*As anyone who has traveled through the nation’s busiest airport knows, “T is For Tango” refers to the Concourse T stop on the airport train.

 

We’re on another road trip to Florida; this time to Orlando to see our favorite mouse.  The problem is, everyone has the same idea and traffic is ridiculous.  If you follow me on Twitter, you would see that I’m not handling it too well either.  The kids, they’re fine; it’s me who’s going crazy.  So in an effort to get my mind off the fact that we have traveled five miles in one hour, I made a video and did a Skirt! 24/7 interview.

 

Road Trip Beats

 

 

 

24/7 with Funkidivagirl and Family

Skirt! is one of my favorite monthly newspapers; I always read it from cover to cover and I particularly enjoy the 24/7 page.  I have known a couple of people featured: Gretchen Hollingsworth of Paddywax Candles, Britt Menzies of StinkyKids, and I was happy to read about my Twitter pal Tami of Talking With Tami in the latest issue. 

But since I have yet to be featured on the 24/7 page, each moth I interview myself.   While stuck in the car, I thought it would be fun for all of us to answer some of the 24/7 questions.  (”All of us” means me, husband James and 7 year old Girly; The Boy was being all “teenage-ry” and didn’t participate.)

 

Words I live by:

James: “The difference between me and you is that I make this look good.” -Will Smith, Men in Black

Me: “It is not enough to do your very best; you must do what is required of the situation.” –Cathy Hughes

 

I can’t live without:

Girly: Marcus (my stuffed dog)

James: music, my iPhone

Me: sunshine, sleep, Eboost  

 

One thing I never want to do again:

Girly: be sick in the hospital

James: leave for Florida during Spring Break late in the morning

Me: be a teenager (although it was much easier than being a parent of a teenager!)

 

If I could be totally wild:

Girly: I would stand on my head all day

James: quit my job and coach AAU high school basketball

Me: be a beach bum in St. John

 

The most important thing I ever lost:

Girly: the cutest dog (Tiger Lilly, a therapy dog who helped me when I was in the hospital)

James: my Grandfather’s WWII uniform

Me: my trust in people

 

I’d like to learn to:

Girly:  knit

James: speak Portuguese 

Me: play the guitar

 

I wish I’d known:

Girly: Funkidivagirl before I was born

James: that Google was going to be so big (I would have bought stock)

Me:  that I might have wanted a third child

 

Something most people don’t know about me:

Girly: that I can dance really good

James: that I am irrationally afraid of birds

Me: I spilled my guts already

 

My first job:

James: a paper route for the Oakland Tribune, as a teenager I worked in a deli and my  first “real” job was for Wild West records

Me: a Keebler Elf, as a teenager I worked in a candy shop and in college as a Teaching Assistant

 

Never…..

Girly: forget to Twitter once a day    *(now that’s funny..is she our kid or what?)

James: start the day without a game plan

Me: be afraid to speak your mind

 

I’m guilty of:

Girly: eating too many sweets

James: keeping my phone on during the whole airplane ride

Me: speaking my mind maybe too much

 

If I were a super hero/heroine I would:

Girly: be Animal Girl and translate animal talk

James: go inside people’s minds and look at their motives

Me: be Funkidivagirl and save the world from mediocrity.  Oh wait…I already do that! 

 

 

And now, for the rest of the car ride–QUIET!

 

We finally made it to Disney World after a very long drive.  You can read all about our vacation in How To Do Disney World Like Funkidivagirl.