Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Add Me To The List

Ok, so I've been tagged by Tink to do my first me-me. Before you start reading, though, I need to warn you that the answers aren't all that interesting.

Four jobs I've had:
1. Handing out programs at football games (my first job, when I was 9 or 10)
2. Insurance (Ugh!)
3. Taking care of plants at malls & office buildings. One of the malls I worked in had tiered planters running up along the escalators. I would have to shut off the escalator, hop the rail and climb up and down the planters with my hose to water the plants. The planters were granite, which gets pretty slippery when it's wet, so it was always a challenge not to end up in the food court 20 feet below. Also, you know the trees in malls? They get really dusty. To "dust" them, you grab the trunk with both hands and shake as hard as you can, raining dust & leaves all over the floor (and you). I would go home filthy.
4. Designing, planting & maintaining flower beds at office buildings (my current job).

Four movies I could watch over & over:
1. Monty Python & The Holy Grail
2. Ever After
3. Pleasantville
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark

Four places I've lived:
1. A little tiny two-bedroom house. This was the first house my parents owned. My dad made us a dollhouse that was an exact replica of it.
2. A big white colonial. My bedroom had a slanted ceiling, which I painted ducks on when I was a teenager (I doubt the ducks are still there). The house had a detached garage, and I had great plans to turn the garage into an apartment. I would make a loft for my bedroom, but I wouldn't have a bed; I'd just spread stuffed animals all over the floor and sleep on them. Funny how that doesn't sound as comfortable to me now as I thought it would be back then.
3. The second floor of a two-family house. The prior tenants were careless with cigarettes, so the house caught fire. We were the first people to live there after it burned (well, after it was repaired, anyway).
4. A little tiny two-bedroom house (where I live now). I guess things have come full-circle!

Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. Lost
2. Desperate Housewives
3. The Daily Show
4. Who's Line Is It Anyway?

Four favorite books:
1. Harry Potter (the whole series; I can't pick a favorite)
2. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
3. Bridget Jone's Diary by Helen Fielding
4. Songs of The Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult

Four places I've been to on vacation:
1. Disney World (8th grade class trip)
2. Washington D.C.
3. Vermont
4. Boston

Four websites I visit daily:
1. This one
2. Everyone on my blogroll
3. Go Fug Yourself (a couple of times a week)
4. The Onion (on Wednesdays, when they update)

Four favorite foods:
1. Fresh-baked bread
2. Cheese
3. Shrimp
4. Cheesecake

Four places I'd rather be right now:
1. In the garden (preferably on a day when it's not raining quite so hard)
2. On a boat (again, on a day with slightly less rain)
3. Curled up in front of the fireplace with a good book (perfect for a day like today)
4. Reading someone else's me-me, instead of writing my own!

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