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[shalanna]

Gacked from marykaykare via kightp, because things were getting too heavy in here. What *is* that odd lifeform popping up over at the left margin? The Stressosaurus?

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD
Software engineer
Middle school math tutor
Technical documentation writer/editor
Girl behind Dairy Queen counter who made those curlicues on top of the ice cream cones and dipped them upside-down in chocolate without dropping them (at age 16)

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER (and do!)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Real Genius
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
A Christmas Story

FOUR CITIES YOU'VE LIVED IN
Richardson, TX
Houston, TX
Sherman, TX
Dallas, TX
(You may be noticing a pattern here. . . .)

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH
* Reruns of "Bewitched"
* Reruns of "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
* "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann (sexiest newsman on TV)
* "House Hunters" on HGTV (just to see the houses people pick--I would commit many sins if they'd get me that California midcentury modern house with the view of the Hollywood Hills in the back behind the pool and the Oriental garden in the side yard, but apparently these particular sins will not get you a mortgage)

FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION
* Lookout Mountain, TN (my second dreamiest place to live: Rock City!)
* New Braunfels/San Marcos, TX
* Carmel/Monterey peninsula/Palo Alto/San Francisco area, CA (Carmel is my first dreamiest place. I want the house Donna Mills' character had in "Play Misty for Me," with the convenient rocks out the back porch so I can throw villains off if needed)
* Washington, DC

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY
* My home page (usually just to see if it's still up and running)
* LiveJournal (my journal and my friends list, and possibly others)
* txlottery.com (well, on the days there's a drawing, because Mama usually gets a ticket . . . seems like every day)
* Google

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
* Chocolate (though I don't get it much anymore, what with the diabetes and stuff, because the sugar substitutes in the diet stuff cause Montezuma's syndrome if you eat very much of it)
* Pizza (oh God don't tempt me with pizza)
* Spanish rice with blue corn enchiladas as made at the Blue Mesa Grill
* Yogurt
(But, of course, those are special treats. What do we actually eat here at Casa el Dumpo? A can or two of green beans every day. Chicken breasts or tenders (instead of beef, because we're supposed to cut down on red meat) with mayo-mustard sauce and sometimes a slice of cheese on top. Carb-controlled bread. A can of mixed vegetables just about every day. Other vegetables. Avocados. Salads with reduced-carb dressing. The occasional pot roast. Zzzzzz, boring. Oh, and baked potatoes, despite the admonition that they're really high on the glycemic index and we shouldn't eat them. Pshaw! Yes, it is disgustingly boring on the food front. The dietitian told me not to eat fruit any more because it made my sugars soar two years ago, so we never get any oranges, apples, grapes, bananas, pineapple, etc. That is Not Fair. Those magazines that say they contain diabetes-friendly recipes have recipes containing more carbs than we're really supposed to have. Sometimes you just have to cheat.)

FOUR PLACES YOU'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
* Carmel, CA (in that fancy Midcentury Modern manse on the coast, where the dog and I could just lie on the futon with our noses pressed up against the window and watch the Pacific rolling in and the sea lions until our stress levels went down, like for about 3 years to start. Did you know that dogs can have psychological reactions to stress that cause shivering and asthma-like symptoms?!)
* Rock City on top of Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
* Living in the White House as its legal resident and the leader of the Free World (I could not do WORSE than the others who've been running it)
* On TV (so I could entertain the world and straighten out all its ills--or at least my beamed image could. Yes, I would go out unto the world and minister to it. And then bounce around the stars forever, just like the reruns of my beloved "I Love Lucy" and "Dobie Gillis.")

Comments

[jenniferechols.livejournal.com]

Puzzling over Rock City. It is soooooo beautiful there, and I think Chattanooga would be a great place to live (we almost moved there once). But...didn't the garden gnomes scare you?

[coneycat.livejournal.com]

Hey, can we all play? ;)

FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD
1) Flying instructor (well, gliding instructor with the Air Cadet League of Canada--great youth organization)
2) Horseback riding instructor
3) Teacher, grades three and four
4) Reference and instruction librarian (anyone see a trend??)

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER (and do!)
1) The Princess Bride
2) Memphis Belle
3) Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World (should be first, for it is the Best Movie Ever)
4) Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl

FOUR CITIES YOU'VE LIVED IN
1) Miramichi, New Brunswick (apparently it now counts as a city)
2) Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
3) Dallas, Texas
4) Halifax, Nova Scotia
(hums "One of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn't belong")

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH
1) Da Vinci's Inquest/Da Vinci's City Hall (CBC)
2) This Is Wonderland (CBC)
3) Las Vegas (when Global TV carries it)
4) CSI Classic

FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION
1) Gaspe, Quebec
2) Vancouver, British Columbia
3) Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
4) Albuquerque, New Mexico (sp?)

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY
1) Google.ca
2) MattMays.com
3) Livejournal.com
4) PubMed.gov (work-related)

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
1) Spaghetti
2) Hamburgers
3) Rhubarb pie
4) Raspberry pie
(fortunately, I don't eat these foods regularly!)

FOUR PLACES YOU'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
1) Home in bed with the cats
2) At the barn with my horse

And... um... that's about it. Certainly not another city. As Joel Plaskett says, there's a reason that I love this town!

(Gacking this to post in my own LJ, thanks!)