I generally don’t participate in these…

not because I have some sort of meme-snobbery, but honestly they don’t come my way that often, and when they do I’m usually slammin’ busy. But not this morning. This morning, I will follow the tagging I got from Ms. Cheryl and run through it.

10 years ago, I was planning my wedding, or rather deciding NOT to plan it and take the easy way out.

5 years ago, I was living in a house full of women. It was a full house then, and while it drove me crazy at times, I miss it sometimes. I made arroz last night, and now I’m all nostalgic. Mol will get that.

1 year ago, I think I finally started to get the hang of this “not living in Texas” thing.

5 snacks

• Red Vines
• Cashews
• Raw green beans
• Seedless grapes
• REALLY good chocolate

5 songs I know all the words to

I’m just going to go off what rolls around on my iPod next. Because it’s hard to pick 5 any other way.

• Positively Fourth Street – Bob Dylan
• Stand on your own head – TMBG
• We only come out at night – Smashing Pumpkins
• Pea – Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Suite: Judy Blue Eyes – Crosby, Stills, & Nash

Ah, now we’re back to STP. I think I might need to go back to album shuffle here. Song shuffle is pretty abrupt.

5 things I’d do with 100 million USD

• Take care of my family. Schooling for nieces and nephews, that sort of thing.
• Get a house in the Bay Area. A winning lottery ticket might be the only way we COULD do that, actually.
• Never travel coach again. Or commercial flights. Charters all the way!
• Start a charitable foundation to support public broadcasting, sex education, HIV awareness and research, turtle conservation, preservation of historical sites… that sort of thing. I could just give money away to do that, I guess, but a foundation would set up the infrastructure to provide into the future.
• Give myself free reign to totally absorb myself in learning something new, then getting bored with that and move onto the next thing.

Now it’s David Bowie. Less abrupt than the last transition.

5 places to run away to

I’m not very good at running away…

• Books. I like to run away into a book. No joke.
• The Carribean was nice.
• The aquarium. Even though Sheila’s not there anymore.
• my bed
• a long lazy seaside vacation with the boy

5 things I’d never wear

This is a hard one, actually.

• ANY of those horrible fun-fur intarsia concoctions we saw at the fiber fair
• Skorts
• A ring through the septum of my nose
• An ewok costume
• Genuine tortoiseshell — unless it’s REALLY REALLY vintage, like over 100 years old

5 favorite tv shows

• The X Files when it didn’t suck
• Harvey Birdman
• King of the Hill. It feels homey.
• NEW Battlestar Galactica. Even with the icky-hardcore season finale.
• Connections. Yeah, it was a long time ago. And I still love it.

And of course The Simpsons. But that goes without saying…

5 biggest joys

• My boy
• Our family. The parts I like.
• Hot showers
• Sleep
• Cooking and baking

5 favorite toys

• Our teeny PowerBook
• Immersion blender. It’s just fun to use.
• Tivo
• PS2
• The yardstick we use to poke the cats. That’s entertainment!!

5 people to pass this on to

Puh-leeze. Like I know 5 people?