03.16.10: Le Trix --> Maeko-Mae-Mae

Le Trix wrote:

1. When you're feeling bummed for no reason (OR EVERY REASON!!) what tricks do you use to pick yourself back up?
2. What is your favorite sound & why?
3. What item of clothing in your closet always makes you feel great about yourself when you put it on?
4. Go to karaoke song? If you don't have one which song might you consider of all sanity left your body ;)
5. A place you've never gone but have always wanted to visit?

Maeko/Mae-mae says:
Hmmmm... Gotta think.

1. When I'm feeling shit-tay, what do I do to make myself feel better? Hmm. I just don't know.
   Sometimes, I'll turn to make up. Experiment with a new look, or buy a make up treatment that will fix something about my face I hate. Or I'll buy myself low-fat ice cream and a tub of Trader Joe's dunkers cookies and watch a bunch of girly TV and paint my nails.
   
   Lately, I've been obsessively watching Being Erica, which airs on Soap Net, Hulu and CBC (it's a Toronto TV show). Everything about Erica's life (other than being 32 and unmarried) reminds me of my life. I think you might like the show... It's really fun. She time travels! It's a sci-fi girly show! Without all the space stuff.
   
   I also read a book or cook something yummilicious.
2. What is my favourite sound? Why did you have to choose such a TOUGH ONE!
   
   I used to love the sound of the ocean. Something very calming about it. But now, I like silence. Or a quiet house with a bit of TV in the background. It means I'm home, where I can drop all my masks or facades. Where the people I love love me back without agency and I can stop feeling like I need to protect myself, drop some act of being perfect and bubbly and happy all the time. Plus, it's where I can play with my Bear Dog and snuggle with Husby. If the house didn't have their noises or sounds, it would be an empty, empty world, bereft of happiness (for me).
3. I honestly don't think there is anything in my closet that 100% makes me feel great about myself when I put it on. I usually feel that way about my favourite necklace from France (it's handmade by French artisans with crystals and handblown glass and gold), or deep red lipstick.
   
   Well, and lately my yellow Melissa + Vivienne Westwood shoes make me smile a lot. Does that count?
4. KARAOKE! THERE ARE SO MANY. I used to compile top ten lists of songs, but I can honestly say right now that I don't have a favourite that blows all other favourites out of the water. No soul-folding, heart-wrenching 100% perfect song.
   
   
   • For Happy: "Sister Kate" by the Dittybops. This song never fails to make me want to dance or sing along. Also, "Golden Slumbers" by the Beatles, sung by Ringo Starr. His voice really shines on this, and I dream of singing this to my kids one day.
   • For Love: "I will" by the Beatles. I wanted to sing this song to N when we got married. But I didn't want it to be the Maeko Show.
   • For sadness: "The Long and Winding Road" by the Beatles, and "Little Bird" by the Weepies.
   • For moving on and letting go and learning to live: "It is Well With My Soul" - A Christian Hymn.
5. Places in the world I want to visit! OH MAN!
   
   • Honeymoon: JAPAN (Okinawa, Hokkaido and Tokyo... Japan's Hawaii and Alaska, and of course, the city.)
   • Peru - Machu Pichu!
   • N wants to go to Patagonia in Chile. I could do that...
   • Tibet and Nepal and Bhutan--because Bhutan has "Gross National Happiness." Who wouldn't want to go there?
   • Iceland (Honeymoon idea #2). Google their blue lagoon healing properties. POW. Amazing.
   • Cambodia's Angkor Wat

YOUR TURN!

I'll write you a few more questions once I think of some!