4 Things for Angela

So here are my answers to the "4 things" - just a warning though, I am REALLY boring!

4 things I was doing 10 years ago:

Walking around VERY pregnant with my HAAS-of-a-son, Jarod  (I think this should count as two things)

Hanging out every day with Cassadie.  I wasn't working and she was two and a half.

Trying to decide what to do with the rest of my life.  I had an AA degree from YVCC and had no idea what to do next.

4 things on my to-do list today:

Take my kids to Swim practice and Karate class

Correct papers

Correct papers 

and ummm......oh

Correct papers (the end of the semester is next week)

4 jobs that I have had:

Customer Service at an AM PM where I used to get asked if I was old enough to work the cash register....I guess I don't get that question anymore

Payroll clerk for a trucking company (does this go along with Ang's desire to be a truck driver? I wonder....)

Front Desk Clerk at a Super 8 Motel - I started out as a maid and got promoted 

I was a Substitute teacher in a 1st grade classroom one time and those little monsters almost ate me alive - that was my confirmation that I was NOT meant to be an elementary school teacher.  I was exhausted when I got home.

4 movies I have watched more than once:

Top Gun

Karate Kid

Clue

Dirty Dancing

4 favorite albums:

Twilight Sound Track

Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill

Natalie Grant - Awaken

Carol King - Tapestry

4 places I've lived:

A tiny two-bedroom apartment in Yakima, WA - our first place after we were married

A nice two-bedroom apartment in Bothell, WA - our first place after Cassadie was born when Alex was working in Seattle

Another nice three-bedroom apartment in Federal Way, WA - we moved for lower rent and then quickly realized why it was lower

The house we live in now in Zillah, WA

That's it, all the places we have lived in the last 13 years since we got married...I told you all I was boring!

4 places I've been:

Phoenix, Arizona - when it's 10:00 at night and you get out of your car thinking it will be a nice cool summer evening and you can't breathe because it's still 120 degrees.

Las Vegas, Nevada - went there last spring with my sister, grandmother, 6 aunts, and 4 cousins.  We had sooo much fun, and then I got a tattoo on my way home; not in Vegas but in Portland on my way home.

Mebane, North Carolina - we went to visit Alex's Dad when Cassadie was a baby.  It is some of the most beautiful country I've ever seen.

San Fransisco, California - we went to visit Alex's sisters about 13 years ago and we walked around downtown, but I don't really remember anything except palm trees - I had never seen them before.

4 places I'd like to visit:

Italy 

Hawaii

Australia

The area of England that is portrayed in Nodding Hill

4 TV shows I watch via DVD:

Friends

Alias

Gilmore Girls now, thanks Ang

Charmed because my husband does, and I can't really avoid the TV

4 of my favorite meals:

Cheese Zombies and tomato soup like we had at school when we were kids

My grandmother's meatloaf - she can't give me the recipe because she doesn't really know what she put in there

I guess, there are meals I like but I don't really have favorites.  I have favorites for a short time, but then I get tired of it and find another.  

4 things you may not know about me:

I like to read...I say you may not know this about me because I didn't know it about myself until about a week ago. 

When I was in High School, my friends and I would go cliff diving about once a week for a whole summer.  

I once got in a fight with a girl during a Powder Puff Football game - we both got kicked out of the game - and I'm a little ashamed to say that this is one of my favorite memories from High School.

I enjoy driving.  Not the short, everyday, here or there trips; but the long, take your time, set the cruise control and go trips.  For some reason, it is kinda relaxing for me.  It may have something to do with the fact that I am a control freak and so I can't relax when someone else is driving, I don't know.

So there you have it...if you made it this far without falling asleep or leaving, I guess you know a little more about me.