Do re meme

  • Okay, I’ve never had to do one of these before, but since I’ve been tagged, so I guess I can do my time:

    1. Four jobs you have had in your life
      Letter-reader for Robert Schuller Min­istries
      Print spot­ter for a pho­tog­ra­phy stu­dio — you use dyes and a paint­brush to paint in the white dots made on the print when there’s dust on the neg­a­tive. I’m sure this job is done much more accu­rately by com­puter now, but it was a good entry level job for a graphic artist. Mind-numbing, but steady.
      Credit card inspec­tor
      News­pa­per adver­tis­ing artist
    2. Four movies you could watch over and over
      Amadeus
      Glen­garry Glen Ross
      Beauty and the Beast
      Ground­hog Day — and no, I did not just say that because Orthodixie said it.
    3. Four places you have lived
      Lon­don, Eng­land
      Dhahran, Saudi Ara­bia
      Hunt­ing­ton Beach, Cal­i­for­nia
      Hobart, Indiana
    4. Four TV shows you love to watch
      My Favorite Mar­t­ian
      Black Adder
      British Men Behav­ing Badly — BBC-America doesn’t show this nearly as often as it should IMHO
      The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Hour — okay, I’m going back a few years here, but y’know, good times!
    5. Four places you have been on vaca­tion
      Car­son City, Nevada — mom’s house :-)
      British Isles
      New­port, Rhode Island — my favorite stop on a New Eng­land cruise
      Lone Jack, MO; Sedalia, MO; War­ren­ton, MO — my favorite road trip so far
    6. Four Web­sites you visit daily
      Drudge Report
      Town­hall
      Yahoo News
      Those are the only ones I could say I do daily. But on the “very fre­quent” list: Orthodixie, Michelle Malkin, Ortho­doxy Today and too many oth­ers to men­tion. Oh, and Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com. What, you think these entries write themselves?
    7. Four of your favorite foods
      Krunchie bar — British choco­late bar. Too good for words
      ClaimJumper Choco­late Cheese­cake — It is a com­plete dis­grace that the ClaimJumper restau­rant chain hasn’t made it to the Mid­west
      Won ton soup
      Panera’s tomato bisque soup
    8. Four places you’d rather be right now
      Hmm. Well, in bed, for one. It’s late and Greg has already gone, which means he’ll have hogged all the cov­ers by now.
      Car­son City, Nevada — it’d only be 9:15 right now, and my sis­ter and I could yak for a cou­ple hours
      Kauai — the Gar­den Island of Hawaii. I’d like to think if I could find some balmy, iso­lated spot to lie on the sand and look at the stars
      some unnamed meadow — I’ve always had a pas­toral han­ker­ing for a place so com­pletely quiet that it only exists in my mind, in a paint­ing … in Psalm 23: The LORD is my shep­herd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pas­tures; He lead­eth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul.
    9. Four blogs you are tag­ging
      Wellll, like Fr. Joseph, I wouldn’t want any­one to feel like they had to, but let’s see about:
      Pith­less Thoughts
      Jour­ney­man James
      Morn­ing Cof­fee (heck, Alana, you were com­plain­ing about not hav­ing any­thing to blog about!)
      Minor Clergy

    There! I sup­pose this is just a step on the road to ruin. Next, I’ll prob­a­bly start actu­ally for­ward­ing all the e-mails I get that say, “Don’t delete this!! THIS really works!!! If you don’t send this to ten peo­ple in the next twenty min­utes, you’ll wake up with FERRETS in your pajamas!!!”


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    1. Lon­don attacks
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    3. May­ors on drugs

    February 5th, 2006 | Grace | 3 Comments |

3 Responses and Counting...

  • her­man 02.05.2006

    Thank you for sharing.

    You have lived in some diverse places.

  • Grace

    Ya. I was an army brat, so we got around. I just picked a few for fun. My father was a mil­i­tary attache, so my first mem­o­ries are from Eng­land. After he retired from the mil­i­tary, he joined the Arab Amer­i­can Oil Co., and I got a sum­mer in Saudi Ara­bia — NOT a good place in sum­mer. Set­tled in south­ern Cal­i­for­nia from 19–36, then to NW Indi­ana, then to the Mid­west. I’m an old middle-aged lady now and I think my rolling-stone days are over. But I like to travel a bit anyway.

  • Fr Joseph Huneycutt

    BTW, thanks for accept­ing the chal­lenge. :)

    And, fur­ther­more, Fr Elias *was* sur­prised (shocked, I believe you’d said) when I greeted him in your name.

    Keep up the good work, Grace.

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