Join the Saturday 9ers here. LOVE STORY (2008)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.
1) The lyrics tell us about a romantic summer night on a
balcony. Does your home have a balcony?
Nope, it’s a single-story house.
2) Taylor Swift sings that her father warns her boyfriend to
stay away, but she sees him anyway. Tell us about a time you defied your
parents.
I used to sneak out of the house in the middle of the night,
bicycle over to my besties house and we’d ride down to the beach. It was small-town Mississippi, there was literally
no one about but us most of the time. We were around 15.
3) The castle in this video looks European, but it's in
Arrington, TN. Castle Gwynn is the site of the annual Tennessee Renaissance
Fair. This May the festival will be back, and among the items food vendors are
offering are Scotch eggs. When did you most recently eat eggs, and how were
they prepared?
Just yesterday. My
favorite breakfast is a mushroom, onion, spinach and egg scramble. I keep a bowl of pre-sautéed mushrooms,
garlic, and onion in the fridge. I warm
up some of that, throw some fresh spinach in until it wilts, and crack 2 eggs
over the whole thing and stir until they are cooked. Top with a sprinkle of sharp cheese and
voila. Healthy and yummy! Sometime I throw a bit of green chile in
there too. I am a total breakfast person. My brain does not work without morning protein.
4) Love Story is also the story of Jenny and Oliver in a
book by Erich Segal and a movie starring Ali MacGraw and Ryan O'Neal. Are you
familiar with either the book or the movie?
Never read the book or saw the movie, but I’m aware of
it. I met Ali MacGraw once in Santa
Fe. She was nice.
5) Taylor was born in Reading, PA. which is home to the
Reading Railroad, one of the four railroads featured in Monopoly. Without
looking it up, can you name the two most expensive Monopoly properties?
Nope. I am not a fan
of Monopoly. We really enjoy dice games (Zombie Dice, Quixx, Catan Dice), card games (Exploding Kittens, Uno, Unstable Unicorns), and cooperative board games (Pandemic, Tigers and Eggs, Kingdominoes, Quirkle). Compared to all these Monopoly is boring as hell,
lol.
6) When she's not performing on stage, Taylor likes to keep
it casual and prefers to wear cowboy boots. Tell us about your favorite
footwear.
In the summer, I live in these Alegria Venice sandals or these Vans. I love them both, they go with everything. At least everything that I wear.
In the winter, these Merrell clogs or my New Balance runners.
7) Taylor's brother, Austin Swift, is an actor and producer
who studied photography at college. Think about the last picture you took. Did
you use your phone, tablet or camera? (Feel free to share it, if you'd like.)
Well it’s not quite the last picture I took, but I’m super
proud of it. This was taken with our
Canon camera in the Moorish Garden at the Albuquerque BioPark Botanical
Garden. Mom and I went last Friday. The second picture was also taken at the
Botanical Garden, but with my Samsung S9 phone, then I manipulated it with the
Prism app. It came out so good, I’m
going to have it printed.
8) In 2008, the year this song was popular, the Emmy Award
winning show Breaking Bad premiered. Were you a fan?
I loved the show, but it’s not re-watch material—that show
went some pretty dark places. It’s cool
that it was set in Albuquerque. The cast
was just amazing. We often see locations
from the show in our travels around town (the high school, Garcia’s Kitchen,
the El Pollo Loco). It’s pretty cool. Funny story—I moved out here before hubs to
start work. I really wanted to live in Albuquerque,
and we were looking for house separately, online. I started watching Breaking Bad, called my
husband and said “Ummm, I really don’t want to live in Albuquerque, let’s find
someplace a little … safer”. He found
that hilarious, and we found a house in Rio Rancho (between Albuquerque and
Santa Fe, a quiet little bedroom community, with very low crime)
9) Random question: You and your best friend sit down to
write the story of how/when you met. Do you think the stories would be almost
the same or quite different? (In other words, will you two remember the event
the same way?)
Well, my best friend is my husband. And we remember it pretty much the same
way. We met on an online bulletin board
(remember those) discussing politics and books.
I loved his sense of humor. He
thought I was smart. He lived in North
Carolina and I lived in Florida. We
dated for a year, driving back and forth.
He moved in with me and we lived together for a year. Got married.
Ta-da!