I’ve finally got around to answering the last couple of questions that people asked me (months ago).  Raul, Sharon and Lance – thanks for the questions!

Matt, what is the best quality you’ve found in Dayna?

The best quality I’ve found in Dayna is her passion – whether it’s being passionate about travel, family, friends, photography, writing, sharks, funny dance moves or anything else.  I think quite a few people go through life without this passion and without really enjoying it as much as they could.

Dayna definitely doesn’t fall within this category – she approaches life with a lot of passion and energy that makes being around her really fun and she’s just a fun person to be with because of this.  

If you were to re-live your first encounter, how would it be?

I really liked our first encounter so I’m going to have to be lame and say I wouldn’t change a thing. 

What’s your definition of a perfect relationship?

Tough question and one that I am really not qualified in any way to answer.  Not that that’ll stop me…

OK, so I don’t really know if you could have a “perfect” relationship (that sounds really boring anyway) but I think a “really good” relationship needs to be built around honesty, being able to talk openly about everything and being completely comfortable with someone.  I also think having similar goals in life is really important.

This is assuming of course that two people are attracted two each other and are at roughly the same stage of life e.g. Hugh Hefner can talk openly and be as honest as he wants but dating 20-year old twins (plus another 23-year old girl) is just never going to be part of a perfect relationship…although it may be perfect from his perspective.  And yes, I do watch too much bad reality TV shows - I blame Dayna.

If you were stuck on a desert island, and could only bring 3 things with you (food and water is there, conveniently), and you can’t bring transportation to get you away from there, what would you bring and why?

I’m pretty social and get bored quickly when I’m by myself so I’d love to take some friends with me but I’m going to assume they don’t meet the definition of “things”.  For my benefit I’m also going to assume that the island has a lake that freezes over in winter and electricity – without which some of my choices below become pretty boring (it can be a modern island right?). 

So I would probably go with the following:

1) A laptop with internet and speakers – so I can listen to music, keep in touch over the internet etc.

2) A set of ice skates – because I’ve tried skating once and I was terrible.  I figure learning to skate would entertain me for a good decade and give me something to do after that.  And I haven’t been to the dentist since I was seventeen so I may need a skate to perform some minor dental surgery at some point too.

3) A Wilson volleyball – to keep me company because Tom Hanks would not have got through Castaway without his buddy Wilson and I think I’ll need an imaginary buddy too.

What is the one thing you want to do most before you die?

Well, if I assume that I’m going to live at least a few more decades, the first answer that comes to mind is having children some time between now and death.

If I changed the scenario slightly and I only had twelve months to live then the one thing I would want to do before I died would be to travel the world and see all the places I haven’t got to yet. 

What is your dream job?

My dream job is a work in progress right now.  I’m a tax consultant at the moment so I’ve set the bar pretty low anyway – most jobs will seem pretty amazing after this one.

I wouldn’t mind the “best job in the world” (an island caretaker gig that a guy’s doing in Australia – http://www.islandreefjob.com/) or anything that involved being paid to be a tourist really.  I used to be addicted to travel shows and dreamed of being a presenter on one (which would be amazing) but that is not really that realistic.

My dream job in my current career path would be a CEO or CFO for a company that I really care about.  Being in charge, and influencing something that I am passionate about using the skills that I have would be ideal.

So for now, I have some rough ideas but my dream job remains a work in progress – hopefully I figure it out soon so I can start figuring out how to get the job.     

I have a question…for Matt…What would you do if one of Dayna’s brothers bought a Springboks jersey when he was in South Africa?…

WOW Lance – I expected so much better of you. 

I think the only way to make you see the error of your ways is for you to wear that Springboks jersey to an All Blacks home game against South Africa.  We’ll see if you still like your little jersey then…

Oh and I am so going to buy the next Calgary Flames jersey I see.