I needed some blogging ideas so I asked Alissa to interview me.

Thanks, Alissa, this was fun!

1. In honor of your upcoming vacation to Jamaica, what has been your most memorable vacation so far?
It’s hard to pick just one! Of course, our honeymoon taught us the wonders of all-inclusive vacations! Every one we’ve been on has been fantastic. However, one stands out …

Our trip to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, was rather unusual. They were filming Celebrity Mole at the resort (of those in the cast, we saw Angie Everhart, Dennis Rodman, Mark Curry, and Corbin Bernsen. Corbin was wearing short-shorts.)

There would be random restaurant closures (without notice, or, maybe they posted something in the lobby which was really far from our room!). Some parts of the resort were off-limits. The folks in the room next to us must have been on crew, and would leave their rooms early in the morning without turning off their alarm, which was set at 5am. After calling the front desk someone came and shut it off … but hit SNOOZE! This happened more than one day.

2. What is your earliest childhood memory?
My earliest memory clips aren’t the most exciting …

I remember lying in my crib looking at the animal wallpaper, crying. I must have just woke up, and as I lay there I remember thinking I didn’t know why I was crying, but I kept crying anyway.

I also remember standing in the doorway of a kitchen, looking up at an old woman who had the refrigerator door open. I asked my mom about this once, and she wasn’t sure who it was, it could have been either my great-grandmother or great-aunt.

This was a little later, but I remember in nursery school, I saw my friend’s show-and-tell toy before show-and-tell, and she wanted me to forget what she brought. I told her I did, but I still remember it was a play sewing kit.

3. If reincarnation exists, what animal would you like to come back as and why?
A cat. All they have to do is eat, sleep, play and cuddle. It’s too tough being a stray, so I’d want a nice family, of course!

4. If you had to choose between never being able to turn off the TV or never being able to watch TV again, what would you choose?
I’m a TV junkie. It’d have to stay on all the time! (I can always tune it out if nothing is on!)

I can change the channels, right?

5. What advice can you give me regarding my upcoming wedding/marriage?
If you’re looking to learn from my mistakes 🙂 …

For the wedding itself:
1) Whenever possible, prepare things ahead of time.

I should have prepared checks for all the vendors, but instead just grabbed my checkbook (which was on the last check!). Good thing hubby was staying at our apartment the night before and could grab a new book. He was stuck paying people, when I had had all the info with me … oh well!

I also saved the seating chart until the last minute (I knew where people were sitting, but hadn’t created the map for the hotel). We wound up with two tables in the wrong place (an 8-person table was swapped with a 10-person table), so some family members switched table numbers and/or rearranged themselves. The staff did set up another table for some reason. My in-laws ended up being mixed in with my family.

2) Thinks will go wrong. Don’t let them stress you out!
As long as you are married at the end of the day, it was a success!

And for marriage?
It seems every relationship is different, so there are going to be many paths to a successful marriage.

My husband thanks me all the time when he sees our friends’ wives nagging/controlling their husbands … I don’t know, nagging doesn’t seem to be the way to go!

Remember that you are individuals, and getting married doesn’t change that. For me, we lived together for four years first, so really, the only changes after the wedding were my last name, a ring on my finger, and being able to file joint taxes!

Wanna participate? The “rules”…
1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by e-mailing you five questions. I get to pick them, and you have to answer them all.
3. You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.