tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-754792634761495642024-02-18T22:19:15.566-07:00Lullabies To TerrorizeMama never said there'd be days like these...Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.comBlogger386125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-16735690772678847652012-07-23T20:06:00.002-07:002012-07-23T20:06:35.019-07:00Something old, something new Well, I went ahead and did it- I made a new blog. I don't think I'll fully leave this one behind but I am transitioning into a newer era. If you like to follow me over there I can now be found over at -<br />
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I'm excited to see where this goes.<br />
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Much love,<br />
Amanda<br />
<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-29528199117688066172012-07-05T23:52:00.001-07:002012-07-05T23:52:10.930-07:00Friday Fondue It would seem our monsoon season is kicking in early around here which means yesterday I was stuck inside for a bit, cruising the web while the rain let itself be known. I brewed some Earl Grey, put on Bob Dylan and searched Craigslist for houses to rent in Seattle. Because I FUCKING LOVE RAIN. I have no plans on moving to Seattle (yet) but the rain made me so happy I thought "screw it, I'm gonna fantasize about living in this all the time". Anyway, here's some links-<br />
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Need an instant pick me up giggle? <a href="http://whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/">Try this site</a>.<br />
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Pretty tasty looking <a href="http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-roasted-6-26905?utm_campaign=topblock&utm_medium=web&utm_source=thekitchn-recipe">summer dish</a>. And the fist time I legitimately contemplated making<a href="http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-chocolate-chess-pie-141462?utm_campaign=topblock&utm_medium=web&utm_source=thekitchn-recipe"> a pie</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=22964035">This bag</a> made me go apeshit.<br />
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One day I WILL attend the<a href="http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/post/6977794737/the-jazz-age"> Governors Island Jazz Age Lawn Fest</a>.<br />
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Some amazing collections of photos going on over <a href="http://www.theseamericans.com/">here</a>.<br />
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I am swooning over <a href="http://tucson.craigslist.org/fud/3100865115.html">this credenza</a> that's tucked away at an antique store near me. I mean...ugh. It should be mine. I'd give it the love it needs.<br />
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I want to move to Seattle so I can dress <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/54535845458293909/">like this </a>all the time.<br />
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As far as music-<br />
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I've pretty much been listening to Beach House non-stop. Specifically-<br />
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They are coming to the Ol' Pueblo in September and if by some cruel design I am unable to see them I will revolt.<br />
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Hope your weekend is of the happy sort!<br />
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<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-72502125093228739542012-07-03T01:07:00.001-07:002012-07-03T01:14:15.936-07:00Summer skin We finally find the nerve to venture outside and take him to the park, as promised. The heat pulls out all of your energy and leaves you limp, skin salty and depleted. The desert has no use for grand plans. It is mere survival and you bend to it or adapt. But now the sun has lost it's bite and the sky is replaced with the inklings of our annual desert monsoon and so we go.<br />
The grass is cooling down enough to where taking off your shoes is desirable. I shed them as cicadas buzz loudly enough to penetrate your skull. It is a buzz that sounds primitive. They let their song ring and remain invisible to passing eyes. We march onward to a large sprawl of grass to live in for the next hour.<br />
I have fought the summers arrival every year, this year more than ever. I am depleted and the harshness that desert living can bring is more than just symbolic. It is a reality.<br />
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I am watching my son grow. I am watching myself grow. I am watching a love grow. And so things are shedding all around and a new picture is forming.<br />
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Me- No you don't. I wanna marry you. I wanna have two kids with you. Which is two more than I wanted. I wanna be grouchy on a porch with you and grow old there. I wanna pick out affordable Swedish furniture with you. I wanna get invited to a dinner party with you and then go get burgers afterward, because I know how we are. </div>
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And there you have it. Romance, just like Shakespeare wrote it.<br />
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I'm not quite ready to quit blogging, but I am in desperate need of a change. A new layout, a new site, a new...something. I started this blog over three years ago and I feel like too much has changed to keep the same thing going. I've grown out of this old shirt. I want to adopt a more defined style while still maintaining some of the old stuff.<br />
Over the next couple months I think I'll be trying to start up something new. Hopefully, those of you who have followed along will hang in there with me.<br />
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I don't even know if anybody reads this thing anymore anyway.Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-13684349293915400342012-06-21T23:39:00.000-07:002012-06-21T23:39:47.024-07:00In Which I Admire Him<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-43623635790456000102012-06-14T21:39:00.000-07:002012-06-15T11:48:14.154-07:00I am a blogger, therefore I InstagrAM<br />
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The reasons for my absence-<br />
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1. A Big, Big Love<br />
Zack and I have been together for an admittedly short period of time but it has been an all consuming, inseparable, deeply happy period of time nonetheless. I can safely say that what has become is something that I had never anticipated in a million years, ESPECIALLY after the last few. There have been two times when love has been defined in my life- the first was when I looked at Jack for the first time. And this.<br />
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2. The D-Word<br />
Greg finally met him before Zack, Jack and I departed for a week long vacation up to Sacramento to see my not-so-little-anymore brother graduate high school. It went smoothly and as we departed I got the text-<br />
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"I like Zack. He's a good guy. Have a safe trip!"<br />
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There are moments when I feel guilty. Shouldn't divorce be hard? Shouldn't both of us be filled with resentment and cattiness? Shouldn't it be soul crushing to walk into a city building and take a number to process the papers that will sever what everybody assumed would be a forever union?<br />
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Last week Greg and I walked into the superior court's building and conducted ourselves with more jubilance than an ex-couple signing away their marriage probably should have. The office people even seemed perplexed. But page by page we made our way through the red-tape and the only twinge of melancholy I felt was over the fact that at the window right next to us, a young, fresh faced couple who couldn't have been more than 20 years old, signed their marriage license as we went from Man and Wife to Plaintiff and Defendant.<br />
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It was surreal. It was a testament to how the universe keeps moving. One thing ends, another begins.<br />
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We walked back out into the Tucson heat, talking about Jack-isms and our new significant others and what we hope the future will hold.<br />
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3. Jack<br />
Jack has been thriving. He rarely throws a tantrum or is disagreeable and just wants to have a good time. He sings Queen songs like a mad man and seems to understand the difference in our lives now. It never gets easier watching him grow up, no longer my baby, not even my toddler, but I can say it is endlessly fascinating. Watching him grow these emotions and thoughts on his own and relating them in the world leaves me in a proud silence. I sit back and marvel over what an easy child he is. How effortless it has been to parent him. I lucked out.<br />
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4. I am-<br />
* Currently looking for a job in a shitty economy and becoming increasingly uncomfortably frustrated over It All.<br />
* Reading a great book on the last burlesque queens.<br />
* Lamenting the heat every five minutes and fantasizing about Seattle (which I will be back in in November!)<br />
* Telling my baby fevered uterus and brain to STFU every five minutes. Thank god for IUDs and common sense.<br />
* Trying to figure out what it is I REALLY want to do. Because I want to do it NOW. And I want to create the future I envisioned for myself and my little family instead of just sitting on the What If's and Maybe When's. I feel as though I have come full force into adulthood. No longer chasing down pipe dreams and becoming more comfortable with myself to be able to actually talk frankly to myself instead of filling my head with platitudes.<br />
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And that's about it, for now.<br />
