Because I have nothing else to write about today without sounding all crabby about having to go ‘back to work’ as in go to ‘The Office’ for eight hours today, I am bringing you a meme that I hijacked from Hammer, who hijacked it from this blogger.
Question Meme (FIVES)
Five things you were doing 10 years ago?
Tending Bar & Swinging On Poles
Drinking Heavily & Abusing Drugs
Abandoning All Of My Personal Morals
Getting Sucked In And Sucked Under The Fantasy
Drowning In The Abyss
Five things on my to-do list today?
Re-Entering Society As A Full Fledged Member
Check Emails
Rating Insurance Accounts
Posting This Blog
Going To Bed Early
Five Places I have traveled?
California
North Carolina
Iowa
Aruba
Bahamas
Five snacks or treats I enjoy?
Rice Crackers
Cheese (mainly white cheddar from VT)
Coffee Ice Cream
(and that’s about it…I don’t have too many snack ‘options’)
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire?
Secure My Son’s Future
Quit My Job & Write All Day
Buy My Home
Pay Off All Of My Parents Debt So They Can Retire And Live Stress Free & Comfortably Forever
Buy A Decent Car – And Maybe Even A Fun Weekend Car
Five of my bad habits?
Talking Too Loud & Putting My Foot In My Mouth
Being Lazy
Obsessive Hair Twirling
Obsessively Watching TV
Obsessively Blogging & Commenting
Five places I have lived?
New Jersey
California
North Carolina
Iowa
Florida
Five jobs I’ve had?
Mc Donald’s
Bartender
Stripper
Macy’s Domestic Department
Bath & Body Works
Okay people.
So?
“What’s in Your FIVE???”
Tell me in the comments!!
Five things you were doing 10 years ago?
– Working in a Cube Farm
– Exorcist in Reckless Abandon
– Still struggling to find a fitness program I could stick to
– Trying to think up a good 13th anniversary gift
– Trying to catch up to Bill Gates
Five things on my to-do list today?
– Buy a lottery ticket
– Buy snacks
– Find a new fitness program
– Try to think up a good 23rd anniversary gift
– Calculate net worth
Five Places I have traveled?
– Black Hills
– Caribbean (twice)
– Niagara Falls
– Inner reaches of my belly button
– Redmond Washington
Five snacks or treats I enjoy?
– popcorn
– pretzels
– peanuts
– potato chips
– The Wall Street Journal
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire?
– Fix the health care system. (Ooops. It’s already fixed.)
– Donate millions of $1 scratchoffs to the homeless
– Buy a new home gym
– Buy my wife a mansion for our twenty-fifth anniversary
– Marvel at how much closer I am to Bill Gates
Five of my bad habits?
– Yelling at the TV (mostly the commercials)
– Commenting on the bad habits of others
– Giving up on fitness programs
– Obsessing over anniversary gifts
– Obsessing over Bill Gates’ worth
Five places I have lived?
– California
– Colorado
– New York
– North Carolina
– Pennsylvania
Five jobs I’ve had?
– Warehouse worker
– Amusement park worker
– Sewer inspector
– Shoe salesman
– Typewriter repairman
Five things you were doing 10 years ago?
Rolling Dough
Serving Ice Cream
Going to School
Wondering about my future
Wishing for a better life
Five things on my to-do list today?
Get up and get out the house.
Finish editing the magazine.
Write three blog posts.
Edit some photos.
Go to the gym.
Five Places I have traveled?
Canada
Aruba
St. Martin
Puerto Rico
Florida
Five snacks or treats I enjoy?
Almonds
Raisin Bran
Vanilla Swiss Almond (Ice Cream)
Bran Muffins
Nachos
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire?
Purchase a property for Moms to live in.
Travel the world.
Set aside money for the future of my cousins education.
Purchase a rental property.
Go back to school.
Five of my bad habits?
Five places I have lived?
