Didn't think I'd do it, eh?
Okay, here goes (could anybody be INTERESTED in this??):
Five Things I Was Doing 10 Years Ago
1.Trying to figure out where my next freelance assignment was going to come from. (Some things don't change).
2. Learning how to be a parent to an extremely beautiful, bright and volatile (did I mention VOLATILE) two year old daughter, and getting my first inklings that maybe these were not normal two-year-old tantrums (as indeed they were not).
3. Taking care of my mom long distance.
4. Trying to lose weight. (See remark on #1)
5. Dealing with depression. Sliding into my usual winter funk, to be exact.
Five Things on Today's To-Do List:
1. Take a walk/go to gym
2. Call my friend Meghan, whose brother died last week.
3. Work on pitches for magazine articles.
4. Take aforementioned daughter to therapy appt
5. Cook dinner
Treats I Enjoy:
1. A good, strong, fragrant cup of coffee first thing in the morning.
2. Reading by the fire.
3. Sleeping to the sound of rain.
4. A really good dirty joke.
5. A large, rowdy dinner with lots of relatives and funny stories.
Things I Would Do If I Were a Millionaire
1. Figure out how to hold onto some of the money in the current economic freefall.
2. Find a green start-up business to invest in.
3. Go see some parts of the world I've never seen, like Norway maybe, and Africa.
4. Okay, this is inexcusably vain and trivial but: I'd get a little plastic surgery.
5. I'd build a dream house for my sister and a tree house for my daughter.
Five Places I Have Lived:
1. Red Oak, Georgia
2. Atlanta
3. Washington, D.C.
4. New Haven, CT
5. Bowie, Md
Five Places I've Worked:
1. Bennett's Jewelers, as a gift-wrapper
2. Circulation department, Atlanta Journal, answering phones from irate customers who didn't get their paper
3. Clayton Sun
4. Atlanta Constitution
5. Washington Post....last three as reporter
People to tag:
Devra and Aviva at Parentopia