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-weight: bold;">What makes someone a best friend?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">The ability to bare your soul to that person and feel safe, a sense of humor, and an adept hand at cocktail making. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>What Christmas (or Hanukkah) present do you remember the most?</b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"> </span>When my parents finally buckled and got me my dog, Max. I had wanted nothing but a puppy for YEARS. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Tell me about a movie/song/tv show/play/book that has changed your life.</b> </span>I can't exactly name ONE song, but I know Bright Eyes has played a large role in my life and has serenaded some very special moments. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Name one physical feature that you like about yourself, and one you dislike.</b> I like my legs, I dislike my tummy. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Would you like to reconnect with any friends you’ve lost contact with?</b> I'm not too sure. I think I have the friends I value the most in my life right now as it is. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>What’s more important in a relationship: physical attraction or emotional connection? </b>Emotional connection. Although physical attraction is kind of important too </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Name a movie that you knew would be terrible just from reading the title.</b> </span>Any movie that has been on the Lifetime channel. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>What holiday do you most look forward to?</b> </span>Halloween. I like making costumes and I like scary movies. For me it's the holiday with the least amount of pressure too. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>How is the relationship between you and your parents?</b> </span>My mom and I are total goofs. My dad and I have butted heads due to being very similar and very emotional people. We have had periods of off and on estrangement. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>You’ve got the TV on, but you’re not really watching. What channel is the TV on?</b> </span>Usually I just stream a movie from Netflix. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Name a song that never fails to make you happy.</b> </span>"Foolin'" by Devendra Banhart</li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qi3AIrBSDLg" width="420"></iframe></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> ALSO! The Pixies are one of my favorite bands and this cover by another band I adore makes me so happy. I think I literally squealed with sheer delight when I first heard it.-</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/D1k6dD3WAP0" width="420"></iframe></li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>You know at least one person named Michael. Tell me about him.</b> </span>My uncle Mike! One of the funniest people I have ever known. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Have you ever read the “missed connections” on Craigslist? Have you ever posted one, or wanted to? </b>I read them here and there for shits and gigs. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>If you could pick anywhere to live the rest of your life, where would it be?</b> </span>As much as I can get annoyed with Tucson I do see myself having my roots here. Although, I do have to admit the idea of moving to Seattle does kind of entice me. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Can money buy happiness?</b> </span>No, but it can take the pressure off which can make things easier. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Do you drink? Smoke? Do drugs? Why, or why not?</b> </span>I drink on occasion. I smoke on occasion. I don't do drugs. Why? I am human (regarding the smoking and drinking). </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Is there anyone close to you that you know you can’t trust? You don’t have to give names.</b> </span>No. I am pretty picky about who I keep in my life. If I get the sense that I can't trust somebody they are not a part of my life, period. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Where was your favorite place to go when you were a little kid?</b> </span>My grandparent's house in Show Low, AZ. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Have you ever spent a night in the hospital?</b> </span>Only when I had Jack. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Do you enjoy being with only one or two friends, or with a large group of people?</b> </span>Being in large groups of people stresses me out. The fewer the better. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Do you like the type of music your parents listen to? Do your parents like the type of music you listen to?</b> </span>I doubt it. Unless it was made in the '70s/'80s. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Have you ever been bullied? Have you ever bullied anyone else?</b> </span>Yes and no. I don't think I'm capable of bullying. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?</b> Probably spaghetti or lo mein</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>If your partner wanted to wait until marriage before having sex, would you stay in that relationship? </b>Depends on the person. Sexual compatibility IS important. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Do you believe in a god?</b> </span>I consider myself agnostic. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Of all the social networks in the world, why use twitter?</b> </span>I don't have a Twitter account. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>What’s your favorite hashtag to track?</b> </span>#iseriouslydonthaveatwitteraccount.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Would you call yourself/your family “middle class?”</b> </span>Does the "middle class" even exist anymore?</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Name a TV series you didn’t enjoy until after it ended.</b> I JUST finished The United States of Tara and LOVED it. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Have you ever bought a product from an infomercial?</b> </span>Nay.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>If you could give up your car and never have to drive again, would you?</b> </span>I don't have a car at the moment and would quite enjoy one so I guess that's a no. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-weight: bold;">If you go back to one point in time to give advice to yourself, when would you go and what would you say?</span><b style="color: purple;"> </b>I'd tell myself to save money for a rainy day. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>What’s your “quirkiest” habit?</b> </span>Lately I've been putting smoked Tabasco on damn near everything. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>What is “normal?” Are you normal?</b> </span>I know I'm not normal and I have a lack of understanding "normalcy". </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Someone close to you is dying. You have the choice to let this person live for 10 more years, but if you do, you cause the death of 10 strangers. You don’t have to see them die. Do you take the offer?</b> </span>Yes. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>What is one thing you could never forgive?</b> Anything horrible happening to Jack. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Would you rather be in a relationship after the honeymoon period ends, or be single? </b>A relationship. Everything from the honeymoon period to the bloated-let's-have-sex-another-night-and-watch-TV-instead period is worth sticking around for if it's the right person.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Is it possible for guys and girls to be just friends?</b> In some cases. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Where do you and your friends go to hang out? </b>Our place, usually.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Write the first sentence of your obituary<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;">.</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Amanda Sierra, died laughing at a reasonably old age with the person she loved the most. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>What is the best TV theme song ever?</b> Mad Men's theme song. It has made me excited for the newest episode for about four years.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>When you were young, what would you dream you would be when you grew up?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">A veterinarian with the hair of Princess Jasmine. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>When you’re alone in your own home, do you walk around naked?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">I used to, not so much these days considering I share a house with two other adults. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>What gets you out of bed in the morning?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">Good intentions and coffee. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Do you want to have more friends than you have right now?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">I suppose one could never have too many friends. But I think the ones I have are more than sufficient. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>What part of the past year sticks out in your mind?</b> Really? I dunno, maybe getting divorced, moving out, visiting Seattle with my best friend, getting a job as a server at Bumsted's and then meeting the person I should have met years and years ago.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"> </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>You win a scratch-off lottery game that gives you $2000 a week (after taxes) for the rest of your life. Do you keep your job?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">Nope. I would stay home, focus on writing more and have another baby. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Could you be in a long-distance relationship? If you’re in one, what makes yours work?</b> </span>I don't know if I could. I suppose if I was forced to for a short period of time. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>What’s the best route to your heart? </b>Humor, kindness and good taste in music. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Have you ever met someone through the internet, then met them in real life? </b> Yep.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>What is your favorite sport? </b>I'm not what one would call a "sports fan." Not in the least. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>What has been troubling you lately?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span>Money and the lack thereof.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"> </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Did you enjoy your high school prom? If you haven’t gotten there yet, do you look forward to it? If you didn’t go, why not?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span>It was okay<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>What do you use more often: your intuition or logical reasoning?</b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Intuition, usually. Although I'm getting better at the logical stuff. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Do you know what makes you happy?</b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Yes. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Tell me about the last book you read.</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">Probably Bossypants. I tend to jump around with poetry books and parts of my favorite books. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>What is the nicest compliment you’ve ever been given?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">That I was brave.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Who was your first crush?</b> </span>Probably Leonardo Dicaprio or any other Teen Beat "heartthrob" </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Do you believe that there is life on other planets?