The rules:What were you doing five years ago?
1. Post the rules at the beginning.
2. Answer the questions only about yourself.
3. At the end of the post, tag five people and post their names, then go to their blogs and leave them a comment so they know they’ve been tagged. Ask them to read the sender's blog.
4. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.
June 2003 — Preparing for my daughter's wedding! She amazed me and touched me by asking me to be her matron of honor (thereby also saving herself the difficulty of selecting one of her friends or sisters-in-law, but hey). It was a lovely celebration of two people's clear and apparently affection and love for each other. A child's wedding is an opportunity to share excitement and joy with her or him and with one's extended family and with a new family as well. June of 2003 was a lovely month. And the birth of her daughter the following July in turn began an era of more frequent contact, greater understanding and even closeness among us all, for which I am extremely grateful. How nice to remember. What are five things on your to-do list for today?
1. Reserve room for Friday night because the local power company is shutting off power for eight hours for improvements before the height (heat?) of the summer.
2. Finish French reading for class on Wednesday and prepare answers to the questions provided by the instructor by way of review and homework.
3. Make significant progress on necklace I'm making for my friend for her birthday on Saturday - there are really only 3 nights to work on it what with Friday's power shutdown.
4. Continue tests and make good notations about new software package at work so I can answer intelligently at our meetings tomorrow and Friday.
5. Worry about how to find someone to repair my front and back porches so I can hire someone to do the work, soon.
What are five snacks you enjoy?
1. Terra's sweet potato and vegetable chips
2. Pepperidge Farm's Milano cookies
3. steamed milk and froth with a little coffee
4. ice cream
5. almost any fruit What are five things you would do if you were a billionaire?
1. Pay off all my and my childrens’ debts and set up college funds for my grandchildren so they wouldn't have to worry about college or graduate school
2. Buy an estate on the shore in Maine and another on the shore near Carmel (CA) - two equally beautiful and different pieces of paradise on earth.
3. Take family and friends on a ship to the Galapogos Islands, covering their living expenses so we could be gone for three or four weeks.
4. Spend one month in France and one month traveling, every year.
5. Save and carefully invest the rest with the help of the best financial adviser I could find so that the money makes money and we'd all be set for the rest of our lives. What fun it would be to leave significant money presents for people now and then.
What are five of your bad habits?
1. Procrastinate. A lot.
2. Make plans to do bigger things than I really can accomplish.
3. Spread out what I'm doing all over the place even though I hate mess.
4. Avoiding people and things that make me uncomfortable even though I know perfectly well that facing them would be all right if I just would face them.
5. Eat out too much because I don't take the time to go to the store and buy good ingredients so I can cook good-ingredient food even though I like how I feel when I do and like how it tastes.
What are five places where you have lived?
1. Greenwich Village - great place to grow up, a small town in an intellectual atmosphere
2. Riverdale, the Bronx - nice but neither city nor suburb
3. Guilford, Vermont - fantastic countryside
4. Dutchess County, New York - strong communities, very pleasant
5. Northampton, Massachusetts - happenin' college town
What are five jobs you’ve had?
1. clerk at penny candy store in Greenwich Village during high school
2. housekeeper at seaside resort on Long Island, one summer during college
3. waitress
4. assistant administrator to college dean
5. assistant book store manager (if only it paid real wages . . . )
6. graphic designer
7. software and document specialist
8. jewelry maker and (eventually) designer
9. mother and grandmother!!
Oops - did you say "5"??
Five people I tag:
1. Missy
2. Color Addict
3. Barb - her post-tag post
4. Morgan Freeberg - his post-tag post
5. Dad - his post-tag post
Labels: about me, blogs (mine), blogs (others'), writing
| posted by jau at 11:33 PM
Now I have to post comments on the people I tagged.
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