Today I was tagged by
Lisa B. So beware it's a long post.
10 Years Ago: I was working nights as a nurse, so the kids would not need after school child care. They would come home and wake me up. Gee, that was a miserable time! I never had enough sleep.
5 Years Ago: I bought my Toyota Prius. It's a hybrid (runs with gas and electric). No, it doesn't need to be plugged in!
1 Year Ago: Dan (my husband) and I took a mini-vacation to Pennsylvania, visiting Lancaster County, where there is a great deal of Amish farms, etc. I just loved the antique shops and the covered bridges in that area. We had a map of all the covered bridges and I just had to take pictures of all of them. (The film has never been developed!)
Yesterday: Susan and I took a short trip to Oswego, NY, to
Northwind Yarn and Weaving. I bought 8 skeins of yarn and a sweater pattern for my great-nephew, Robert. Stashbusting just isn't working for me yet. I have good moments and then I don't know what happens. I would have bought more but then I would have had to arm wrestle Susan as she grabbed from the sale bin first! Damn she's good.
Today: It was a sweltering 90 degrees, so Sammy and I took a late afternoon dip in the pool. He is such a bad dog!
Tomorrow: Work, knitting and a dip in the pool.
5 Snacks I Enjoy: Lays potato chips (I can't eat just one!), Symphony Bar (I love chocolate!), Girl Scout Cookies (all varieties), 3 Muskateers Bar (chocolate again!), and green & red peppers with ranch dip. At least there's something healthy on my list.
5 Bands/Singers That I Know the Lyrics to Most of Their Songs: Beatles (I don't know why but I can still sing most of their tunes!), Beach Boys. Gee, I better stop, I'm showing my age. I don't think I know most of the lyrics to a band that's popular right now! It's strange, though, I don't listen to oldies on the radio.
Things I would do with $1,000,000: This depends. Is this before or after taxes? Let's assume it's AFTER taxes. I would take enough money to start an awesome yarn shop and then give the rest to my husband. He's better with money than I am. He would probably invest it and watch it grow.
5 Locations I would Love to Runaway to: Bora Bora, New Zealand, Fiji Islands, Mexico City, Peru.
5 Bad Habits I Have: (1) I am the biggest litter bug in the house, dropping crap everywhere I go. I always leave a trail of yarn, patterns and needles everywhere. (2) Cursing would be another bad habit. I don't know why but the words just seem to slip out all of the time. (3) Squeezing the toothpaste from the middle of the tube instead of from the end. My husband reminds me of this bad habit. (4) Procrastinating when it comes to housework. I'd rather be knitting. (5) And last, but not least, I have a bad habit of knitting a sweater and then taking two months or more to finish the darn thing. I don't like seaming and weaving in the ends. So if I had a million bucks, I would hire someone to do my finishing! Wow, that was super easy to list 5 bad habits!
5 Things I Like Doing: Knitting, drinking raspberry coladas and mudslides, reading, spending time with loverboy, which would be my husband, and we'll just call it snuggling, yarn shopping, attending wool/fiber festivals.
5 Things I Would Never Wear: (1) Thong - I just don't know how these young girls do it. (2) Bikini. (3) Daisy Dukes. (4) A moo-moo. Do you remember those? I think my mom might have had one. (5) I would definitely not wear anything white with black or colorful undergarments. I see too many nurses everyday that wear white pants with black undies or polka dots. Trashy!
5 TV Shows That I Like: (1) Survivor, (2) Sex and the City. I was so disappointed when that went off the air. (3) Desperate Housewives. (4)
Squawk Box on CNBC. I like to know in the morning how they think the market (stock market) is going to open. (5) I like to watch something at the end of the day on CNBC to see how the market closed. Did I make money or lose money for the day?
5 Movies I Like: (1) Message in a Bottle. I was glad Kevin Costner's character died at the end of the movie. He belonged with Catherine (his first wife) and not the bimbo that chased him. (2) Good Morning Vietnam. I think the photography was great in this picture. (3) Good Will Hunting. (4) Wind Talkers with Nicholas Cage. (5) Pee Wee's Big Adventure. I still love Pee Wee Herman.
5 Famous People I Would Like to Meet: I would love to have met all of the Beatles, Princess Diana, Mother Theresa, Benjamin Franklin (because I still don't understand the concept of electricity), and my husband's great-grandpa, William Frentzel. It's odd that I can't think of a living famous person that I would like to meet.
5 Biggest Joys at the Moment: My family: husband, 2 children, sammy the dog, and the twins (my great niece and nephew). I guess that's six, but I'm counting the twins as one, since they are a set! I'm very proud of my children and what they've accomplished to date along with their current aspirations.
5 Favorite Toys: Water guns, pea shooters, rubber bands, ball winder and yarn swift.
Well that was fun, although I did have to momentarily put on a "thinking cap!"
Susan and
Kate, tag you're it!
This great nephew sure is a little cutie! I'm knitting him a hooded cardigan, which is my August stashbusting project.
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