</b> </span>I've yet to see anything. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Predict what your life will look like a year from now<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;">.</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">Hopefully more financially sound. But everything else fills me with more hope than I've had in awhile. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Often, people will ask how your last relationship ended. I want to know how it began.</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">Myspace, 2006. Greg randomly IMed me. We began chit-chatting for a week or two and finally agreed to meet in person. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Where is your favorite place to go out and eat?</b><b style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </b>It varies. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>What is something you want to change about your current situation?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">More money, stable job. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Early bird or night owl?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span>I like to be an early bird. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Are there any childhood possessions you still hold on to</b>?</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span>I have Bobbie, my stuffed mouse, still. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Give me an unpopular opinion you have</b>. I am pro-choice.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>What was the last song that was stuck in your head?</b> "Last Favor" by The Finches</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Where do you live? Be as general or specific as you want.</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span>I live a stones throw from the downtown hubbub in Tucson, AZ.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Do you believe in giving kids medals and trophies for participation?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">I think we're getting a little to coddle-y with kids and setting them up to be the entitled jackasses we have enough of already. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>What was the longest car ride you’ve ever taken? </b>Well, we're about to take an 18 hour drive up to Sacramento, CA next week. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Have you ever taken part in a protest?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span>Yes.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Would you ever use an online dating service? </b></span>Nope.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>What is your ethnic heritage?</b> </span>Spanish/Mexican/Swedish with dashes of other stuff for seasoning. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Describe a person that inspires you.</b> My grandmother. She is just a pillar of strength, integrity and just all around goodness. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>If you earn minimum wage doing what you love, would you?</b> Sure. But as it stands this blog doesn't make me jack diddly squat. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Do you believe in luck?</b> </span>Sometimes<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;">.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Describe the last time you were very angry at someone.</b> I actually haven't been very angry in general lately.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Do you want to live until you’re 100?</b> </span>If I'm healthy and my loved ones are as well, sure. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Do people change? If so, how do you keep a relationship together when both of you start to change?</b> </span>Yes. Yes. Yes. People change all the time. Sometimes a relationship can withstand the change and sometimes it falls apart. I will let you know how to keep a relationship together through this when I have successfully done so. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Have you ever risked a friendship by telling someone you liked them?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">Yes.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Would you rather be alone doing something you enjoy, or doing something you don’t like with your best friends?</b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Probably alone doing something I enjoy. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Do you practice what you preach?</b> I certainly try to do so. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>If you take precautions to stay safe, do you ultimately act more recklessly?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span>I've been pretty reckless. But when it comes to protecting something I love, I play it safe.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>What do you value more in a significant other: Attractiveness or intelligence?</b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Intelligence.</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Are you hard-headed?</b> </span>I have been told I'm "stubborn". It may or may not be the Swede gene. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Have you ever laughed uncontrollably when it was socially inappropriate</b>? Only a couple times. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>When have you felt most alive?</b> </span>Being pregnant. Those months of creation were intense.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"> </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Would you prefer to live? A city? The suburbs? The countryside? The mountains?</b> The city. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Do you often skip breakfast?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span>About 8 times out of 10. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>How do you know what true love is?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span>You don't have to think about it. You just do. As cliche as that sounds. </span> </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Would you want to know the exact date and time you were going to die?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span>Nope.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"> </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>Where is “home” for you? </b>Wherever my loved ones are. </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><b>What song best describes your life right now?</b> </span></li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Pgv6dKV03dA" width="560"></iframe></span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #5d5d5d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Do you want to be perfect?</b> </span>Perfection is whatever you make of it. I don't think I'm perfect, I highly doubt I'll ever be perfect considering I'm, how do you say- HUMAN. But I can sleep at night and I can count a few people that like me and I've found my way from some seemingly rock bottom situations so I don't sweat the whole "perfection" thing. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>What have you never tried, but would really like to someday? What’s holding you back?</b> </span>Taking a class for something I'm interested in. I fantasize about taking writing classes or something of that ilk, but finances usually keep me back. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>How do you express your creativity?</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span>This little blog.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"> </span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Describe your neighborhood.</b> </span>A mix of college students, some professionals, hippies, and old houses. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Name something you only liked because it was popular<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;">.</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span>I've never liked something just because it was popular. I think that's pretty stupid. </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Give me the story of your life in six words.</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5d5d5d;"> </span></span>Changing. Introspection. Accidental. Genuine. Relentless. Loved. </li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you actually read this whole thing, I love you. </li>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-6689417397392801542012-05-25T10:10:00.004-07:002012-05-25T10:10:38.703-07:00Friday Fondue<br />
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It's been awhile since I've done one of these. I am certain that the sun and heat 'round these parts is sucking all my will to live and think, so posts like this will probably be making a comeback.<br />
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What have I been peepin' around the interwebs?<br />
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<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/96608968/eat-vintage-inspired-wood-sign-black">This </a>would be cute in a kitchen or dining room.<br />
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Shoe lust in <a href="http://popbee.com/fashion/dr-martens-spring-2011-collection/attachment/dr-martens-spring-2011-collection-231210-3/">three</a> (seriously, obsessed!), <a href="http://beta.solestruck.com/opening-ceremony-bernardette-2-bordeaux-leather-cognac-velvet/index.html">two</a>,<a href="http://beta.solestruck.com/penelope-and-coco-capone-black/index.html"> one</a>...<br />
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I didn't even bother reading the "Mom Enough" piece in the Times (I don't involve myself in petty dialogue meant to pit mothers against each other when we should REALLY be focusing on support for each other, hippie-dippy as that sounds) BUT, t<a href="http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/blog/post/723977/alien-queen-is-mom-enough/">his made me giggle.</a><br />
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Maggie <a href="http://poemsandnovels.blogspot.com/2012/05/lena-dunham-is-shit-girls.html">writes about what is quickly becoming my favorite show on TV right now</a>.<br />
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Gonna have to try<a href="http://www.ohsoprettythediaries.com/2012/04/does-pinterest-know-everything.html"> this</a>.<br />
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When it gets hotter around here it's sort of hard to enjoy eating (the last thing you want to do is feel heavy and stuffed while it's over 100 degrees out) and most of the people I know look for lighter, healthier options. <a href="http://120dollarsfoodchallenge.com/2011/01/24/lunchbox-treats-ideas-for-wrap-fillings/">These seem like a good idea for easy lunches</a>.<br />
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Fellow Tucsonan, Sydney visited NY recently and <a href="http://goldengirlofthewest.blogspot.com/">the photos and fashion are lovely</a>!<br />
