The lovely and vivacious Sheila interviewed me! Because I asked her to! Because I think she’s fascinating so I figured her asking me questions would continue the fascinating streak! And it did! Why am I exclamating? ! Shouldn’t that be exclaiming? ! Whatever!

1. I have noticed that you have a couple of babies but I can’t seem to keep up with them. How many do you have and what are there names?

This is Allie, who is almost 12:

This is Ripley, who is 7:

This is Georgie, who is 4:

My childhood cat Little Kitty is cremated and sits in a box in my floating end table drawer.

I claim ownership over many other cats when I am in their physical presence, but I’m not technically their mama.

2. Was Dawg always a cat person or was that one of those things that he just had to learn to love? As in “Love Me, Love My Kitties”.
Dawg was always a cat person, and had cats growing up. If he had hated my cats it would have been a deal breaker because that would have meant he hated a part of me. The girls are my kids. Honestly, though, I was very surprised to learn he is a cat person because I totally pegged him as a dog person.

3. How is the adjustment going as far as living in New York versus Vermont?
I love living in New York, although I think part of the reason is because I love having the craziness of Manhattan as my work life and the quiet solitude (yes, really) of Queens as my personal life. I also really enjoy making loose plans but not necessarily keeping them because then my OCD can’t kick in when we’re five minutes late for anything. I do miss my family and friends, but when I lived in Vermont I didn’t keep in touch with them as well as I do now, so it’s one of those “blessing in disguise” things. Also, I love riding the subway and I LOVE living with Dawg. Who knew living with someone could be so much fun?!???!!!!??!!!!!

4. How did your family react when you said you were moving there to be with a guy you met online?
My dad:

My mom:

My brother was shocked but then he saw videos of me and Dawg on Cereal Wednesday and he realized how absolutely in love I am with that man.

I told Break Boy during one of our Guitar Hero jams at the new datacenter. He was shocked and really sad that I wouldn’t be staying. He asked if I was happy. I showed him this video:

He knew I was happy. His wife Knitting Girl and their kids EZA, and LLA were very sad I was leaving but were content that I’d be visiting on occasion. (I do when there isn’t an effing snowstorm!!!)

PiC and da Bomb were their version of sad to see me go, but they knew it was a very good thing considering how things at work were going from bad to much, much worse.

I dunno how anyone else felt about the matter because I didn’t bother asking. I don’t really like dealing with goodbyes.

It sucks to miss people, but that’s life.

5. Do you guys ever have to battle over who gets the blog fodder when something insane happens to the two of you?
I like surprises and he knows that, so I generally don’t know what’s being posted to his blog until everyone else knows too. The only time I know what Dawg is blogging about is when he asks me to read his post before it launches or he has a great idea and tells it to me before he gets a chance to write it down. If we both have an experience it’s fair game for us both to blog it because we each have a very different perspective on any given event. We also have different readers. And we also each consider writing on our blogs as a way of sorting through the mess in our minds, so being able to write anything down is therapeutic. :smiles:

Ok, that was beyond fun. I still owe one person her interview questions, which means I suck. Sorry!!! If you want to interview me please let me know, if you want me to interview you please let me know. And, again, the idea and offer still stands — if you have any interview questions for Dawg please let me know so I can interview him on camera. We got a few questions, but I’d rather have a bunch more. I just don’t believe there aren’t people out there dying to ask the tough questions of NYC Watchdog.

:grins:

PS – Doesn’t Sheila have a nice ass? Sybil too!