The Great Interview Experiment Revisited....

:: sassy Erika ::

So a couple of years ago I participated in the Great Interview Experiment that Neil over at Citizen of the Month invented. You know, before I fell off the blogging wagon and everyone forgot who I was and stopped hoping I would update my blog. This fall he decided to do the whole crazy mess again. And aren't I glad? I was running out of things to write about. Good timing Neil!

So, being a first class procrastinator with a stupid busy life, I thought oh yeah, I can totally do this thing! And then promptly started panicking and putting it off for the better part of the week. But fear you not! I have successfully interrogated interviewed Erika from DRYink.org. And I'm just gonna come right out and say it, she's funny, she's feisty, and if we lived closer to each other I might be tempted to beg her to be my friend. Lucky for her we live on opposite sides of the continent.

Dear faithful readers (all three of you) - meet Erika!

1. Your blog is called Dryink, which has a great ring to it, tell me why Dryink and what it means.

It's actually DRY Ink. The letters in DRY represent the first initial of everyone's last name, (my husband's (and youngest 2 children), mine, and my first son, Jacob, from a previous marriage.) It actually came out of an greeting on our home answering machine. We had just gotten married and I was trying to decide what to put on the machine. I joking said something like: you have reach the home offices of D, R and Y, please leave a message after the beep. It then evolved into DRY Inc., like our own little company. But people always thought I was saying 'DRY Ink' and it just became funnier to me that way. It is what I call our family to this day.

2.You love to take photos, but you aren't a professional photog, right? Is that something you'd like to pursue someday? Do I even have my facts straight?

I have had a few paying gigs. I go back and forth about the level I want to pursue it at. Some days I'm ready to quit my day job and others I worry I wouldn't love it as much if it was my job. For now I'm happy taking on a few clients and lots of friends and family work. For now.

3. You have three kiddos: 'fess up, what's the hardest part of parenting for you, and what do you love most about them? Any plans for more?

Hands down - patience is the most difficult thing for me. I'm also learning this teen-ager thing is really no fun either. He keeps thinking he's an adult and knows what he is talking about.
What I love is teaching them and watching them learn and grow into the people they will eventually be. I'm also pretty passionate about children's books, so having people to read to/with is just about the best thing since sliced bread to me.
As for more, yes, we are actively trying to adopt an older child through the state. We have been on a waiting list for almost a year now. I'm at peace with it though. I really feel like we have done what we need to do and if and when it's supposed to happen it will.

4. You have had some creepy blogstalker issues that have caused you some grief, so to speak. When you decided to start blogging again, what things (if any) are you doing differently this time around?

My full name is no longer on this blog I might mention it, but it isn't copy written at the bottom etc. anymore. I don't ever mention the other two last names. Ever. I also don't post about work any longer. Previously I had written some poetry about it. Although colleagues agreed I had not crossed any lines, I just figure why tempt the crazies?

5. What's your single most 'can't live without it' vice?

Probably the internet. I love being connected/plugged in and can't imagine my life without it. Pedicures are probably a close second.

6. What word do you love? What word do you hate?

I love the word hippopotamus. It's just really fun to say and I'm really just a 15 year old boy at heart. I hate hate hate derroatory terms for female genatial. I have no problems cussing, and do it way too much but the two slang terms for vagina make me cringe!

7. What's your current favourite song?

I'm totally digging on Bugalu by Garotas Suecas right now, but I also have a serious girl crush on Neko Case. Her Middle Cyclone is sublime.

8. Comfort or speed?

I'm always a speed kinda girl. If you go fast and make it look good? I'll grimace through that any day over safe or comfortable.

9. If money was no object, what would you do with the rest of your life?

I'd alternate skiing in the winter and surfing/hanging at the beach in the summer, and of course, taking pictures of all of it.

10. Okay and one last question: if a bumper sticker could sum up your life, what would it say?

Wow this is tough. All I can come up with is something cheesy like maybe, Help out, Have fun and Make it look good. But that just makes me sound like some kind of hippy. My husband is always accusing me of being a raving liberal, so maybe I actually am? (He is joking. I do have more liberal views than he, (especially socially) but would in no way be considerated a liberal. I am too fiscally conservative.)