My friend left an open invitation on her blog for readers to consider themselves "tagged," and it seemed like a fun entry idea, so here goes:
What I was doing 10 years ago:
My first husband, Al, and I were nearing our second anniversary. We rented half of a neat little house in my favorite neighborhood. He taught special education, I taught third grade, and we were both working on advanced degrees. We owned just one car, trained for marathons, took turns cooking, volunteered at an independent movie theater on Friday nights, cleaned the house on Saturday nights while listening to Prairie Home Companion, washed our clothes at the laundromat on Sunday afternoons, belted out tunes from RENT, and read well-written novels. Although we could be overly critical of each other, I remember it as a safe, peaceful time of life.
5 Things on my To Do List today: (I'm going to write about tomorrow's list, since today is nearly over.)
1. Walk or bike to the park for playgroup.
2. Get over my fear of riding the bike with our new baby bikeseat attached.
3. Check to see if K-mart has the laundry hamper my friend wants (yes, Katie, I'm really going to do it, even though something sucks about that store!)
4. Make spinach enchiladas for dinner.
5. Run credit card sales for our business.
Snacks I Enjoy:
Cashews, fruit, yummy things I bake, popcorn, Peppermint Stick Luna Bars, ice cream, cheese and crackers
Things I would do if I were a Billionaire:
As Jenn said, provide for comfortable lives for our families. Buy homes in a few other locals (Italy? Maine?) Spend lots of time leisurely traveling by boat or train to get from here to there. Buy Jon anything he wants for gardening, and hire someone to do the weeding. Upgrade our home so that all our energy comes from solar or wind power. In all honesty, though, the only thing that would be really great about being a billionaire would be that Jon wouldn't have to work. I'd have a lot more to say if the question was "things I would do if I had more time."
3 of my Bad Habits:
1. Reading Dear Abby online
2. Drinking an occasional Diet Coke
3. Being critical of the people I feel most secure with (but I think I'm getting better)
1. Fulton, NY
2. Osorno, Chile
3. Grove City, PA
4. Santa Fe, NM
5. A friend's shack in Jemez Springs, NM
5 Jobs I have had:
1. Elementary school teacher
2. College instructor
3. Cafeteria dishwasher
4. Camp counselor
5. Respite care provider
Following Jenn's lead, I invite you to consider yourself "tagged," and answer these questions on your blog if it appeals to you. Good night!
4 comments:
I think you gave the structure a big upgrade by calling it a "shack."
You are a true friend to go to such a sucky place for me...
-Katie
A lovely post, indeed. Nicely done. It makes me very happy that we're blogging together. Kinda like eating Oblea cookies together in Chile, or taking an over night bus to La Serena, or familiarizing ourselves with spoons. Oh, we had so much fun together. To many, many more years of fun together!
Shack? Or les than a shack? She told her mom it was a "farmhouse" at the time. I guess that was so I wouldn't worry. But I did anyway.
About the pie, it's probably called Secretly Delicious because it tastes better than it looks. But actually it looks good to me, nice and colorful. Congrats on the solar oven; it looks like a great thing for you. Love Jubi with the ice cream unibrow.
i don't have a blog some i'm going to post on yours. is that really poor blogging etiquette?
10 years ago: well, ditto
5 things on my to do list: study spanish, finish a report for work, organizing the moving company for our move to Barcelona, loose 2 kilos, start using new filofax.
snacks i like: olives, apples, nutella.
If I had a billion I would invest in sustainable fisheries, I love to eat fish!
3 bad habits: being too controlling (of self and vincent), eating too late at night, procrastinating.
5 places i've lived:
Frazeysburgh, Ohio
Pittsburgh, Pennzylvania
Albuquerque, New Mexico
London, England
Brussels, Belgium
5 jobs I've had:
dry cleaning delivery boy
special education teacher
school psychologist
head of school
waiter
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