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Get To Know Stiletto Siren In 30 Questions

May 8th, 2013 Stiletto Siren

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Hi Friends!

This week has been weird. I feel a little off my game so my creativity is low, and I’ve been spending so much time answering hard questions about myself in interviews that I thought I might as well answer some here that are a little bit more fun. This should  give you guys a chance to get to know me a little better, we are friends after-all!

So here we go…

30 Questions To Get To Know Me

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Get To Know Stiletto Siren

 

1. What is your name, age and marital status?

Samantha Rasmussen, 27, Partnered

2. Do you have or want children?

I’m a bonus Mom to 3 awesome teenage boys and don’t plan on anymore children. We also have two fur babies.

3.What is your living situation?

I live with my partner and our kids in a 3 Bed/2 Bath house we own in Boise Idaho.

4.What are you afraid of?

Clowns, Losing A Limb, Dead Things.

5. Describe your relationship with your parents?

My Dad passed away when I was 16 and I feel like we had the best relationship a teenager girl and her Dad can have. My Mom is my best friend and is absolutely wonderful. We get along great and she is always there for me when I need her.

6.What 5 superficial things make you the most happy right now?

Lipstick, Tangerine Lime Carbonated Water, The Puppies Playing In The Sunshine, Sparkly Nailpolish, Bikini Tops. 

7.What is the hardest thing you have every experienced?

Probably losing my Dad. It  is so hard losing a parent anytime but I think its even worse when you are a teenager and still think people are invincible. I didn’t feel like I could be a kid anymore and my perspective changed and that made it hard for me to handle all the superficial BS people my age were concerned with. I also think it really changed me as a person and affected a lot of the decisions I made as I became an adult that weren’t necessarily the right decisions.

8.What is your dream job?

This changes all the time but I think I would be most happy being a life coach specializing in confidence and self-image counseling. 

9. What is your pet peeve?

When people act entitled. I don’t feel like anyone is owed anything besides basic rights to live, love and be happy. Otherwise it’s us that owes something to the world. 

10. What is your most embarrassing moment?

While camping two summers ago I was going to the bathroom in the woods and was using two sticks to balance myself almost like I was skiing. The sticks slipped and I fell down into my own…. you know. 

11. What are you good at that people would never guess?

Well Jami thinks it’s amazing that i’m such a priss but I can spin a basketball on my finger. I’m also really good at picking the winner of reality tv shows off of my first impression of them. 

12. Share a memory from your childhood?

I remember playing house with my friend Ashley around age 5 or 6  and stuffing our shirts with tissues so we could have big boobs like our Mom’s. 

13. If you could have one superpower what would it be?

Superpowers are dangerous. I wouldn’t want to know what people are thinking, and the idea of flying sounds novel but would totally fuck my hair up, lol. I guess I would have to go with x-ray vision, it would be a laugh a minute. 

14. If you could have dinner with 3 celebrities dead or alive who would they be?

That’s easy RuPaul, Dolly Parton and Bette Midler. Can you imagine the crass comments and debauchery and overall fabulosity of that dinner? 

15. What is your favorite part of your body?

My behind of course. They should just call me Miss Look At My Butt, Look At My Butt.  (If you know what movie that’s from you get 10 points)

16. What is your love language?

Physical Touch. Seriously touch my back and i’m butta. 

17. What do you think people misunderstand most about you?

Sometimes I  say the wrong things, ok a lot of the time. I also get really excited about things and can be a bit overwhelming. I have the best of intentions always though and would never want to hurt or offend anyone.

18. What was the last movie that disturbed/moved/thrilled you and why?

Hmmm…. My Mom and I went and saw Evil Dead a couple weeks ago and it was thrillingly disgusting. Does that count? 

19. What was your favorite TV show as a kid?

Boy Meets World. I will honestly be shipping Corey and Topanga forever. 

20. Fuck, Marry, Kill  3 main characters from your favorite TV show as an adult?

One Tree Hill. Always and Forever. 

