An interview from FriYet

So as friyet says “You asked for it, you got it!”  Below is an interview from friyet.  Now friyet has known me my entire life and we are good friends.  So let me say up front, very good questions, and I only saw one of them coming.

Now that your family is expanding to include a son, if you could go anywhere in the world to raise him, where would it be?

I had to think about this for a while.  The whole thought/worry of being a good dad scares the crap out of me.  Where would I most like to raise my baby boy?  Well this place would have requirements.  It needs to have cultural institutions nearby.  I was lucky that my parents took me to plays, symphonies, and museums.  Obviously, schools need to be good.  We need to be somewhat near a major city/airport.  We need to be able to fly to see family in Utah and Thailand.  Need to have a neighborhood feel (house and trees, not apartments and traffic).  For right now, where we are is good with me, but wherever we go next will be similar…..maybe closer to Utah.

You seem to have a clumsy streak,  how do you think this developed, or was it hereditary?

The clumsy streak is hereditary, from my mom.  She has a famous story of tripping and falling when I was a baby and chipping both bones in both her elbows….and I didn’t even bother to wake up.  Now first I must list the recent clumsy things that had happened.

1. 2001-tore ligaments in my ankle basketball.  Good thing out of this was I wasn’t too mobile and ended up spending more time talking to my wife-to-be
2. 2003-smashed my head when setting up my total gym requiring I think 6 staples.  Not “good” result out of this except a good story.  I was alone when it happened and when I noticed I was bleeding profusely I grabbed a roll of toilet paper and applied pressure to my wound and drove myself to the hospital.  They had a good laugh at my expense at the hospital.
3. 2006-broken thumb playing tennis.  I managed to just trip over nothing and land just right to break my thumb.  I blame my out of shape body, it was the first tennis game of the year and my winter belly was pulling me forward.
4. 2007-”the mailbox”  I ran into a stationary object while commuting to work on my bike.  I was going fast and dodging a recycle bin as best I can recall.  Went down hard, destroyed my helmet but got back up and rode to work in a daze.
5. 2008-”the stop sign” OK this isn’t what you think, I didn’t hit it.  I was trying to balance at a stop sign as I waited for a car to drive by, but it turns out two cars were coming and I simply got to a point and said “Oh S#@T!” and fell over.  I had clipless pedals (which really means my shoes are clipped into the pedals-go figure)
6. Last week fell in the driveway on ice….OK not a real injury, but it was recent and my elbow still hurt.

As you can tell, most of these are sports related.  I think it is just a matter of time.  Everyone I know has had injuries, most of them more worse than mine.  It just seems that mine are odd and usually funny.   OK further proof this falling is hereditary, my brother.  He once “slipped on a carrot” and had to go to the hospital.  He once ended up at the bottom of a hill and his bike was in a tree at the top of the hill (still don’t understand the physics that were in action there.  There was no jump and his bike was 4-5 feet off the level ground hanging in the tree at the top of the slope).  He has also been injured enough that he has had to have surgery.  See, its just not me, I just tell better stories.

 Explain “mountain dew and milkshakes”

Mt. Dew and MilkShakes blog name arose out of me wanting a blog name that seemed like nonsense but when you knew me would make you think “hmm, that really fits”.  This name celebrates two of the great joys I find in life (maybe for you it is a fine wine or a special coffee).  First of all my only major addiction in life is Mt. Dew.  I have been drinking it since I started working for a living (primarily for it’s wonderful empty sugar calories).  It is more of a fixation than a true addiction.  You see I work in the cube world and life can be at times a combination of the movie “Office Space” and a Dilbert cartoon.   I am not a programmer who stares at code all day, I sit in a cube and rewrite the same reports again and again.  While this is not my total job it does drive me to drink….Mt. Dew at a alarming rate.  Mostly drives me to get up and do something other than stare at my computer and going to the fridge is a good alternative.  MilkShakes is also an ode to one of my great loves in life, a good milk shake.  When I was just out of college and could afford ice cream all the time I would have a homemade milkshake every night.  Favorite flavor is strawberry when it is the season, otherwise a vanilla shake works for me.

Sadly as I have approached and passed 30 and got married I can’t have my milkshake every night anymore without exacerbating an every expanding waste size.  It only takes your wife nicknaming you “pillow” and laughing at you saying “you have a muffin top, tee hee hee” to make me reduce milkshakes to a special occasion food.

I know you have made a list of 10 favorite movies, but that was a while ago, has that list changed any in the last 5 years.

Ok, so to continue the meme follow these instructions:

Top 10 movies right now in no particular order (that is my caveat that I could leave a really great one out but please forgive me)

1-The Big Lebowski (I lived with “the Dude” and watch this with him.  It is just way too good)

2-The Right Stuff (Love it every time.  I love the book equally)

3-Amelie (a French one that is GREAT. If you haven’t seen it, watch it, with subtitles please)

4-Bourne Trilogy (OK, because of how the movies were set up I consider them one move that was released separately.  I would pick the first one if pushed)

5-Juno (this is a favorite right now and we’ll have to see how it holds up over time.  Dialogue in this is so great I can’t even explain)

6-Lock, Stock, and Two smoking barrels (this will just always have happy memories of laughing at this one with the Dude as well.  The slow-mo shot of the stoned girl materializing out of the couch and firing the machine gun is just awesome)

7-Almost Famous (just for the Music alone this is great.  Having a Kate Hudson in it also helped)

8-Finding Nemo

9-Kill Bill (this falls under the same rule of Bourn Trilogy, they are one movie)

10-Whale Rider (what to see me weep like a babe, put this movie in)

Describe your favorite memory that has a sunset or sunrise included.

Well this was hard.  I tend to have a camera to my face if I am somewhere nice at sunset.  I rarely see sunrise.  But with some memory help from J, I would have to say our “honeymoon” on a Thai beach in Krabi.  We had really never had personal time in Thailand and it was beautiful.  Warm, clean, and romantic. 

Ok, so if you would like to be interviewed by me please

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.

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