East Flatbush
East New York
Brownsville
Crown Heights
Prospect Heights
Nice one.. I must do this sometime…
Have a nice day…
Five things you were doing 10 years ago?
Wiping snotty noses
Changing diapers
Entertaining little children
Going insanely stir crazy because…
I ran a home day-care and I was near the end of my rope with it
Five things on my to-do list today?
Attempt not to be bored while my company has basically come to a (hopefully temporary) grinding halt
Read lots of blogs
Comment on blogs
Listen to CDs
Go for a long walk at home if it’s not raining
Five Places I have traveled?
Texas
Illinois
Florida
Arizona
Bayfield, Wisconsin & the Apostle Islands
Five snacks or treats I enjoy?
Special K Orange Bliss bars
Vanilla Ice Cream with hot fudge
Cheese and crackers of any kind
Cheese popcorn
Chocolate
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire?
Pay off all my debt
Cover all 3 kids college costs
New house!
Take care of all my parents’ needs
TRAVEL!
Five of my bad habits?
Procrastination
Sulking
Not cooking often enough
Hitting the snooze too many times
Disorganization
Five places I have lived?
Minnesota
That’s
All
So
Far
Five jobs I’ve had?
Bakery chick
Video Rental store manager
Insurance Underwriting Clerk
Daycare provider
Student loan account manager
Five things you were doing 10 years ago?
Renovating my house
Telling my boss I no longer wanted the position he had promoted me to just eight months earlier
Being a newlywed
Going into debt
Getting ready to get pregnant
Five things on my to-do list today?
Work on special ed program for my son’s school
Take my son to occupational therapy
Buy casino supplies for church festival
Do laundry
Run four miles (Done! Yay!)
Five Places I have traveled?
France
England
Aruba
Hawaii
Bahamas
Five snacks or treats I enjoy?
Chocolate
Chips and salsa
Bananas w/ peanut butter and grape nuts
Fresh veggies
Cereal
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire?
Tell my husband to quit his job
Travel
Donate money to our church and school
Buy my Mom a house
Move my in-laws closer
Five of my bad habits?
Putting my foot in my mouth (me too!)
Eating anything with sugar
Picking my cuticles
Not going to bed early enough
Blogging (me too!)
Five places I have lived?
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Ohio
Five jobs I’ve had?
Salad girl at a cafeteria
Retail sales
Loan Processor
Operations Manager
Mom
You guys have THE BEST ANSWERS! Keep em commin’ xxoo
Five things you were doing 10 years ago?
Inventing the Internet (someone beat me to it).
Setting things in motion for climate change.
Popping the dot-com bubble and thinking about setting my mind on real estate.
Creating an elaborate scheme to divert pennies a day from world banks so that one day I would be a billionaire.
Considering World Domination.
Five things on my to-do list today?
World Domination.
Manipulate the foreign exchange rate with China.
Calculate the effects of a mini-black-hole.
Collapse the economy of a third-world market.
Buy eggs.
Five Places I have traveled?
The road less traveled as well as four other ones that were quite busy.
Five snacks or treats I enjoy?
Bottled water made from the distilled tears of small children.
Baby bunny brains (but I only like chewing on them like tobacco, then I spit them out).
Any endangered species mashed into a paste, then spread on a cracker.
Food I buy with money I take from homeless people.
Soylent Green
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire?
If?
Five of my bad habits?
Leaving witnesses.
Using my real name.
Not finishing something I
Much more interesting than mine 😀
Greg:
You are killing me! HA HA HA HA
Hammer:
Yours was gopd!
Leave it to Greg… LOL
I just had to cross-post this one 🙂
Five things you were doing 10 years ago?
Married to a dickhead
Having panic attacks
Starving myself because I was unhappy
Wanting to kill myself and end the pain
Five things on my to-do list today?
Take a shower
Read and comment on my favorite blogs
Call my best friend
Spend time with my children and Hubby
Go to bed early too
Five Places I have traveled?
