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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Interview With A Blogger

The lovely Erica had this on her site... She had been interviewed by a fellow blogger, and offered to interview others. I signed up. Who doesn't want to be famous and have an interview? Want to pretend you're famous? Leave me a comment and I'll come up with a 5-question interview for you too!

1. What is your favourite holiday and why?

Mmm, Halloween. For one thing, it's during my very favorite season, fall. I love the colors involved, everything all earth tones, oranges and browns and blacks. I love bats and skulls and all sorts of gothic silliness. If I had to pick a tree to live in for the rest of my life, it would be the one with the pumpkin that leads to Halloween Town. (Don't know what that means? Go rent Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas. Now.)

2. You are a successful talkshow host, and you get to interview your ONE favourite celebrity. Who is it, and what do you ask?

Oh dear. I'd almost like to interview James Lipton, just because. That aside, Probably Neil Gaiman. I would ask him all sorts of things about the Sandman graphic novels, the movie he worked on, MirrorMask, and the upcoming Stardust film. I would also ask him if he's ever had any thoughts of remaking NeverWhere into a feature film, and ask him several insightful questions about the book itself. (I'd be a crap interviewer, though. I get all stumbly around new people in general, I can't even imagine getting to meet or interview someone about whom I am so 'starstruck'! I'd make an ass of myself, I just know it.)

3. What colour is your toothbrush and would you ever consider switching it to a different colour?

It's purple. I would consider green, but I'm more likely to stick with purple.

4. What frightens you the most, and why?

I have a version of claustrophobia. I'm not sure what the technical term is, I just say I'm 'crowdophobic'. I have a relatively overwhelming and semi-irrational fear of crowds; more specifically, being trapped in the middle of them. Last time this fear came up was maybe 5 or 6 years ago. I had gone to the Crystal Mall(you remember, the one in Waterford, CT)on the day after Christmas with my ex, Nick, so he could return some video game or something. The mall was so crowded that the stores had lines of customers clear into the common mall area, and there were wall to wall people everywhere. You couldn't move at all without inadvertently touching at least 3 people. I panicked, started hyperventilating, and almost blacked out. I had to commandeer a bench to sit on while Nick finished what he had to do, and then escorted me out. I'm not sure I can explain exactly why this happens, I'm just glad I know how to avoid it and that it happens very infrequently.

5. What do you want to have accomplished before you die?

Marry the man of my dreams... Oh, wait, that's happening in 2 months, so we'll call that done. Apart from living out my days happily with him, my main goal is to own my own small photographic portrait studio, geared toward adult/boudoir and fetish portraiture. I would like to own a nice house with some property near the mountains. And I want to raise some doggies. Specifically, we want at least 2 rottweilers, and one small dog of yet undetermined breed to kick around the house(not literally). Mostly, though, I would just like to live a good life, making my soul mate, friends and family happy, and bringing people joy by making photographs that bring out their own unique beauty.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Updates & More

I'm cultivating a budding friendship with my UPS man. He's been at my door, waking me up, several times in the past couple of weeks. He feels bad waking me, but when I told him it's all stuff for my upcoming wedding and not to feel bad at all, he understood and promised to knock plenty loud when he comes by so I don't miss anything. So far, everything is going smoothly. I had gotten my dress a couple weeks ago, and was thrilled with it, except it was a little big, and the color was my second choice, burgundy. See it's a kind of over-dress thing with a corset and skirt split down the front, so you can see the full skirt that goes underneath. I thought these 2 parts were attached, but it turned out they weren't. That was the only reason I had gotten the burgundy, because the forest green had a weird yellow underskirt that I hated, while the burgundy in the picture had a basic black underskirt. So I called and asked, and boy am I glad I did! I ended up sending back the burgundy corset/overdress, and keeping the black underskirt, then just the other day I got back the forest green dress, one size smaller, and it is so far beyond perfect, I can't even tell you how freaking happy I am!! This dress does amazing things to my boobs! Yay!

Let's see, what else has shown up this week... Ah, the rings! We ordered our wedding rings, finally! They both got here this week, and they're gorgeous. Mine fits beautifully, and I'm having a hard time taking it off each time I try it on. Not because of the fit, just because I can't wait to be wearing it all the time! Mr.M's is gorgeous too, but he's never in his entire life worn a ring before, so we're going to have to see how that goes. He promises to stick with wearing it until the annoying phase passes, you know, when you glance down, "What the hell is on my finger... ohhh, right." Heh. Boys.

I also got a candy shipment, with all the candy that will be going into the favors. That's part one of the favors down, part two is another internet order, and part 3 involves a trip to the crafty store. Whee, crafty store!

So there really isn't all that much left to do... I have to take the dress somewhere for alteration(all that needs to be done is shortening the hem on the dress and the skirt! Everything else is perfect!). I'm ordering my shoes on the web, from the same site where I'm getting the other internet component of the wedding favors. They're Simple MaryJane style shoes, those chinese shoes with the little silver buckle, but they come in forest green velvet! Oooooh! *giggle* Let's see, what else... ahh, the wedding "cake" debacle. I've never been that big a cake person to begin with, and Mr.M doesn't care what we have, as long as I promise not to try and shove "wedding pie" in his face, heh! What I'm thinking is since the entire food thing at the reception is buffet-style, maybe getting 1 or 2 trays of nice desserts from a real bakery(vs.WalMart or the grocery store). Maybe a big tray of desserts, and a really small cake for the symbolism or whatever. Anybody have any ideas/favorites to suggest? I'm thinking about going and hitting a couple bakeries/cake joints on Monday next week to see what can be done. Along with seeing the seamstress on the corner near my place. Actually, that doesn't have to be done Monday, the dress bit; I'm more hoping that I can talk my friend into going with me to help me in and out of the dress!

Random non-wedding things that make me happy:

1) Pandora internet radio. This is the coolest thing ever, it's free, and brilliant! It has much soothed me in my time of lost music due to crap hard drives. www.pandora.com - seriously, check it out, you build your own radio station, and they play the stuff you like and also play random other things that are similar. If you don't like a song, just click on the thumbs-down and they won't play it anymore. Sick of a song? With just a click, they'll stop playing the song for a month, then play it again. Want to know about the artist, the song, or the album? Another click, and a new page opens with a ton of info! I already have, I think, 6 different radio stations, and you can add as many artists as you like to each station to define the 'genre' of your station. I think you can also do completely random stations, but I haven't tried that.

2) T.G.I. Friday's Cheese Quesadilla Snack Chips. They're horribly unhealthy. Eat them anyway. They're yummy. Perfect with Mountain Dew.

3) This silly little flash game I found. There's pretty balloons, a monkey throwing darts, and all sorts of nifty power-ups and hindrances. Watch out for those ice balloons! Something about this game makes me keep playing. I think it's the satisfying little 'pops' as each balloon bursts. Yeah, I'm dumb, so what. Wanna fight?

4) Any Neil Gaiman lovers out there, if you don't already know, the movie for his book Stardust is coming out on August 10th this year!! I can't wait!!

Love to everyone, and until next time... Enjoy this fun video! (adult content, don't watch around the kiddies!)

Currently Reading : The Deus Machine: A Novel By Pierre Ouellette Release date: By 18 January, 1994