June 20, 2007
Hi Fives about Me
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Antoinette from Sparky’s Scratches tagged me for this meme. So I’ll give it a go and try to make it as interesting as I can.
INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so:
1. BlondeMomBlog
2. Holly’s Corner
3. Daddy Forever
4. Sparky’s Scratches
5. Scraps of Mind
Next select five people to tag:
1. Becky
2. Sharon
3. Vicky
4. Andrea
5. Kelly
What were you doing 10 years ago?
Working as an IT Quality Manager for the same teleco company that I still work for and planning a surprise trip back to Ireland to gatecrash my cousin’s wedding. For the record, it was an absolute hoot and one of the best holidays I’ve ever had.
What were you doing 1 year ago?
Starting to get interested in the whole blogging thing. Getting into digital scrapping. Managing a large portfolio of IT Applications for the same telco company as above and wishing I was planning a trip somewhere (I usually take a realy good trip over to Europe every second year or so and that ‘off’ year is a killer)
Five snacks you enjoy:
1. Dark Chocolate
2. Anything covered in chocolate
3. Greek or Lebonese dips with bread
4. Did I mention Chocolate?
5. Pringles chips
Five songs that you know all the lyrics to:
1. Danny Boy
2. Chase the Ghosts Away - Ross Ryan
3. Cat’s in the Cradle - Harry Chapin (my guide to raising my daughter, as in what can happen if you don’t pay attention to the really important things)
4. Advance Australia Fair - National Anthem
5. The Lumberjack Song - Monty Python
Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1. Travel - All over Europe with no time constraints. And some detours to Egypt and Russia
2. Invest the balance and live off the earnings because…..
3. I’d take early retirement!!!!!
4. Then I’d do some volunteer work for charities
5. And spend the rest of my time doing whatever I like.
Five bad habits:
1. Eating too much chocolate
2. Inadvertently driving my opinion too hard and making people feel uncomfortable. I do try to curb this but sometimes my personality gets in the way.
3. Procrastination!
4. Taking too long in the shower. In a ‘water restriction’ environment that’s a bad habit I’m trying hard to break
5. Other than those four things, I’m perfect in every way!!?!!!
Five things you like doing:
1. Playing with my blog and reading others.
2. Scrapbooking (digital and traditional)
3. Going to live performances. The atmosphere at a theatre, concert hall, folk festival or pub gig is a world away from listening to a CD or watching a DVD.
4. Helping people to bring out their strengths. I really enjoy mentoring roles and helping people to develop themselves. Most of us (me included) constantly underestimate our capabilities and usually need someone else to point them out to us and ‘prove’ we’re good enough.
5. Spending Mother/Daughter time with Seona. Always enjoyed this but even more so now that she lives in Sydney.
Five things you would never wear again:
1. Bikini, sometimes you have to admit it’s time to move on.
2. Super high heels. I’m 5′2″ but I have a tall personality. I’ll settle for that.
3. Crop tops. Wore these in the 70s (like Antoinette) and hated them then. But young and fashion driven…what can I say? I need to keep my mid-section warm or I tend to get sick. I was totally distraught to see them back in fashion a couple of years ago. Thank heavens I’m into style rather than fashion now. Besides I have the wrong sort of mid section nowadays.
4. Leisure suits
5. Choker necklaces
Five favorite toys:
1. Computer, and its close friends Printer and Scanner.
2. Photoshop Elements. Just luurve that program
3. WordPress. Love playing around with my blog.
4. PDA with keyboard attachment. Makes keeping a travel diary to turn into journaling for scrapbook layouts so much easier.
5. My camera. I’m just a ‘point and click’ merchant but I now have a camera that helps overcome my wobbly technique so I really love that.
Stumble it!
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6 Responses to “Hi Fives about Me”
Thanks for visiting my blog! Love your lists of 5 things. We must be near the same age, given your references to crop tops and leisure suits. So I can commiserate on having given up bikinis. It’s one-piece suits for me all the way!
By Magpie (Jan Connair) on Jun 20, 2007
I don’t really have bad memories of the 70s. They were happy fashions. But crop tops were something I really wasn’t sorry to put behind me.
By Karooch on Jun 21, 2007
Loved reading your list Karen:) Learned a few things about you! I was just a kid in the 70’s but I do remember my mom wearing the leisure suits AND the crop tops! lol As for me? Well I’ve NEVER been in a bikini but did do the crop top thing in the 80’s:)
By Martha~aka~Krash on Jun 23, 2007
Karen, I share a lot of your bad habits. Luckily we don’t have water restrictions here though so I don’t guilty about my long showers (until the power bill comes in).
By Sharon on Jun 23, 2007
Martha to be honest my leisure suits really only made it into my wardrobe when I was pregnant. Since that’s not going to happen again I can safely say I will never wear them again.
Sharon I do shower with a bucket to catch the surplus water and use it for watering the plants. That way I can mitigate my guilt.
By Karooch on Jun 24, 2007
Interesting read, Karen. I’ve been tagged by Sharon so will do
this post today.
By Hannah on Jun 25, 2007