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What were you doing 20 years ago?
Skating through the last semester of high school and enjoying unofficial senior ditch days (a group of us weren't on the scantron roll for 4th period Humanities; when we had a sub, we'd leave campus for a long lunch).
What were you doing 10 years ago?
In the throes of graduate school, hanging out with cool, smart women and learning how groovy vegetarian food is.
What were you doing 1 year ago?
Waiting to start a job I'd had on paper for nearly a year and training a recalcitrant, rude, disinterested and incompetent schlub how to do my old job.
Five snacks you enjoy:
1. Snyder's honey mustard pretzel pieces
2. Cashews
3. Leonidas chocolate
4. Candied ginger
5. Edamame
Five songs to which you know all the lyrics:
1. "Amado Mio" by Pink Martini
2. "American Pie" by Don McLean (the original, not the dance-y Madonna "remake")
3. "Cantique de Jean Racine" in French, which is far more lyrical than the English version.
4. "Come Thou Fount"
5. "40" by U2
Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1. Invest in real estate
2. Start a scholarship/grant to support Women's Studies in Religion students at CGU
3. Donate to Sunstone
4. Pay to have early Mormon woman's publications (The Woman's Exponent) put on CD and made available far and wide
5. Splurge on a piece of estate jewelry
Five bad habits:
1. Not exercising beyond walking up/down the hill to the parking lot
2. Not flossing
3. Picking at zits
4. Rehashing confrontations (so I win)
5. Not letting go of stuff I can't do anything about
Five things you like doing:
1. Reading
2. Writing
3. Spending time with friends
4. Going out to eat at old favorites or trying new restaurants
5. Seeing movies
6. Consuming chocolate
Five things you would never wear again:
1. Men's boxers worn as shorts in public (it was the 80s)
2. Perfectly feathered hair
3. A BYU sweatshirt
4. Stirrup pants
5. The "Prairie" look
Five things that scare you:
1. Skydiving
2. Excessive, intolerant zeal (you know who you are)
3. Extinction
4. Current fiscal, foreign and energy policies
5. Riptides
Five favorite toys:
1. My laptop
2. My cell phone (I was such a holdout)
3. My car
4. Google
5. Soap bubbles
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No one even asked, but this one is way more fun than the last meme I did...
What were you doing 20 years ago?
Working 3/4-time, going to college full-time, and doing lotsa drugs, drinking, smoking cloves, listening to New Wave music, and other productive pursuits...and maintaining a 4.0 GPA
What were you doing 10 years ago?
Working for a consulting/market research firm, living in Manhattan, going to all the theatre things I could find, and dabbling in nominal mormonism
What were you doing 1 year ago?
Learning how to enjoy living in Switzerland despite the Swiss, and barely surviving Absolute Blazing Killer Hell at work
Five snacks you enjoy:
1. Cheese
2. Raw cauliflower
3. Any kind of green salad (yes, I'm serious, and yes, I consider it a snack)
4. Nuts - macadamias primarily
5. Olives
Five songs to which you know all the lyrics:
1. "I Don't Know Why" - Shawn Colvin
2. "Sensation" - The Who's Tommy, Broadway Soundtrack
3. "Coming Up Close" - Til Tuesday
4. "Adia" - Sarah McLachlan
5. "Silent All These Years" - Tori Amos
Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1. Quit my effing job - twice
2. Never work for The Man again (or any man, and most women, for that matter)
3. Find meaningful charity work and do it passionately
4. Give lots of money away, to charity, to friends/family who might need it
5. Join a class-action lawsuit (yes, a specific one, that I shan't name)
6. Buy handbags, shoes, jewelry, watches, etc. (you know you were waiting for this one)
Five bad habits:
1. Not exercising beyond walking around town, to and from the trams, etc.
2. Knee-jerk rebellion - against authority, rules of any kind, people with arbitrary 'institutional' power, etc.
3. Trying to fight city hall, hoping for change
4. Taking things personally
5. Vacillating between pessimism and cynicism, idealism and 'depressive realism'
Five things you like doing:
1. Reading
2. Spending time with Scott, dogs, friends
3. Going out to eat, drink
4. Local travel within Switzerland and France
5. Watchin movies, TV
Five things you would never wear again:
1. Leggings
2. A fake tan
3. Clothing that says anything on it
4. Skirt suits
5. Tights and socks at the same time, with prairie-ish skirts
6. 501s - okay, I totally would, but the odds of ever getting my ass in them again are far, far slimmer than I am...
