The Handsome - Aaron from Design*Sponge:

Guess who we have for the handsome today? Well, you may have already seen the title. That's right - Aaron from Design*Sponge! How fun, I mean I think we'd all agree Grace is a rock star in the blog world so it's so lovely to have her husband sharing with us today. Enjoy!

Please tell us a little about you and what you do: I work on Design*Sponge as the Director of Advertising and Business Development. I oversee our ad sales team and help manage our business partnerships, which allows Grace to focus on what she loves and does best, which is produce great content. At the same time, I'm also working with a company that specializes in Poker Training and education - helping them launch an online poker education site. As it turns out, I am a complete work masochist.


What are your thoughts about blogs + blogging? I love blogs and blogging, and I read them all the time. They're a fantastic way for people to stay connected to fields or communities they care about.

How did you & your wife meet? Grace and I met during the brief window of time that "Friendster" was a word people used. We had a mutual friend, and that friend set us up on a date. We went out to dinner and have been together ever since!

How many hours a day does your wife spend blogging? Hmm, how many hours are there in a day again? Let me think, well she doesn't spend ALL day blogging because she also spends time on Twitter. But when she's not on Twitter, she's definitely working on the blog. I'll put it this way: there may be harder working people on the internet than Grace, but I've never met them.

What do you do during this time? Sadly, I'm usually working, too. We're pretty boring. We spend a lot of time side by side on the couch, each on our laptops. But when I'm not working I enjoy reading, playing poker, playing video games, and playing guitar.

Any silly/crazy/funny/cool stories or experiences related to blogging you'd like to share with the readers: Not really - I still think it's cool meeting people who read the site, and I still get weirded out by the fact that they know about a lot of basic details of our life, such as what furniture we have, or trips we've recently taken. So when things will come up in conversation, I say things and I get a lot of "yeah I know!" - which still surprises me even though it shouldn't because Grace writes about a lot of this stuff on the site.

Is there any one thing that annoys you most about having a blogger wife? I'd say the only thing that's vaguely annoying is trying to explain what it is that we do to people we meet. It takes a lot of people awhile for people to understand/believe that it's a real job. Not a bad problem to have, but it's kind of funny when you work really really hard on stuff, and then when you describe it to someone, it really just sounds like you have no job and are completely making up what you do.

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