sorry for the silence, we are into day three of sela’s chicken pox. yes, that’s right. and for those of you keeping track, this looks like it will be an ugly one. right now her face is all red and bumpy…she looks like the before in the clearisil commercial. and soon she will get all scabby and peeling.
i am in the middle of simplifying a lot of my life. as you know, i gave up one part time position, and i am now going through my books, wardrobes, etc. i have even come up with the brilliant idea (partially inspired by an article i read by a professional closet cleaner) that this year i am going to ask my relatives what they want instead of just assuming that magnificent and i will chose good gifts. and given the lack of space in our home, i will suggest we do the same thing. this means auntie pammie will no longer be sending us eight feet tall plush disney characters!
in the meantime, let’s get to know each other a little bit. a while ago i left some questions on joe’s blog. someone hit back at me with the following. please write down your own answers in the response column…let’s get to know you a bit!
four jobs i have held
1 food writer
2 gossip columnist
3 cosmetician
4 hotel pr person
four neat places i have vacationed
1 nepal/india
2 united arab emirates
3 antigua
4 great cities: new york, paris, london, beijing, shanghai
four movies i can watch over and over again
1 groundhog day (that’s kind of ironic)
2 love actually
3 the truman show (hello, ed harris)
4 some like it hot
four television shows i try to catch every week
1 THE AMAZING RACE !!!!!!!
2 medium
3 cold feet (re-runs, but still)
4
four foods i love to eat
1 lychees
2 curries
3 mango pudding
4 chinese vegetables with garlic
four cities i have lived in
1 yellowknife nt
2 calgary ab
3 vancouver ba
4 hong kong sar
four books i love to read
1 adrian mole
2 tertia’s book (ooh, a plug! it’s not available…yet…but it will be worth the wait)
3 the Bible
4the hiding place
your turn!
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Wow… here goes:
4 Jobs I have had:
1) Backpack fitter/hiking boot salesperson (boot saleperson resulted in a rather nasty rash on my hands that I don’t care to think about)
2) Radio promotion girl, that would be “Tracey in the Jeep Solar Patroller” more aptly. I got paid to flirt and handout out sunglasses for 10 weeks! Ah, youth…
3) Temp extraordinaire
4) partnerships manager
4 Neat Places I have Vacationed:
1) Barcelona
2) India (Rajasthan is fave)
3) Burma
4) Cyprus
4 Foods I love to Eat
1) Marmite on toast
2) Toblerone and Tetley Tea
3) Lamb with Mint sauce
4) Custard and stewed rhubarb
4 Movies I can watch again & again
1) The Castle (Tess – you must find!)
2) Room With a View
3) Truly, Madly, Deeply
4) Airplane
(Did I mention the Castle??)
4 TV shows I watch every week
1) Coronation Street Omnibus
2) Nanny-911
3) How Not to Decorate (love Colin and Justin)
4) 60 Minutes (love Andy Rooney)
4 Cities I have lived in
1) London
2) Bangkok
3) Seattle
4) Vancouver
4 Books I love to Read
1) Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (or early Moley)
2) Possession by AS Byatt
3) Making the Connection by Oprah
4) The Lord is My Shephard by Rabbi Kushner
Jobs I have Held:
1.Youth Pastor (Thailand, Hong Kong and USA)
2. Old Navy
3. Customer service Rep for Hartford and Appleseeds
4. Grad. Admsissions Student worker
Vactions??
1. Honeymoon in Jamacia
2. Epcot in Disney (1 day)
3. 4 Weeks in Europe (Germany, Italy and Belguim)
4
Great Cities:
1.San Fransico!!
2.Milan
3.Hong Kong
Movies I can always watch:
1. Ever After
2. American President
3. French Kiss
4. From the Earth to the Moon
(The Castle is hilarious!!!)
Food:
1.PIZZA (NY THIN!!!)
2.Sugar Cookies (w/lots of icing)3.Lasanga
4. Mango and sticky rice
TV Shows I try to watch every week!
1. Everwood!!!
Cities I have lived
1. Mechanicsburg PA
2. Chaing Mai, Thailand
3. Hong Kong Sar
4. Beverly MA
Books I love:
1. Genesse Diaries: H. Nouwen
2. Inside Delta Force by Eric Haney
3.The Bible
4. Anything by AW Tozer
Oh…..I love this!! 🙂
four jobs i have held
1 Secretary
2 Veterinary Technician – Anesthesia/Radiology Lab Coordinator
3 USDA Lab Technician
4 Substitute Elementary Ed. Teacher
four neat places i have vacationed
(Ok…don’t expect to be impressed here!)
1 Las Vegas
2 Orange Beach
3 Smoky Mountains (TN)
4
4 great cities:
1 – No favorites here – prefer small towns
2
3
4
four movies i can watch over and over again
1 Any Austin Powers movie
2 National Lampoons X’mas Vacation
3 Rush Hour
4 Funny Farm
four television shows i try to catch every week
1 CSI
2 Kipper
3 Noddy
4 Pingu
(I have no choice in 2-4)
four foods i love to eat
1 Anything Italian
2 Fried Squash
3 Corn on the cob
4 Pancakes
four cities i have lived in
1 Fort Payne, AL
2 Dawson, AL
3 Dogtown, AL (yes..that is the real name!)
4 Collinsville, AL
four books i love to read
1 A painted house
2 Perfect
3 Palamino
4 Wish you well
Oh no, this I’ll have to think on, and post on mine. I needed subjects, thanks.
Sorry about the pox, now I can guess where the old ‘a pox on yea!’ phrase came from.