Fuck: Brooke Davis, Marry: Nathan Scott, Kill: Dan Scott (only because it had to be a main character, otherwise Nanny Skankface Carrie) 

21. What is your favorite item of clothing?

I live for Old Navy Perfect  Ribbed Tank Tops. It may seem weird and not at all fabulous but I love the way they fit, how comfortable they are and they make my curves look awesome.

22. What did you want to be when you were little?

When I was little I didn’t want to be an astronaut or a doctor or anything like that. I always just wanted to be a writer. Thanks to blogging I guess I can say I became one. Oh and I also wanted to be Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and still do.

23. If Ben & Jerry’s was going to name a ice cream flavor after you what would it be?

Junk In The Trunk

24. When was the last time you cried laughing and why?

Oh I would say hanging out with my Twaffle Jami the other day when I randomly announced that I was planning  to poop soon. It was like who the fuck are you? 

25. What do you look for in a partner?

Everything Nightrider is.  Basically kind, giving, funny, smart, passionate, nurturing, honest to a fault, tolerant of my level of crazy and a demon in the sack- Ha! Physically I’m into blue eyes and soft hands. 

26. What is something you are proud of?

I am proud of the fact that I am always true to myself. I stick to my values and I also have a love for myself inside and out. 

27. What is something you aren’t so proud of?

I’m not so proud of the way I choose to handle conflict. I typically just disappear rather then dealing with things head on. I just don’t like confrontation.

28. Do you lead with your head or with your heart?

I always follow my heart, if I didn’t I just wouldn’t be me. 

29. Hit Shuffle On Your Ipod/MP3 Player Name The First 5 Songs:

Tegan and Sara “Nineteen”

Hole “Celebrity Skin”

Fun “We Are Young”

Nicki Minaj “Check It Out”

Gym Class Heroes “The Queen & I” 

30. Share a secret:

Sometimes I feel like I don’t deserve to be successful and that I don’t belong so I sabotage myself. I am working on this but its definitely a hard habit to break.

 

That’s it! Hope you guys have learned a little bit more about me and that it makes you feel closer to me. Feel free to copy and paste the questions in the comments and answer them yourself so I can get to know you!

xoxo

Stiletto

 

 

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212° Live Your Life At One Extra Degree

April 13th, 2013 Stiletto Siren

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Happy Saturday Friends!

Hope you are all on the track to an absolutely fabulous weekend, I know I am! Last week I was cleaning out my desk drawer and I came across a small business size card that I didn’t even know I still had. This card was given to me during a sales meeting presentation years ago and I was so inspired by it that I not only kept it after the meeting, put it in my office for a daily reminder for the next 2 years, eventually packed up when I left my job and began working from home,  and still manage to have in my possession 3 years later. Obviously it was impact full  So much in fact that I wanted to bring it back as a daily reminder in my life and share it with all of you.

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The card was too beat up and warn to photograph and be able to actually read the text but here is what it says:

At 211 Degrees Water Is Hot

At 212 Degrees It Boils

With Boiling Water Comes Steam

And With Steam You Can Power A Train

One Degree Makes All The Difference

If you make 2 acts of kindness weekly you will plant 104 more seeds of generosity per year.

An extra 15 minutes a day creates over 90 hours each year for whats important to you.

1 extra contact daily sparks 180 more personal connections every 6 months.

1 extra risk each week leads to 52 more opportunities every year.

This information comes from a book written by GiveMore.com‘s co-founder Sam Parker who has inspired hundreds of thousands of people around the world to dig deeper and make better things happen for themselves and the people around them. 

So basically this concept of living your life at one extra degree can make a huge different in how you live your life and what your life can be. When I think about times in my life that I have put forth that small bit of extra effort, stayed and hour late, answered one more email, researched a topic on one more website, made one more connection on social media, told my family I loved them one more time, added one more minute of awesome to my everyday routine or heck even tried on one more outfit it has made all the difference. Its all about the extra time we take, the extra love we give and the way we push for a life at one extra degree… and that’s really life changing.

