An Interview with me

Photo by Chelsea Laine Francis

Earlier this week I filled y'all in on some details about my side project, AKA my new night time job, Pieceology Vintage. But, as some of you know, in addition PVTG I do have a full time day job in Marketing. Each month at said job there is a company newsletter that is emailed out to all employees. In the newsletter one employee is interviewed and featured each month. We have over 300 employees so to be chosen as the featured employee is pretty rare. But alas, this month it was finally my turn! This is a pretty basic interview but I thought it'd be fun to share with my blog readers so y'all can get to know me a little bit better. So, without further ado, here is my interview:

Name: April Onebane

Current City of Residence: Austin

Nickname: Fancy, Fancy Pants, Ape, Apy, Ape Face

Place of Birth: Baton Rouge, Louisiana

School/College/Degree: Louisiana State University, Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication with a concentration in Advertising and a minor in Business

Family (including pets and names): Just me! No spouse, kids, or pets. I have two roommates who sometimes feel like my children!

Hobbies/What do you like to do in your free time?: I love to travel, blog, take photos, spend time with friends, attend music events, go thrift shopping/vintage hunting, explore new restaurants (because, food), drink coffee (and wine), listen to podcasts, practice yoga and ride my bike!

Pet peeve(s): When people wear their ponytail holder around their wrist. Also, when people aren't present during a conversation.

Favorite Movie/TV Show: Movie- Almost Famous, TV Show(s)- Mad Men, Girls, Parenthood, House of Cards (although I don't watch much TV anymore)

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?: A doctor which is SO far from anything I would ever want to be nowadays.

Favorite Superhero/desired superpower: I'm not a big superhero fan but I would love to be able to travel at the speed of light so I could explore all over the world quickly, efficiently and for free.

Fun fact/funny story about you: I'm very short. I topped off at 4'11 at the age of 12. Yes, I have not grown since I was 12 years old. I think I've actually shrunk a little bit.

Favorite sports team: The New Orleans Saints. Who Dat?!

Role model: My grandparents are pretty rad.

Favorite food: It's a tie between pepperoni pizza and sushi.

Favorite restaurant: That's an impossible question to answer! I LOVE food. But if I had to say, it'd be Jacques-Imo's in New Orleans and Salty Sow in Austin.

Where would you go in a time machine (could be past or future)?: Woodstock '69

Who would play you in a movie about your life?: Even though it wouldn't work out age-wise I'd say Julia Roberts.

If you could invite four people to dinner, who would they be?: Woody Allen, Iris Apfel, Brené Brown and Paul McCartney

Favorite quote: "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

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10 Things You May Not Know About Me (In Detail)

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I've been going back and forth with myself for a long time about how I could open up more on my blog. So here we have another step toward that goal. I thought I'd put together a list of some more personal things about myself, so you can get to know me a little bit better. I think it's about time. I've been running this blog off and on for over a year and a half now! And P.S. I had this post set up for Monday and I chickened out, so it obviously makes me a little uneasy to press publish on personal posts, but I'm working on getting better, I swear.

Disclaimer: I'm not going all deep here and revealing my darkest secrets and desires. Because you know, I don't have any of those... (cough, cough). Just some things that people in my life know about me that my readers probably don't. So here goes:

1. Being 25 and single is weird, y'all. I contemplate my life way too much. I think that's part of being in your mid-20s though. I'm constantly thinking, "Shit, I've been out of college for almost 3 years now. What the hell am I doing?" I could talk about this one all day... I've got a whole post coming soon. You know you're excited all you other 20 something single gals. We gotta stick together to get through this shit!

2. I wanna be a shop girl. My dream is to one day open my own clothing brick and mortar. Although I've never worked in retail... Which I probably should before I decide to really do this, although I probably won't. Either way, it's my dream and I'm going to do it regardless. K, cool. Glad we cleared that up.

3. I've lived in Austin for 1 year now and I can honestly say it's the best decision I've ever made. The friends I have here are the best and I don't know what I did without them for so many years. They've saved me!

4. I work from home and I really like it that way. I'm part introvert, so having time to myself is necessary. But, trust me, once the work day is over my extroverted side comes out and when everyone else just wants to chill out after they get off I'm ready to hit the town! Luckily my roommate is awesome and will hang out with me if no one else will :) Well, usually. Sometimes I know she just wants me to shut the eff up.

5. I hate grocery shopping and I'm not domestic at all. I like watching other people cook, but it's just not my thing. I am a clean freak though, even though I hate cleaning. Does that even make sense? I'm not OCD or anything, but I definitely have those tendencies. I can't let dishes sit in the sink. It drives me nuts. Everything has to be in its place.

6. If I could I would live in a hotel. Hence my above statement about not being domestic... Having room service so I don't have to cook, having a maid service to clean for me, and not have to spend money on furniture sounds like the greatest thing on the planet. Again, I'm SO not domestic.

7. I'm not an animal lover and I'm also not a huge fan of kids. This might startle some of you and sorry if you don't get it, but if you knew me in "real life" this is something you would definitely be aware of, so I wanted to share it. After all, that is the whole point of this post, right? Most of my friends and family think it's weird, but I've always been this way. The responsibility of both terrifies me. Everyone says I'll change my mind about the kids thing one day. I guess we'll have to wait and see about that... "One day."

8. I love me a good ole glass of red (or white) wine and I do go out a lot. It's part of who I am right now. I like being social and meeting new people. And my friends are really fun, so we do fun things. It definitely has to do with the fact that I am single and live Austin. It's a very "young" city. That's just part of the lifestyle people live here. And at this point in my life, that's a big part of why I love Austin. There is so much to do and everyone is kind of in the same boat. The city itself is like one big support system for me!

9. I'm 4'11. I know I always say on this blog that I'm very short, but I don't think I've actually ever said just HOW short I really am. So there it is. Really, really short. Like I could legally qualify for a handicap sign in my car short.

10. I'm not religious. My family is Catholic but I don't practice or go to church. The last time I went was for a wedding, and the time before that, and before that too... You get my point. I'd say I'm spiritual, but I don't practice any form of that either, unless you consider going to yoga a few times a month as spiritual. I would like to become more in touch with my spirituality though. That's something on my long list of things I'd like to work on to better myself. Which is also for a totally different post. 

Ok I'm done... Now that I've probably completely bored you to death. But, I hope you can relate to some of this :) Just wanted to give you guys a little glimpse into the "real" me, according to me. Anything else you want to know or talk about just leave a comment below or email me and I'd be happy to answer!

So, anyway, enough of all this serious talk. Let's go get a drink!