INterview by angreeblkcub!

Ok! Ya’ll know the rules by now – and here are my answers for the angreeblkcub!

1) If you could spend an entire day with anyone you wanted to (celebrity,
non-celeb,dead, living, doesn’t matter) who would it be? why? What would you
want to do in your day of hanging out with them?
Urk. Difficult – because there’s so many to choose from? So I’m gonna be predictable. I’d be in California in a heartbeat with my best friend, and it wouldn’t matter what we did, it’d be perfect, because we’d be in the same room together and further strengthening the bond we share.

2) What’s your least favorite food? Why?
brussel sprouts! omfg they are the most VILE NASTY DISGUSTING food ever created! My uncle used to love the little buggers. I can’t even stomach the smell! I also hate liver! Gross! But the gravy from liver and onions that mom indulged in every once in a while? divine!

3) What, if anything, do you remember about grade school? Who were your
friends and who did you hate? Would you consider those ‘fun times’ or hell
on earth
I remember bits and pieces – like in 1st grade I think, how I was chasing a boy around the playground, and when he was chasing me in return threatening to kiss me, he pushed me, I tripped and fell into the brick wall and chipped the corner of my front tooth – still there. *g*
I remember Clearly in 2nd grade that I had gotten into trouble and was spanked by the teacher daily until I completed the task given a punishment – it was the one time I had ever been spanked so hard I literally could not sit down by the end of it. I remember not wanting to tell my parents, and thus their not finding out until they broke out the “high school paddle” instead of the gradeschool pingpong paddle. That’s the damn thing that bruised me so bad.
I remember being up here in Alaska, and falling backwards off the merryground and cracking my head open, and making my mom almost faint.
I remember getting in trouble at school and it resulted in dad selling our snow machine. heh. whoops.
I remember getting my first pair of glasses in 3rd grade and how cool it was to be able to read the signs again.

I don’t remember it being hell on earth (aside from that corporal punishment jag. heh.) and I remember being generally happy. But it’s all pretty much a big blur, all the way up through… hell, yesterday. *L* I’ve serious longterm memory problems. *L*

4) When was the last time you cried? What brough on the tears?
Heh. I am the worlds EASIEST crier. I swear, I cry at happy endings and sad endings and any intense emotional thing. The most recent was at about 3am this morning as I finished a book – it wasn’t overly dramatic, but gosh, I was so happy they’d survived and everything ended well! I cry in movies, I cry watching extreme makeover home edition, I cry anytime other people cry…. heh. yeah.

5) What are the advantages to living in Alaska? What are the disadvantages?
Does one outweigh the other??
Advantages – people up here SMILE more. They look at you in the eye when they talk to you – hell, they TALK to you! There are stories everywhere, and I aim to write a bundle of them. There are friends, there are jokes, there are enemies that will still stop and pull you out of a snow bank if you get stuck! People are willing to lend a helping hand, and it’s really a fantastic place to raise children. I don’t worry about my kids walking two and from school, I don’t ever lock my door (I don’t own anything worth stealing anyway. *L* I know that there are people here who will drop everything to come help me, just as I will for them. Sure, there’s bad apples, but here, the good people are far more plentiful then the bad. Not to mention it is by far the prettiest place in the USA.
Disadvantages – its. bloody. COLD! The cost of living is horrendously high. I live in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, and there’s nothing to do. The holier then thou church mentality of the area in general. The closed mindedness and lack of diversity. These are things I have to teach my children that go against the norm of the area.

Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages? Hell yes. I told the Asshole if we hadn’t moved by the time my kids hit Jr. High school, we were here until they graduated – I’m sorta glad that happened. however? Come graduation? I’m SO outa here and someplace warm! *L*

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