I’m sick with a terrible head cold and I’m new to this so let’s see if I get it right. Lain tagged me to answer these questions:
Four jobs you have had in your life:
Cleaning up at a beauty salon (high school)
Doing some billing and answering phones for my Dad’s construction company (also high school)
Working as an assistant to a literary agent
Reading books at a big talent agency and assessing if they were movie material or not
Four movies you would watch over and over:
The Sound of Music
The Borrowers
The Bicycle Thief
Day for Night
Four places you have lived:
Bloomington, Indiana
Stuart, Florida
Los Angeles, California
Santa Barbara, California
Four TV shows you love to watch:
We don’t have our TV hooked to the world but we get shows on DVD and slowly savor them:
The Gilmore Girls
Jeeves and Wooster
The Monarch of the Glenn
The Vicar of Dibley
Four places you have been on vacation:
Southern Croatian Coast
San Juan Islands
Panama
Big Sur
Four websites you visit daily :
BBC
Thesaurus.com
Google
Local library or Amazon
Four of my favorite foods:
Rice cereal with a Fuji apple, dried cranberries, and raisins
Excellent English chocolate covered toffee (the best is made by my friend Kim)
Sushi
Lobster and Stone Crab
Four places you would rather be right now: (If I felt good)
Getting a hot rock massage
On the coast of New Zealand hiking with my family
Having dinner with all my favorite people at one of my favorite restaurants
Swimming with pink dolphins in the Amazon river
On national TV teaching about how women can create lives they really love
Now do I tag someone???
6 responses so far ↓
1 Marilyn Jan 16, 2006
You can…or we can tag ourselves…here goes…
Four jobs you have had in your life:
TV producer, waitress, cybercafe manager, training coordinator
Four movies you would watch over and over:
Amalie, Mother, Thelma & Louise, anything with Jim Carrey
Four places you have lived:
St. Thomas, Sausalito, Portland, San Francisco
Four TV shows you love to watch:
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, Everybody Loves Raymond, Project Runway
Four places you have been on vacation:
Manhattan, Paris, Santa Barbara, Italy
Four websites you visit daily :
CNN, New York Times, Virgin Islands Daily News, hometown newspaper
Four of my favorite foods:
pie, Thai noodle salad, salmon, yams
Four places you would rather be right now:
Magens Bay, on a massage table, Cafe Tosca in San Francisco, in a Westin bed
2 Marisa Jan 16, 2006
I love this, ok I would like to go next….
Four jobs you’ve had in your life
Nanny, Nurse, Housekeeper, Wedding Planner
Four movies you could watch over and over
Romancing the Stone, Love Actually, Amelie, Pollyanna
Four Places you have lived
Seattle, Butler Missouri, Firenze Italy, Laguna Beach California
Four tv shows you love to watch
Vicar of Dibley, Judge Judy, Golden Girls, Coupling
Four Places you’ve been on vacation
Venice, Monaco, Hawaii, Amsterdam
Four websites you visit daily
Talkaboutchit.com, comfortqueen.com, candystand.com, lionbrandyarn.com
Four of my favorite foods
steamed humbow from Tai Tung restaurant in Seattle, my mom’s fried rice, Wolfgang Puck Pumpkin Ravioli, Honey Chicken from PF Changs
Four places I would rather be right now
Opus Hotel in Vancouver, driving to the South of France via the Autostrada, having afternoon tea at the Fairmont Empress Hotel, buying yarn for new knitting projects
3 m Jan 17, 2006
sorry you’ve got a cold !
sending you lemon and ginger steamed infusion ….
4 Helga Jan 17, 2006
alright, this is too fun -
4 jobs you’e had in your life:
college teaching/research assistant; janitor; translator/interpreter; archaeologist
4 movies you’d watch over & over:
The Rocky Horror Picture Show; The Matrix; Fried Green Tomatoes; Monty Python’s Holy Grail
4 places you have lived:
Bonn, Germany; Tucson, AZ, USA; Charente region, France; my hometown in Germany
4 TV shows you love to watch:
House; CSI; British & Tony Hillerman mysteries on PBS; Will&Grace
4 places you have been on vacation:
Southwestern France; New Mexico; Benidorm, Spain; Puerto Penasco, Mexico
4 websites you visit daily/often:
CNN; NY Times; Die Zeit; noaa.gov
4 of my favorite foods:
French fries; bean burritos; mangos; pizza
4 places you’d rather be right now:
right here; a Mexican beach; my hometown; evergreen montane forest
5 jackie Jan 18, 2006
4 jobs you’e had in your life:
carer; actuary; computer analyst; teacher
4 movies you’d watch over & over:
The Shawshank Redemption; Les Miserables; It’s a Wonderful Life; Braveheart
4 places you have lived:
South London, UK; Reading, Berkshire, UK; Bray, Ireland; Kilcock, Ireland
4 TV shows you love to watch:
Jonathan Creek; Frasier; Inspector Morse; Firefly
4 places you have been on vacation:
California; West Coast of Australia; Costa Del Sol, Spain; Norway
4 websites you visit daily/often:
IMDB; Amazon; Curezone; ComfortQueen
4 of my favorite foods:
Salmon; dates; mangos; persimmons
4 places you’d rather be right now:
having a hot stone massage; New Zealand; Egypt; Disneyland
6 Lauren Miranda Jan 18, 2006
Finally a moment to do this — too fun to resist!
Four jobs I have had: Burger King (in the 70′s – the era of really scary orange uniforms, working in my dad’s pharmacy, selling shoes, reference librarian (wow, how did I get here?).
Four movies I’d watch over and over: Harold and Maude, When Harry Met Sally, L.A. Story, Defending Your Life
Four places I’ve lived: San Fernando Valley, Sacramento, San Jose, Campbell – never outside of California
Four TV shows: House, Cash in the Attic (BBC), House Hunters, Sex and the City (yes, the re-runs!)
Four vacation spots: England, France, Scotland, Taos!
Four daily websites: Amazon (book addict!), IMDB, Comfort Queen, local library
Four favorite foods: a well-made cobb salad, fried shrimp and a baked potato with butter (BAD!!), turkey with all the trimmings, brownie sundae (sooo bad but sooo good!)
Four places I’d rather be right now: renting a house at Sea Ranch (Mendocino coast); perusing a quiet, well-stocked bookstore; having a contemplative cuppa tea in front of a roaring fire with my journal and a perfect pen; substituting my journal for cozy conversation with one or two of my best gals!