4 Jobs I’ve had
1)Police officer
2)Executive Assistant
3)Librarian (summer job)
4)Head mushroom washer (Winnipeg convention center)
4 Neat Places I’ve seen
1)New Orleans, LA
2)Yellowknife, NT
3)Saltspring Island, BC
4)Scottsdale, AZ
4 Foods I love
1)Dill pickle potato chips
2)Smoked Black Cod
3)Strawberries dipped in chocolate
4)my mom’s garden salad and homemade dressing
4 Movies
1)Braveheart
2)The Lion in Winter
3)(I can’t think of any others..)
4 TV Shows
1)The Closer
2)Lost
3)Survivor
4)Gone Without a Trace
4 Cities I have lived
1)Yellowknife, NT
2)Winnipeg, MB
3)Nanaimo, BC
4)all the rest are towns….
4 Books I love to read
1)Any crime fiction novel
2)Parenting books on multiples
3)True adventure books
4)professional books on Leadership
I did this one already!
http://wilderdays.typepad.com/wilder_days/2006/02/four_things_mem.html
four jobs i have held: food vendor at stadium, waitress, janitor and cook at a daycare, and professional slacker. Oh, I mean IT jobs…
four neat places i have vacationed:
London, Big Island, Kauai, San Francisco
four movies i can watch over and over again:
groundhogs day, goonies, blues brothers, alice in wonderland
four television shows i try to catch every week: the l word, medium, ghost whisperer, criminal minds
four foods i love to eat: potatoes anyway, bread, watermelon, filet mignon
four cities i have lived in
St. Joseph, St. Louis, Florissant, Bridgeon–all in Missouri!
four books i love to read
I suck. I don’t really read.
Here Goes:
Four jobs I have had:
1. BC Ferries (multiple positions in the last twenty years)
2. Purolator Courier
3. McDonald’s
4. Full time Mom, wife, daughter and sister (most important job I ever had)
Four neat places I have vacationed:
1. Alberta
2. Ottawa, Ont in the winter
3. Camping at Gordon Bay on Vancouver Island
4. Road trip to Disneyland with the family
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. The Princess Bride
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Groundhog Day
4. 10th Kingdom (ok, I know it’s not technically a movie, but I have it on DVD)
Four Favourite foods:
1. Lemon meringue pie
2. BBQ Hamburgers (beef or chicken)
3. P B & J (raspberry) on fresh bread
4. DQ Oreo blizzard with extra flavour of reeses peanut butter cup (mmmm!)
Four TV shows that I watch every week or TAPE when I’m working evenings:
1. Medium
2. Battlestar Galactica (new series)
3. CSI
4.
Four cities I have lived In:
1. Victoria, BC
2. Toronto, ON
3. Saskatoon, SK
4. Vancouver, BC
Four books I have read:
1. “Left Behind” series
2. “Harry Potter” series
3. The Five People You Meet in Heaven
4. When The Bough Breaks (non-fiction by Judith Bernstein)
Not sure you will see this since you’ve already posted another entry, but with chicken pox going around, you may have time!
Four Jobs:
1. Wendy’s Hamburgers (counter help)
2. Medical form entry person
3. Technical Writer
4. Software Manager (currently)
Four neat places I have vacationed:
1. London
2. Florence
3. Turks and Caicos
4. Vancouver, B.C.
Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Sliding Doors
2. Love Actually
3. When Harry Met Sally
4. The Way We Were
Four Favourite foods:
1. Sushi
2. Pretzels (Synder’s Sourdough)
3. Any Berry
4. Any seafood
Four TV shows that I watch every week or TAPE when I’m working evenings:
1. Almost any HGTV show
2. Gilmore Girls
3. Grey’s Anatomy
4.
Four cities I have lived In:
1. Prince George, B.C.
2. Woodinville, WA
3. Manhattan Beach, CA
4. Redondo Beach, CA
Four books I have read:
1. Fathers and Sons
2. The Last Time They Met
3. Bridget Jones
4. Running With Scissors
Hope the kids are all well soon!
I did it on my blog too:
http://hopefullyhome.blogspot.com/2006/03/four-things.html
four jobs i have held
1 recruiter
2 production assistant for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 96 Olympics in Atlanta
3 private banker
4 director of leadership development fr a large holding company
four neat places i have vacationed
1 singapore
2 hong kong
3 st. lucia
4 maine
four movies i can watch over and over again
I don’t watch movies over & over b/c there are too many good ones I have yet to see (except kid videos, b/c my kiddos seem to NEVER tire of them)
four television shows i try to catch every week
1 Grey’s Anatomy
2 American Idol
3 Desperate Housewives
That’s it–no #4
four foods i love to eat
1 Girl Scout cookies
2 chips & pico de gallo
3 mandarin oranges
4 fresh berries
four cities i have lived in
1 atlanta, ga
2 charlottesville, va
3 tuscaloosa, al
4 rome, ga
four books i love to read
1 Redeeming Love
2 The Bible (NIV or the Message translation)
3 The Barbarian Way
4 Don’t Waste Your Life
four jobs i have held
1 technical writer
2 labor doula
3 emergency medical technician
4 dock girl at a boatyard
four neat places i have vacationed
1 antarctica
2 russia
3 hawaii
4 chile
four movies i can watch over and over again
1 groundhog day (love that one)
2 sound of music
3 lord of the rings series
4 wizard of oz
four television shows i try to catch every week
1 lost
2
3
4
four foods i love to eat
1 rice pudding
2 good pasta with sausage
3 green curry
4 cold watermelon on a hot day
four cities i have lived in
1 new york
2 providence, rhode island
3 boston
4 seattle
four books i love to read
1 harry potter books
2 the secret garden
3 edith wharton satires
4 all sorts of chick lit
your turn!