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Kirstin Wiig was one of my favorite performers of SNL's more recent history. She brought back goofy and commitment to comedy. She wasn't afraid to throw herself into characters. She made my former drama geek with dreams of SNL proud. Add one of my favorite Rolling Stone's song and you have a<a href="http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/shes-a-rainbow/1402538/"> farewell that made my roommates witness me cry on the couch like a dork</a>.<br />
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And lastly, <a href="http://lullabiestoterrorize.blogspot.com/2012/05/stuff-for-your-earholes.html">here's what's been making my ears tingle</a>.<br />
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Hope you all have a happy weekend!<br />
<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-72391535158974007252012-05-23T15:17:00.000-07:002012-05-23T15:20:40.327-07:00My Burlesque Debut<br />
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Well, it had been a long time coming. My BFF/mentor/burlesque co-pilot <a href="http://pisacake.net/">Pisa Cake </a>(also known as Colleen, who you have read about here and there before as my roommate) finally pushed me out of the box I had been stuck in for so long and got me to realize one of my goals. She produced a fundraiser for a local animal rescue which involved my getting to work with a few other amazingly lovely ladies (and one very saucy gentleman) to put on a little teaser of burlesque acts. So not only did I get to realize my goal, but I overcame my shyness AND helped raise money to a cause near and dear to my heart. It was a magical night.<br />
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I have posted this video on my Facebook page since a lot of friends and family knew I was doing this and had wanted to see the footage; the culmination of all their support and kindness with a hobby that sometimes gets it's fair share of judgement (we ARE taking our clothes off after all). But I also thought it necessary to post it here. Because I have written before about mothers and <a href="http://lullabiestoterrorize.blogspot.com/2009/11/body-language.html">body image</a> and <a href="http://lullabiestoterrorize.blogspot.com/2009/08/feminine-mystique.html">societal roles</a>. Because as much as I have feared my post-baby body it has also made me who I am. Because I SHOULD'T fear my post-baby body and neither should YOU yours. Because I'm proud of myself.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_POEUqt524&list=FLwTzXwQTGYcFLsqAAqW6qoA&index=1&feature=plpp_video">"Autotomy" by The Dears</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTP5zmtHiYA&list=FLwTzXwQTGYcFLsqAAqW6qoA&index=3&feature=plpp_video">"My Last Mistake" by Dan Auerbach</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcuhhTVV22U&list=FLwTzXwQTGYcFLsqAAqW6qoA&index=9&feature=plpp_video">"Take You With Me" by French Films</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWuXHyp5BJM&list=FLwTzXwQTGYcFLsqAAqW6qoA&index=12&feature=plpp_video">"The Downside of Being a Fuck-Up" by Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMAWI6uMUVk&list=FLwTzXwQTGYcFLsqAAqW6qoA&index=14&feature=plpp_video">"It's No Compliment" by Chinawoman</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_HX2hU-is&list=FLwTzXwQTGYcFLsqAAqW6qoA&index=16&feature=plpp_video">"Six Feet Underground" by The Virgin Tongues</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKkVRVmEbCc&list=FLwTzXwQTGYcFLsqAAqW6qoA&index=39&feature=plpp_video">"Don't Look Back In Anger" by Devendra Banhart</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK-KiqXHmeE&list=FLwTzXwQTGYcFLsqAAqW6qoA&index=7&feature=plpp_video">"Black Grease" by The Black Angels</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhYr1Dc6u-c&list=FLwTzXwQTGYcFLsqAAqW6qoA&index=10&feature=plpp_video">"Act Nice and Gentle" by The Black Keys</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PIqaUl4h1E&list=FLwTzXwQTGYcFLsqAAqW6qoA&index=17&feature=plpp_video">"My Boy and His Motorbike" by The Carousel</a><br />
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Happy listening!Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-23180449907996395332012-05-18T11:36:00.001-07:002012-05-18T11:36:14.420-07:00Poem #4When the coffee has not licked the back of my eyeballs<br />
When the topography of the brain has turned into foreign lands<br />
I remember their shapes but not their names<br />
I remember the jaggedness and the gray that pricks the inside of my skull<br />
Spindles that hold up a big top where elephants are whipped and after the show eyelashes are put away<br />
I move through the rooms as a specter<br />
And wait for the lady of the house to return<br />
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I can't say I'm the BIGGEST cat person in the world. I don't hate them. I quite like them, in fact. But Stella takes the cake in all things cat related. I have never loved a cat so much. From her following me around the house and watching me clean or do laundry to her near whorish ploys for affection (which we all happily oblige), she brings a joy and comfort that I have apparently found it necessary to blog about.<br />
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She steals my boy-<br />
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She steals my boyfriend-<br />
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She steals my bow tie-<br />
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But mostly she steals our hearts.<br />
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Have you kissed a cat today? Happy Purrsday!<br />
<br />Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-28080732369842279662012-05-13T15:04:00.002-07:002012-05-13T15:04:25.853-07:00Instagram I Am So, like many bloggers I have been quite taken with Instagram. Being that I am sans an actual camera and am using solely my Droid Pro to capture moments, Instagram has lent a little bit of magic to an otherwise lame situation. And I have to admit- I'm sold. Done. I'm an Instaddict. Anyway, here's the happenings around these parts (warning- this is a pretty large photo dump)-<br />
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1. A favorite Bukowski poem.<br />
2. Jack gets a sugar rush while we enjoy some margaritas during Cinco De Mayo which was spent in Bisbee this year (or as Jack calls it "Busy Bee").<br />
3. I lust after shelves after pulling things out of storage.<br />
4. I seem to have to trim my bangs fifty times a month lately.<br />
5. An alley/park area in Bisbee.<br />
6. Crafting a lot more now that I've been back in the burlesque swing. I'm even learning how to use a sewing machine!<br />
7. Been missing our long afternoon walks. It's Spring, technically, but in Tucson it might as well be Summer. With temps hitting the hundreds (*takes sip of Arizona Green Tea*) it makes it hard to fully enjoy the outdoors.<br />
8. City Hall, Tombstone, AZ.<br />
9. We took a little day trip to Tombstone and Bisbee last month. It had been awhile since I had been to either and I needed a little getaway from Tucson to clear my mind. The last couple months have been pretty crazy- trying to find a job, putting on a burlesque show (post on that to come!), family in town (which was a great thing), planning more trips out of town (California in June, Seattle in November), etc. I was caught indulging in a cigarette (I know...I know) and letting my head exhale with the smoke.<br />
10. Spring has brought out a little more color in my wardrobe and on my hands.<br />
11. A great little vegan cafe, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/POCO/169994096358105">Poco</a>, in Bisbee. Great food, lovely atmosphere (I could spend half the day in their patio) and, well, I can't wait to go back.<br />
12. Jack on the patio at Poco, patiently waiting for his ONLY If You Eat ALL Of Your Lunch cupcake.<br />
13. Two adorable vintage ceramic deer I thrifted in Bisbee. Their shops up there are to die for! So many treasures and so well priced!<br />
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And there you have it.Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-45259712617474717672012-05-08T12:13:00.001-07:002012-05-19T10:36:47.957-07:00In other news...Greg arrived to pick up Jack on an idle Sunday morning. <br />
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"Hey buddy!"<br />
"Dad!"<br />
"He just ate lunch. Do you guys have anything planned today?"<br />
"Nah, just hanging out..."<br />
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And a smile sort of creeped across Greg's face. I knew this smile. It was the We Both Have News We're Not Telling Each Other smile.<br />
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"Sooo...in the near future, maybe, if you're comfortable with it, I'd like to meet Mr. Zack."<br />
"Yes. Should I meet a Ms. Tristin?"<br />
"Yes."<br />
"We'll set something up soon."<br />
"She's a great girl."<br />
"I know. I trust your judgement."<br />
"You'll like him."<br />
"I'm happy. I'm happy you're happy."<br />
"Me too."<br />
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And just like that, we had moved on. And what could have turned into mutual feelings of being territorial over Jack, concerned or even jealousy, had not even risen. We were two adults wanting the best for our son and, finally, allowing ourselves to have what was best for us and being civil and respectful enough to share it, to WANT to share it with each other.<br />
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For the first time, in years, I have never been so happy. I can feel it in my bones. Not just for myself but for him. For Jack. For the future.<br />
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<i>"My dearest friend, you'll soon begin to love again. To love again."</i>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-74963647729621379662012-04-27T00:57:00.000-07:002012-04-27T01:12:29.469-07:00Amanda Sierra- A Brief History of Infinite Surliness1988- Is born. Late.<br />
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1989-1993- Spends a long time "workin' my craft". Motor skills are rocking, but are used mostly for dramatic drawings and talking to stray cats.<br />
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1994- Little brother, Mitchell, is born. The older sister superiority sets in. Overfeeds the fish until they die sad, bloated deaths. TO PROVE A POINT.<br />
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1995-1998- Integrates well in the school system...it's always the quiet ones.<br />
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1999- Buys first CD, it is Alanis Morissette. Bemoans men and their ways despite never having actually had a boyfriend.<br />
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2000- Watches Daria a lot at night. Feels comforted.<br />
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2002- Enters high school. Dyes hair black sophomore year. Develops crushes on musicians (takes a long time to recover from crushes on musicians).<br />
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2004- Contemplates learning the bass. Because fuck diva ass lead singers. Fuck singing. Fuck voices.