So in the spirit of coming back across this message in my life, honestly when I needed it most, I have decided to encourage myself to live at one extra degree. I will make the effort, take the risks, perform the acts of kindness and reach out to more people. I will give 101% in everything I do, and I will power my own personal locomotive to success, happiness and a full meaningful life.

Will you join me and do the same?

xoxo

Stiletto

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A Small Dose Of Fabulous Goes A Long Way

April 11th, 2013 Stiletto Siren

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Hey Friends!

I refer to myself, my life, my clothes, my hair, my body and my overall EVERYTHING has fabulous all the time. It is a huge word in my vocab, one of which that I hold at a high standard and love to use on a regular basis. Lately I have been thinking about where my obsession with the term and my concept of being fabulous comes from, as well as what defines being fabulous to me and I tracked it all the way back to grade school.

Who’s ready for a story?!?

When I was in the 4th grade we had a group of parent volunteers that would come in and help us with crafty projects and with our overall creativity. These parents were called “Art Mom’s” (there weren’t many Dads volunteering back then) and they would come in, give our teachers a break, hand us some Elmer’s glue, pipe cleaners and a pack of smelly markers and lets us run with it.  I honestly wasn’t very great at the whole art part but I of course like all the other kids loved a break from long division and welcomed the couple of hours designated for creativity.

That year one of the kids in my class was the child of a local news anchor and she would come in as an Art Mom a couple of times each semester. This woman was one of the first celebrities (as much a celebrity as a news anchor in Boise, Idaho can be) and I thought she was one of the fanciest women I had ever seen. She wore great clothes, a ton of makeup, and had a light about her personality that I found incredibly inviting and positive. She was a bit of a star and I lived for that. All of these things are definitely fab worthy in my mind now but there was one specific thing about this woman who introduced me to my personal definition of fabulous and as silly as it may sound it all came down to the way she drank her coffee.

I guess to really understand this first you have to know that I grew up in a household with a working Mom and a stay at home Dad. My Mom worked her tail off leaving way before I was even awake in the morning and didn’t make it home until after 5. My Mom was a bit of a tom-boy but was an absolutely wonderful parent and while she may not have been super fancy like the art mom, she was one hell of a rec league basketball and soccer coach, best friend and awesome Mom who always made time for me. She didn’t wear a lot of makeup and drank black coffee out of our home coffee pot on Saturday mornings while lounging around in sweats and making me French toast. While she wasn’t my first taste of fabulous she was however an incredible role model in my life who taught me how to be many other important adjectives.

Ok, back to the story. The day I discovered the idea of being fabulous the Art Mom showed up to our class with a cup of coffee in hand. Her’s was not from her coffee pot and was held in the typical white to-go Starbucks cup that was so foreign to me then as Starbucks was new to Boise at the time. Fascinated I watched her set her coffee down on a desk and pull out our supplies. While others were working on their clothes pin reindeer ornaments or whatever the hell they had us making, I watched her. As she casually sipped her latte and left traces of her bright red lipstick all over the lip of the throw away cup I remember thinking to myself how incredibly fabulous she was and that when I grew up I would wear bright lipstick and drink Starbucks and leave lipstick stains all over my beverages so I could be fabulous just like her.

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Now those of you who know me know that I rock everything from red to hot pink to black on occasion on my lips. It is a huge part of who I am, where my hard femme identity routes from, a factor in how I feel about myself and a way I express how fabulous I feel, and yes you guessed it, when I order my coffee (from Dutch Bros, as Starbuck’s is not my fave) I don’t wipe away my lipstick or wear the kind that doesn’t kiss off. I simply leave marks of my fabulousity all over my cup, just like I knew I would.

It’s the small things isn’t it?

