For the Brain Impaired, A Meme

I couldn't think of anything tonight, so thanks for this, from the pages of Mary -- go read hers; it's better than mine.

All About Me

10 years ago: 1999. Coasting along, both kids at the high school with me. Hoping that R would do enough homework to get decent enough grades to get into college, knowing she had the brainpower to go to an Ivy, had she chosen that path.

8 years ago: 2001. Dissolving into the knotted stomach world of a dying mother and a kid with a longterm illness. (Viral fatigue syndrome kept her out of school, mostly, for the last year and a half of high school.)

6 years ago:2003. Both parents gone now, both kids away at college. Things were very peaceful.

2 years ago: 2007. Beginning of the end. My library was closing for six months, to be re-opened later in the pretty library from hell, so, essentially, the end of my actual career, even though I still work there.

Five Yummy Things

1. Macaroni and cheese


2. Coffee


3. Key lime pie


4. Being warm enough


5. Daniel Craig is nice too, but I'm a Patrick Stewart sort of gal.

Five Songs I Know By Heart

1. Almost everything by the Beatles


2. Alice's Restaurant (but I'd need to practice a bit first)


3. Who Put the Bomp?


4. The Lion Sleeps Tonight


5. Star Spangled Banner, America the Beautiful, etc.


6. oh, and The Red River Valley, R's baby song

Five Places I'd Like To Escape To

1. Main Street, The Magic Kingdom


2. Parvin State Park, Salem, NJ


3. Squam Lake, NH


4. The Mayo Clinic


5. the past

Five Things I'd Never Wear

1. ditto Mary, a thong


2. ditto Mary, stillettos. Or any other shoes with heels


3. a midriff top


4. anything fluffy or with feathers, or for that matter, real fur


5. long, hanging earrings

Five Favorite TV Shows I'm guessing this means of the moment, and not of all time.

1. The George Lopez Show


2. Home Improvement


3. The Big Bang Theory (Everybody watch this; it's a pisser)


4. Law and Order


5. Countdown with Keith Olberman

Five Things I Enjoy Doing

1. Reading


2. Writing


3. Computer stuff


4. Shopping


5. Hanging out with my kids if they're not making me crazy

Five Favorite Toys

1. iPhone


2. Maxx the Mac


3. Wii


4. the cable DVR (video recorder)


5. my many Mickeys and other stuffed creatures, most recently Jock the Sock Monkey

WATCHING GEORGE LOPEZ :: ENTRY #1957
READING: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke