This one time... At band camp... The Yank's Karma

Haha.

How many kids (if any) do you plan to have, or do you not know?

 

I want 3 or 4 probably Big house full of kids! I love kids, I love being around them and I just love everything about them, I can't wait until I'm ready to have my own, which is still far away, but I'm really looking forward to being a mother...

 

What's your favourite savoury food?

 

Ukrainian Potato dumplings! Simple dough with potatos and cream cheese put together, and then boiled and fried if you want.. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm

I've been raised on a lot of different ethnic food, I love it...

 

If you could meet anybody in the world today who would it be and why?

If you could meet anybody who's now dead who would it be and why?

 

Sonic Youth, all of em. Lately in the past 5-6 months I've really kinda re-discovered their music (I was always around it when I was younger) and fallen back in love with it, I saw them in concert this past summer and I was just amazed by it, completely amazed....

As for someone who's passed, the first person that comes to mind actaully is Socrates. I would love to talk to anyone who died for thier beliefs, and I'd want to know why...

 

Whats your oldest memory ?

 

Cracking my head open on my grandma's brick fireplace... I was trying to walk down the stairs right by it by myself and took a tumble right into it, head first. I still have the scar from it across my eyebrow...

 

What medical procedures have you undergone?

 

Oh good lord, you may want to get up and get a cup of coffee, this may take awhile...

I've always had health problems. Always. I was born with underdeveloped lungs (from being born premature), so I know I went through some stuff with that when I was little. From ages 2-12, I was taking trips to the hospital every year in winter for my asthma, becuase it couldn't handle the change to the cold weather, so the first time it actually got really cold/snowy my thoat would close shut and I'd spend a week or two in the hospital. There I went through tubes being down my throat to help me breathe, treatments that I had to go through every hour, IV's, shots every day, having junk removed from my lungs with some kind of suction device, the works. It was an annual event, almost like Christmas...

I had my ankles in braces for a long time, they were very very weak from the time I was born to being about 4 or 5... They were NOT fun...

I haven't been in the hospital since for my asthma, so going on 5 years now (which is great) but I still have problems with it. Anytime I get a cold, I normally wind up going to the doctor for treatments to clear the crap out of my lungs, as that's directly where a cold goes for me. I've had X-rays for broken bones, a minor, very easy surgery on my back to fix one of my vertebrae that was slipping, and recently some stuff for lady problems, but I won't go into detail with that, because it's icky and gross

I'm sure there's more, prolly stuff from when I was younger that I don't remember, but that's the main bit...

 

More than enough for a couple of lifetimes lady, luck for your future.

Does your family party over the christmas period ?

 

Haha, Christmas is a funny time. My mom died very close to Xmas, as did my Grandfather, and I found my grandmother half dead on her kitchen floor on Xmas eve... A lot of people in my family (myself included) have a hard time enjoying Xmas fully... And my birthday also, as my birthday's a few days after. My mother's side of the family normally has a dinner and a small gathering, and I've always gone to that, but enjoying Christmas/my birthday is usually very hard for me. I made a devoted effort last year which pretty much failed on both days, but this year I'm gonna try once again to start enjoying Christmas again, it's been years...

 

Bloody Hell lady, drawn me to swear, that don't happen very often in company. I nearly lost my lady a couple of years back on Boxing Day, does leave a taint.

Well best I can come up with is "I wish you a happy Christmas, my dear".

Describe Wisconsin to us.

 

It's scary isn't it? Makes you paranoid around the time that it'll happen again... To me, at least.

And thank you, I'm really gonna make an effort this year

Wisconsin is a wonderful place, no matter what the people here say. It's known as the "dairy state" in America, there are lots of farms and cows, and more cows. Cows make milk, and people make cheese. Lots of it. I've come to believe I have it running through my veins. (Along with music, of course!) Besides farms, the wilderness in Wisconsin is beautiful... Hills and valleys, trees that change colors in the fall, pastures, sparkling lakes... It's amazing. I'll post some pictures when I can
I live about 20 minutes outside of Milwaukee, which is the biggest city in Wisconsin. My marching instructor once described it as a little city trying to be a big city, which is pretty much true. But I love it! You get all the advantages of a big city, like the music scene, college atmosphere, great places/shops, interesting people, good food, the whole lot, but it's a lot friendlier than an actaul big city. Milwaukee doesn't have some of the things that New York or Chicago have, but for being the smallest of the big cities, it does pretty damn well..

We also have Miller brewing (can smell the brewery from here if the wind's right, but that's not really a good thing...), and beef. Lots of cheese, beer and beef. There's a huge hunting/fishing community spread throughout Wisconsin. So it's a lot of bunch of beefy mid-westerners who like to cook out and hunt, and drink. That isn't always the best combination, mind you...

Also has a rich drumcorp/marching history, too. The Madison Scouts are one of the most popular corps in the world, and they're based out of Madison, which is our capital. (Not to mention home of the biggest party college in the US!) The Racine Scouts are the longest standing drumcorp in the US, and possibly the world for all I know, and a lot of other famous corps come out of Wisconsin that do quite well around the world.

I really love being where I'm at in Wisconsin. I'm by the city which I love, but I'm not far away from the beauty of the country. I'm really lucky in this respect...

 

Sounds a very nice place to live, enjoy it.

Were your parents born locally or are they incomers ?

 

My dad was born in Chicago (an hour south of here) and my mom was born locally. My dad's side of the family came over here from the Ukraine with my Grandparents here, so I'm second generation only...

 

I'm first generation myself on my fathers side.

Do you know anything about the Ukraine ?

 

Oh yeah, I was raised with the language, a lot of the traditions/holidays, and most importantly the FOOD! Mmmmmmmm it's amazing! But I love the fact that I was raised to appricaite it and stand by it, instead of just being completley "Americanized." I've lost a lot of the language now, and since my Grandmother died I haven't celebrated the holidays as much, and I haven't had the food in a long time becuase I'm too lazy to make it, (it takes hours), but I really enjoy being a part of it when I can be...

 

C'mon then give me a recipie and I'll try it with me and mine.

Can you cook, are you encouraged to, and do they teach it at school ?

 

Haha, a recipe for potato dumplings maybe? Would be good for a free weekend when you have nothing better to do... It's good to cook in a group though, get the kids involved, make them cut out the insane number of dough pieces!

I can cook, just not well. My father makes me cool all the meals in the house, because I'm the only woman in the house, and he seems to think it's below him. I make simple things, mainly becuase I dont' have time to cook anything fancy. We're given a basic cooking class in 6th or 7th grade, I can't remember, but it's basically teaching us how to use the stove/oven/microwave so we don't burn the damn house down... Cooking classes are offered in high school, but not required...