Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with our lovely Momof3wildkids and learning a little more about her. Here’s what she had to share.
1. What is something we don’t know about you that might surprise us?
Back in the mid-late 90’s, I worked as a health care consultant in the area of competitive intelligence. What is competitive intelligence you ask? Basically, I was a legal corporate spy for pharmaceutical, biotech and other health care related industries. This was a great career for me as I am a total information junkie. My brother-in-law’s nickname for me is Madame Fact.
I was also a flaming liberal in college. I voted for Dukakis.
2. What person (dead, alive, fictional, or otherwise) most inspires you?
This has changed over the years. More recently, I am inspired by my former priest. He was a priest for over 30 years. He fell in love with a woman and has since left the priesthood and married her. He was under tremendous pressure to stay a priest from our parish and the diocese. He was a wonderful priest because he is a wonderful man. It took tremendous courage for him to leave his life-long vocation (and really the only adult job he ever had) and to follow his heart. Other people I have been inspired by in the past have been: Flannery O’Connor, George Eliot, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
3. Tell us about the first time you drank a beer.
My grandfather, who was a big time drinker, gave me a Hamm’s beer along with a shot of Early Time’s whiskey. I was about 9-10. He made me drink a fair bit of it and told me to remember how bad it tasted (of course he was drinking the very same thing right next to me.) He would find it very ironic that I sell wine and hate beer. Whiskey is ok though.
4. When you find a moment to yourself what is the first thing you do?
I do not sit still well. Nor do I do well when my mind is idle. If I have nothing to do, I generally plan on what I want to do next. This is how I now have chickens. I had a slow afternoon.
5. What is your most treasured possession?
My flower garden. I’ve worked my ass off for the past 8 years to create a self-sustaining perennial cut flower garden. I designed it, planted it and maintained it without a lick of help. It is over 3,000 square feet of beauty 3 seasons a year.
6. What is the worst injury you’ve ever had? How did it happen?
I tore my rotator cuff when I slipped getting out of the bath tub in the cheap suburban Chicago apt I lived in when I left my parents’ house back in 93. Had to have the surgery. It sucked and still isn’t right to this day. I wish the rotator cuff tear happened in a more exciting way.
7. When was the last time you did something for the first time? What was it?
This is a great question and one that I needed to noodle on overnight. It is probably when I got the chickens two years ago. This is bad. I am going to try something for the first time later today. I must be in a rut.
8. If you were to die and come back as a person or animal, what do you think it would be?
A cat owned by one of you wacky Crasstalkers. I mean, you people treat your cats better than the humans in your lives.
9. What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
You can have it all, but you cannot have it all at once.
10. If you had a “theme song” that played whenever you walked into a room full of people, what would it be?
“Extraodinary” by Liz Phair. “I am just your ordinary, average, everyday, sane, psycho, supergoddess.”
11. Name three things that you have on you at all times.
Burt’s Bees Lip Color in Red Dahlia , my wedding/ engagement rings, cell phone.
12. What’s your favorite curse word?
Fuck. I am also fond of twatwaffle.
13. What brought you to our community and what keeps you coming back?
The great Gawker password debacle is what solidified my move to Crasstalk. I keep coming back because I am like a Mormon as far as my conservatism goes…. I am on a mission to convert one or two of you. Not really. I like coming back for the same reason that people slow down and stare at a car accident on a highway.
14. Choose five of the following fill in the blanks to answer.
I’ll shoot an 85 in golf if it’s the last thing I do. (and it very well may be the last thing I do as I would probably drop dead from excitement.)
A good marriage is like your favorite chair. It is comfortable, but still needs to be cleaned, recovered with new fabric and the cushions re-stuffed and fluffed every now and again. In other words, it needs care and attention in order for it to continue to be your favorite chair.
My childhood dream was to be a doctor.
Everyone should take time to go outdoors each and every day.
I am always helping parents who have kids who are newly diagnosed with autism figure out a path to help their kids. It is my most favorite ways to give back to the world.
Many thanks to Momof3 for subjecting herself to the interview. Take a look at our previous posts in this series to learn more about myself and Boobookitteh .
