Many thanks to reader wealhtheow for raising her hand and volunteering to be the first Spotlight supahstah! I love her blog comments and insights.
Do you do any impressions or imitations? None at all, but my husband
does. He can never get the movie lines quite right, however. I, on the
other hand, have a great memory for lines. So I feed him the correct
quotes and he does the impressions. We are quite the party trick. If,
you know, we ever WENT to parties.
I'm impressed! And your soul sister on movie lines. Please see my "Anne of Green Gables" comment below. (And no sweat on the no parties thing; Fair Finley isn't a party goer, really. She just throws them.)
What's your perfect day spent with a close friend? Jamila and I
actually JUST did this. We took a midweek beach trip with our two boys,
who are BFFs. A day on the beach, sun, sand, and waves. Dinner at a
restaurant with a built-in playground, so we could drink cocktails while
the little guys amused themselves. It was more fun than a barrel full
of monkeys, especially since our children are toilet-trained and monkeys
aren't.
Ha ha ha. Are you two ever tempted to go down the slides post-cocktails? I might be.
Do you reread books or rewatch movies? Or never? If so, which ones?
I am a chronic re-reader/re-watcher. I can't even BEGIN to list them
all. Frequent rereads are Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising" sequence,
Austen's "Pride & Prejudice" and "Persuasion," Annie Dillard's
"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," Ursula K LeGuin's Earthsea series, and the
Anne of Green Gables books. If a book is worth reading once, it is worth
reading multiple times. I rewatch Farscape at least once a year.
Hooray to all that. I have a few "Anne" posts coming up. My husband and I recently watched the Megan Follows miniseries and I vowed to him I could "Rocky Horror" every single line, given that it was my 34,987th viewing. It was his first viewing, though, thus he had to ask me to stop saying every line about the time Matthew picks Anne up at the train station. Also, Ursula LeGuin? YES.
Any tips on getting back up when life gets you down? Fake it until
you make it. Obviously this won't always work, but most of my
life-getting-down moments involve not being able to stick to a routine,
whether that is cleaning the house, a good diet, exercise, or being the
kind of mother I want to be. If I wait until I'm inspired to leap back
on the horse, I will NEVER do it. But if I just grit my teeth and haul
myself back up regardless of whether I feel "prepared" or not, I find it
works. It's taken decades for me to figure out that there will never be
a time where it is all easy for me. But it doesn't NEED to be easy to
be worthwhile.
BIG proponent of "fake it until you make it" myself. Sometimes I start smiling to give myself a shove toward a better mood, too.
Favorite drink? Mojitos. With herbs from my garden. Mint is classic, of course, but basil is DIVINE, as is lemon verbena.
I love unusual beverages.
Beach, mountains, desert, or other? Beach, pretty much every time. Any kind of beach, anywhere.
You can take the girl out of NorCal... :)
Wilfair question: Would you go in the pool if Monty and Gomery were
working in the nearby motel office? Or *because* they were in the motel
office? Probably BECAUSE. The truth is I can be quite terribly shy, and
if I was swimming in the pool then I wouldn't need to talk to them or
worry about staring at them.
Great answer. I think Fair really would love to go swimming, but given that one or both of the Overboves is usually in the motel office or the diner, they'd be able to see her, and that fills her entire being with flummox, given that she isn't a natural bathing suit person.
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THANK YOU, wealhtheow, for your witty thoughts and opinions. You mentioned Jamila, who has made some fantastic comments on the blog and who will have her own Spotlight later this week! Oh yeahhhh.
Oh, and I shall choose a special photo for everyone's Spotlight, because choosing special photos is an enjoyable activity. So wealhtheow, here is your special Spotlight photo. You will know exactly what and where this is. Other lovely readers, today's Spotlight star hails from a California region full of wonderful and whimsical murals, and since I believe she has a lot of both qualities, I'm making the pairing.
In a word: Eureka!
