice (or so I've heard). I certainly think the Magna Charta is more important, but the loss of the original would be less of a loss.

4. What social ill would you like to see be ended?
Poverty (does that count?). So much of the rest of the ills (hunger, homelessness, some of the racism, etc) stems from people simply not having enough to live on. If everyone had enough mone to meet their basic needs, I think we'd all be better off.

5. Which monster is the most terrifying and why?
The voice inside your own head that whispers that you're not good/smart/pretty/whatever enough. It's certainly the only one that has ever affected me.