I rememeber a while ago (months maybe?) someone on my LJ list interviewed their characters as a way to get to know them better. Was it britlitfantwin? I remember enjoying the post and had said I'd give it a try but never got around to it until now.

I interviewed Kahne, because he's more interesting and complicated and hardly ever talks about himself. How's a writer to get to know her characters if they won't talk?

So I dragged it out of him...

Good morning, Kahne! I thought we'd start this interview out by playing a game.
Games are for children. Do I look like a child?

I cleaned out the closet today and found a whole bag of stuff my mother had given me. It was full of school projects, report cards, teacher letters, etc.

I found a poem that supposedly I wrote in 4th grade. My mother insists I wrote it. I would have been ten, but I don't remember writing it. I have to wonder if some other cool kid wrote it and I just took the credit. Or maybe it was published somewhere and I just copied it?

Anyways, here it is: (If this sounds familiar let me know!)

Found and Lost
A wizard's hating pet.
Rather shortish.
Somewhat slimy.
May be hungry or angry.
Please feed nightly.
P.S. No Reward.

A dragon breathing spu(?)
Flails his slimy feet.
Would eat 100 small children nightly if we let him.
Please come get him.
P.S. Reward.

And then, when we were younger, my best friend Lacy and I used to send each other greeting cards all the time. We'd try to be the one who found the funniest. Lacy sent me this one:

"I quit jogging because it was bad for my health...(open card )
My thighs rubbed together so much, my underwear caught on fire."

That was us! We hated gym class. We hated running the mile. I should send her a greeting card tomorrow. I think she'd love it. We haven't done this in forever. I've already planned to send a card to her older sister. Both of their parents have passed and my parents "adopted" the girls years ago so they both come to our family Christmas party. The older sister, Crystal, doesn't like making plans so when Lacy asked her if she was coming she said, "I don't know." But she has to come! It's a tradition that we all buy each other gag gifts. Last year I bought two boxes of chocolates and took a bite out of every single one then rewrapped the boxes. And my gifts this year will be equally fun!

Anyway, I told Lacy I was going to send Crystal a ransom card using magazine clippings to write my message. 

At Walmart today I picked the card out. On the front it says, "Just a friendly hello!" And on the inside I'm going to paste a picture of Lacy with a note that says, "You better be at the Christmas party or your sister gets it!" Crystal has a twisted sense of humor. She'll love it. (I hope!)

Other Funny Thing: Mr. Jen went to Walmart today wearing two different boots!

 We just got home from a pig roast at my father-in-law's house. Mr. Jen and I grew up together, so my parents are good friends with his dad and that whole group of people.

One important thing to note, my parents and Mr. Jen's dad and that whole group they run with are cliche Michiganders. They all hunt, fish, live in the middle of the woods, drink lots of beer, roast pigs and...

Drive golf carts down two-tracks.

I had SO MUCH fun riding golf carts tonight. It was after dark by the time we got around to it so we're driving through the woods through midnight black. And I'm not so sure our driver (a guy who's known me since I was born who everyone calls Junior) was sober. He took us through woods where there were no trails. He took us up a HUGE dirt pile and we came crashing down the other side. There might have been some screaming on my part, but I assure you, it was gleeful screaming! 

They were talking about getting together a bunch of carts for a poker run soon and I am SO going!

I'm a night owl. Mr. Jen and I both are. We get a lot of stuff done after midnight. Like I get my chapters done. He gets his homework done. We watch TV. Chat. Do puzzles. We like the night. We especially like Friday nights because my mother takes Son every single Friday and Mr. Jen and I get some alone time.

But tonight the power company is shutting off the power from 2-6:00 a.m. for some scheduled maintenance. I have exactly thirty minutes of power left and I'm starting to shake with anxiety. Like seriously, what am I going to do with no power? No Internet?! It's not like there's anything going on online after 2:00 a.m. anyways. But you never know!

The laptop is all charged up. We bought candles for light. It should be an adventure.