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2006- Starts smoking frequently and replaces blood with oil from the tater-tots at Grill (RIP, *pours Dr. Pepper on ground, for ones homies*).<br />
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2007- Goes Keroac on everybody's asses.<br />
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2008- Has a son. Votes for Obama. Goes soft.<br />
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2009-2011- Blogs a lot about going soft.<br />
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2012- Watches Daria, eats a shitload of chili. Drinks a little more.<br />
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You superimpose your own meaning on days where everybody else is busily trudging away through the daily tasks of life. This makes you creative. But not creative enough to escape the inevitable twinge of melancholy that finds you at 2 p.m., still clad in your pajamas, drinking vodka sodas and watching movies on TV. Because what else do you do when you know you've lost another round of Happy Normalcy? <br /><br />You go to bed early, you distract yourself with other things, you wake up and wonder if Jack will like jelly beans on Friday the 13th instead. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzgbcdr1A8iDJNbLC5KKhEUzuaet0PsRhpNIaiTojtipBlJ48EqspLcpkG2arT0OZ3HadfrOrelLqGONejVJ4HsyUnosfo1pP8mlf7UZFWh5EkIe3VkjnlN53nFRiYhj_sMHCZD8nKoQKv/s1600/jackandmesunshine.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 181px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzgbcdr1A8iDJNbLC5KKhEUzuaet0PsRhpNIaiTojtipBlJ48EqspLcpkG2arT0OZ3HadfrOrelLqGONejVJ4HsyUnosfo1pP8mlf7UZFWh5EkIe3VkjnlN53nFRiYhj_sMHCZD8nKoQKv/s320/jackandmesunshine.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5729889788943460354" /></a><br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GKruA4QPBA4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-2257408180927972472012-03-28T10:30:00.006-07:002012-03-28T14:09:35.229-07:00Hot Child In The CityHe is at home among the concrete and buildings that draw his eyes to the sky. They are as tall as they will ever be to him. One day they will seem less like giants and become commonplace, but for now they are worth pointing upwards to with wonderment that reflects off the hundreds of windows. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVMWDBYr6-luPbCPC1I0k2GBwpdoGHt-e7W6Axikkui0pq_itp4vC2ZwPxNtXt138bSp0X79M007l1UoIpCNSDjBvF8Bq7BydC_q29STGQ6hif48oPPL61jsaKRzaqko5uulvawD8nHlE/s1600/jackbuilding.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVVMWDBYr6-luPbCPC1I0k2GBwpdoGHt-e7W6Axikkui0pq_itp4vC2ZwPxNtXt138bSp0X79M007l1UoIpCNSDjBvF8Bq7BydC_q29STGQ6hif48oPPL61jsaKRzaqko5uulvawD8nHlE/s320/jackbuilding.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725016376484217906" /></a><br /><br /> We are serenaded by street performers and he hides behind me when they direct their attention to him. <br />"Hey there, kid!"<br />"Hi," he whispers behind my knees. <br /> He is wary of attention louder than the instruments, preferring instead to remain anonymous and take in the sound. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. We blush, we hide, we move on to the next cafe. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMiBjmXurcDyG5TUcM_6D7sCs4RlnEjKpgtv9O_dS0vPj-tHEyVYmR1nrfYrToD69N9XPPhETy7ohRIJSxosbEVQ3g1XaA023Maby48_LhXp6Y1Yrl95i2JEmpiHsoFP8rAOVZMhQEzfUV/s1600/jackdrums.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMiBjmXurcDyG5TUcM_6D7sCs4RlnEjKpgtv9O_dS0vPj-tHEyVYmR1nrfYrToD69N9XPPhETy7ohRIJSxosbEVQ3g1XaA023Maby48_LhXp6Y1Yrl95i2JEmpiHsoFP8rAOVZMhQEzfUV/s320/jackdrums.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725008853149926722" /></a><br /><br />Our mother-son "dates" downtown have become ritualistic. I value them more than I realize sometimes and I hope he does too. Eventually he will be like me, wandering around as a teenager looking for stories to make his own. He is brand new among the historic buildings that hold memories of mine, that are becoming memories of his. <br /><br />By the time we have our next adventure he will have already grown just a tad closer to the top of those buildings. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigFIFFrMMf_Tsa3QecSXeRTSSJ1v4-fKKLWs9y4sBx77Edzc3GZ2fu1SxbF6PwxVwUbyBwo78SeCA0cIv8mHZIEsiDU6yHEK6XmpNwieB6dLHurtF7axPmqCV7kMMLuU2wjtxf5zPFpaeZ/s1600/heartfeet.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigFIFFrMMf_Tsa3QecSXeRTSSJ1v4-fKKLWs9y4sBx77Edzc3GZ2fu1SxbF6PwxVwUbyBwo78SeCA0cIv8mHZIEsiDU6yHEK6XmpNwieB6dLHurtF7axPmqCV7kMMLuU2wjtxf5zPFpaeZ/s320/heartfeet.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5725056793797789298" /></a><br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2IR7epYrDjg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-31564579079960762062012-03-07T13:11:00.011-07:002012-03-10T19:31:24.193-07:00FourI sat on top of the parking garage on Park and Speedway and watched the sun blush until it tucked itself away for the evening. That was five years ago. I sat on top of that parking garage and watched the world, seemingly alone. I wasn't. <br /> I went home and told your father that yes, yes we would try. We would allow the world I watched from several stories up flip upside down. We would keep the child, tucked away under my clothes, my doubts, my fear. You made us yours and hurling towards us, week by week, we could only hold hands and brace ourselves for the impact. <br /> <br /> "Red rover, red rover, send the future over."<br /><br /> Four years ago I walked around the hospital grounds, waiting for you to arrive. It was happening. The culmination of nine months and wondering. Nine months and worrying. Nine months and hoping that everything would be okay. <br /><br /> I blinked and you were born. I blinked and you were crawling, walking, running. You were one, two, three times my baby. But not anymore.<br /><br /> Today you are four.<br /><br /> You want to walk down the sidewalk on your own now. You want to uncover the stories in the dirt for yourself. I offer my hand, try to reel you back into my grasp, but you won't have it anymore. You are on your own mission. <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNBAS08UZlGgeZ0FNN_B33U7bCC2UgkiutuhoqHnm9Lpo60q9XPO1u-M2F9LmAAu1L31pBaNZSgOXhyphenhyphenfVjg6dMcoFEAQ8pVqtAmaRkggM3tVOAy0i7Zqh0rKgK5FDK_s1pqla32w6-6w_Z/s1600/jackpensive.