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What's your favorite guilty pleasure movie or TV show?
It's not embarrassing, but I've watched it so much it's embarrassing. It's The Fountain. It's incredibly deep and philosophical. It’s about death, basically, and accepting it.
What's your biggest pet peeve?
I hate it when people pick their nails. Like, when they’re sitting there picking their nails. Just the sound makes me want to smash their face. And I know it’s really stupid, but that’s just how I feel.
What the oddest diet you’ve ever tried?
I would have to say adding a lot of fiber to my diet. I couldn’t stop pooping and it was embarrassing. Normally, someone will poop once or twice a day and I was at, like, six times a day and it’s kind of scary because you realize how you're full of shit. We carry like 10 pounds of it with us. But, you know, I'd rather carry a little bit around than poop that much.
What's your opinion of Tyra Banks?
She's incredibly smart. She's business-savvy. She knows how to play to an audience and she certainly knows how to make a lot of money off them.
Did you watch The Brady Bunch reruns when you were younger?
No, I didn’t. I used to hate it. It was just one of those shows that’s like the Power Rangers. Some person would be like, 'Oh, I hate that show,' I just didn’t like it. I was more into Diff'rent Strokes and stuff. My husband—Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady—really appreciates that. I don’t have any Brady Bunch questions for him.
Probably Rock of Love Charm School on VH1. The girls are so trashy and really fun to watch, and it makes me feel good about myself.
When people pop their jaws. I'm a teeth person, so it bothers me.
I ate Lean Cuisines nonstop for a couple months. I lost a lot of weight, and it kind of messed up my knees, too.
She’s a self-centered bitch, but fabulous. She always talks about herself. She’ll be talking to a Hurricane Katrina victim, and then she’ll say, 'That reminds me of one time when I did...'
Kind of. Not really, though. I guess they were fake bitches and not realistic.
HOW WE MET
Sean Allshouse, Lenexa senior, admits that the way he met Sarah Carr, Cameron, Mo., senior, wasn’t all that interesting. Like many college couples, they met through a mutual friend at a party.
“That was that for about a month and a half,” Allshouse says. “The story of how we actually started to date is much better and much different than that.”
The two saw each other again at another party, and Allshouse devised what he calls the “hug rule,” which is that he would hug Carr every time he saw her. Carr estimates they hugged five or six times that night. They made plans to hang out with their mutual friend the next day, but, “Thanks to a mi-graine, the friend couldn't make it and it was just us,” Allshouse says. This led to dating, which ultimately led to a relationship.
Carr says she wouldn’t change a thing about the course of her relationship with Allshouse, while he has one final thing to add: “Could you mention that I love her with all of my heart?”
—Carly Halvorson
Contributed photos (Top) Allshouse and Carr at a Carrie Underwood concert in September. (Left) The couple at a birthday party in June, for which Allshouse dressed up as Harry Caray.
If it’s not Mexico, it’s On The Border.
December 4,2008
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