Maeko/Mae-Mae --> Angle 07 Apr 10

Been awhile!!! Sorry.

Angle asks Mae:

1. What first attracted you to the blogging world? Why did you start blogging?
2. If you had a day to yourself and you could do anything at all w/o feeling guilty or like you were shirking responsibilities what would you do?
3. Favorite guilty pleasure?
4. Zombies are taking over the world! What do you do?
5. Favorite meal to cook? Can you share the recipe?

Oh my goodness, what a question batch!

1. What first had me blogging? You know... good question!

I was always a bit more... shall we say? Voyeuristic in certain regards. Via email. I started "blogging" when I started doing "Chronicles of Mae" via email. Little chapters of life updates on a monthly to my closest friends and boys I was flirting with after meeting them one summer during church camp meeting. I was 16. So it was like, 1998? It continued into 1999. Then I started just journaling on the computer for a few years. In 2002, I started fiddling around with building my own website and I started doing daily updates I called my "Daely" update.

By the time I'd been running my website for about 6-7 months, "Blogs" aka web-logs were already starting to take off, and the software upgraded on the website host I had, so I installed a "blog" on my site late in 2003. I've been blogging since then. Between my website, and LiveJournal and Xanga. In 2005 I met Nate, and he encouraged me to buy my own domain, so I did. And he installed my website for me. I've been on www.maeko.org ever since. It was at first called "You Have My Permission to Stalk Me."

I don't really know if my voyeuristic, vain side really propeled me to start blogging, but I felt like my thoughts should be an interactive process. I would sometimes write essays and articles that needed to have input and discussion... the more traffic I got, the more I wanted to write more so that I could get more and more reaction go my thoughts.

At this point I still thought I was going to be a professional writer... so that's why I kept at it.

In 2005, my traffic was exponentially higher than it is now, but that's because I had a no-holds-barred approach to telling my story, revealing my inner secrets... an in your face assault of my details of my intimate life, a barrage of my opinions. since then, I've kind of backed off of telling people the dirty secrets and have censured myself based on my audience. I've also become a style blogger rather than just a personal blogger and story-teller. I'm still revealing myself in different ways, though.

2. I'd go drive around and take photos of local land marks and stylish people. Then I'd buy myself ice cream (even though it'll make me sick) and eat it at the lake. Maybe call my best friends and my mum and catch up on what I've missed over the last few weeks it's been since we chatted.

And more than likely, I'll end up at home watching girly flicks while blogging and catching up on my favourite bloggers' posts.

3. Guilty pleasure?

• POP MUSIC I'm embarrassed to admit I listen to: Girls Aloud (they are so damn cute and talented in singing --not dancing, sadly).
• Dance shows like "America's Best Dance Crew"--they're all Asian!
• Girly movies.
• Shoes.
• Ice cream, even though it makes me totally sick.
• Videogames.

4. OMG, zombies? I'd go to northern Canada. No one will infect the Yukon. It's too cold. LOL. Maybe invest in guns and stuff so I can protect our family. But more than likely, I'll end up getting killed eventually.

5. I love fish. And soups. They both make me feel so good.

Here is my

cream of celery spinach soup recipe

Link to receipe: here

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YOUR TURN, MY LOVE!