What's a baloney bin?

Happy Sunday, my friends!! Today I have someone taking over here whose blog thoroughly makes me giggle out loud. Homegirl is witty and sarcastic, just how I like it.

Don't take my word for it though, check out Sarah from The Baloney Bin!

1. First thing's first, you have a very unique blog name. Tell me what inspired it!

Baloney is a slang term for nonsense, and I consider the Baloney Bin to be a receptacle for silliness. I write about my life, and while I find life to be beautiful, strange, scary, and heartbreaking, I also find life to be wonderfully absurd. Like those moments when you find yourself sitting in a stall in a public bathroom and really having to go #2 but you do everything in your power to hold it in because you don’t want others to hear you #2-ing.  I’m not the only one who does that, right?
Or when you wake up with no plans on a lovely sunny morning and so you spend an indeterminate amount of time gazing out of your second-floor bedroom window, just daydreaming away…until you notice that your neighbor’s kid is running around the yard naked and it looks like you’ve been standing there staring at the kid like a creepy perv for the past five minutes.
My blog name came about because I am delighted by zaniness. Also, I have a grudging fondness for bologna, the meat. 

2. What's one of your favorite posts you've written and why?

My favorite post is Sweet Valley High: The McCalls Move to Town.[LINK: http://baloneybin.com/?p=669] I wrote it after discovering that I am more like the fictitious Wakefield twins than I ever dreamed. My nerdy 12-year-old self, with the giant pink glasses and frizzy hair, would do a poorly-executed cartwheel of joy to know that one day she was going to have things in common with her literary heroines.  Even if you've never read the Sweet Valley High books, I think you’ll like this post. 

3. If you could be a Seamonkeyologist like you've mentioned you'd like to be, what would your job consist of? Explain these monkeys of the sea to me, please! 

First of all, I absolutely love this question!  Whitney, let me tell you, when you purchase/adopt Sea Monkeys, they offer you a mail-in Seamonkeyologist degree. For $16.00 plus tax, you get the diploma and title. I’m pretty sure my job would be to wear a white lab coat and do highly scientific studies on Sea Monkey behavior. I’d publish my findings in the academic journal Sea Monkey Digest.
Unfortunately, my career plans are on hold because I don’t want to shell out the $16.00. Gah, higher education is so expensive!

4. What are some of the street smarts, life lessons you'd like to install in your husband, Brent. Top 4, ready, go. 

Back story: one day I asked Brent if he thought he had more street smarts than me. He scoffed and said, “Of course I do.” I beg to differ. Here are the top four lessons I could teach him:
1) Real men watch the Gilmore Girls. He’ll find that out when he tries to join a street gang and they reject him because he fails the most important interview question: “Name your favorite Gilmore Girls season and give supporting evidence.”
2) A White Russian does not consist of soy milk and rum.
3) Lake monsters do not really exist. It is perfectly safe to swim in a lake. Except if you are this lady whose kids I used to babysit – she was wading in a lake and stepped into a dead cow.
4)  He needs to learn how to break dance and that we should take lessons together. How could would that be?

5. What made you get in to this blogging thing?

I started about a year and a half ago and was inspired by all the stunning blogs out there. Young House Love comes to mind. Blogs with gorgeous layouts, amazing photography, and interesting content. I wanted a blog like that! 
At the same time, I knew I wanted to focus on writing. I have a full-time day job, but I was, and still am, working on a book (aren’t we all!) and feeling burnt out. I’m a slow writer; the type who can spend two hours on a paragraph and was hoping that the medium of blogging would allow me to write short, fun pieces and get me out of my writing rut. It did that, and introduced a sense of purpose and satisfaction that I'd never experienced before. Best of all, I've met some really cool people online through blogging. I love it. My imperfect little blog is far from the gorgeous website I envisioned, but it is a work in progress, and I'm really glad I started!



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