Five things that scare you:
1. Passive aggression
2. Backstabbing
3. Overly polarized politics and social issues - shrill debates and extremism
4. W, and anything he touches
5. Moving back to the US...or not doing so (read: What to do next)
Five favorite toys:
1. My Palm Pilot (aka 'gameboy')
2. My cell phone (just bought a new one)
3. My handbag collection
4. My jewelry
5. SecurID token that allows me to log into work network without having to schlep my laptop home or where'e'er else I go
I haven't done the last meme yet (will I ever? Dunno), but here goes:
What were you doing 20 years ago?
Living in a basement apartment in Heritage Halls with roommates who didn't like me and played mean practical jokes. Singing in Concert Choir and pursuing a heated makeout relationship (okay, we also went to International Cinema every Saturday) with a guy who last I heard was a gay tantric massage therapist.
What were you doing 10 years ago?
Reserving the temple before I was officially engaged. !! Pursuing a long-distance relationship with The One (he still is!) and madly planning our wedding and four receptions while working 70 hours/week at a NYC law firm.
What were you doing 1 year ago?
Fighting nausea while pregnant with long-awaited number 2 son Leif.
Five snacks you enjoy:
1. Nuts in dark chocolate (any kind other than walnuts)
2. Natural Ruffles dipped in plain sour cream (if I weren't off dairy)
3. These days, I intensely crave COOKIES of all kinds--yesterday I baked dark chocolate shortbread, and I'll be baking heart sugar cookies for Anders's K class.
4. Kettlemania microwave kettle corn
5. Chips and homemade salsa or guacamole (if I weren't off tomato)
Five songs to which you know all the lyrics:
Oh, for heaven's sake, I'm a singer; I probably know all the lyrics to 100 or so, if not more (especially if you count all the hymns to which I know all the verses).
Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1. Remodel my kitchen
2. Redo the outside of my house, including an eco-roof for the garage and solar panels for the house, new back patio, retaining walls and landscaping
3. Pay off my sister's debt
4. Set up college funds for my kids (and some for my nieces and nephews) that will truly cover the cost of college
5. Set up a fund to do volunteer work in developing countries.
Five bad habits:
1. Not exercising
2. Spending too much time playing dumb computer games
3. Saying things just to show that I know them
4. Not taking my kids to the park
5. Um, having a hard time coming up with another one that isn't subsumed in 1 or 2 above--general laziness and poor time management
Five things you like doing:
1. Reading
2. Cooking, especially for other people who appreciate it (note--not usually my picky five-year-old!)
3. Watching movies
4. Hanging out with the scaries
5. Travel
Five things you'll never wear again:
1. Legwarmers
2. Shoulder pads
3. A perm
4. A bikini (sigh)
5. A strapless bra (sigh)
Five things that scare you:
1. Dick Cheney
2. Driving over the Fremont Bridge
3. David or one of the kids dying or suffering grave injury
4. Extremist nutsos (pro-life, anti-gay, islamist, etc. etc.)
5. Cancer
Five favorite toys:
1. Treo 650 (PDA + phone! Plus I could use it as an mp3 player if I got a bigger memory card and decent headphones.
2. Leif (so fun to tickle and squeeze)
3. my 1892 rosewood Steinway upright
4. Cuisinart
5. bridge cards
OK, I'm saying this WAY too late, and it's a stinky thing to show up and offer a correction like I'm some kind of English teacher or something, but Don Henley didn't write "American Pie." Don Henley wrote some damn great songs--one of my favorites is "Desperado"--but it was Don McLean who wrote "American Pie."
But I must offer a hearty "hear, hear" to Bad Habit #4: Rehashing confrontations (so I win). I do that too, a lot--though sometimes I don't win. Sometimes I just rehash.
Oops--my bad. My apologies to Don McLean for crediting someone else for his rocking tune. American Pie was a record I grew up listening to and it was the second CD I bought after getting a CD player. (The first CD was Violent Femmes).
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