The instructions:

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your journal 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.

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Now, for my first interview, here are some questions from Arybba. Thanks for the questions, dearheart, they certainly got me a-thinkin’.

1. If you had to choose between La Salle and Ateneo (given that you spent four years in each school), where would you want Nathan to study in and why?

I would choose La Salle for two major reasons: 1) Since Cathy is working there, there are scholarships for which he can apply and it’ll be easier to keep an eye on him; and 2) Cathy and I want him to pursue a career that is best suited for him, and La Salle offers a wider range of courses than the Ateneo, especially in the technical side in which he has already exhibited signs of interest.

2. Suppose you were asked to produce Philippine Idol, how would you improve the show from the way it is now?

Oi vey, don’t get me started! LOL Three things I’d do: 1) Raise the age limit; 2) Fire Pilita Corrales and Francis Magalona; and 3) Improve online and offline community support.

3. What would your ideal last meal be, and which three people in your life would you share it with (hmmm … were they two questions? LOL)?

A nicer way of reminding me I’m going to die, eh, Arybba? Fine, um… a perfect last meal for me would probably feature a cream of pumpkin soup, a seafood salad, a 32-ounce steak well done a la pobre with steamed asparagus sauteed in garlic and butter with a side of garlic button mushrooms, and four slices of turtle pie.

4. You have a tattoo of Hobbes. how come you never had Calvin drawn on you?

Darling, my tattoo is Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin is lying down, laughing, on Hobbes’ stomach. The image is from The Indispensable Calvin & Hobbes.

5. Should you be given an opportunity to embark on a creative collaboration with a musical artist, who would you want to work with?

I love that question! LOL Terrible, terrible thing to have to choose one artist. But my dream is to have a Contemporary Christian album produced by Brown Bannister, with tracks featuring/produced by Jody McBrayer, Nicole C. Mullen, Michael W. Smith, Mark Schultz, and Chris Tomlin.

Now, if it were a secular album, I’d want to work with Glen Ballard (Aerosmith, Alanis Morissette, Wilson Phillips), and do collaborations with Indigo Girls, Sarah McLachlan, Deborah Gibson, and Rascal Flatts.

Every year, I take the time to honor the Christian blogs that have blessed me in many ways online in a small celebration I’ve called the Superblessed Christian Blog Awards.

To spice things up this year, as a special ‘thank you’ to all my blogger friends whose prayers and love have supported me throughout the years, and in gratitude to a great and mighty God whose love has given me life, I will donate medicine and canned goods to Project Miracle, a relief effort in the Philippine region of Bicol affected by the recent super typhoon Reming, in the names of the winners of the Superblessed Christian Blog Awards (and my son Nathan).

While I’m spearheading a small drive for medicines in my office, this particular relief box is a separate donation. If you’d like to start a small drive in your own place of influence, or would like more information about Project Miracle, please contact Mic at 0917.855.6977 or email her at jamicah95 at yahoo dot com.

The list of nominees will be posted tomorrow, and the winners announced on Saturday, in time for the sending of the Superblessed Christian Blog Awards/Nathan Deen Relief Box to Project Miracle next week.

Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act. - Prov 3:27

Andrew posted a ten things that begin with the letter ___ meme. Here’s how it works: When you see this meme and want to participate, post a comment requesting a letter (as I did at Andrew’s site), and the blogger will respond in the comment form with a letter of his/her choice. Then you go back to your blog and post about ten things that start with that letter.

Andrew was gracious enough to give me an “L.” These were the top 10 things that came to mind:

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This morning, after listening to Katharine McPhee’s goshawful new single Open Toes, Cathy pointed out to me that Kellie Pickler’s hot new single, Red High Heels, a song that’s actually doing well on the charts, is also a song about shoes.

What’s with Season 5 Idols and shoes?

I can’t get over it. I’m typing this entry from home! For the first time ever, I actually have an Internet connection in my actual house. I don’t have to go next door. I don’t have to run frantic to send a quick email. I can live blog for Philippine Idol! [Big deal, one week to go.]

Thanks to my uber-techie in-law brothers, Erikson and Rey, who bought me this wireless LAN thingamajig that allows me to go online even without a modem. Hot dawg.

Just a quick update, though, because you never know when the connection might get cut off. We’re still nannyless, which partially explains why I’m here. Cathy’s mother-in-law flew to China with my father-in-law for their first just-the-two-of-us vacation since… since… Lord, I can’t remember them ever taking a vacation, just the two of them. Since Mama Jane’s not here, and we have no nanny, it was either Cathy or me. Cathy didn’t have any choice because she’d already been absent with sick leave for the past two weeks, so that left me.

I’m not perturbed, though, because - surprise! - I am sick once again. This time a more potent bout with tonsillitis. It actually got so bad that I bogged down last Thursday with a fever bordering on 39 and the chills. I can’t recall the last time I had a fever that high. So I’m supposed to stay home and rest, but if you’ve a hyperactive three-year-old in the house running amok, well, good luck to ye. So good luck to me. I’m downing antibiotics - Zithromax, sounds like a superhero straight out of Vertigo comics - and gargling Betadine every three hours because it hurts to swallow.

Anyway, if you need anything, just holler or send me an email, you know where I’m at. And if you’re asking if I need anything, well, inclusion in your prayers for a new nanny and a quick recovery from this tonsillitis would be nice. Thanks, y’all.