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNBAS08UZlGgeZ0FNN_B33U7bCC2UgkiutuhoqHnm9Lpo60q9XPO1u-M2F9LmAAu1L31pBaNZSgOXhyphenhyphenfVjg6dMcoFEAQ8pVqtAmaRkggM3tVOAy0i7Zqh0rKgK5FDK_s1pqla32w6-6w_Z/s320/jackpensive.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717406469717562802" /></a><br /> "I can walk on my own. You trust me now."<br /><br /> I don't want to believe it. The notion that one day you'll walk on these sidewalks completely alone, without me to point out the colors in the early spring daisies. Without me to say "we're almost there." <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMn1vf2x6iqdG9Gq5B_6C-edPI-Q2dLxwBemJ3-Y0tqCP9EJsLv7F3DGE3Enk3hMDvVSo6lQc07jfUMAmmCbUmId-UERBxL0u4sjBnAXdC82ntE2_Tj88PPYf59J1oERKvpR9sQlOtzRYA/s1600/jackandmeshadows.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMn1vf2x6iqdG9Gq5B_6C-edPI-Q2dLxwBemJ3-Y0tqCP9EJsLv7F3DGE3Enk3hMDvVSo6lQc07jfUMAmmCbUmId-UERBxL0u4sjBnAXdC82ntE2_Tj88PPYf59J1oERKvpR9sQlOtzRYA/s320/jackandmeshadows.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717405432590030082" /></a><br /><br /> You reassure me now. You hold my hand only when you feel I need it. And much like that summer evening I spent staring off into that pink horizon, unsure of the unknown, somewhere deep down I knew it would be okay. You knew. <br /><br />I trust you now. We're almost there.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXiCWLhmgvlv24r9oaRsTb9wjKBHeuSzBP0x-WRsbUdbu5mCaNXhlwV2sJQabsCo8NaRZ3aTOdeq97cz2HnRATEhae0fhoVWntMj9zf0AEPaXnbSPfPkwqTv5ABpyk2XRtYAl-hHe3gILR/s1600/jacknmeretrocam1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXiCWLhmgvlv24r9oaRsTb9wjKBHeuSzBP0x-WRsbUdbu5mCaNXhlwV2sJQabsCo8NaRZ3aTOdeq97cz2HnRATEhae0fhoVWntMj9zf0AEPaXnbSPfPkwqTv5ABpyk2XRtYAl-hHe3gILR/s320/jacknmeretrocam1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5717411440454745538" /></a><br /><br />Happy Birthday, little prince. <br /><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ubeFZwCR2lM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-38720463546178133332012-02-21T12:38:00.011-07:002012-02-21T12:56:35.392-07:00LatelyReveling in the weather.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibEvBQTaKrWiXeUgojLUZfVyFuU4O0aHQLTHOsMRmwtyNLdMF6bjd7C05xRWyroop4f4NCKGx-5mxSjh_PDfSaDOLNZ72m325vdB12QyvEFhJJpFF0_tKVI27OcQmZloGf8n4NT5WXU4x_/s1600/inbloom.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibEvBQTaKrWiXeUgojLUZfVyFuU4O0aHQLTHOsMRmwtyNLdMF6bjd7C05xRWyroop4f4NCKGx-5mxSjh_PDfSaDOLNZ72m325vdB12QyvEFhJJpFF0_tKVI27OcQmZloGf8n4NT5WXU4x_/s320/inbloom.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711675866224140978" /></a><br /><br />Working on burlesque again.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUztp5qQ3Yb-bnNXDkeaTPQAvDpgolQi7Jp0ZLAoUxZihKbrZTsldpwoF5BNs6dybTOBacdSMNmeWNu5QFXQsLDoYWaYha75dzfJ7Of-aDDskMcQ60-yZxNGpRJxzFg63_wqFcfT5nh9Fn/s1600/practice.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUztp5qQ3Yb-bnNXDkeaTPQAvDpgolQi7Jp0ZLAoUxZihKbrZTsldpwoF5BNs6dybTOBacdSMNmeWNu5QFXQsLDoYWaYha75dzfJ7Of-aDDskMcQ60-yZxNGpRJxzFg63_wqFcfT5nh9Fn/s320/practice.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711676045383880114" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw6yUFsHZHYxx-AXG5F6hp667uTY1mnjUYEq0bh7D98goisDcZBJQu2oZZIy8fMJnWo30z-cK1Fa1PrMLNR8EtZK0KsZYM0H1Zo3QMYf5IjNseF9AZ-kLVFI4bRZqQfxSRZl93v-wgUKZO/s1600/gloves.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw6yUFsHZHYxx-AXG5F6hp667uTY1mnjUYEq0bh7D98goisDcZBJQu2oZZIy8fMJnWo30z-cK1Fa1PrMLNR8EtZK0KsZYM0H1Zo3QMYf5IjNseF9AZ-kLVFI4bRZqQfxSRZl93v-wgUKZO/s320/gloves.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711676187881841890" /></a><br /><br />Loving dresses you can live in.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjyelprDGUCHd1N7Qx7xejhPSfuvASVEJRO6hv1CCfMXpB3J_fLEblgnC1hqNW501u2vkP2rx9Y92t3E647MigtGMPj3ykIoV80NpkH1p4dTbBQpoD2sjsaCcgiCSlY959VS_YVnHHBK7R/s1600/lace.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjyelprDGUCHd1N7Qx7xejhPSfuvASVEJRO6hv1CCfMXpB3J_fLEblgnC1hqNW501u2vkP2rx9Y92t3E647MigtGMPj3ykIoV80NpkH1p4dTbBQpoD2sjsaCcgiCSlY959VS_YVnHHBK7R/s320/lace.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711676661138388706" /></a><br /><br />Organizing and decorating all at once.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqLfP7OXEloGEGe03BMDEDUgDPR0Tp1v9s6W-ZQSn81sS8azOudC3csxTVKL92uQziYM6MjeY-9iA7NB3Mrmjl543nz1g-9pbTibTQhoxyHJErsdlLrp0H0AFDP59gu4N_T7EQrOfjYQQ/s1600/hats.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqLfP7OXEloGEGe03BMDEDUgDPR0Tp1v9s6W-ZQSn81sS8azOudC3csxTVKL92uQziYM6MjeY-9iA7NB3Mrmjl543nz1g-9pbTibTQhoxyHJErsdlLrp0H0AFDP59gu4N_T7EQrOfjYQQ/s320/hats.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711676858257304274" /></a><br /><br />Finding that cats make good photo subjects.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuo3cEBug_q7q-n_yrqj8Pf9UnEz6PuJfcgzQC05z5at_rHnyLH0In26i5rcliLni3R7Nlr_t26BSTsAOnT22ZLUsSm9Oza6XdxJWilPOlJFL4-avC6eNeIVbDeV9AoOwEsk8Wt7y8Lx49/s1600/Jenna2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuo3cEBug_q7q-n_yrqj8Pf9UnEz6PuJfcgzQC05z5at_rHnyLH0In26i5rcliLni3R7Nlr_t26BSTsAOnT22ZLUsSm9Oza6XdxJWilPOlJFL4-avC6eNeIVbDeV9AoOwEsk8Wt7y8Lx49/s320/Jenna2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711678013452990002" /></a><br /><br />Mother-son walks to our favorite local haunts.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjid3r9CTMiaEp5ndMcLzUz-AQ1wS1saZQMMbWGV6C1_V86WFZIFUbShrYsNYKcRCPYmBOXCtgHSHJPcAaCYU2l8Cz8M45u2vtLxtXMk1w0OZ9JZOG_eHsaFtwa_x6_r-hhOBNKXELxn2Yc/s1600/feet.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjid3r9CTMiaEp5ndMcLzUz-AQ1wS1saZQMMbWGV6C1_V86WFZIFUbShrYsNYKcRCPYmBOXCtgHSHJPcAaCYU2l8Cz8M45u2vtLxtXMk1w0OZ9JZOG_eHsaFtwa_x6_r-hhOBNKXELxn2Yc/s320/feet.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711678169129993554" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDnqr4s23faiDOeRdMCDLSufR-BElAov6G45DCFNnMfcy9DueP72gpQjqzOoJmavyrhy4siIkfBjTUzF4z1ombsP4EHaVaRy36o-ebDiZT0TVGkWIavqu6AxPzwdbCzm9uX6Mqe_Mp8dwG/s1600/jackwalk.