Friday, February 1, 2008

The List of Fours Challenge

Four jobs I have had in my life
1. Fareway grocery cashier
2. Deli manager and soup/pastry cook
3. Iowa D.O.T. aggregate inspector (yup!)
4. Marketing director at UI Alumni Assoc.

Four movies I would watch over and over:

1. Steel Magnolia's
2. Love Actually, thanks MG!
3. The Prestige
4. The Matchmaker

Four places I have lived:
1. Decorah, Iowa
2. 'Mosquito Flats' in Iowa City, DURING the floods of '93
3. Auburn, Alabama
4. Birmingham, Alabama

Four TV Shows that I watch:
1. Myth Busters
2. various things on the History Channel
(sorry, that is about it, we just don't watch TV)


Four Places I have been:
1. St. Petersburg, Russia
2. Helsinki, Finland
3. Berlin, Germany
4. Oslo, Norway

Four of my favorite foods (only four?!):
1. sushi, high quality or not, you get desparate in small towns! (Can't wait to join you for sushi sometime MG!)
2. sour cream and onion Lays chips with 'tator topping'
3. sweet Indian carrots or Indian rice pudding
4. clementines

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. on a vacation, anywhere, with my family
2. in a movie theatre watching a great flick with a huge tub-o-corn!
3. visiting my friends in Alabama
4. out for a long, exhilarating walk with dog Lilly

Four things I am looking forward to this year:
1. losing the last 15 lbs!
2. all the new books I'll read
3. contentment (only after number 1 above)
4. making new friendships and nurturing the ones I've got

That was fun Melinda June, let's play again sometime!

5 comments:

Mnmom said...

Did you scan that bag-o-chips?

Cheesecake Maven said...

Okay, I'm wasting time blogging, but I DO NOT spend time scanning chips bags! Scanning my face, maybe, but not chips bags.

Mnmom said...

Are you SURE????
The twins and I are going to Edina for an outing with He Had No Identifying Characteristics. Wish you were here! Those three will probably have a lot of America's Next Top Model to talk about.

Melissa Foster Denney said...

I wish you were visiting your friends in Alabama, too!

We miss you.

I've been thinking of you and your sisters a lot lately. I'll blog why tomorrow - Oh, the suspense.

Joe said...

Great list. This is my first visit--I like your list of things to be grateful for on the side of the page.