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cami is: in love married an artist a friend a sister a daughter a daughter-in-law shy an introvert dorky silly cool i took a break in november 05 |
these came from the beautiful and brave sophia. (send prayers her way as she and her husband embark on a huge journey together.) 1. How does it feel to be married? What is different about married life? And what is the same? being married is amazing. even better than i could have ever imagined. it is fun, and challenging, and comforting, and exciting. jeff loves me and accepts me and understands me, at my best and at my very worst. it is different falling asleep and waking up next to him in our own home together. just being at home is different, because for the first time in my life, i'm truly sharing everything of mine with somebody else. material things AND responsibilities. but he's a wonderful partner and i absolutely appreciate it. as far as what is still the same...i'd have to say almost everything. we still look forward to every moment we spend together. we still enjoy our together time and our independent time. we still hang out with the same people and have busy full lives. if too much had changed after we got married, that probably would have been a sign we shouldn't have gotten married in the first place. 2. What was your most memorable experience in your life? What element(s) of this made it so memorable? honestly, i think it was the birth of my brother. i was 7 years old, so old enough to distinctly remember my mom telling me that she thought she was pregnant, before she knew she was. with my sisters, i was too lately to really be aware of what was going on...but this time around was different. the best part of my memories of my brother being born was waiting with my sisters and my grandma at home, and my grandma getting the news over the phone, that it was a boy, and all of us being so excited that we joined hands and jumped around in a circle. a brother! sometime during that whole thing, i think right before we saw him for the first time, my dad took us to wendy's and we got gobots in our kids meals. it was memorable because it's my first distinctive memory of being truly happy about something that wasn't toys or candy or a trip to disneyland. 3. Now that you are married, are kids in the future? Why or why not? absolutely yes to kids. we are really looking forward to it. as i've gotten older i've started thinking more about why it is that i want to have kids. well, i think that it is one of the most selfless things to do, but probably one of the most fulfilling. of course, one could argue that it's selfish to want to be selfless, but oh well. it will probably be a few more years as we get ourselves ready for it, but we are looking forward to the challenge and the adventure. 4. What is your most embarrasing moment? i already answered that one! i don't want to dwell on those types of things anymore. ;) 5. What's the best gift you've ever received? well, jeff always gives me wonderful gifts, so i have to give him his propers. but... the best gift is one i received from my grandmother for my 16th birthday. she gave me the charm bracelet that she had started as a teenager. my mom remembered playing with it when she was a little girl. i am just so grateful to have received such a special gift, because it's a reminder of what a wonderful person she was and how fortunate i was to have been able to know her for so much of my life.
 ok...i know i'm a weirdo, but i like steve buscemi. and now i own the t-shirt to prove it. way to go donny!
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Send me an email saying, "Interview me." the beautiful and talented cyn asked me the following: 1. what was your most embarrassing moment? i had to think long and hard about this one, mainly because other than wetting my pants in 2nd grade (or was it 1st?) while waiting to be picked up by my carpool after school, there isn't really one incident that stands out. so i think the best way to answer this is what is my most embarrassing episode... ...and that would have to be the entire post-breakup relationship i had with the last ex-boyfriend i will ever have. thinking back on things i have done that make me cringe and wish it was possible to erase months of memories from my life, the desperate attempts i made to keep that confusing, half-dead relationship alive in spite of knowing full well it wasn't worth it would definitely be it. i mean, i'm a smart, mostly well-adjusted person...so why oh why did i subject myself to all the crying and fighting and sillyness? blech! i just need a good slapping, i think. me of today could definitely give me of 6 years ago a good slapping. but 6 years is a lot of time for maturing and was a lifetime ago. and making room for jeff in my life was just the thing to redeem myself. so consider this my confession, and i don't need to bother myself thinking about it again. :) 2. what was your favorite halloween costume from when you were younger? i was fortunate to have a talented and ambitious stay-at-home mom, so i have lots of good memories of the handmade halloween costumes she used to create for me and my sisters. every year she would sew and paper mache these wonderful creations for us to have the chance to parade around school feeling like whatever we wanted to be. one year, i think i was actually the first astronaut nun (i went to Catholic school, so that made sense). mom paper mached a helmet and pack for me, and then built me an entire suit out of one of those reflective metal emergency blankets (you know, the kind you would have to put in an earthquake survival kit). it was so sweet. the only problem was octobers in the san fernando valley can be kind of hot. so parading around in a suit made out of an emergency blanket was a little toasty. honestly, i don't know how good the costume looked, because i don't know if there are any pictures of it anywhere...but i sure felt awesome wearing it. and that's all that really matters when you are a little kid, right? 