To get to know someone beyond the surface, you have to dig deeper. Just like in a romantic relationship, I believe sharing personal information strengthens the relationship with my readers. These topics help you understand someone’s inner world; answers that lead to stories and sharing leads to connection. My editor (aka my third child) asked me the following questions about life:
Q: What’s a relationship deal breaker for you?
A: Forgetting to pick up the Prosecco on the way home OR excessive body hair.#NoBigFoot #NoEXTRAbodyhairplease
Q: What was your favorite age growing up?
A: What I grew up? 46, hands down my 40s
Q: Would you say you are an introvert or an extrovert?
A: EASY, I am an EXTRAvert!
Q: What was the last show you binged watched?
A: The Last Kingdom, I am besotted with Uhtred
Q: Where is the next place on your travel bucket list and why?
A: Greece is calling me. It looks like nothing else you have ever seen in the universe. The volcanic landscape, the sunsets, the black sand beaches. Utopia. Get ready Thelma! #EXTRABFF
Q: Favorite holiday and why?
A: Christmas because the world instantly becomes more romantic.
Q: What activity immediately calms you?
A: Shopping. Shopping. Shopping. All day long. Hottie Scottie calls it Spending.#EXTRAlaughs
Q: Ideally, how would you like to spend your birthday?
A: Since I am an August baby, I always pray that August 7th will be a sunny day. I want to spend it with a killer lobster roll picnic, plenty of bubbly, my kids, my friends, and at a beach preferably. For dinner, I love a BBQ with chocolate cake and a pink icing chaser. Oh, and balloons everywhere. I love balloons; they make it a celebration.
Q:How old were you when you had your first celebrity crush and who was it?
A: I think I was 13 and I was crushing hard on Shaun Cassidy. I would buy Tiger Beat magazine and tear out the pictures of him and tape them up in my closet while singing, “Da Doo Run Run”.
Q: What word do you detest?
A: Budget.
Q: What annoys you the most?
A: Psycho, controlling, bitter, money sucking, narcissistic ex wives who are crazier then a bag of snakes.
Q: What’s the worst career advice you ever received?
A: My Dad suggested I become a banker or a trader. How was I going to do that when I barely understood Algebra? I was completely f**ked when they introduced the alphabet into math. I mean, really, it was my undoing. I think I owe my parents like $20gs for all the math tutoring I needed just to get Ds.
Q: What scares you most?
A: My bank account statements followed by spiders. I can’t even look at the dumb little spider emoji 🕷
Q: What’s something your readers would be surprised to learn about you?
A: That I am surprisingly athletic. Most people think girls that wear glitter and feather boas are indoor girls. So I’m closet athletic.
Q: How did your parents meet?
A: They met at a mixer at Fordham Law School where my father was attending. My Mom did not like him at first so she told him her name was Melanie Miller. She ended up going on three dates with him and couldn’t find the courage to break it to him that it wasn’t her real name. To this day, that’s the name I use when I don’t want someone to know my real name.
Q: Do you live by any piece of advice or motto?
A: Currently, it’s “Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History” and “You Can’t Deposit Excuses”.
Q: Do you contribute to charities?
A: Actually, I do, even if it’s the small amount that I have. I have a soft spot for wounded Veterans and Children with Diabetes 1, like your sister.
Q: If you had the ability to be immortal would you take it?
A: Absolutely, I think I would fit right in with the Cullens. I would look all fab and sparkly in the sun. Since I love life so much, my biggest fear is death. So immortality is right up my alley. #EXTRAvamp
Q: Do you believe in second chances?
A: Of course, I’m on one right now.
Q: What would be the title of your memoir?
A: “Life On The A List On $0 A Year”
Q: At a party, where can someone find you?
A: Buzzing around talking to everyone!
Q: Do you have any allergies?
A: Yes, to saving money.
Q: If you could go back to anytime in history, where would you go?
A: I’ve always been drawn to castles, palaces, manor houses, tiaras, gold bullion….not really sure what that all means 😝#pastroyalty#wink
Q: Which fictional character do you relate to most?
A: I’m somewhere between Elle Woods and Scarlet O’Hara
Q: Finally, one last question. What’s your favorite story about yourself?
Snow: Daddy, Daddy, Tricia called me a F**king Asshole…..(boo hooo…..tears galore)
Dad: Treecha (he says my name with a strange New York accent spin), did you call Snow a F**king Asshole?
Me: Yes Daddy, I sure did.
Dad: Treecha, those are the two worst words you can call someone. If you call Snow or anyone else that again you will be punished.
Flash forward to the next night, my Dad walks through the door:
Snow: (Crying once again) Daddy, Daddy, Tricia called me the two worst words again today…
Dad: (Exasperated) Treecha, did you call Snow a F**king Asshole again?
Me: No Daddy, I absolutely did not.
Dad: (Not knowing who to believe) Snow, can you tell me exactly what Treecha said to you today?
Snow: Yes Daddy, she looked right at my face and said, you are the two worst words that anyone can be!!!!!!
My Dad looked down at me and saw my Cheshire cat grin looking right back at him. I was the cat that ate the canary.
He knew I had cleverly beaten the system and knew at that moment in time, what he was up against for his future.
And that’s a wrap!
Stay EXTRA,
There are so many stories you could tell, but clearly that is one of my favorites!! It never gets old to hear and you haven’t changed one bit! Always super clever and never dull!!
So perfect birthday…. didn’t see your Disney characters on that list!! Haha
Pure Trish!! Love. It!!