The Skinny ~ Katie from Overflowing Brain

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And, it’s there where we find…the skinny.

This week, I interviewed the one and only Katie from Overflowing Brain. She is excellent at baking, is very sarcastic (but apologizes way too much for it), and OH YEAH has a gigantic brain.

If there was an Olympic event for people with weird injuries, Katie wouldn’t be able to compete. Because she’d be injured.

1. What’s your favorite midnight snack?

It’s well documented that I love anything in the cake family. But if we’re being completely honest (which I rarely am), my midnight snack isn’t cake based, mostly because I know better than to keep cake in the house. My midnight snack is a big marshmallow, smeared with peanut butter and then rolled in chocolate chips. It’s insanely delicious. It’s also a real mystery why I’ve always struggled with my weight. Nutella fingers are another favorite.

2. What is your most useless talent?

I can memorize almost anything. I once memorized pi to the 100th decimal point. I know all the presidents in chronological order. I know all the states in alphabetical order. Basically my most useless talent is being the world’s biggest dork. My mother is so proud.

3. What is the last thing you bought, and why?

The CUTEST shoes ever. I forgot to pack shoes when I was out of town judging a history day competition (see #2 for explanation of why I was judging a history day competition…) and needed a pair of nice black shoes to wear with my adult clothes. The black ones I bought to go with my adult clothes were so-so, but the ones that were right next to them? The ones that just happened to be part of the buy-one get-one half off sale? (to which my husband asked what I was going to do with 3 shoes…eyeroll) Were by far the cutest shoes I’ve ever been able to afford. They’re gray flats with a flower on the front. I think I might have to buy some clothes to match them soon.

4. If you could only bake one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be?

This is like Sophie’s Choice. It’s a dead tie between 4 layer chocolate cake with almond filling, chocolate ganache and toffee bits and a homemade red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting. Just can’t go wrong with either of them. The first one won a cake contest, because that’s what really cool people do. They enter cake and pie contests.

5. How many beads did you get at your first Mardi Gras?

More than I can even begin to count. If I had to guess, I’d say hundreds, easily. Just for the record (in case my mom reads this), to catch beads at Mardi Gras, you don’t have to show your boobs. In fact, I’m pretty sure that if I did, they’d point and laugh and never throw me anything. To catch beads at my first Mardi Gras all I had to do was use every ounce of energy not to kill my mother-in-law, who had come to town to visit. And who incidentally walked away with the best set of beads I caught because she whined so incessantly I gave them to her. I know. Giving in is like letting the terrorists win. But they’re SO much quieter when they win.

6. You are on a flight from Honolulu to Chicago non-stop. There is a fire in the back of the plane. You get enough time to make ONE phone call. Do you use it to vote for American Idol or Dancing With The Stars?

Oh Lord. Neither. I’d call YOU to tell you to get a hobby.

7. What’s the most embarrassing injury you’ve ever had?

It’s hard to remember all of them, to be perfectly honest. I want to say it was breaking my middle finger playing Wii ping pong, but that’s not the most embarrassing…

My sophomore year in college, we were playing a school wide game of mafia. We chose “families” and were emailed “hits” to execute. Fun fact: I’m REALLY competitive, so I was into it. One night this guy who lived in the dorm next to me (and who I had a HUGE crush on) invited me over to meet his mom (which, hello, I wanted him hardcorely (it’s a word), I wasn’t going to turn down a chance to meet his mom). I stayed as long as I could, but finally had to leave to study for an exam. As I was leaving his dorm to walk back to mine, I felt like I was being followed. So I started walking faster and faster, taking a different route back to my dorm to try to lose whoever was following me for the hit. The pursuit continued, and I kept moving. I finally reached a dead end at a brick wall which I knew had a fairly good drop to the ground below it, but I thought I’d be fine jumping it. Because I went to a dirty hippy school, I wasn’t wearing shoes, and so when jumped off the wall, which was actually more than 8 feet above than the concrete below it, I broke a bone in both of my feet. At the same time.

But it gets worse. The person stalking me? Was the guy’s mom, and she just wanted to say it was nice meeting me and to wish me luck on the exam.

In case you wondered, there’s nothing quite like having to wear special shoes on both feet for 6 weeks to really make you look cool. Needless to say, I never got a date with the guy.

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