To the tagging game. Here it goes:
5 years ago today — I had just moved up to Seattle after grad school. Living in sin! I was looking for my first teaching job and would do job searches and fill out/deliver applications all day (well, knowing me it wasn’t all day!). I wouldn’t find one (well, in fact, it found me) until the very end of the month, about 5 days before school started, at this school. It was a pretty good one, but HUGE! Egads, the stress of it all!
Yesterday One Year Ago — Sorry, I like this one better! But still, I have no idea what I was doing….I’m hoping the blog thing will help me with that in the future! I was probably painting the house (and look, a year later I am almost finished!), just getting started on encaustic painting, and perhaps (guiltily) playing The Sims.
Today — I will be editing our Dear Birthmother letter, volunteering at Page Ahead, and playing kickball. Nice!
5 snacks I enjoy — MMMMM….mango, shrimp, avocado, chocolate, corn chips (dipped in that fake plastic nacho cheese in a jar….yum!!!)
5 bands/singers whose songs I know most of the lyrics to — Ha, thats easy. The Grateful Dead, The Big Wu, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Ellis. An odd mix, perhaps!
5 things I would do with a million bucks — Pay off loans, buy a bigger house, make savings/investment accounts for (future) kids school/college, invest, donate to charities (and a sixth, of course, would be buy something fun! Like a boat! Or a beach house! I am sensing a water theme here…)
5 bad habits I have — Leaving things around the house (the piles! I am a piler!), not folding clothes in a timely fashion, being self-absorbed, laziness, procrastination!!!!
5 things I like doing — Making art, going on trips, playing with the dog, reading blogs, gardening
5 things I would never wear — a miniskirt, lace anything, heels, a bikini, earrings. Note to self….do not send in that beauty pageant application…
5 famous people I’d like to meet have dinner with — Ermm….this could be embarrassing. I feel like I should pick really meaningful, intellectual ones, but of course I think first of movie/tv folks and rock stars! Well, how’s this for an odd mix: Jamie Oliver (and he would cook, of course), Maya Angelou, Oprah (yes, I admit it, I watch too much TV), Nelson Mandela, Ellen DeGeneres (she will entertain us all and keep Oprah from hogging the conversation with Ms. Angelou and Mr. Mandela). If I could choose dinner guests that were no longer alive, I would pick William Stafford (my favorite poet), Jerry Garcia (I am still a Deadhead, you know, and today is the 10th anniversery of his death, sadly), Jim Henson, Rachel Carson, and Georgia O’Keeffe.
5 TV shows I like — Oh boy, more embarrassment. ER, Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Desperate Housewives, The O.C., Arrested Development. Somehow I am guessing (hoping?) we will not be watching as much TV in the upcoming year, however…
5 movies I like 5 places I want to visit — Sorry, I had to change it, movies are too hard to remember, I forget even the best of them! But places, thats easy! Off the top of my head and in no particular order….Vermont, San Francisco, Italy, New Zealand, Hong Kong.
5 biggest joys at this moment — My darling husband, of course, our impending adoption, my current work situation, my good health (despite my hypochondriac tendencies), our family & friends.
5 people to tag — This is where I am supposed to specify 5 other bloggers who will then post this on their own blog. Ha…just like a good old chain-letter (do those exist non-electronically, anymore?) I, like Gawdessness, am going to leave that up to you, my readers. A lot of folks I know have already been tagged, and those who have not I don’t feel I know well enough to tag yet (or I know they wouldn’t want to do it). But I love meeting new folks, so please do it and let me know below if you do, with a link to your blog!
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Thanks for playing!
I enjoyed your answers and I don’t think you have too much to be embarrassed about there.
Your photos are utterly beautiful! The encaustic art works draw me in. I loved blue yarn swirl. I’m going to spend a bit more time in your galleries.
Yay! For a while your site wasn’t downloading for me and now it is!
You could eat at our house, we share very similar taste in food.
Hmmmm…..sorry about that, Lisa, thanks for letting me know! We host the site ourselves, but sometimes our network has issues (I was having connection problems myself, last night, now that you mention it) or our cable or power goes out. Not good! Give me a holler through email if you notice it again, and I’ll sick my resident geek on it, stat!
hehe, I just did this meme too, got tagged the same time as Gawdessness and just got round to it. Nice to learn a little about you. And thanks for the link to Gefilte’s birth. I am here via cubbiegirl’s comments… we both seem to jump on her posts in the wee hours of the night!