Mexico
Germany
France
New York
Crazy-ville (My Parents’ house)
Five snacks or treats I enjoy?
Schaffenberger Chocolate
Starbucks Mocca with extra chocolate pump and whipped cream
Chocolate
Chocolate
Chocolate
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire?
Get my boobs lifted so they aren’t dragging on the floor any more
Throw a huge party for my family and friends (blogger buddies included 😉
Buy a Starbucks and give free coffee to everyone
Fly to Paris Hilton’s house, tell her she’s an idiot and that i have more money than she does, and leave
Give lots of money to charities
Five of my bad habits?
Obsessive Blogging
Throwing Pitty Parties
Yelling at Bad Drivers
Telling Stupid People What To Do
Procrastinating
Five places I have lived?
California
California
California
California
California
Five jobs I’ve had?
Butt Kisser
Gopher
Peon
Corporate Drone
Mommy
Oh My God!!
I love ALL OF THESE answers from ALL OF YOU.
This is such a fun post today!
xxoo
aaaah los cincos de meleah. nice. i did.not.know that ohio was five different places. must tell momo thanks for the edumacation. 😉
five things..or at least some of them
five things I was doing 10 years ago
beating the roads for 336 days that year
losing weight
not sleeping
writing
bought a new truck
five things on today’s to do list
finish my second poetry book
take the love of my life to a romantic spot
find the love of my life
quit smoking
drink a coke out of a glass bottle
five places I traveled I will skip to many to list
Five snacks I am not a snacker so skip
five things I would do as a billionaire
get one of those fancy coach motorhomes and travel
make sure my family was set for life
buy a ranch in Montana
start a publishing company for new writers
buy the Jack Daniels distillery..:)))
five bad habits
I get zoned into something and I forget other things
I won’t throw out anything
I smoke got to quit that
I double dip..:))))
I look grumpy I need to smile more
the last two I can’t do..I lived in a truck for years.. and that was my job
there you go young lady…:))
Wait, you had to go back to work today? Holy hell does that suck! Sorry.
I did this one already but I’m too freaking lazy to link it. I still can’t figure out the snack question. It makes me think of Kindergarten. As far as pole swinging goes, I’ve only done it once. On a party bus at my brother-in-law’s retirement party. Fully clothed. Good thing everybody was drunk?
Holly:
I *Heart* Momo. If she says Ohio is 5 places…Then it is!!
Michael C:
Yes. I did. And It Was BRUTAL. I feel like I have been run-down by a very large truck.
KellyPea:
Damn. I hate when you drop by on ‘Meme’ days….I like when you come by after I write a REAL POST. Oh well. Your comment is still friggen funny as hell. Thanks darling! xxoo
Robert:
You did GOOD! Thanks for sharing with us!
Hey! Obsessively Blogging & Commenting isn’t a bad habit… is it? 😉
Dawn:
No way…I think they are GOOD habits! xxoo
10 years ago:
I was getting pregnant with my 2nd son
I was working out 5 days a week
I was signing another year lease on a cockroach infested house
I was working as an editor from my home
I was making the decision to put down roots in Houston
Today’s to-do list:
-get through the last day of my grandfather’s visit (he’s 95)
-call the repair people to tell me what to do with my 20+ year old oven that just died
-pay bills
-sign a billion forms and pay a lot of money to the school for my son’s spring trip
-buy an orange cardigan
Five place I have traveled:
Norway
Venice
Scotland
England
Russia
Five snacks or treats I enjoy:
Hostess Susie Q’s
Lipton beef cup o soup
white castle frozen burgers
oatmeal with brown sugar and raisins
cruncheros
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire:
set up trusts to make my kids wealthy when they are grown up
donate substantial amounts to causes or organizations I care about
take care of all the repairs needed on my house and do some updating
have a great vacation once a year and some long weekends in between
buy my husband that mini cooper he loves
Five of my bad habits:
Eating until I am full
hating exercise
being way too obsessive/compulsive about cleanliness
staying up too late every night
never taking time for myself
Five places I have lived:
Michigan
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Massachusettes
Texas
Five Jobs:
assistant manager of a clothing store
sandwich maker at a Bagel shop
commercial loan coordinator at a bank
editor
selling jewelry in a department store
Five things you were doing 10 years ago?
