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Sunday, February 22, 2004

lots of fives

note: I realize that I forgot to make my 200th entry the extravaGANza I had planned. Oh well, it wasn't working out anyway.

Meanwhile, since I am, as everyone knows, addicted to surveys (I think random strangers on the street in, say, Singapore, or along trails in remote sections of Kenya, would know that hsing-mom is that one who loves surveys), here is one I nicked from just--jenn.

15 YEARS AGO I:

1. was a little more than halfway through with eighth grade.
2. had an enormous crush on the boy I ended up going out with for the first two years of high school, and in retrospect I have no idea what we saw in each other.
3. was a part of a group of friends for the first time in my life.
4. had very little self-respect, but more than I'd had the previous year.
5. had already achieved my adult height of 5' 8 1/2".

10 YEARS AGO I:

1. was engaged.
2. was knee deep in wedding plans.
3. had not slept with the man who is now my husband.
4. had been a Christian for right around a year.
5. had a great job as in-home child care provider for a family with three children three days a week.

FIVE YEARS AGO I:

1. was pregnant with my third child.
2. was planning for a visit from my best friend, which was two months off.
3. was also planning a 1000-mile drive north to Tacoma, WA to visit my mother-in-law for the first time since she'd moved there just after I got married.
4. had just started an online group for women due to have babies the same month as me, and that group has since become a very big and important part of my life.
5. was dabbling in "professional" web design.

TWO YEARS AGO I:

1. had a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter and was planning my son's sixth birthday party, which was to have a "space" theme.
2. was just about to get rid of the nasty old rug in this house and have the hardwood underneath refinished.
3. was still nursing my daughter.
4. was busily cleaning up the apartment next to our house, which had been trashed by the most recent tenants, in exchange for two months' free rent from our landlord.
5. was about to start the one web design job I have now.

ONE YEAR AGO I:

1. weighed 30 pounds more than I do now.
2. had a diaryland diary (not this one) which I used to review books.
3. was looking forward to finally being out of debt.
4. was really sad about my husband going back to work after having been off for two months because of a broken ankle.
5. started a crochet project which I still haven't finished (nothing new there).

YESTERDAY I:

1. bought a breadbox and a paper-towel holder.
2. blew my diet.
3. helped install a ceiling fan.
4. had a new propane tank installed.
5. sent a letter certified mail.

TODAY I:

1. cried because my son cried.
2. blew my diet again (but the chocolate was fully worth it.)
3. wanted to just spend the afternoon at home but had to go to two different places, quite far apart.
4. had a worse time than I thought in some ways, and a better time in others.
5. had a tea party with my daughter and her dolls.

TOMORROW I WILL:

1. sweep and mop my kitchen.
2. have a "dishwasher race" with my children (happiness is children old enough to help with household chores ;-).
3. spend a good deal of time relaxing, I hope.
4. fold some laundry.
5. go for a walk if it stops raining.

FIVE ITEMS I HAVE BRAND LOYALTY TO:

1. Diet. Cherry. Coke.
2. Grape-Nuts
3. Imperial margarine, the kind we can only get at Costco for some reason. It doesn't make toast soggy.
4. Orange scented Fantastik.
5. Pine Sol, again orange-scented. I am all about orange-scented cleaning stuff right now. mmm.

FIVE SNACKS I ENJOY:

1. Cadbury Roast Almond bars
2. a yogurt and fruit smoothie
3. Oreos
4. Cheez-its
5. carrot sticks

FIVE THINGS I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT:
(really, I could, but I understand the gist of the question and I'm not feeling nitpicky enough to list, "gaseous oxygen, hydrogen, water, carbon, and nitrogen")

1. a good book
2. Diet. Cherry. Coke.
3. tall glasses of cold water
4. hugs and kisses from my husband and children
5. my size 12 tall Eddie Bauer jeans (which now, hurrah, need a belt, and I'm daring myself to buy 10's)

FIVE THINGS I WOULD BUY WITH $1,000:

1. Um, a large stack of books? does that count as one thing? Or is that cheating?
2. contact lenses for myself
3. contact lenses for my husband
4. a large bag full of treats for my kids (cheating again, bad me)
5. A new living room set. Whoops, there goes the whole thousand right there. Good thing this is just a fantasy, I guess.

FIVE BAD HABITS I HAVE:

1. blowing my diet
2. wiggling
3. talking too much
4. biting the insides of my cheeks
5. saying "interesting" (in context)

FIVE THINGS I WOULD NEVER WEAR:

1. low-rise jeans
2. flare-leg jeans
3. anything with fringe
4. a midriff-baring shirt (in public, anyway)
5. a bikini (good ol' "badges of motherhood" did away with those even if I DID lose 30 more pounds...)

FIVE SHOWS I LIKE(D):

1. "Who's the Boss?"
2. Sesame Street
3. Between the Lions
4. Jeopardy
5. Whose Line Is It Anyway?

FIVE PLACES I’VE LIVED:
(again I am unable to answer the real question because I have always lived in the same area except for a brief stint when I was two years old.)

1. Taft, California (that's the stint when I was 2)
2. little yellow house which has since been demolished
3. apartment above the shop where my dad worked
4. my maternal grandmother's house
5. the teeny apartment next to the house I live in now (which we now rent and use as a schoolroom/guest room)

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