You Ask, I Answer Pt 2

Harry, Harry, wherefore art thou fictional and only 16? My love for you dost beeth illegal and perverse, oh, if only with a flicketh of my wand I could maketh you mineth. I twould kicketh Ginny’s ass for only one moment with thee and thou twee little glasses.

Right, so, onto the second part of this whole interview process…

From Sophie: Why did you choose your email address?

I am what one might call “obsessed” with Gone With the Wind—seriously, people want to buy me all things Gone With the Wind as gifts, but are always too worried that I already have whatever rare collectible they’ve stumbled upon. So, there you have the “Katie Scarlett” bit. However, Yahoo! already had a fair number of Katie Scarlett’s registered, so I got to choose a number. I have a horrible memory with numbers so I went with my bra size. There you have it internet. My email address equals my bra size, there is no shame left in my world.

From Kenju: What is the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you?

Sweet baby Jesus in heaven, I couldn’t possibly choose the most embarrassing thing, mainly because my embarrassment is never ceasing. So instead shall we go with the most recent embarrassing situation? We shall, excellent. Not long ago my boss got this wild hair that when he went for his ATV training, his executive officers (that would be me) should go along with him, because wouldn’t that be fun??

I’ll preface this for those of you who may not know me personally—I am not the ATV type of girl. I didn’t even know what an ATV was until I moved to Arkansas, and when it was explained to me I responded with “Oh, you mean like those little Barbie Jeeps?”

So, what no one tells you about ATV’s is that they pretty much do whatever they damn well please. Including refusing to go into reverse, refusing to brake, refusing to climb hills and instead bringing you nearly to the peak and then beginning a steady roll back downhill because I NEVER LEARNED HOW TO DRIVE A STICK.

Yeah, so that was a blast, I rolled down the hill within the first five minutes and landed in a patch of tall bushes, not much later I got left at the stables when all the guys drove off leaving me desperately trying to reverse, went the wrong way after getting rescued, and then got yanked and jerked off the path (and I use that term loosely) because also THERE IS NO POWER STEERING and literally drove into the woods. And when I say into the woods I actually mean into a bunch of trees. And guess what? I couldn’t reverse.

All of this while my boss was watching. I would have loved to have died except that I probably would have wrecked the ATV and then my parents would have to use my death benefits to replace it for the Air Force.

From Stephanie: What is one of your most cherished childhood memories?

For this one I’m going to have to go with a collective grouping of memories, and just say that my favorite memories of childhood all involve Christmas. I don’t necessarily mean Christmas morning with the presents and the food and the presents and the presents, but the whole Christmas season and all of our family traditions. This year is the first time that I’ve not been home for the holiday season. Last year I was lucky enough to be TDY close enough to home that I could come home for the weekends leading up to Christmas and help decorate the house and the tree. The tradition that I know I’ll carry on some day when I have little demons of my own is decorating the Christmas tree with John Denver and the Muppets playing in the background. Because there is no soundtrack to Christmas like Miss Piggy flipping out about figgy pudding (with bacon).

And last but not least from my dear, darling girl Kristi(n) (teehee): If you could be doing anything right now, what would it be?

Watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN….

Comments

[Brittany]

yes, Harry has become quite the heartbreaker! And I claim him--no, don't argue, I have two very good reasons. 1) Am single, so no icky boys stand in the way; and 2) am younger and therefore less illegal. :)

What was up with the cheesey 60's song there at the end. It had WORDS!!

And I would love to see you in that ATV... the pictures just don't do justice to the actual events...

[Becky]

Well...at least you didn't include your cup size:) Gone With the Wind is my second favorite book. What did you think of the sequel?

[Not the Boyfriend]

Brittany- Who are you calling an "icky" boy??

[shani]

Angel, didn't you actually write a sequel story to GWTW?

[Angela]

I did, I did! And won a $50 gift certificate to a GWTW memorabilia store, thank you very much, lol!

I thought Scarlett was a pretty good book as a stand-alone novel, but as a sequel to GWTW DEFINITELY not! And the movie was just an atrocity.

[Canadian Mark]

I had to laugh at your ATV experience. Too funny. I laugh with you though, not at you. I believe you probably faired much better than I would have. I can't even drive automatic. :-) Here from Michele.

[sophie]

I had no idea I was asking an embarrassing question! GWTW was a hit in my house. My Mother actually made gowns for my sister and her best friend to pretend to be Scarlett and Melanie. Thanks for the good wishes at my place!