I've got this energy beneath my feet

What are your deal breakers in a relationship?

Infidelity. I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to that.

What is (or would be) your DJ name?

I already have one. It's DJ Goldilox.

Goldilox in da house!

What was the most embarrassing hobby you've ever had? 
Submitted by Billie Fable.

Oh God. I don't think Vox's servers are large enough for me to go into detail about all my embarassing hobbies.

See, in my youth, I was quick to jump on the bandwagon with whatever was trendy or of-the-moment. Whatever it was, I was into it. I wasn't a conformist. I just enjoy being in the midst of a good frenzy.

Probably the most puzzling, embarassing and time-consuming hobby I had was collecting erasers.

Yes. Erasers.

I don't know if this hobby was happening on the mainland, but it was a HUGE deal in Hawaii. Little erasers shaped like everything under the sun....horses, dinosaurs, food, flowers, sushi, palm trees, Hello Kitty characters, etc.  Everything about them appealed to me - they were tiny, colorful, cute and dirt cheap enough that my parents would never say no when I asked for more.

The hobby was huge amongst girls in my 4th grade class. We would carry our precious collections around in see-through Sanrio pencil boxes. Lunch periods would be spent painstakingly organizing our pristine erasers in a manner that might have hinted towards the early stages of OCD. We NEVER used those erasers to erase anything. They never even came close to pencil lead. Erasing was a job for Pink Pearl - not my adorable clown head eraser.

The fad kind of died down during the end of the school year. Slap bracelets and an impromptu hoola hoop resurgance tore us away from our miniature rubber trophies. When I moved back to the mainland, my new friends thought my erasers were cute, but strange to collect.

To the best of my knowledge, my collection is still somewhere in my parent's basement. I believe it did survive one of the great Dad-was-bored-on-a-Saturday-afternoon purges. It was an impressive collection that I bet even my dad could respect.  

Video:  Show us your favorite TV or movie villain. 
Submitted by Felipe Anuel.

Darth Vader is my favorite movie character ever. Villain or not. I'm such a nerd. :-)

What kind of camera(s) do you own?

 

I use this...

Nikon D50

with this lens...

Nikkor 18-200 VR

and I carry this on me at all times...

Canon SD750

What are your plans for the weekend?

Saturday: the boyfriend and I are going to a frame shop to pick out mattes for his precious prints. He claims to need my expert eye for matching colors. I'm always pleased when someone needs one of my obscure talents. After that we're getting coffee and heading into DC to see what's going on there for the holiday weekend. For dinner, we're attending a friend's BBQ.

Sunday: attending an early show for PotC3 and doing lunch with the family. I'll probably do some chores and then have dinner with the boyfriend and his parents.

Monday: The boyfriend and I are thinking about checking out the festivities downtown. I want to go back to Gravelly Point and watch the planes lane. I could do that all day.

So I went to the dentist today and found out that I need to have my crown replaced. The implication I got from my new dentist is that the work done by my previous dentist was a little shoddy. Apparently the crown is starting to come away from the gum. Sounds awful, right? I don't feel a thing. THANK GOD.

I should have expected something like that. Every time I go to the dentist, I'm prepared to hear something along the lines of "all of your teeth are going to fall out of your head." I figure if I go in expecting that, being told I have a cavity won't seem like such a hassle.

When I got the original crown put on 6 years ago, I didn't think that I would be forking over another couple of hundred to get it replaced. I'm not too jazzed about the prospect of making several trips back to the dentist and living off of soft foods while the temporary is in.

Screw you, crappy crown!

On a happier note, I got a free latte at Starbucks today. I wanted raspberry syrup, but they were all out. So I was all "awww, okay. Cinnamon?" And the cashier was like "we have that. And it's on the house." Now I thought she meant that the syrup shot would be free, so I went to hand her card. The cashier was all "nope, it's on the house. It's our way of thanking you for being such an easy-going customer." SCORE! See, it pays to be nice and not take out a minor inconvenience on a cashier. Be nice to your local barista and everyone else for that matter.

This guy rocked. He was in 219 (I was in 219A) and he busted these moves during every game - no matter how badly we were losing. The organization loved him so much that they put together this little montage. I hope they give him lifetime season tickets or something along those lines.

What are you going to do with your tax return?
Submitted by KB.

I'm depositing it into my high-yield savings account. Yeah, I surprised myself with that one! This will be the first year I don't blow it all on some camera-related accessory or something of that nature. Maybe I'm finally becoming a grown-up?

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