3. how are you and jeff similar? how are you complete opposites? jeff and i share that sort of art nerd gene that lets us appreciate the beauty and humor of things that other people might not see. not in the snobby "oh...well, YOU just don't get it because YOU aren't smart enough" kind of way. more like the "it's so ugly/tacky/unloved/low-brow that there is a place for it in this world kind of way." our love of finding "treasures" at the swap meet is one of them. or the "don't throw that away because we could make a good art project out of it" mentality is another. or disco. we are constantly opening each others' eyes to new places and possibilities, and we relish the chance to experience them together. it's all of these little things that make it so easy to be happy together, because we find it so easy to appreciate life. jeff and i are complete opposites in a few ways, but i guess that is what keeps ourselves interesting. he is a collector. i am not. you can tell that almost instantly if you visit our house. as long as i have known him, he has been a passionate and careful collector of different things. the closest i come to a collection of anything might be shoes. i tend to be a worrywort. he is not. he's really outgoing. i am not. i am very detail oriented. he can go where the wind blows him. except for cooking...he's very detail oriented there, where i'm more a pinch of this a dash of that kind of cook. but even with those differences, the wonderful part is that if either of us ever gets too extreme, the other of us can bring us back into balance. so it's a good thing. 4. what is your current favorite outfit? including shoes! since i'm a pretty nice dresser for work, i love being casual all the rest of the time - a western-style long sleeve snap shirt, blue jeans, my black rivet belt, and my black and red dr. marten cowboy boots. once my love, steve buscemi t-shirt arrives in a few days, i have a feeeling that will be my new favorite shirt. the red heart will go nicely with the red in my cowboy boots. 5. describe your dream job. well, i used to say that if i won the lottery, i'd like to be a delivery driver for a florist or a print shop a few days a week. it seems like a pretty low-stress job, bringing jobs to people or delivering fancy bouquets. if i had to really work for my dream job, i think i'd like to be an interior decorator. way back in the day i said that was what i wanted to be, but somehow along the way, that dream got pushed aside for dreams of being an orthodontist or bioengineer. but obviously, no matter how nice that paycheck seemed, i still ended up on the more creative end of the spectrum. i can't tell you how many people have asked jeff and me for decorating advice since he and i have had the chance to jazz up our place. and i don't mention that because i'm trying to toot our own horn. i say it more out of surprise, because it makes me wonder if maybe we have a little bit of a natural knack for it?
my worrywortiness is nagging me because we have a midterm in the class that we are taking on thursday, and i haven't studied yet. and i haven't done the homework. *sigh* i know i'm going to do ok, and i know the homework won't take me that long to do...but i'm torn between wanting to be supremely lazy this evening and just buckling down and studying. yes, i could do both, but that just does not computer for a worrywort...especially not for one who wants to procrastinate. but if i procrastinate, i know i won't fully enjoy myself being lazy, because i'll know that the studying is looming. so i guess i'll study first. but only until something good comes on tv.
 that's the door to the hvac closet that had to be replaced last year. jeff gave me the lei as part of my Christmas present. i bought the flowers at trader joes last night. the book under the flowers is "the book of tiki". the framed artwork in the upper left corner is actually a fine example of a swap meet find, a record album that subtly depicts Christian missionaries trying to convert some islandy-type folk (believe me, you wouldn't gather that from a quick look at it...but song titles like "do you know Jesus" kind of tip you off).
i can't be the only one around here who is tired of all the rain. rain rain rain rain. *sigh* not much to report as far as any excitement, really. i've been doing a lot of arts and crafts and cooking as we try to return some cash to our savings account that got hit by taxes. boo. no trip to asia for me with jeff, but we decided on a few days in hawaii with ben and a friend of his. we are very excited. we are also taking a marketing class through ucsd extension. just trying to better ourselves professionally. i'm waiting for jeff to come home early so we can enjoy the rest of this rainy day together. my company gives the day before and day after Easter weekend off. i took the time to clean the house and do some other errands. the only thing left to do today is shop for Easter baskets. enjoy the holiday! cami (1:01pm 04.14.06)
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