Tagged!

What a hometown welcome! The Bay Area’s Writeprocrastinator tagged me for my first meme. But I love making lists, so I’m rather excited, actually.

Ten Years Ago
Living with Dan in our first apartment, spending much of our time on the screened porch, celebrating Dan International Tribute Week (his birthday is this week). Probably our happiest time together.

Five Years Ago
I was working way too many all-nighters at that hell on earth known as a top consulting firm. But I earned enough money to spend two weeks in London, Paris, and Mimizan … so there was a silver lining to those 3 a.m. deadlines.

One Year Ago
OM passed away a year ago today. And that’s all I can say about that right now.

Five Songs I Know All the Words to
It would be easier for me to list five songs I don’t know the words to, so I’m listing the songs I find myself singing most this week:
1. “Wedding Bell Blues,” Fifth Dimension
2. “She Just Wants to Be,” R.E.M.
3. “A Foggy Day,” Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
4. “Kentucky Rain,” Elvis Presley
5. “Excitable Boy,” Warren Zevon

Five Snacks I Love and Wish I Could Eat
1. Blue Diamond wasabi and soy sauce almonds (thank you, sister girl)
2. Sunflower seeds (in the shell; getting the nut out is half the fun)
3. Fresh cherries
4. Basil rolls
5. Lay’s potato chips with French onion dip

Five Places I’d Run Away to
1. San Francisco (where I sit as I write this)
2. Maine
3. North Georgia mountains
4. Paris
5. Portland

Five Favorite TV Shows (current or vintage)
1. The Tom Fontana Trilogy: “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Oz,” and “St. Elsewhere”
2. “Sex and the City”
3. “Twin Peaks” (first season)
4. “Arrested Development”
5. “The X-Files”

Five Things I’d Never Wear
1. Sensible oxford shoes
2. Small, boring, little hoop earrings
3. Low-rise jeans (no muffin tops crowning this ample a**)
4. Suntan pantyhose
5. White shoes

Five Favorite Toys
1. My silver turbo Beetle
2. MP3 player
3. My R.E.M. New Adventures in Hi-Fi View Master
4. Digital camera
5. That purple thing I’d rather not name right now …


And now I tag:
Marni
Dale
Jeremy
Barista Brat (if she wants to stray from the life in a bux for a day)
Dan

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