Friday, September 21, 2007

Four Meme

This is my first-ever meme, but I was tagged by Lee Wilson and fair is fair.

What is a meme? Veteran bloggers don't have to ask, of course, but I'm always after an excuse to learn a new word so...according to Wikipedia, a meme is a unit of cultural information that is propagated (I LOVE that word) from one mind to another. Sounds very twilight-zonish, but in a fun way.

Here goes!

Four jobs I have had in my life (not including your current job):
1. I sold shrimp on the street corners of Virginia Beach.
2. I worked in a sailboat factory. My job was to attach the hiking straps with a pneumatic drill. (Can you say mind-numbing?)
3. Backup singer.
4. When my boys were babies, afternoon naps were taken in the car while I delivered newspapers. I got pretty good at rolling and throwing newspapers, shifting, and feeding snacks and bottles into the back seat.

These are all true. I have witnesses!

Four movies I have watched over and over.
Casablanca, of course!
Robin and Marian with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn
Sense and Sensibility - Ang Lee version
The Thin Man - oh that witty repartee!

Four places I have lived.
Corpus Christi, TX
McGuire AFB, NJ
Oak Harbor, WA
Norfolk, VA
and 10 other places.

Four shows I love to watch.
The Daily Show
The Closer
Mystery/Masterpiece Theater
Made in America

Four places I have been on vacation.
Greece
Italy
Ireland
France
New Zealand will be the next big one.

Four favorite foods.
Chocolate
Enchiladas
Greek salad
Grilled chicken

Four favorite drinks.
Coffee
Sparkling water
IBC diet root beer
Gold margaritas


Four places I would rather be right now.
At my sister's kitchen table in Sarasota.
In my son's apartment in Chicago.
Ireland - because I love it.
Santa Fe - because it's on my list and I'm dying to go.

Four things I know but will never blog about.
How to dehead and devein shrimp.
How to cut my husband's curly hair.
How to iron a shirt perfectly.
Sing the prepositions in alphabetical order to the tune of Yankee Doodle.

Four bloggers to tag.
I'm going to have to give this some thought since I'm a new blogger and just learning the landscape. I'm not wimping out, I just have to think about it.

Thanks to Lee Wilson for this bit of fun.

3 comments:

Becky said...

I just wanted to congratulate you on making the nominating panel for the picture books in the Cybils! I'm anxiously awaiting further announcements to see if I'll be involved. But I was so happy to see your name pop up!

Annie said...

Thanks, Becky. That's very nice of you. Might as well jump in with both feet instead of one toe, eh?

Becky said...

I thought you might be interested in a book giveaway I'm having at Becky's Christian Reviews. I am having a drawing to give away three copies of Amy Grant's new book Mosaic.

http://stand-firm-then.blogspot.com/2007/10/book-giveaway.html

Becky