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Open Book Part 3

Posted on Tuesday 22 January 2008

Mandy asks: How do you change the tail light in a 2003 VW Jetta? (I ask out of selfishness, since I need to know this!)
Take it to Advance Auto Parts, or some equivalent parts store. Bat your eyelashes and flip your hair around. They’ll be like putty in your hand. And you’ll have a new tail light.

Mandy asks: In all seriousness, what’s the event/thing/person/etc. in your life that you believe has most defined you and why?
The event would probably be when my stepdad, Dennis died. I know that sounds morbid, but I learned more about myself, about God, and about God’s people the day I lost my stepdad. I learned that life was about way more than I thought, and that God reveals Himself most in the valleys.

scott asks: when faced with the decision of mayonnaise or mustard…..what do you normally choose?
Mustard, no question. My summer of working at the ballpark concession stand and sticking my arm in a vat of mayo to refill the bottles was enough to make me never want to eat mayo on a sandwich again. I don’t mind it mixed in with stuff, but I can’t bring myself to smear it on a piece of bread. It’s kind of making me gag just thinking about it.

Becky asks: Have you ever wished you were named something else? If yes, what would your name be?
I’ve never really wanted to be named something else. I have wished that my name meant something other than a distilled drink.

Michaela asks: What would you rather do: Be on the Planet of the Apes, but you’re a human, but you can’t speak, or, be the first monkey on earth to speak like a human, but you’re a monkey?
Wow. I would have to say, I’d rather be the first monkey on earth to speak like a human. Mainly because monkeys don’t have to shave their legs.

10 Comments for 'Open Book Part 3'

  1.  
    January 22, 2008 | 12:58 pm
     

    i just threw up a little in my mouth. a vat of mayo that you had to stick your arm in? gross.

  2.  
    January 22, 2008 | 1:03 pm
     

    Well, it’s not like I stuck my arm in mayo…it was more, once the mayo vat got low, I was having to stick my arm in this abyss. It was gross.

  3.  
    January 22, 2008 | 1:14 pm
     

    Monkeys don’t have to shave their legs? That’s awesome. I think I’m going to try to use it as a catchphrase. I think it’ll catch on. :)
    (And I’m trying not to think about the large vat of mayo. And I like mayo.)

  4.  
    January 22, 2008 | 1:25 pm
     

    It’s funny, I have spent most of my life wishing I had a different name! A perfect example of the issue I have with our name is this: on Rock of Love, where women were competing, on purpose, to date Bret Michaels, there were three girls named Brandi/y/ee/ie. THREE. That does not say good things about us.

  5.  
    January 22, 2008 | 1:29 pm
     

    Brandi, my favorite thing about your comment is that you specified that the Brandy/i/ee/ie’s were competing ON PURPOSE to date Bret Michaels. ON PURPOSE. That made me giggle.

    And yeah, we do have a stripperish/bimboish name. But it’s better than Candy. Or Bambi. Right?

  6.  
    January 22, 2008 | 1:59 pm
     

    or Buffy. (i have met someone named buffy in real life, not on tv)

    also, i don’t think i’d want to take the chance to have mayo smeared all over my arm by putting it down in the abyss. still gross.

  7.  
    January 22, 2008 | 2:19 pm
     

    Okay, I love mayo. Even to the point that when this whole diet thing started 2 years ago I searched until I found low fat mayo. No kidding.

    I like how you answered the Planet of the Apes question. Your thought process never ceases to amaze me. It would not have crossed my to think about monkeys not shaving their legs. But I still hold to my feelings that feet and monkeys are the ugliest things God ever made.

  8.  
    January 22, 2008 | 2:25 pm
     

    It is better than Candy. I had a roommate named Candy once. Our other roommate was named Angie. Our answering machine sound like you had accidentally called the Playboy mansion - “You’ve reached Angie Brandi and Candy.”

  9.  
    Krissy
    January 23, 2008 | 8:24 am
     

    Brandy, Monkeys don’t shave anything…

  10.  
    January 23, 2008 | 9:47 am
     

    Actually, monkeys wearing clothing really freak me out. Just sent a shiver down my spine. I blame the fine people of Russia for this. . . and that creepy monkey in the Pirates movies.

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