Hating High School
Going to church
Crushing on boys that didn’t know I existed
Hating my brother
Wishing I was grown
Five things on my to-do list today?
Resume those pesky bus lessons
Wash the dishes
Get laid
Catching up on blogs and comments
Finish updating my WP theme
Five Places I have traveled?
Mexico
San Francisco
Sacramento, CA
San Diego
The bathroom
Five snacks or treats I enjoy?
Chocolate
Cookies
Pie
Ice cream
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire?
Pay off all my debt
Help out my family and friends
Donate to a church/charity
Start my own college and scholarship program
Travel around the world
Five of my bad habits?
Biting the skin around my nails
Being extremely lazy
Over analyzing EVERYTHING
Never checking voicemail or returning calls or emails
Wasting time
Five places I have lived?
California
Five jobs I’ve had?
Transportation Security Officer
Distribution Coordinator for an entertainment data research company
Store clerk for a store specializing in the metaphysical
Office grunt
Theatre usher/ticket-taker (for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, opera, plays, etc)
Are you moderating comments now? If you aren’t then mine aren’t coming through 🙁
Jillian:
Hey sweety…..I have NO IDEA why your comments were awaiting moderation. I have heavy anti-spam protection. It just saves your comment for me to approve it. Which obviously I did, and I will always ‘approve’ YOUR comments.
BTW: I am the worst with
Over analyzing EVERYTHING & Never checking voicemail or returning calls or emails. People get pissed off at me. I never call people back.
xxoo
Five things you were doing 10 years ago?
working
living a double life
Abandoning All Of My Personal Morals*****
getting in debt
playing guitar
Five things on my to-do list today?
take a bath
clean up the house
get ready for tomorrow = find clothes
reread my post again that will appear tomorrow
read a book
Five Places I have traveled?
France
North Carolina
Jamaica
Switzerland
Austria
Five snacks or treats I enjoy?
Cookies
cheese cake
Coffee Ice Cream – yeah meleah, i love it too
carrot cake
whiskey cake
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire?
photocopy my butt
Quit My Job & Write All Day
Buy a Home
travel
help family
Five of my bad habits?
putting things off
trusting my heart
okay this one is hard
okay this one is hard
i know i have bad habits
Five places I have lived?
New Jersey
Five jobs I’ve had?
law firm
insurance company
county job
law firm
Five things you were doing 10 years ago?
Studying Computer Programing
Wasn’t too sure about what I was going to do
Trying to get over my ex (the ‘relationship’ lasted for a few more months)
Playing hours & hours of FIFA 95 with my cousins
Spending a lot of time with my dog
Five things on my to-do list today?
Go to work and train my new batch of inductees
Spend time with those wonderful people I call my friends at work
Try to get through the day
Find a place I can spend an inexpensive vacation in
Come home and watch downloaded episodes of Friends to keep me smiling
Five places I have traveled?
The UK (when I was too young to remember)
Madhya Pradesh
Bangalore
Never been out of my state much, so that’s it
Five snacks or treats I enjoy?
Lays (any flavour)
Blueberry Muffins
Chocolate Cookies
Onion Baji
Mixture (its a local thing)
Five things I would do if I were a billionaire?
Retire
Buy A Palatial Mansion
Become Hugh Hefner’s Replacement
Set Up An All Woman’s Wrestling League
Buy A Big Black Jet with a bedroom in it
Five of my bad habits?
Forgetting Some Important Mails (after spending 5 hours in getting the content required)
Overeating & then Eating too little
Feeling Down Due To Silly Things
Being Online Way Too Much
Falling For Girls I Shouldn’t Be Falling For
Five places I have lived?
