Nanny Goats in Panties Interview

Nanny Goats in Panties Interview

November 30, 2009, 12:39 pm
Filed under: Awesomeness

So, over at Citizen Of The Month I am participating in The Great Interview Experiment! I have the privilege of interviewing Margaret of Nanny Goats in Panties and here it is! If you’re interested, I was interviewed by Nichole of Butterscotch Sundae

This is fun, and you get to meet some awesome people, too! Anyway, here’s Margaret’s interview:

1. Where did you come up with the name “Nanny Goats in Panties” Do you
have some strange goat thing lifestyle choice?

I wish I had a better story than the truth, but those words came off of a chalkboard during an exercise in a writing class where we threw random words together. The phrase “A thousand nanny goats in panties” was born and when it came time to name my blog, that phrase sprung out from the custard-like gray matter in my skull.

As for it being a goat thing lifestyle choice, I didn’t choose the goat thing lifestyle. I’ve never owned goats and have only seen them a handful of times in real life. The goat thing took on a life of its own when readers began sending me goat pictures, goat videos, goat stories, goat… things. Now I’m drowning in them. But it’s kind of awesome.

2. Sacramento, eh…what’s your favorite place to eat there? Why? Is
it reasonably priced? Can I refer my husband next time he’s there on
business?

Awwww, poor little Sacramento. Home of the San Francisco Adjacents. We’re trying, though. One of my favorite restaurants is a place called Ink, in midtown. Owned by a tattoo guy, I think. The booths are lined with ink vials and the walls and ceilings are bedecked with red tattoo-like art work. It’s a funky casual place with great food served until well after midnight.So yeah, it’s reasonably priced and I’d totally recommend it to out-of-towners.

3. This humor concept I’m seeing prominent on your blog, is this how
you look at life all the time?

Pretty much. Even when I’m complaining and feeling cynical and negative, I’m still looking for the humorous angle in it. Because otherwise, I’d be a crotchety old cuss, chasing rugrats off my lawn with my knitting needles. I need humor to stay sane.

4. What is a human characteristic you see in real life that makes you
laugh so hard you cry?

Wow. This is a hard question. Do you mean cry because you are laughing uncontrollably? Because that doesn’t happen very often for me. I guess I’m like a diabetic when it comes to laughter. Like how you eat several small meals a day, rather than one big piggy meal which can overload your poor pancreas. That’s right, kids. Laughter is my natural insulin, regulating the blood sugar in this, my body of humor.

5. Is there some aspect of your life that you use humor to cope with?

For instance, I have teens that regularly make me worry and
occasionally break my heart, but by laughing at them, I can get past
it…what do you laugh at in order to deal with?

From a certain perspective, life itself is ridiculous. So I try to maintain that perspective. After I’ve bawled my eyes out and beaten the crap out of the proper assailants, of course. Here’s the thing: worrying and fretting never, ever works. It’s only a reaction or impulse that stems from fear and the feeling of the loss of control. If you can find a way to replace worry with laughter, more power to you. Sometimes stepping back and looking at yourself and your situation in a detached way provides relief whether laughter is involved or not.

Also, humor doesn’t fix everything and is sometimes very very inappropriate. Having said that, however, two of the eulogies that I’ve had the misfortune to deliver absolutely killed, if you’ll pardon the expression.

6.What is absolutely your favorite meal, the thing you would eat if
you knew it was the last meal you’d ever eat, and who would you eat
with?

This is your second question about food. Are my cheeseburgers showing or something? Are the french fries talking behind my back? Did the vanilla milk shake say anything that would prompt such curiosity? I’m sicking my husband, Mr Mud Puppy, on those loud-mouthed bastards!

I’m sorry, what was the question?

7.What do you absolutely refuse to blog about?

Private, scandalous stuff about myself or my family. I have to save SOMETHING for my memoirs. Don’t want to blow my wad on some free goat-bedecked website.

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