OK, so this is it... I'm gonna try my hand at going out on a limb.
I’m linking to LIVING IN YELLOW that was linked to SHE’s A BIG STAR and I am going to attempt to participate in the INTERVIEW YOURSELF blog post
So…here goes……
This morning, I opened my friend Erin’s SHE’s A BIG STAR blog and read her interview with herself – and was motivated to give it a try…. I am only a semi-transparently open book. I don’t volunteer information about myself. In fact, I rarely ‘talk about myself’ except to the extent that I babble on here in my cyber notebook – mostly too myself since no one else appears to be reading much of what I’m sayin’ :) …but on the other hand, if someone asks me a question about myself or my opinions, I most probably will be able to give a full answer right down to the smallest minutae!
…and so it begins:
1. If you could do one thing differently in your life, what would it be?
Uh’oh….right off the bat I am finding it difficult to answer this question. Not because I don’t want to answer it, but more because my answer is that there is not one thing in my life that I would go back and do differently. I have always had the view of NO REGRETS….I live in the NOW and never look back to see what ‘might have been’. I’m sure that had I made different choices at various junctures of my life, I would have had different experiences and I would most probably be in a different place….. But I followed THIS path and here is where I am supposed to be :)
I have never made a goal or life plan or anything along those lines. My diabetes counselor made me set-up a few short range goals in February. I’ve been trying to achieve them – but so far I don’t think I’ve cut the mustard…. For now I will say that in 5 years I hope to be happy and healthy and enjoying life with family and friends.
3. Do you honestly want kids?
I guess, if you wanted to go back to #2….the only ‘goal’ I’ve ever had in life is to ‘have kids’. Unfortunately, it seems that mother nature never agreed to that plan….so as of today I still have no kids of my own. I have been blessed to have friends with kids that I have bonded with over the years. And I have experienced a lot of the trials tribulations jubilations and achievements of childhood through these kids…. But I have not given up the dream of having kids of my own. I’ve been looking at the Foster Kids programs and thinking that my niche may be in that type of parenting. There are so many kids in the system that need ‘parents’. But to get to the place where I can be a foster parent, I first have to get my housing in order --- right now there’s no room in our little shoebox of a house to even raise a mouse! Hopefully soon we will remedy that by finding a way to get a larger home and then the doors will be open and let the kids come in!!!
4. What has been the best moment of your life so far?
I have many ‘best moments’ it’s hard to pick just one (or two)….Growing up in San Francisco was definitely a ‘best moment’ there
is no place in the world like My City by the Bay. The culture and ethnic diversity and the
history are so amazing. The everyone
knows everyone small-town appeal that you cannot find in most other urban
areas.
Living in Hawaii was another ‘best moment’! It’s paradise. And in Hawaii I finally got to know ‘me’ and
learn who I am and what I believe in
Speaking of believing…. Christmas morning is a ‘best moment’ I
just love watching the kids eyes open wide with wonder when they realize that
Santa really does exist!
Getting to meet Gary Allan with my friend Paula Davis was one of
the COOLEST ‘best moments’ only to be topped by riding in the elevator with him
& my friend Linda Bell….or the WEEKEND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK I shared
with Linda and Sylvia (I could tell you the details – but then I’d have to
shoot ya! LoL suffice it to say it involved a Tennessee boy in LA) – oh how I love
LOVE love mi vida loca – yes that is definitely a ‘BEST MOMENT’
Ok…so I think I could go on and on with my ‘best moments’….. I will
say one more and then move on… Some of
my fondest memories are of being out on the road with my friends following the
music and the boys in the band that make the music sound so sweet….having my
camera up in front of my face…snapping the shutter so many times that my finger
actually got sore and then just knowing at ‘that moment’ that I had just scored
one of the best photographs….
5. What is your life theme song?
I was gonna say Kenny Chesney’s BE AS YOU ARE or NO SHOES NO
SHIRT NO PROBLEMS…. Those songs
are how I view life. No facades, no worries.
Just chillaxin and enjoying the moment.
But truthfully, the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard and really the
one that best describes the way I live my life would have to be Gary Allan’s LIFE AIN’T ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL. …Life
aint always beautiful ~Tears will fall sometimes ~ Life aint always beautiful ~But
it's a beautiful ride ….. no matter how I look at it, in good time or in
bad there’s always a silver lining that makes this life I live a very beautiful
ride!
6. What is one thing you have yet to accomplish that you
want to do before you die?
I sort of started a ‘bucket list’ …this should in no way be
misconstrued as ‘goals’ (we all know how I feel about ‘goals’!!) more of a WISH
LIST of things I’d like to do. The
number one thing I want to do before I die is ride in a hot air balloon – but you
see the thing is I am TERRIFIED of heights….
7. If you could choose one thing to be known for, what
would it be?
I want to be known for
being unknown. I used to say I wanted to
be anonymously famous…I like working behind the scenes and getting things done.
I do not need the accolades and
congratulatory ‘slap-on-the-back’ that a lot of people yearn for when they do a
good deed. I prefer to do something and
then let people wonder how it happened, who was behind it all….
8. If you could do anything you wanted right in this very
moment
(no consequences, no fear, etc), what would it be?
I would hop a plane to the islands…. I would bring everyone
(family & friends) along and I would share with them the true meaning of
Aloha and Ohana. Then I would hop another plane and go join GFA on the road and
be that ‘freaky camera girl’ again and take millions of pictures of him and the
guys on stage doing what they love to do…
9. What has been the most challenging moment in your life? The very hardest moments in my life….I’ve had two. The night they brought my mom to the ER she
had three massive coronaries in a row.
The doctors were able to bring her back each time but they said if she
survived she would no longer be ‘her’ anymore.
The lack of oxygen to her brain with each coronary was so great that she
would be little more than a shell of her former self. My dad and I were there in the room with her
and I had to tell her to move on. It was
time for her to go. She didn’t want to
say good-bye. She had too many worries
on her mind. She needed to know that her
children were OK. There were so many things she did not get to say to my
siblings. To let them all know how proud she was of their accomplishments. I
promised her that they would know she loved all of them, each and every one of
them. And I told her to leave.
The other time….almost ten years later, my pop had been sick
with cancer for the better part of a year.
We knew the time was drawing closer and I made arrangements to take time
off work so that I could be with him.
The week before my work-leave was to begin I was at the house and I
helped him to his bed and to clean up and change his clothes. He said he was tired, I tucked him into bed
and told him to rest. I went home that
night planning to return in two days and stay until the end came. The next night I got a call from my
brother. Dad went to sleep. I was not there and that is one of the
hardest things in my life that I have ever had to accept.
10. Summarize yourself in one word.
PRINCESS….But that’s a different story!
…well, I did it. I answered each and every one of these questions. The questions were straightforward but the answers may have gotten a little twisted. What can I say? The mind I work with is just a little twisted too. OK... Tell me what you think….or better yet, why don’t you take the challenge TOO and answer these questions! click here
~me ke aloha pumehana
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