Interview & 7 Things

I asked Melba to interview me, and she gave me the MOST AWESOME QUESTIONS EVER!!! She really thought hard about the questions she asked (which made me feel warm & fuzzy), so I took time to think about the questions before answering... and now I have a VERY LONG blogpost!! lol

~You just bought your house.Hooray! Smart decision. I saw your post about the wall paper. We had wall paper in EVERY room of our house from the 70's. It took us some time to get the walls ready for paint.
What is your strategy for tackling how to make your house more you?
(I am still working on this and we have lived here 6 years!)

My first step will be changing the colors on the walls. That's by far the cheapest modification I can make, and it makes such a HUGE difference. My bedroom, the laundry room, bathroom, & the office area are beautiful as they are mostly. The kitchen is okay, but NOT ME at all... and the living room is horrible. I'm currently stripping the wallpaper off of the walls in the living room (70 % done!!!), and halfway through painting the kitchen. I've bought off-white and red paint for my new Coca-Cola kitchen, and soon be buying some light blue-green paint for the living room.

Also, the THICK heavy dark drapes are being taken down, and replaced by thin whispy curtains over venetian blinds! For the kitchen, I am thinking about making the curtains out of material like this.

~I know you go to church on Sundays. What role does religion play in your everyday life? Do you think there is a difference between being "spiritual" and being "religious" ?


What role does religion play in my everyday life? I've struggled with that question... what role SHOULD it play in my everyday life? I'm still trying to find how to allow my faith to impact my life in the right ways... I don't want to be a fanatic, who is just plain wierd... but I also want to truly live the way I say I believe. So, what that means for me now is... I read my Bible, and try to apply scriptures to my life. I pray, and try to listen to the voice of God... what can I do to change my world, ya know? I try to be real... I don't believe that being fake has ever helped anyone, and I don't believe others will trust me when I try to hide who I really am. And most recently, I'm learning to love people... which the Bible says is one of the greatest commandments. Not "I love you cuz God says I have to." or "I love you, so would you like to convert?" (words can't even begin to describe how much that attitude annoys me!!!!) but just "hmm... you're a human, and I'm supposed to love you... I wonder why? Oh look! You are ___ (insert awesome quality here) ___. How cool is THAT?!" Basically, I'm learning to love people just because people are SO STINKIN' AMAZING! We're all so different! And yet so alike! And we can learn so so so much from one another! Human beings rock. (How did I not ever notice this before?)

On more hum-drum everyday things... My faith affects how I treat others, how I view the world (hey, there is hope for the future! Who knew?!), what I watch & read ("smut", which is what I call stuff - books, movies, etc - that is entirely focused on sex, sex, and more sex, is NOT beneficial to a single woman trying to live a morally clean life, ykwim? lol), the things I wear, and the life I live.

BIG DIFFERENCE between being spiritual and being religious. To me, being spiritual means that you are searching and paying attention to spiritual things. Praying/meditating, searching, learning... those are what, to me, make a person "spiritual." Religious is more about actions... DOING what you consider to be right. I think you need to have a good balance... if you are all about being "spiritual", but don't let it change your actions... you're kinda hypocritical. And if you're all about being "religious", but don't search for spiritual things... you get self-righteous and fanatical.

~ I know during tax season you "do taxes" Was there a course you took to learn? Why? Do you like it?

Well, the company I work for trains their own employees. I started working for them through a temp agency about 5 years ago, simply because I needed a job. I tried it the first year, as a "floater" who worked in whatever office they needed me each day. I liked the fact that it was a job where I can work with computers (I love electronics) but still get to really chat with my customers. (Life stories are often shared over a tax table... many made me laugh, a couple made me cry, and the just-released-from-jail burly-as-heck guy with the beautifully manicured fingernails really frightened me!!!) The next year I ended up getting a supervisor position when another lady was fired. Year 3 I started teaching tax classes, and managed an office... and the last two years I've just worked there part-time, since I have a day job.

~What is your day job?

I work in the office of a small manufacturing company, doing Accounts Payable... at least that's my official title. I answer phones, type orders, type up forms for national & international orders, file, and other random things. I am also the official installer of my boss's screensavers.

~What is your creative dream for yourself?

My creative dream for myself is to find my place in the creative world. I always wanted to express things through the creative side of me, but have never really had a lot of luck with that... it's like there's stuff inside me, that I don't know how to get out!

I want to experiment and find art that I can create, and excell at. I really enjoy writing, but I still feel a bit unfulfilled. I enjoy knitting, but that isn't it either. I love to collage, and want to spend more time exploring that. So at the moment... my creative dream is just to find my creative dream! LOL And eventually find a way to make enough money to work from home.

SO, would any of YOU like to be interviewed? Here are the guidelines:

Want me to interview you?
1. Leave me a comment saying "Interview me."
2. I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

After doing my interview, I remembered I'd been tagged for a meme a while back!! (Did I mention that I absolutely *heart* being tagged?)

List 7 random facts/habits about yourself.


Okay, I think I will!!!!


1. I have a habit of knitting or crocheting when I can't sleep, and I wake up in the morning tangled up in yarn.

2. I LOVE to travel!!! I've riden to Washington DC, and Orlando FL... I've driven to Nashville TN, Cedar Rapids IA, Milwaukee MN, and Chicago IL I want to see the WEST though, and New England.

3. I live to hike, and take photos as I go. We are supposed to all go hiking soon... I can't wait!!!

4. I LOVE languages!!!! I can speak English, (obviously) and Spanish... tho my Spanish is getting a little rusty. I have tried to learn ASL, Arabic, Hindi, Italian and French... i remember some Arabic, a little bit of French, one phrase in ASL ("I have to pee".) and a few assorted words, and one word in Hindi. ("Elephant")

5. I have a papercut on my finger, and it is itching very badly.

6. I finally am starting to meet some of my neighbors! Woo hoo!!! They seem nice, mostly.

7. I started shaving my toes, and love the way my feet look now! They are so much prettier!! I might even take a pic of them sometime!