Quick and easy, down and dirty…another glimpse into who and what we are.

Childhood ambition?

Barb: Dancer. Stage, not pole.

Lori: first woman harlem globetrotter or first woman major league baseball player.

Best/worst weather?

Barb: Best: 78 degrees, sunny, soft breeze. Worst: Windy all the time. I hate wind.

Lori: best = SoCal, worst = Midwest

Favorite food?

Barb: Pizza.

Lori: Pizza!

Current book?

Barb: Reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. Flipping through Make Your Creative Dreams Real by SARK.

Lori: For the Time Being by Annie Dillard

Guilty pleasure?

Barb: TMZ.com—it’s always up on my computer and I check it a dozen times throughout the day.

Lori: I’m not one for guilt, but if I had to pick one, it’s my addiction to smoking.

One quirk?

Barb: The way the dishes are stacked on the counter next to the sink before washing them (we don’t do dishwashers). They have to be a certain way or it bugs me—bowls inside one another, silverware facing the same direction, glasses lined up in a certain order. It’s all very bizarre.

Lori: One? I guess my biggest quirk would be…hmmmm, i listen to the same CD for months on end in a continuous loop until I’m sick of it and then move to the next one.

Something you’ve never done that most people have?

Barb: Bought a brand new, never-been-used car off the lot. What a waste of money.

Lori: I’ve never had road rage, and still to this day can’t figure out why everyone gets so fired up.

Favorite drink?

Barb: A toss up between Emmett’s South Pas Kiss and his Herbaltini.

Lori: right now, pomegranate martini.

Oddest job you’ve had?

Barb: Typing copy for an author who didn’t like to type or write by hand. So he’d stand there and compose out loud and I’d type what he said. It was strange. He was strange.

Lori: fireworks stand.

Last song you listened to on purpose (not on the radio)?

Barb: Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve

Lori: The Weepies, Orbiting

Cities/towns/villages you’ve lived in, in chronological order?

Barb: Minneapolis, Minn.; Brooklyn Park, Minn.; Maple Grove, Minn.; Spokane, Wash.; St. Paul, Minn.; Maple Grove, Minn.; St. Paul, Minn.; Ventura, Calif.; South Pasadena, Calif. 

Lori: seattle, wa – arcadia, ca – st. charles, mo – bloomington, in – st. charles, mo – columbia, mo – columbus, oh – oak park, ca – temporary corporate housing for 6 months each: [itasca, il – danville, va – toronto, ontario – boise, id] – glendale, ca – newbury park, ca

Teenage ambition?

Barb: Astronaut. Sally Ride.

Lori: party like a rock star, including (but not limited to) sex, drugs and rock and roll

Movie you’d most like to be a character in?

Barb: Amelie or Pan’s Labyrinth

Lori: Frida or Winged Migration