Runaway October

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 flambé’ 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 décor, but it’s also another low pri­or­ity to the “décor-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.

You find that your best friend has stolen money to pay for med­ical treat­ment for a seri­ously ill rel­a­tive. What would you do?

Hmm… I guess it depends on how much money it was, who their rel­a­tive was and what I needed the money for. If they’re starv­ing my kids to help pay for a heart trans­plant that will likely fail in a 94 year old grandma then I’d raise some seri­ous hell. I also have a very low tol­er­ance for peo­ple that steal from fam­ily and friends — that’s just super lame.

What three things you regret not learn­ing to do?

I still, hope­fully, have a lot of time left in my life to do all the things I still wish to do. I regret that I didn’t learn more things when I was younger because it would have been so much eas­ier then.

I cur­rently regret not learn­ing how to become inde­pen­dently wealthy by 20 though. I also regret not learn­ing how to play gui­tar, or speak in front of large crowds.

How did you cel­e­brate your last birthday?

We were pretty much broke, so we just hung out and did what we do when we’re broke — watch TV and dream of eat­ing an Out­back PrimeRib. {drool} I’ve never been big on doing things for my birth­day. It’s so close to Xmas and really, it’s just another day.

What’s the last thing you bought your­self, just for fun?

I found the cutest fab­ric yes­ter­day at Wal­Fart for a dol­lar a yard. I had to have it, and knew instantly what I am going to make out of it. Or the “Spank Me, I’m Irish” but­ton I picked up to wear at our St Paddy’s Day Bash. I buy a lot more stuff for the boys “just because” though.

What would the child you once were think of the adult you have become?

Prob­a­bly that I’m fat and pretty dang bor­ing. I always pic­tured myself as a tall, slim, beau­ti­ful, edu­cated and jet­set­ting. While I’m no dumby the other 4 I fail hor­ri­bly at. Spon­tane­ity at 14 was wear­ing a Burger King crown at 1am and run­ning through the sprin­klers of a deserted golf course. Spon­tane­ity at 25 is adding a lit­tle Louisiana Hot Sauce to your mashed pota­toes. I wouldn’t change my cur­rent place in life for any­thing, but my 25 year old self would have some stern words with my 14 year old self.