trogdor!!

from aliyaskie:

01. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
02. I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal.
03. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
04. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the post.
05. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

and my chicky asked:

1. Tell me one thing you miss about each of your past significant others. Or, if you think that might cause trouble somewhere in the world, tell me three things you miss about your most significant past significant other.
how significant are we talking? okay, i'll pick a person without naming names. this person is one of the most talented writers i've ever met; always cracked me the fuck up - i mean 40-year-old virgin funny and funnier; and there was a genuine heart there, true and tender, and i was idiot enough to stomp all over it. that relationship ended when it needed to end, but i will always regret the manner in which i ended it. i caused much unnecessary pain to someone who didn't remotely deserve it, whom i never treated right, whom i always took for granted. really, the relationship should probably not have happened the way it did in the first place. we should have stayed friends; i was in the position of advantage and i should never have crossed that line. and while i can't regret what i gained, i must regret what i lost and how i lost it. there aren't many aspects of my life i'd change if i had them to do over, but this is one.

2. Tell me your two favorite memories of me -- one of which you think I probably don't even remember. (Don't worry if they're embarrassing ones -- they'll be in your journal anyway. :D)
um! i'm not sure i have two particular favorites. two that jump out at me: one, talking about the beaver mascot while watching dawson's in wilson living room. DIRTY! two, remembering to bring sexyback to canadia halfway over the bridge and cracking up.

3. Tell me three things you wish you were doing right now that DON'T have to do with your husband. ;)
sleeping, sleeping, and sleeping. :) okay, i'll keep one of those sleepings. but i'll throw in a hanging out with my dad and a working on my knitting. yes i am attempting once again to take up knitting. i so win. :p

4. Tell me where you see yourself in five years.
i freaking HOPE i have a college degree of some sort! i think in five years, we might still be here, but possibly we'd be starting to look at selling our house (i'm assuming we'll own a house at that point) and moving to colorado. maybe m will be teaching a few track days a year, racing WERA league or even first year AMA formula extreme. i'm hoping he also has an investigative job of some sort. i'll be writing a lot; i hope that finishing school will give me the time i'd like to complete some of the writing projects i have on the back burner. i'd like to have a collection of vignettes ready to shop for publication or at least for editing at that point.

5. Tell me five places you're dying to live.
well, obviously i'm dying to live back in colorado springs. we've talked a lot about portland; i've never lived in the pacific northwest, so i'd like to give that a shot. i'd love to live in new mexico for a while, either taos or santa fe, probably. taos is at the base of an absolutely gorgeous mountain. the place is just incredibly physically beautiful. there are times when i would really love to be back in northampton, too. fifth thing...fifth thing...um, i'll do another colorado one. i'd like to do grad studies at uc-boulder. so boulder.

yay chickadee! thank you! now volunteers for interviewing?

How many times has someone on your friends list posted about something and you were really confused, but you didn't want to ask because you knew you SHOULD know? How many times have you felt "guilty" asking a close LJ friend a question that should be "obvious"? Well, here's your chance. If you've missed a few things, missed an entry and are confused, ask me anything. Even something EXTREMELY basic, like where I live! I'm not allowed to get even slightly irritated at any of the questions - we've all missed things before.

i'm screening all comments for this one, in case it's something you don't want the world to know you asked. :)

( well, i obviously haven't done this in the last six months, so who cares? i'm doing it! )

just spent the last couple of days with friends on padre island. had a great time - very relaxing. like an actual spring break, except without the hordes of drunken college kids. (they all turned off at the exit for port aransas.) hung out, watched movies, got ice cream, that kind of thing. finished a scrapbook i'd started months ago, which was a relief. now i'm raring to get started on the next one.

we went to the beach the second day. my one friend is into off-roading, and he found a doubletrack just wide enough for one vehicle that led to a secluded bit of muddy beach. the water was full of jellyfish but bathwater-warm. we were the only people out there. six of us, wading around (or hanging out on the beach a lot, in my case, since i wasn't too sure about those jellyfish), playing fetch with the dogs, enjoying the sun and the gentle wind. the sand tried to suction off our flip-flops with each step. i found a crab scuttling along the sand sideways. he bumped into the thick tangle of seaweed and grass once, twice, searching vainly for his home, and finally found it and slipped in silently.

i wished i'd brought the camera, but i'm glad now that i didn't. i would have forgotten to have fun.

man i got burned. my shoulders hurt to touch right now. but i'm coping now by hanging out with my kitties and eating copious amounts of mint milanos.