Interview Meme…

April 24, 2007 /

Interview

Here’s a complicated kind of meme that I got from Ms. Mamma. It’s an interview, where she emailed me the questions, and now I have to answer them. What a lot of work, coming up with different questions for each person! WOW!

1. You excel at so many things-writing, cooking, parenting. What is your greatest unrealized passion or what would you be doing now if you could pick anything you wanted? You have the knowledge, funds and other resources at your fingertips and the support of your family.

I’m blushing at the compliment at the beginning there…whew. OK, if I could pick anything in the world to do, and have the ability to do it? I’m going to say I would become a painter. I have no talent in this realm at all, but in my fantasy world, I would make beautiful works of art, some tranquil, some edgy, and people would clamor to have them on their walls. I might also be pretty darned good at the piano, though again, I don’t know how to play, so it’s a fantasy land I’m living in. Just skills that I truly admire, I guess.

2.You can’t believe it(ha ha), but you’ve been invited to Wisconsin for a free all expense paid vacation hosted by me, MsMamma. Would you A.) go to a Packer Game at Lambeau Field B.) take a whirlwind tour of the award winning artisan dairies and a few winerys C.) Visit the Milwaukee Public Art Museum designed by Santiago Calatrava?

Oh, the Public Art Museum, no question. I might have to request a dairy or two on the way there or back, since Wisconsin is known for their cheese, but honestly we did that in Holland many years ago, and, um, yawn.

3. We all know the pangs of being a woman. Cramps can be devastating. Imagine you got hit by a car and could be saved only by a special operation. The operation would give you a normal, happy life, but would unfortunately cause you fifteen minutes of terrible, stabbing pain every morning when you awoke and right before you go to bed. Would you want to have the operation?

15 minutes of pain every morning and every night? No problem. Hell, I gave birth with no drugs, I could handle that no problem! Nagging pain all day, that debilitated me, that might be another matter altogether.

4. You’re making a special meal for Maya the night before she goes away to college. What do you make?

That’s easy…crispy chicken, mashed potatoes, and broccoli. Why? Because it’s her favorite meal ever. The recipe for crispy chicken? It’s on the back of the box of Ranch Dressing mix. Mmmm. Of course, if her tastes change before then, or if she goes back to being a vegetarian, we’ll have to change things, but as is, that’s the dinner. Oh, and we have a pretty groovy bottle of 1996 Maya put away…we might pull that out, to go with the chicken.

5. What is your favorite beauty product of all time and why?

Hairspray. I’m sorry, it’s so boring and suburban, but my hair is naturally just flat flat flat. I think I could have had an altogether different high school experience had I just known about Shaper Hairspray back then. (OK, a different high school experience based on my hair? Doubtful…but still, I live on the stuff!)
Here are the rules, if you would like to be interviewed:

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”

2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.

3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.

4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

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