The Five Times Club*

The lovely Amie tagged me months ago with this little ditty.  I wouldn't do it for anyone else because these meme things are against everything I stand for but then I realized I don't really stand for anything so there you have it.  (Plus, I wrote this weeks ago but then being the procrastinator that I am never bothered to post it.  This is my calling it in post.  I think I need a new category.)

10 years ago It was my second quarter at WWU.  That scholastic year can be summed up as follows:  1) got my first and only D of my academic career (class being at 8am and me only making it to class 3 out of 5 days a week probably contributed to that), 2) moved out on my first roommate who was way too needy and ended up having her parents visit every weekend and her white trash jobless boyfriend keep her company during the weekday, 3) moved in with my second roommate and we got along so well we ended up living together on and off campus for the next 4 years and 4) my girlfriend from high school, Misty, decided WWU wasn't for her and transferred to the UW.  (That one was a bummer.)   

8 years ago I was just about to meet The Dude through some mutual friends.  When we finally did meet, I thought he was funny and cute, but he was also the recent ex of a friend who had kind of flipped out when they broke up, so mostly I just ignored him.

4-6 years ago I had just moved to Fremont and was working at MediaPassage in lower Queen Anne. I was managing a team of 4 people placing print adverts on behalf of large advertising agencies including DDB NYC. That job gave me the opporunity to travel, on business!, a thing I was really excited about at the time.  But now when the opportunity of business travel presents itself, I try to look busy/invisible and cross my fingers no one picks me.  So on the up side I made it to NYC pre-9/11.  But on the down side MediaPassage ended up being one of those dotcoms that went belly up shortly after 9/11.  Thankfully I had jumped ship 7 months before that happened.  I was over at a new company.  Months later The Dude proposed.  I was just about to meet Egan.

2 years ago I had once again moved jobs and was just starting to get settled, in a new part of town, with new people, doing something I’d never really done before.  Unrelated to my career, I was in the middle of learning a lot of things about life, relationships, and friendship.  It was painful and terrifying and thrilling and devastating and, in the end, looking back, totally worth it.  Also, I flew down to Vegas Baby! to meet Misty as she ended her 30 day rail trip across the US and Canada. 

Today is turning out to be awesome.  Some coworkers and I went out to lunch at Red Robin and right before we left some magical force sent the Red Robin birthday burger coupon to my email (so it was totally free!)...which means if you haven't signed up for your free burger yet, you should.  You totally should.  Then after lunch a coworker and I ran to Payless and I found not one but two pairs of adorable tweed flats.  And they were only $10 each.  Not that I needed new shoes or anything.  But seriously.  These sucker are adorable.

Five yummy things:
Odwalla Superfood (Don’t be hate’n just because it’s green)
My mom’s homemade chicken pot pie
Beecher’s Blank Slate
Warm chocolate chip cookies
All things Target (except their food)

Five songs I know by heart:
Stay by Lisa Lobe
Our Lips Are Sealed The Go-Gos
Wendy by The Beach Boys
Dreams The Cranberries
Just Like Heaven The Cure

Five things I would do with a lot of money:
Travel, travel, travel
Buy a house in Ballard, Fremont or Wallingford
Get a degree in Graphic Design
Open a boutique
Heavily invest in Chow Foods, Beecher’s and Tom Douglas

Five places I want to escape to:
Europe
Southeast Asia
My apartment
The Dude’s arms
Adobe Illustrator

Five things I would never wear:
Koolats Coolats...whatever, you know what I mean
Anything from Walmart
A visor
Shorts.  Okay, not never, but I hate shorts.
A 12 inch skirt.

Five favorite TV shows:
Lost
The Office (original BBC version)
The Daily Show
Arrested Development
70% of the stuff on PBS

Five things I enjoy doing:
Taking photos
Writing
Making Valentines
Gift giving (especially the packaging part)
Illustrating

Five favorite toys:
Typepad
Anything Adobe
My cameras: Lomo L-CA, Holga, Canon SD 410, Casio EX7
Netflix
The InternetS

*Tell me I'm not the only person left on this planet that remembers an old opening monologue on SNL with Tom Hanks in which he talked about the Saturday Night Live Five Times Club.  Remember?  Just lie so I'll shut up already.

Comments

[kirk]

Hey 4-6 years ago I was going to NYC all the time on Business. Until we fired our agency there [Lowe] and went with DDB Chicago.

Then instead of going to NYC all the time I went to Chicago. Then Los Angeles, then Toronto, then Vancouver, then LA again.

[Katy]

Love the get to know S posts ... thanks for sharing (I'm not a fan of meme's either :))

[amieable]

You wouldn't even wear coolats if they came "back" like leg warmers and jelly shoes?

[sprizee]

Amie, Oh my gawd NO. Just the thought of jelly shoes make me feet sweat. I had this pair back when I was in elementary school that I wore until they would no longer stay on my feet and were covered in some much dirt that my mom had to throw them away in the dark of night lest I dig through the trash to "save" them.

[egan]

I have no comment on this post, NONE! I'm so disappointed.

[egan]

Okay, I see I got a nod in this post. So maybe memes aren't so bad afterall. Green Odwalla is good. Have you tried the Naked version of superfood? It's pretty good too.

[sprizee]

Eggo, Here's a quarter. Go c... score me some pixie dusty.

[sprizee]

Nope, haven't tried it. Know why? They don't sell it at Costco.