Queen of Rambles

I’ve been tagged by Mo for a meme, so since I’m just sitting here being bored I may as well do it. I was sleeping quite peacefully until an angry bird started demanding entrance into my bedroom window. Crazy critter!

Remove the blog at #1 from the following list and bump every one up one place; add your blog’s name in the #5 spot; link to each of the other blogs for the desired cross pollination effect.

1. Simply Coll: http://colleenscorner.com/blog
2. My Boutiful Life: http://billi-jean.com/thebounty.html
3. Medoue: http://www.medoue.com
4. Mo’s Musings: http://www.medoue.com/mo
5. Queen of Rambles: http://www.queenoframbles.com/blog

Next: select four new friends to add to the pollen count. (No one is obligated to participate and anyone can play if they want to). (Oh man, do I hate doing this part! I don’t want to bug anyone, yet I don’t want anyone to feel left out! So so so hard.)

Margalit
Beck
Heather
Magnus

What were you doing 10 years ago?
1995
I was student teaching in Bartlesville, OK. I was working my ass off and wondering if I would really like teaching. My teacher-mentor was a total freak and hated me and all his students, which made me cry almost every night. He did have a very good curriculum for American literature–one that made a lot more sense than the one I was supposed to use when I started my own classroom in Oregon.

I was also obsessively working out with a friend. We had two exercise videos that each had an hour long workout and we’d do at least one a night, often both if we had the time. Somehow I never did get skinny, though.

What were you doing 5 years ago?
2000
I had just met Mike in person for the first time and was totally in love. Even before meeting him I knew this would be my last year of teaching. I didn’t enjoy it and didn’t feel like I should have to give up my ideals in order to avoid lawsuits. I don’t think my ideals were that hard: do the work, pass the class. I was the fattest I’d ever been and had been depressed, but at the end of the year I got a diet and motivation and discovered water aerobics and lost about 80 pounds in 8 months. But I still wasn’t skinny.

What were you doing one year ago?
2004
At the beginning of 2004 we finally moved back to the US and spent 7 months living with my dad. I was prepared to be miserable, but it was actually really good to get to know him without interference from my mom. He was a different person than I thought he was. I also took a job as a para-professional at an elementary school and really enjoyed it. I joined the Y and became addicted to the elliptical machine. Later that year Mike finally found a job out in DC, so we packed up everything we owned and moved out here and tried to adjust to big city life. I started subbing in the local school district and really enjoyed that, as well. We also started trying to have a baby that year and had one miscarriage along the way.

What were you doing yesterday?
I was mostly sitting in traffic. I had a doctor’s appointment, had my belly pummelled by Thumper, bought a new luxurious pillow, and watched an episode of Babylon 5. Thrilling!

5 snacks you enjoy
- grape tomatoes
- good quality dark chocolate
- ice cream
- almonds
- cheese

5 songs I know all the words to (This is hard! I am not much of a song memorizer)
- Jesus Loves Me
- I’ve Got Friends in Low Places (Garth Brooks)
- New Orleans (Toby Keith–quite possibly my favorite song, but I lost my CD with it)
- Earl’s Gotta Die (Dixie Chicks)
- The ABC song

5 things you would do if you had a million dollars
- Move to Ashland, Oregon
- Sponsor a couple of big parties, one with all my Freak Friends and one with all my blogging buddies
- set up a college fun for my kid and my niece and nephew
- give to charity
- travel
-run out long before I got my list complete, probably

5 things you like doing
- reading
- quilting
- writing
- reading blogs
- working out (water aerobics and elliptical)

5 bad habits
- don’t throw my clothes in the hamper
- eat too much ice cream
- procrastinate
- pick at my face
- whine when I’m bored

5 things I would never wear again
- blue eyeshadow
- the color yellow
- tights
- a too small bra
- a mini-skirt

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