A friend of mine,
Mmmm, (I've never actually seen him list his name on his site, so I will honor that here as well), tagged me on this same list of questions he posted on his site. I was honored, and began looking at some of the other people he had tagged. One blogger had this type of list-of-questions labeled as 'meme'. Hmm... note to self: look that up and see what that even means. How can I be a real blogger if I can't speak the language. Was happy to learn it's meaning. I've never done one of these, and have no expectations of those I've tagged to 'keep it going'.
Here goes:
What was I doing 10 years ago?
Was just beginning my return to the 'outside' world after having run a very successful
daycare business in my home for the previous 10 years, and my house was ripped up during a fairly large remodel.
Five Snacks I enjoy:
1. cookies
2. Coffee flavoured Ice Cream, or my favorite ice cream nirvana is Ben&Jerry's
Phish Food (ladies, this is PMS heaven. Ignore the fact that it says 4 servings on the container. This is event eating, to be consumed in one sitting)
3. Smooth Peanut Butter, skip the bread, just give me a spoon
4. popcorn and candy are a toss up (Hot Tamales are my favorite)
5. almonds or other nuts
Five Things On My To-Do List Today:
This is an odd time for me, as we just had a tragic and sudden death in our family a few days ago, so here it is:
1. confirm funeral times
2. airline arrangements for guests
3. laundry
4. call an aunt and talk her thru, keystroke by keystroke, how to change her homepage in Windows
5. Finish populating content on the site I am currently working on.
***#'s 1 and 2 were successful, but the laundry will be on hold, because the dryer is taking a vacation from functioning, talking my aunt thru that task took 1 1/2 hours!!!!, and #5 in still in progress......***
Things I Would Do If I Were A Billionaire:
1. Pay off our debts and mortgage
2. Pay off all my families' and close friends' debts including mortgages
3. Pay off the kids college loans
4. TRAVEL. I want to see the world and learn more about each place's culture, architecture, history, customs. I would start with the Holy Land and Mediterranean, and then
Machu Picchu , and Europe after that. Trips to Africa and South America would have to be included as well. I would want family involved in as much of this travel as possible, yet if there were places my husband or kids were not interested in, I wouldn't have any hesitation about going solo. (With their blessing only, of course)
5. I would donate money to an existing, or new start-up drug/alchohol/mental illness program for the most broken of the broken.
6. I would donate money to homeless shelters.
7. I would sponsor individual children, or even whole villages in the poorest areas of the world, and help them get education and learn self-sufficiency.
8. My husband has talked about wanting to go on a Castle Tour - he wants to see as many castles in the world as possible. I'd fund it and go along! Castles we've seen so far = 0!
9. I would set aside $ for education for me, and continue to take classes and learn about everything I want to learn, for the rest of my life.
10. .... I'm running out of ideas, which is probably OK, because with what I've listed above, surely I'm out of money by now.
Five Jobs I Have Had:
1. Dairy Queen (my first job, I was 14 years old, and have been working ever since!)
2. Receptionist, Ethan Allen Interiors
3. Home Childcare Business (12 kids/12 hours-per-day/10 years = It was a BLAST!!!)
4. Operations & General Manager (home/office furnishings company)
5. Website Designer
Five of My Bad Habits:
1. Spending too much time on the computer!
2. Procrastination
3. Not sleeping enough
4. I drink too much coffee. I think that could be related to #3.
5. I organize paperwork into nice neat looking piles, and let them get out of hand before I deal with them :(
Five Places I've Lived:
1. Seattle
2. California
3. North Dakota
4. Kansas City, KS (for about 10 minutes. Ok, 5 months)
5. Minneapolis, MN and surrounding suburbs
5 People I Want To Get To Know Better (yep, you're tagged!)
(This one was hard for me. I assume I am supposed to list on-line people, since I am to tag them? 5 was just too hard, bear with me....)
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Steamed Sponge-
Joel Postman of Socialized PR -
David J Hinson- My friends at Spock.com (NOTHING to do with StarTrek!) who have been so kind to me and have offered great advice:
Andrey Golub,
Idan Gafni,
Mike Cadogan,
Carlo Branca,
Pierre.... and more....
- Almost everyone on Steamed Sponges Blogroll. Really, such a varied and interesting group!
Five Random Things (most people wouldn't know about me):
1. I am short, only 5'2"
2. I'm not half as extroverted as I wish I was
3. I was born in Fargo, ND
4. I love texture
5. I am afraid of the dark. And basements.
Ok, this was harder than I thought it would be. I'll probably have to come back and edit a million typos later, but right now, I'm off to church.
Comments (3)
Great list Robyn. Very funny too. LOL. 5'2" doesn't seem short to me--that's the same height as my wife so it seems normal! I love your 5 random things.
Well, when/if you both go on that castle tour, start with Wales as it actually has the most number of castles per square mile in the whole of Europe! Of course, then you can go to England and Scotland to see a bunch more, and then hop over to Ireland, especially if you, like most Americans, have Irish descent.
Sorry to read about the death in the family.
Your billionaire list was good too. I like the drug rehab one. And, as far as traveling, you, no doubt, must be one of the few people who would list Machu Picchu, let alone even know where it is for many of us. As it though, that is where my father and his current wife met on a new age type pilgrimage, of all things. LOL.
I would never guess you weren't as extroverted as you might want to be. I am actually about 75% extroverted but used to be 95% before but as time marches on I find I like some time on my own to rejuvenate, reading, blogging, researching, or whatever.
Anyway, these "memes" (thanks for lingo lesson) are so interesting. They are as much reading as learning. BTW, you can call me Michael here, no prob.
P.P.S. Wish Xanga let you post from another subscribe like Blogger doss, than having to log into Xanga and/or register. Perhaps you should consider a blogger account and join the rest of us!?!
Thanks, Michael! Was a fun exercise in self-indulgence. Hard to read it at the end though and see in black and white what a hard-core sweet tooth I have.
Thanks for the info on the castle tours, it's something he has always wanted to do, but since I'll be doing the arrangements, I appreciate the advice! . And for Machu Picchu, LOL, yes, I really would love to go there, I feel drawn to it, but not for any new-age reasons, I just find it so fascinating! Funny that your dad met his wife there. I had no idea there was any sort of pilgrimage movement there. I sure appreciate all of your support and kindness in reading my writings, I know I enjoy yours very much! Blessings to you~Somehow I didn't think it would be going for the same reasons! LOL.
BTW, I just updated my blogroll (or, "blogrolls" as i like to say--makes me think of warm steaming bread!) with the new bloglist one can do. It's great as you can add the last time each was edited and a small snippet of each but yours doesn't come in with any content--says no RSS. You see, you need blogger!