Happy Friday!!!
It’s not only the start of the weekend, but also the beginning of a holiday weekend! I hope you have some special time carved out to spend with friends and family and celebrate together.
Today’s Behind the Blog features a couple that I was lucky enough to eat dinner with at the Foodbuzz Festival last year. They’re super nice (and hilarious), and I‘m happy they’re here to answer some questions!
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1. What’s your name and blog address?
We are Amanda and Andy from Two Boos Who Eat
2. How long have you been blogging?
About two years. Andy and I actually kind of/sort of met through blogging. I met his best friend via my old blog and his friend brought Andy along with him to a movie. The rest is history.
3. What do you love / hate about blogging?
Amanda: I love the community. Recently I posted about an upsetting injury and couldn’t believe the responses I got. The blog world is so nice! I hate that we are all so far away and that the blog festivals can be so expensive. I need me a sponsor!
Andy: I should echo what Amanda said, but just add that I don’t spend enough time looking through the blogs of others. And I should. So I guess that is what I hate, too much good stuff out there, too little time.
4. What’s your favorite color?
Amanda: Purple! It was one of our wedding colors.
Andy: Blue
5. Favorite movie?
Amanda: High Fidelity. I loved the book and the movie is just as good. John Cusack is a dreamboat.
Andy: Pulp Fiction
6. Favorite book?
Amanda: I love “To Kill a Mockingbird”, “High Fidelity,” any book written by Wally Lamb and the Harry Potter Series. I am quite obsessed.
Andy: Growing up I loved Catcher in the Rye. Now, I will be cliché and go Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.
7. Favorite food?:
Amanda:Avocados. They are perfect.
Andy: Impossible question to answer. But, I will go with braised short ribs.
8. Chocolate or vanilla?
Amanda: Vanilla. Especially in ice cream form. I’m not huge into chocolate ice cream.
Andy: Chocolate
9. Favorite tv show NOW and when you were growing up?
Amanda: Now it’s Dexter. I’m behind though and waiting patiently for Season 4 to come out on DVD! When I was growing up it was “Saved by the Bell.” Love me some Zack Morris.
Andy: Now, even though it has been off the air for 5 years or so, Arrested Development. When I was a growing up, I loved the Simpsons.
10. Do you like playing sports? Watching sports?
Amanda: I like to watch baseball sometimes. Otherwise I am totally horrible at sports.
Andy: I don’t really play sports anymore, but I want to golf more. As far as watching, I love baseball.
11. Are you a coffee or tea person? Or neither?
Amanda: hot coffee, iced tea. LOVE!
Andy: Coffee
12. Do you have tattoos or piercings?
Amanda: Nope! I had my ears pierced 4 times but they got infected. I’d love to get a tattoo one day.
Andy: I used to have my ears pierced. My profession doesn’t look fondly on these things. I am a teacher.
13. Do you have any special talents?
Amanda: haha no! Isn’t that sad?
Andy: Yes…
14. If you could go anywhere in the world TOMORROW, where would you go?
Amanda: Ireland. It’s my dream.
Andy: I miss being in Hawaii everyday
15. Last thing you ate?
Amanda: Organic pluots and peaches from the CSA we joined.
Andy: Same as Amanda
16. When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Amanda: A teacher. And I’m currently working on it. I start student teaching in a few weeks!
Andy: I wanted to be a sports broadcaster/announcer.
17. What was your favorite subject in school?
Amanda: English. I’ve always been a book nerd.
Andy: I never really liked school, until I got to college. I majored in Political Science, so that was my favorite.
18. What games did you play when you were younger?
Amanda: I used to love the game of Life!
Andy: I played a lot of sports when I was younger, both in leagues and just with friends. And played a ton of video games.
19. Favorite restaurant?
Amanda: Napa Rose at Downtown Disney in California comes to mind…
Andy: My friend took me to this amazing Korean BBQ in Korea Town in LA a few months back and it was amazing. I can’t remember the name.
20. Favorite store?
Amanda: Anthropologie. I get lost in there. It’s an addiction.
Andy: I guess target, we go there like 12 times a week it seems. Or Trader Joe’s. They are next to each other!
21. Favorite animal?
Amanda: Pandas.
Andy: Unless you are talking about eating, I don’t like animals.
22. Favorite thing to cook/make?
Amanda: I love making mashed potatoes for some odd reason. It relaxes me.
Andy: Breakfast foods. Eggs, pancakes, potatoes, etc.
23. Most embarrassing guilty pleasure?
Amanda: I play The Sims all the time.
Andy: I’m not really embarrassed about anything I like. I figured out long ago that being open is the best and that if I can’t be open with someone, I don’t want to be around them. And I like amazing things…obviously.
24. Do you have any nicknames?
Amanda: Boo. Haha
Andy: Amanda and I alternatively call each other Boo or Bear, or Boo Bear.
25. List one thing the “blog world” doesn’t know about you but should!
Amanda: hmm… I’m really shy within the first five minutes of meeting me but it’s easy to get me out of my shell. I have 3 sisters and a little brother. My brother is 17 years younger than me and we have the same parents. Craziness. He was a total surprise but such a blessing. He makes my life complete.
Andy: Totally socially awkward. I try really hard to not have panic attacks in public and to be friendly and nice. It literally is hard to do.
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Thanks so much you two! :)
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I love these two – and their blog! Thanks for sharing more about yourselfs, A & A! I enjoyed reading :)
*yourselves (oh dear, did I really write yourselfs?)
Awwwwww, I love those 2 lovebirds!! :) Loved learning more about them!!
Thanks for allowing us to write nonsense about ourselves on your blog!