Runaway October

What is your ideal age?

For what? Cheese? Myself? I dunno. Really age is just a number - life is more about reaching a certain point of wisdom and common sense before you get old and crotchity. Seriously. There’s a point where the rise of one meets the fall of the other and I never want to go past it.

What is your best excuse for being late?

I usually blame it on Matt. He’s horrible with times. I swear it takes him twice as long to shower and the hair on his head is only inches long. It takes a good five minutes just to detangle my mane. If I don’t blame it on Matt I usually use the kids or traffic. Pretty unoriginal.

If you had to give yourself a nickname what would it be?

I dunno. I’d want a cool one. I once thought about ‘Z’, but I wouldn’t want to go to Canada and be called Zed. That’s the old wizard from The Sword of Truth series.

You have accomplished a difficult task and hear someone else taking the credit. How do you deal with the situation?

Truthfully it depends on the task. If Matt claims to fold those previously mentioned 17 loads of laundry… oh well. Actually, it depends on how much of a brat I feel like being. If it’s not something huge like inventing a pollution-free renewable power source then there’s really not much to fight about.

If you had to marry someone that you presently know unromantically, and spend the rest of your life as their spouse, who would you choose?

Can it be a girl, because I would so marry Nicky. Period. She completes me.

If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are living now?

Absolutely. I’d only have one year to make to huge impression on my children and family. I’d need to become the persons that I want them to become, but I’d have to do it almost overnight. I’d need to make financial changes as well, so no one is strapped with my debt after I’m gone. I have a long list of things I’d like to do before shuffling off this mortal coil, but these two things come first.

If you knew that every minute of the next 24 hours of your life would be recorded on camera is there anything you would change about your habits?

Well, I’d probably stop picking my nose… No just kidding. Maybe. I might try to kinda spice things up since my life is pretty boring and repetitious. Maybe throw together a flambe’ for the kids’ breakfast and wear fishnets? I’d be more concious about how frizzy my hair is. It’s gotten kinda uncontrollable lately. Oh and not so much cussing under my breath. Cameras catch that kinda stuff don’t they?

If you could take a one-month trip to any single destination in the world and money is not a consideration, where would you go?

Wow, I really never planned that far ahead. There’s many single destinations I’d love to go, but for a month? Possibly Dublin or Prague or Madrid - ya know, the bigger places that had a months worth of stuff to do. Or a nice little cottage in the middle of nowhere with green as far as the eye can see and a median temperature of about 70.

What is the best example of “perfection” that you can think of?

Breastmilk and breastfeeding. Seriously. Name me one other substance that is so incredibly powerful that it alone can triple a person’s size, in a healthy way, while nourishing the brain and promoting emotional growth and tactile stimulus.

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Who is the black sheep in your family/group?

I think it would probably be me, honestly. You do really stupid things when you’re young without thinking about the effect it has on others. I don’t talk to much of my family now, and when I do I always feel an underlying tension. Maybe that’s all in my head though.

If you were a character from a book, what character would you be?

Hmm… Any book? That’s alot to choose from. For some reason Alice from Alice in Wonderland popped up first - Maybe because I’m lost and confused alot. If I could choose the character, maybe one of the elves from Tolkien’s World?

What’s your favorite accent?

I love just about any accent, except for Spanish ones but I think that’s because I hear it alot here in Arizona. I especially melt over Irish, British and Australian. Canadian accents are very nice too.

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What’s your favorite thing to spend money on?

The Boys, or craft supplies. It’s so much easier to shop for clothes for people that wear a “normal” size. Shopping for me is a depressing, sweaty experience. I also love to see it when they liked something I picked out, but hey that’s a great feeling. As for craft supplies it’s a double edged sword. I love to shop, so I feel like I’m not totally blowing money, but on the other hand my projects are lowest priority in my house, so sometimes the $100 of fabric I had to have just collects dust.

I also love to shop for decor, but it’s also another low priority to the “decor-ally challenged” boys in my house and the AWESOME vase I found just doesn’t flow with the finger smudges, tape measures and dinosaurs that the boys proudly display.

If you could retire tomorrow what would you do?

It depends on what you mean by retire. If it meant that I no longer had to conform to the demands and schedules set by the kids, then I think I’d travel and try and hone my meager photography skills. There are so many amazing places I’d like to see and experience.

If you mean retire by no longer doing daycare, well, then it would be exactly the same thing tomorrow just one or two less PB&Js to make.

Should anything be censored and if so, what and why?

For adults I don’t see any reason to. Make the decision yourself, don’t let someone else decide what you can and can’t see/hear/experience/etc.

For children, yes. I had my tragus pierced yesterday and during the procedure a comment was made regarding a Deathproof movie poster in the room. I said I had tried to watch it, but when the movie finally picked up (it’s one of those horrid Tarantino movies that are so slow to get started) it was just too hard to try and explain to a 2 year old why the girl wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and promptly had her skull obliterated because of it. There are just some things that a child doesn’t have the… experience(?) to comprehend, though I firmly believe that children are smarter than we are by far.