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDnqr4s23faiDOeRdMCDLSufR-BElAov6G45DCFNnMfcy9DueP72gpQjqzOoJmavyrhy4siIkfBjTUzF4z1ombsP4EHaVaRy36o-ebDiZT0TVGkWIavqu6AxPzwdbCzm9uX6Mqe_Mp8dwG/s320/jackwalk.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711678326948244034" /></a><br /><br /><br />Saying goodbye to bartender friends.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOICNF_YmshrSCOzjKZxhyQCS0nyewPLl83TYIVDdEOYG0Pt0XwuRiiKMGgxiQ89nvlT4rWKsBXfQIprK57Ok7iBCGSIXCXXCsM-oWficK_4Y4-sxZNugCrn7NCo1AM4N0sOQ88vgHxiuN/s1600/tim.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOICNF_YmshrSCOzjKZxhyQCS0nyewPLl83TYIVDdEOYG0Pt0XwuRiiKMGgxiQ89nvlT4rWKsBXfQIprK57Ok7iBCGSIXCXXCsM-oWficK_4Y4-sxZNugCrn7NCo1AM4N0sOQ88vgHxiuN/s320/tim.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711678514479808802" /></a><br /><br />Saying hello to this face.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcDB6ubl6UH52bWb9J3Sw_7srIKr2n80ko0hhCzgGM2DYGRE1w6yvACi70TheDuvJr25BKUcDH45yUpFpNiN7-siaz0IGIPYM5Cnzz3MUVqcqmQ8kCi0xEa39auhlvAfHw55mnLk_RwL6q/s1600/jackdimple.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcDB6ubl6UH52bWb9J3Sw_7srIKr2n80ko0hhCzgGM2DYGRE1w6yvACi70TheDuvJr25BKUcDH45yUpFpNiN7-siaz0IGIPYM5Cnzz3MUVqcqmQ8kCi0xEa39auhlvAfHw55mnLk_RwL6q/s320/jackdimple.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711678723068785858" /></a><br /><br />Looking up.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPmNU_Dw_zrCaEubSNysb9UKZjvinMcgwZR2mBAL3bMTXhusXhxuhs65wkvTlU1vJXdxssrQqY2fZsEaEzz2105ahxNWWjgza3CM5XIMSAcajpZSe18daUCwfJG9_Yz4zlsHjYUkRJD06P/s1600/sunset2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPmNU_Dw_zrCaEubSNysb9UKZjvinMcgwZR2mBAL3bMTXhusXhxuhs65wkvTlU1vJXdxssrQqY2fZsEaEzz2105ahxNWWjgza3CM5XIMSAcajpZSe18daUCwfJG9_Yz4zlsHjYUkRJD06P/s320/sunset2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5711678899431812242" /></a>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-15855342297764770972012-02-15T23:57:00.004-07:002012-02-16T01:02:53.919-07:00RestlessI've been having a hard time falling asleep lately. Some people think it is the result of the caffeine I run through my body like it's the only form of liquid known to man. I know it's because my body is revolting against the times. These times. These times where I find myself in a dance that I follow mindlessly. Wake up, walk to work, coffee, work, eat, go home, open laptop, struggle, drink or don't drink due to the struggle, sleep. <br /> It's been awhile since I've exercised more than the walks to work and the constant movement that my job generally brings. It is toil but it is not the type of exercise one does out of respect for their body. It is a wiriness built out of survivalism instead of a temple built out of discipline and love. <br /> It's been awhile since I've eaten healthily. I have taken to preferring easiness and availability over nourishment. I am surprised it hasn't caught up with me yet, at least that I know of. <br /> It's been awhile since I've danced. Since I've felt the cramping in my hands, placing threads through needles eyes and craft store diamonds on corsets. Moving my hips in unison with drum beats, letting lyrics allude to what's next. <br /> It's been awhile since I've been on here. <br /> I know the aforementioned is why I can't sleep. The stagnancy of what truly makes me thrive while the things I just "get through" dominate.<br /> At least I've managed this. Perhaps this will buy me a few hours.Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-83254177816758434912012-02-14T15:02:00.004-07:002012-02-14T16:58:48.980-07:00Happy Birthday, Arizona! Happy Singles Awareness Day, singles! Happy Valentine's Day, nobody!Here's a mix that managed to put together with the remaining shreds of love in my jaded old soul. <br /><br /><br /><img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://c.gigcount.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEzMjkyNjM4OTcyODgmcHQ9MTMyOTI2MzkwMjgwNyZwPTY5NDMwMSZkPSZnPTEmbz1mNjNlMmFmYjQ5YmQ*Njc3YWQx/MDg5YzFlZTE1YWUzZCZvZj*w.gif" /><div style="text-align: center; margin-left: auto; visibility:visible; margin-right: auto; width:450px;"> <object width="450" height="470"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.musiclist.us/mc/mp3player_new.swf"></param> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="never"></param> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="config=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indimusic.us%2Fext%2Fpc%2Fskins%2Fconfig_white_noautostart.xml&mywidth=450&myheight=470&playlist_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musiclist.us%2Fpl.php%3Fplaylist%3D89921207%26t%3D1329263896&skinurl=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_AFepa9sf8ug%2FS27qU7c6zxI%2FAAAAAAAABo0%2F50b_fZs1oeQ%2Fs400%2Ffree-vintage-valentine-card-popcorn-and-red-heart.jpg&wid=os"></param> <embed style="width:450px; visibility:visible; height:470px;" allowScriptAccess="never" src="http://www.musiclist.us/mc/mp3player_new.swf" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indimusic.us%2Fext%2Fpc%2Fskins%2Fconfig_white_noautostart.xml&mywidth=450&myheight=470&playlist_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musiclist.us%2Fpl.php%3Fplaylist%3D89921207%26t%3D1329263896&skinurl=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_AFepa9sf8ug%2FS27qU7c6zxI%2FAAAAAAAABo0%2F50b_fZs1oeQ%2Fs400%2Ffree-vintage-valentine-card-popcorn-and-red-heart.jpg&wid=os" width="450" height="470" name="mp3player" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" border="0"/> </object> <br/> <a href="http://www.musiclist.us"><img src="http://www.musiclist.us/mc/images/create_black.jpg" border="0" alt="Get a playlist!"