The other day I was contacted by a new reader who had a bunch of questions for me re: IGE. As I was typing the answers to a few questions out, I decided, hey, why not share with everyone?
And so…20 questions with IGE:
1. What type of work do you do? I work in the marketing department at a history museum. I design collateral pieces, event posters, update our website, oversee social media efforts and do pretty anything else that needs done. “Marketing” is code for “we do it all!”
2. Do you have any children or pets? No, and no.
3. What are the kitchen gadgets, tools, or appliances that you couldn’t live without? Here is a list of my must have kitchen items.
4. Where did you get your tofu press? I have a TofuXPress tofu press.
5. Were you raised on healthy eating & exercise or did you develop this as an adult? Absolutely. Growing up, my Mom had a healthy, home-cooked meal on the table every night at 5:30pm, and if I wasn’t sleeping, eating, or in school I was usually dancing, which kept me very active!
6. Are you the saver and bill-payer in your house or is your husband on board, too? I run the finances as far as paying bills, etc., but Ben and I have the same views on saving for our future, as we’d both like to retire young and move to the Amalfi Coast. :D
7. How long have you been married? 3 years last April, and counting!
8. How old are you? 27. Soon to be 28. Sickening.
9. What brand of pots and pans do you use? I use Calphalon pots and pans, although I have a small skillet from Target that I use for eggs. It’s cheap and thin which makes it heat up quickly and seems to cook them perfectly!
10. Do you count calories? Sometimes. I like Livestrong’s Daily Plate tool for tracking calories in and exercise calories out.
11. Do you ever drink soda? Nope.
12. What kind of tea do you buy? Blech, I hate tea! I will make an exception for Trader Joe’s Vanilla Cinnamon Black Tea, though. It’s delightful!
13. Do you hate washing dishes? Absolutely. In fact, I was banned from washing dishes when I was growing up. Between my two brothers and I, we each had to pick from either clearing the table, washing the dishes or loading the dishwasher after dinner every night. I backed up the sink trying to stuff too much food down the disposal one too many times, and was only allowed to clear the table or load the dishwasher after that. MUCH easier tasks, if you ask me! ;)
14. Do you hate the clean-up after cooking? I am a very messy cook, so yes, yes I do.
15. Are you a Type A, B, C, or D personality or a combination of? Total control/clean freak, anal Type A personality here. I’m fun. :)
16. What are your thoughts on wasting food? (Are you a member of the Clean Your Plate Club?) Card-carrying member of the clean your plate club here! However I don’t think there’s any point in cleaning your plate if you took too much food and are full before your plate is clear. I use salad-sized plates to avoid this problem!
17. What do you keep on your kitchen counters? Keurig, utensil holder, toaster, knife block, microwave, paper-towel dispenser, banana hanger/fruit basket, TV, food scale!
18. Do you favor a certain brand of spices? Do you have a large assortment of spices? I usually buy Tone’s spices, and have near insane amounts of them.
19. Do you have dessert every day? Oh yes. Every day.
20. Do you have certain skin care and hair care products that you swear by? I usually buy whatever shampoo/conditioner is on sale at the store – making sure to get the volumizing formula of whatever it is.
Here’s my skin routine. Although now that it’s summer, and my skin isn’t as dry aka I breakout less, I’ve swapped the salicylic acid based Clean & Clear Dual Action Moisturizer for Oil of Olay Total Effects Fragrance-Free Daily Moisturizer in the morning. It feels like silk.
I also now use Oil of Olay Total Effects Eye Transforming Cream twice a day. Three cheers for anti-aging!
So there you have it – 20 things you now know about me! Want to know anything else? Just ask. :)
I HATE wasting food. I’ll move leftovers from the fridge to the freezer, back to the fridge and only then will I trash it! My husband hates leftovers so it’s always up to me to eat them ;)
1. I work at a University as the Director of Athletic Communications. Basically, I keep stats, write press releases, write feature stories, do marketing and basically anything else that needs to be done on gameday!
Question #1. What kind of work do you do?
I teach second grade. This summer I’m also working at a day camp to stay busy!
11. Do you ever drink soda? On occasion. I usually stick with water, but I do enjoy a pop from time to time!
I picked this question, cause I JUST did a review of the SodaStream soda maker on my blog this week! {complete with a video showing how easy it is.}
http://jdavissquared.blogspot.com/2011/06/sodastream-review.html
2. Do you have any children or pets?
Easy one :)
No, and yes – 3 cats.
#1 What type of work do you do? I’m a dental student! Only two more years until I’m a DMD!
I love 18 Rabbit bars – had my first one in San Fran!
Children or Pets: No kids, 1 boxer dog :)
#19- I wish I could have desert everyday. However, I usually settle for some fresh fruit for desert. Mangoes are delish!
I meant dessert :/ Haha, it took me months to not write dessert when I meant desert (I live in AZ). As you can see, I have problems with the reverse opposite :)
#2- I have 3 crazy boys, ages 6, 4 and almost 2!! They keep my husband and I on our toes. There is never a dull moment in our house:)
Oh and no pets!!
2. Do you have any children or pets? Yes–one son, who will turn 5 next Saturday! I have three cats, and it sometimes feels like 300!
11. I gave up soda last summer. After about a month I didn’t even crave it anymore (this after drinking at least one diet coke a day for at least 6 years)! Now I just down lots of coffee from my Keurig instead :)
#16 – Definitely part of the clean plate club. It’s awful! When I go out to eat, I have to split an entree with someone or else I over eat. I started using your tip on using smaller plates, too. Definitely helped out!
I eat dessert every day!
Were you raised on healthy eating and exercise? Yes, like you, my mom had dinner on the table every night at the same time. We had to sit down as a family and eat dinner together. I was also in dance almost my entire life, so that kept me very busy and active!
I have been married for 15 months! Exciting
#11… I used to drink soda. Now, almost never. An occasional one like 1 or 2x a year.
#12 What kind of tea do you buy?
St. Johns Good Mood Tea. It works!
1. What type of work do you do?
I work as a Paramedic Specialist in Dallas County and Story County! I go on calls at all hours of the day and night with a smile on my face! Gotta love those 0300 wake up calls!
#2. Have two adult daughters…..who produced my 4 wonderful grandchildren. No pets….grew up on farm and that’s where pets are happiest, I believe.
12. Myself.. edging my way over the tea cliff of no return.. so far I do make a mean cup of Milk Chai! Learned from the best Indian kitchens around! I purchase Lipton Yellow label from the Indian grocery. Check out the recipe below.. you might take a likin’ to it! :) Those rabbit bars look like bird feed rolled in honey.. crazy thing is.. I think I’d love them!
http://cutekitchencook.blogspot.com/search/label/Beverages
ps- please forgive my lack of posting in my blog.. no need to give me grief.. my very few followers already have ;) I shall return to regular post soon! :)