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Thrikkakara
Bangalore
Calicut
Kacherippady (currently)
Five jobs I’ve had?
Wholesale Tea Business (with my dad)
Manager of an Internet Cafe
Tele-Marketer
Call Center Executive/Supervisor
Trainer
You guys are The Best for playing with me
These answers are all so fantastic!! (and FUNNY)
xxoo
🙂
5 things I was doing 10 Years Ago
– I bought my first house (the one I still live in)
– I was promoted at work
– I worked
– I worked
– I worked
(I became a workoholic… and barely saw the light of day outside of the office for a few years – my biggest regret)
5 things on Today’s to do list.
– try and find a replacement oven door after shattering the previous one whilst cleaning it at the weekend
– go to work
– Fill the car up with petrol (Gas)
– Cook dinner (Slow cooked lamb shank)
– Have a nice cup of tea whilst reading Meleah’s wonderful blog!!!!
5 things I enjoy to eat
– Creme Brulee
– Oven roasted Sea Bass
– Lobster
– Oysters
– Any Chinese/Thai/Japanese food
5 Places I have travelled to
The Amazon, Brazil
Marakkesh, Morocco
Vancouver, Canada
New York, USA
Auschwtiz, Poland
5 Things I would do if I were a Billionaire
– Make sure that my parents and my sisters were comfortable for the rest of their lives
– Donate to the two hospitals that looked after me during my childhood
– Travel the world
– Learn how to use a camera properly
– Place a “Would like to meet” advert in every paper in the world… then I might have a chance of meeting “Miss Right” …lol!
5 Bad Habits
– I go very very quiet if I am unhappy
– I eat too much when I am bored
– I daydream
– I can be quite lazy when it comes to housework
– I am a starter but not always a finisher
5 Places I have lived
– In hospital (well, I spent an awful lot of time there)
– In a tent (most vacations between the age of 1 and 14)
– In Stratford Upon Avon (Shakespeares birth town and my birth town)
– In Swindon, Witshire, England (My current abode)
– In cuckoo land (my head spends most of it’s time in the clouds…lol!)
5 Jobs I have held
– Gamekeeper (Shooting on a local farm whilst I was at college)
– Chimney Sweep (Another part time job, whilst at college…LOL!)
– DIY Store Assistant (Yet another part time job, whilst at college)
– Morgue Assistant (Work Experience whilst at school…. I wanted to be like Quincy when I was little)
– HR Manager (Current occupation)
well, now you really are getting to know the real Graham….LOL!!
loadsaluv xxoo
by the way… I LOVE your answers to your 5 lists…. they simply confirm that you are the most wonderful person……
xxoo
Aww….thanks Graham! You are too good to me! xxoo
LOVED YOUR FIVE
TEN YEARS AGO I WAS RUNNING THROUGH LIKE A COURT JESTER , LICKING MY WOUNDS SO THEY DID NOT FESTER. ENOUGH SAID!!!! TO DO – WAKEUP EAT WORK PLAY PISS AND SHIT PLACES– ARUBA AND THE WHOLE EASTERN SEABOARD EXCEPT GEORGIA (new years sking new hamp to bike week florida ye-ha) SNACKS- JALEPENO KETTLE CHIPS ICE CREAM COOKIES DONUTS (ok to many to list bad bad bad) BILLIONARE- WOULD NOT WANT TO BE ONE BUT IF I WAS TRAVEL TRAVEL TRAVEL ( also help the needy people along the roads less traveled) BAD HABITS – EVERYTHING I DO IS A BAD HABBIT LIVED ONLY JERSEY AND AS FOR JOBS I HAVE WORKED FOR MY – SELF EXCEPT ( when younger paper route , lawn bus. pulled mower behind bike . plaza skating rink first real and only job sears automotive) STILL DONT KNOW I I WANT AND THATS THE BEAUTY OF IT PEACE EDDIE
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