My all time favorite part of blogging HAS to be meeting excellent people {and their pets!} that live all over the world, whom I would never-ever meet without my posts of crafts, paleo and minimal wit. That being said, earlier this year… I believe it was mid spring, which has NOTHING to do with this post… I met Shannon. Dare I say she is the funniest blogger I have on my bloglovin feed?! Seriously - she writes with a crisp bluntness about life and all it’s oddities. Oh, and she loves wine. Did I mention she is also border collie obsessed and our dogs are engaged to get married? It’s an arranged marriage. Chloe will be Mac’s Mail-Order-Border.
So you know how this works - I sent her some Qs and she sent me some As, after taking meds and sipping wine of course. Just an FYI, apparently my blog hated her formatting today… so do not judge her by the weird gaping spaces and interchanging fonts, that’s all me. {Damn WordPress.} Meet Shannon:
1 // Why do you blog? Maybe I shouldn’t ask, but how did you decide on your blog name?
sometimes having shitler in my life is like a blessing and a curse. like having a constant running commentary/reality television show that you never knew you were actually signing up for or agreeing to. so after a while i was like “why should i deprive the world of this nonsense?” and i was like “you know what self - you shouldn’t.” so gin & bare it was born. because i like gin (who are we kidding i haven’t met a booze i don’t like) and most times when you drink you end up doing that thing where you “bare your soul” (sometimes weepily <— not a word but i think it should be one) and also could double as just taking off all your clothes when you’ve over-served yourself. all of which i’m guilty of doing.
also if we had a bonnie and clyde picture this would be it.
2 // I like to get to know bloggers outside of blogging… what do you do for a living?
people don’t usually believe when i tell them because it’s kind of weird but i work at a custom brush manufacturing company. yes. brushes. and you never would have guessed the extent to which brushes of all kinds are used on a day to day basis. it’s actually borderline mind-blowing. also i moonlight as a waitress. ugh.
3 // Chloe wants you to talk about any pets you have… especially if they are dreamy border collies…
omgsh DO I?! i have two of the most handsome boys on basically the whole entire planet. and yes i’m 100% biased and yes one is a total douche bag but i don’t even care because they’re adorbs (and i don’t usually throw that annoying abbreviation around for anything so that’s how you know i’m totally serious).
ok just had to scroll through two years worth of instagram photos to find my most favorite picture of the hounds ever.
murphy lee lincoln is the handsome gentleman on the left. and McElhenney McCrae Lincolne (i used to use caps to truly write out his name) is the lunatic on the right in his party collar. and i die for it. literally die. i wrote a post about the dogs once. you can read it HERE.
4 // What are you most excited about for Chloe and Mac’s wedding?
zomg i don’t even know where to start. once upon a time when i was like ten years old i had a mutt dog named brindles and me and my childhood best friend (lauren) had him marry their beautiful golden retriever emma and my mom wasn’t pleased because i totally took my first communion veil and put it on emma and then it got ruined because obviously they played after the ceremony. but that’s neither here nor there because the wedding of the century will obviously be between mac and chloe and it will be beautiful. all the dogs of the blog world will obviously be invited (and that will be selfish on our part because it will really be us wanting to get drunk with all the ladies that we read on a daily basis but live too far away from). and i think my most favorite part will be their vows. because they will write their own. and by they will write their own i mean we will write them for them.
5 // Speaking of weddings! You are a newlywed! Give me a highlight of your wedding!
oh man. where to start. the weather was total shit the day of. which normally never actually happens in playa del carmen so i was like “whatever pass the champagne and let’s watch pitch perfect again for the third time this morning.” and then one of my bridesmaids was kind of like actually drunk and ended up walking almost down the aisle with her dress on backwards (spoiler alert it was actually shitler that was the one that figured it out) and then she also took my bridal bouquet and waltzed down the aisle with it. BUT the rain held off and the clouds were incredible and the pictures were amazing and the federales showed up and we took a picture with them.
also our photographer got some really hilarious photos of shitler trying to teach me how to pose. you can read that HERE.
6 // If we were given a yacht, because I think you and I would have a lot of fun slash trouble together on our own yacht, what would you name it?
okay so we have this fishing boat and it looks like something straight out of the 1970s with the colors of blue that it is and it’s affectionately known around these parts as “little boy booze” so i think i would just steal that name and christen our yacht as “little boy booze: the revenge edition.”
7 // What is your most popular blog post to date?
i don’t know what constitutes popular. and also i don’t know how any of my blog statistics even work. like google analytics GIRL BYE. but i will say that one of my most favorite ones that i ever wrote ended up getting a shitload of comments and that usually doesn’t happen so i will go with that post.
it was entitled “waiting in real life” and if you click HERE you can enjoy. or not. it’s cool either way.
8 // I think you are hilarious. Dare I say, the most hilarious blog on my reader feed! What inspires you?
honestly it’s just the day to day stuff. the authentic things really. it’s like the most ridiculous things are the things that crack me up so why wouldn’t that entertain everyone else? i think it’s just important to write about things when you want to write about them. not because you think you have to crank out a post for every damn day of the week. the quickest thing that turns me off of a blog is when it comes mundane and feel like a requirement. i truly feel anyone can see through the forced bullshit.
for instance yesterday shitler stayed home from work because he didn’t feel well and around 3PM in the afternoon he sent me a picture of the most giant pile of dog shit that i have ever seen. like horse sized shit and it was on the kitchen floor. i’ll spare you the picture because it was frightening but let that serve as an example of the kind of shit (not literal) that i want to read about. basically shenanigans. i’m inspired by shenanigans. not dog shit..
10 // How can my readers find you in Blogland and via social media?
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So there ya have it! Another awesome blogger to follow! Read some of her posts, giggle a little, sip some wine, and then anxiously await your formal invitation to the wedding of the century.
BIG NEWS coming to the blog by Monday… I’ve give you a hint: It’s a Girl!