/></a> <a href="http://www.musiclist.us/playlist/23019829003/standalone" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.musiclist.us/mc/images/launch_black.jpg" border="0" alt="Standalone player"/></a> <a href="http://www.musiclist.us/playlist/23019829003/download"><img src="http://www.musiclist.us/mc/images/get_black.jpg" border="0" alt="Get Ringtones"/></a> </div>Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-22176467036304993762012-02-01T10:55:00.004-07:002012-02-02T11:35:55.372-07:00The Paper Mama Photo ChallengeOh, hi. Hello there. How are things? That's a lovely blouse. <br /><br /> I've been MIA for...longer than I would've liked. But, life. Sometimes it just tangles you up in it's own agenda too much. Between working, Jack, and trying to catch the proverbial tiger by it's toe, I let this blog fall by the wayside and it saddens me. I love writing. I love sharing words over the vast universe that is The Internet, and when I fail to do both I get a little down and out about it. A couple weeks ago I ran into one of my high school English teachers (in the bar I quasi-regularly frequent when the going gets tough and the tough need a strong vodka gimlet). She was my favorite of the four that I had. She made us read the best, most thought provoking, controversial books. She made us reach deeper in ourselves. She made me a better writer. <br /> "Amanda Sierra?!"<br /> "Yes. Yeah."<br /> "Wow! Oh man, you were one of my best students. You were one hell of a writer! Are you still doing it?"<br /> "Well, kind of. Maybe one day I will seriously, but for now I just keep a dorky ass blog."<br /> "Let me know if you need any help. You've got to keep it up. You were amazing."<br /> "You were!"<br /><br /> And then she had me sample her drink and my head spun with how surreal it was that I was sharing alcoholic beverages with somebody I looked up to/look up to. And when she wasn't looking, I cried a little bit. Her words hit me for some reason. They were so needed in these moments where I am reinventing myself and still trying to hang on to what matters. <br /> <br /> This dorky blog matters, to me. I want to keep up with it more. I want to keep making myself search out for the words, for the moments.<br /><br />Anyway (THAT was a longer intro then I meant to write but it's been awhile and the word vomit is happening so I'm just going to go for it)! <a href="http://thepapermama.com/">The Paper Mama</a> is doing <a href="http://thepapermama.com/2012/01/the-bad-side-and-a-self-photo-challenge.html">a photo challenge</a> that I figured I'd hop in on. <br /><br /><br />My Self Portrait and Info<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB97G9JffdUhKwVTl7I6-xsJ0lsfk3UdRtp2Ez1k2AX4CY6DIDJzUzKA8De_15NjLFdqd-mgbo3uKmw_W8WKM28rWNxjQj_cwSDojX9wNWW5p7lL_N_Ykoj3dTTEdwgdW6nsEclYg3z1Y5/s1600/newhat.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB97G9JffdUhKwVTl7I6-xsJ0lsfk3UdRtp2Ez1k2AX4CY6DIDJzUzKA8De_15NjLFdqd-mgbo3uKmw_W8WKM28rWNxjQj_cwSDojX9wNWW5p7lL_N_Ykoj3dTTEdwgdW6nsEclYg3z1Y5/s320/newhat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5704232395019180002" /></a><br />(I may have mentioned before that all I'm rockin' these days is a cell phone camera with a Retro Camera app so...yeah).<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Obsessing over...</span></span><br /> Revamping my wardrobe on a teeny, tiny budget. I want a more cohesive closet with things that I can wear all the time (there's a lot of random stuff in there that I bought on a whim and that, frankly, doesn't really suit me anymore). <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Working on...</span></span><br /> Trying to write more. Also trying to balance a few other hobbies. <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Thinking about...</span></span><br /> My taxes. Exciting, I know. <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Anticipating...</span></span><br /> A semi-spontaneous jaunt to Mexico for a couple days. I'm hoping the beach and some sun will help with a few things, mainly my head.<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Listening to...</span></span><br /> Whatever is shuffling through my broken (the screen display has been out for some time now) ipod and Kurt Vile.<br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vnrB3UEoZDc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Eating...</span></span><br /> Coffee. I'm not a big eater before noon, which is when my appetite starts to kick in. Once it does kick in I'm sure I'll find myself with a bowl of soup (I freaking LOVE soup). <br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Wishing...</span></span><br /> For a lot less split ends, a lot more cash flow, less of an achy back/legs/feet (I'm on them A LOT) and for the weather we've been having lately NOT to end. <br /><br /><br />You can join in <a href="http://thepapermama.com/2012/01/the-bad-side-and-a-self-photo-challenge.html">here</a>.Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75479263476149564.post-30697103815063416512012-01-12T23:21:00.005-07:002012-01-12T23:37:03.126-07:00Tales From The Crib*Colleen and I have polished off about three glasses each of the $9 champagne I purchased yesterday along with two giant Cup O' Noodles, a bunch of bananas, strawberries and pain relief pads. It was one of the most pathetic conveyor belt displays I've assembled in awhile. <br /> We had watched two episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm and decided we needed something either crazy (something off of Bravo) or informative. We chose the middle ground of both options and decided on Taboo- Strange Love. <br /> In this particular Taboo episode odd couples were showcased and among them a couple of dudes who's companions were silicon human-like dolls. And neither of them were Ryan Gosling in Lars and the Real Girl so naturally, we laughed. But what struck me in Colleen's observation was that ON TOP of both dudes being completely weird and obviously using these dolls as a sexual outlet due to the fact that they couldn't cultivate normal relationships with real women due to a myriad of social and mental bugaboos, she found it imperative to point out-<br /><br />"And he can't apply her makeup for shit!"<br /><br /><br /><br />Those poor, sad, silicone fucking men just can't get a break.<br /><br /> But she was right. Girls eyeshadow was beat.<br /><br /><br /><br />* I may just start posting periodically on things around the house. Sharing a living space with two pretty cool, pretty funny people can lead to some stories.Amandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13808888025816733460noreply@blogger.com0