What small dose of fabulous do you indulge in? Who was the first woman who inspired you to be the babe that you are today?

xoxo

Stiletto

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Be Yourself Challenge 1: Let’s Make Music Together

April 4th, 2013 Stiletto Siren

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Hey Friends,

Music is a funny thing isn’t it? I mean how important it is to our basic daily existence and all. Like for me  I know  I need some rockin tunes in order to get myself going in to morning to lift me up and get a touch on my inner diva, and that I can’t fall asleep at night unless I’m listening to something sad and indie. I also am well aware that I MUST listen to music when I am left alone with myself because honestly all the quiet makes me uncomfortable, and don’t even get me started on the specific soundtrack necessary to survive road trips or how dire it is to put on some pussy poppin jams on your stereo before going out on a Saturday night.

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Aside from daily instances where music is required music also has become so important be

cause it is so tied into our memories. This is especially true when it comes to love, heartache and watching Sleepless in Seattle while chowing down on a pint of rocky road and crying your eyes out.  Honestly there are so many songs that are significant to me and remind me of different times in my life both the happy and not so happy. These songs can make me laugh, sing a long, dance my heart out, simply smile in the moment of nostalgia and even  instantly stop me in my tracks and send me into a downward spiral of the shoulda woulda coulda’s and poor pitiful me’s.

  • The first time I slow danced with a boy: Celine Dion, Because You Loved Me
  • Playing on repeat for weeks after my first heartbreak and before I knew what the song was actually about: The Vinyls , I Touch Myself
  • Dancing in the kitchen with my Mom when I was 7: Cher, Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves
  • Driving around on a Saturday night with my friends at 16: Fredro Starr, I Don’t Wanna Love You, I Just Wanna Fuck You
  • Falling in love with Nightrider: Plain White Tee’s, Hey There Delilah (yes that is our dogs name now)
  • Losing my father: Anne Murray, And He Walks With Me
  • Want Played At My Funeral: Babe I’m Gonna Leave You, Led Zeppelin

I believe the memories that can be held in the mind by a song are the moments that we had to experience because they helped  make us who we are. They have essentially become past, present, and future which is honestly a pretty incredible thing to be.  Everyone has a happiest song (Salt N Peppa, Shoop) and a saddest song (Joshua Kadison, Picture Postcards From LA)  and a song that they only blast alone in their car with the windows up because it is “so uncool” (Hanson, the entire Middle Of Nowhere album). These are the songs that really reveal a lot about a person and usually mean a lot to that person which is probably why we are so protective of them and their sanctity. I can think of times in the past that I have thrown down over some unforgivable words regarding MmmBop and have considered ending a relationship with anyone who would ever say anything negative about RENT The Musical.

Ok I’ve rambled enough, the point of this post is I am currently making an extreme effort to be more open with my self and with others and I challenge you to do the same, which I why I am beginning a Be Yourself Challenge. I will be posting challenges periodically to help myself and hopefully some of you as well to be more open with who you are unapologetically.

Taking on this challenge is extremely important to me and I am really working towards sharing every part of myself with you guys as well as the people I care about in my daily life. I am from this point forward  not hiding anything just because it’s not hip or cool or whatever. I’m saying what I think and being 100% authentically me- and it feels good!

For the first Be Yourself Challenge  I have made myself a playlist with all of my guilty pleasure songs and titled it NOT GUILTY because with my taste in music, my lifeline of tunes that keep me going, and memories to revel in on occasion, I am certainly not. This playlist will be heard anytime I feel like it no matter who I’m with and if they want to tease me for my love of the Spice Girls and Ashlee Simpson then so be it. Its just a reflection of me after all!

I challenge you to make your own playlist and play it whenever you feel like it no matter who is around.

Ready Set Go!

I’ve shared quite a bit of my musical taste, what about you? What are your happiest songs, saddest songs, or guilty pleasures? Any memories attached to music you would like to share?

I would love to know more about you!

xoxo

S

 

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VLOG: Like What You Like, Love Yourself, Love Your Life!

September 4th, 2012 Stiletto Siren

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Hey Curvy Chicks!

Decided to do a little video for you guys today to talk a little bit about liking yourself, being yourself and loving your life! Check it out :)

 

Please leave a comment with something you are into, something you love about yourself, or just something positive about you day!

xoxo
Stiletto

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