Girl Con Queso

1. When did you start blogging and why? I just started blogging last July.  I’d resisted starting one for a few years because, frankly, it seemed like too much of a commitment to me (and I’ve been known to walk 40 miles out of the way to avoid commitment).  However, over the last three years, I’ve made two of the biggest commitments of my life (marrying my husband, the HcQ, and having a now 17-month-old Hurricane), and they have been the most wonderful, fulfilling things I’ve ever been a part of.  And speaking of the Hurricane (and back to the blogging) after he arrived, I started googling everything under the sun…questions like ‘what does a one-month-old child like to do in his spare time?’; ‘when the heck will he ever sleep through the night?’; ”why does teething turn babies into the devil?’ and so on. I would actually write questions like this into the search bar. And you know what links popped up? Blogs. Blogs of real women meandering through their new lives with their new children. I got into it. And I wanted to join in on the discussion.  Plus, taking a cue from Virginia Woolf , I wanted a room of my own.  So I got a room con queso, and I committed.   Now, I should probably be committed.  It’s all connected like that.

2. What’s behind the name of your blog?  The name of my blog is silly.  Pure Tex-Mex.  Pure cheese.  Blog con Queso came about around midnight with a bottle of Cakebread.  And some cheese.  I thought long and hard on the name for about 30 seconds. And here it is still.  Blogs can be cheesey.  I can be cheesey.  I like cheese.  Cheese is good. The cheese stands alone. The same goes for Queso.

3.  Favorite Posts: A few favorites for a variety of reasons.  They’re not the funniest or the most insightful, but they’re all more personal to me, I guess: Ken Lay, Chicken Is So1997, &  A Window Into Our Home.

4.  What’s it like living in Texas? Texas, like most places, is full of characters, personalities, opinions, etc.  It’s also incredibly diverse.  The reality is, Texas has gotten a bad rap over the last few years.  Whatever your political, religious/non-religious, or cultural leanings, it’s been tough for everyone to recently get dumped into a general and generic box of cartoon cutouts.  So that’s too bad. Because it’s inaccurate.  In fact, I’d say that’s the worst part about currently living in Texas, dealing with the inaccurate pigeonholing Texans have to endure/ignore.  I also wish we had seasons; although some Texans do, we don’t where we live.  I currently live in a city of  2+ million, I’ve also lived in a town of 600.  I’ve seen lots of sides to Texas, to people in Texas.  And I’d say definitely the people are my favorite thing here.  And the Tex-Mex food.  Especially the Queso.

5.  Beer, Wine, or Liquor? Yes please.  All of the above.  Beer: Shiner, because (hello!) it’s made down the street.  And because my grandfather drank it. Wine: Because it is so so good.  It is art.  Plus, of course Jesus drank it and all.  Liquor: Because you can make any fun concoction with it and a little bit of creativity.  Plus, it’s quicker.