Catch Up Sunday

Instead of a repost today, I thought I’d better get up to date with the tags I’ve gotten recently. In fact, it seems I’ve been tagged more than a leftover sweater from Christmas at the local department store or a mattress. OK, perhaps I exaggerated a little, but I did want to get my tags done today. The first is 5 Things and both Heart of Darkness and Odat tagged me with this one. So, here goes…

What were you doing 10 years ago?
I was working for the FOX Network’s Publicity department. I worked in an office cubicle with ugly tan walls that felt like a prison. Wow, I guess not much has changed in the last 10 years. That's pretty sad. I don't even know if I can continue this now...


What were you doing 1 year ago?
I had just started blogging to commemorate my one-year anniversary of heart surgery. We had no boss at work and Lucy and Ethel weren’t old enough to talk back yet. Yep, one year ago, things were pretty good…

Five snacks you enjoy:
Cheese – fried, melted or au natural
Anything coconut flavored
Popcorn
Ice Cream
Nachos

Five songs that you know all the lyrics to:
Alan Jackson’s Chattahoochee
George Jones’ He Stopped Loving Her Today
Dean Martin’s Ain’t That A Kick In The Head
The Beach Boys’ Surfer Girl
Frank Sinatra’s In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
Retire
Not work
Relax
Be lazy
Did I already mention ‘not work?’

Five bad habits:
Blogging
Laughing at inappropriate times
Not being serious enough
Saying ‘whatever’
Never answering my office phone – it took 4 years, but my secretary finally caught on…darn it!!!

Five things you like doing:
Blogging (I realize it conflicts with using that answer above, but all I can say to that is ‘whatever!’ See, it is a bad habit).
Making people laugh
Seeing the humor in things
BBQ’ing
Driving

Five things you would never wear again:
A turtle-neck. I have no explanation for this one.
Sweat pants. I’m not that serious about my exercise
Shorts without cargo pockets. They’ve become the guy’s answer to the purse.
Plaid, unless it’s the print on my flannel pajama pants.
I’d like to say a dress shirt and tie, but can’t…yet.

Five favorite toys:
Slinky
My computer
My BBQ and all of its accessories
My digital camera
PEZ Dispensers


So, there you have it. The next tag came from Not Fearing Change who celebrated her 200th post this week. She tagged me with telling 8 random things about myself. Now see, the difficulty here will be that everything I just answered above is pretty random, but I’ll try none the less.

8 random things about me…
1. I like to flavor my diet coke. I believe that coke is the base to a good drink. Seriously, Coke has to be one of the basic building blocks of life. I’ll use coconut extract, grenadine, pineapple juice, watermelon juice, you name it. I was tempted once to infuse Coke with BBQ drippings, but thought better of it. That would have meant I had become addicted and I would have needed help and then would have needed to turn to Pepsi…I shudder to even think about it.

2. I really, really like music. I have to have it on all the time. To me, it’s not quiet unless music is playing somewhere in the background. I will have assembled the perfect soundtrack for every aspect of my life for my funeral. Not that I’ve started working on that soundtrack or anything. Seriously, stop looking at me like that…

3. If I could, I would spend one day a week at either Disneyland or SeaWorld. It’s relaxing, it’s entertaining, it’s outside and it’s not an office. I think it helps me keep in touch with my youthful side. Well, that and the fact that I’m nothing but a big kid at heart. You can dress me up like an adult, but I’ll always be a kid. However, that is not to insinuate that I act childish. I rarely throw fits anymore. That last part was a joke. Seriously. Fine! If you don’t believe me, I’m going to my room and there’s nothing you can do about it!!!

4. Have I already mentioned that I tick because of my artificial heart valve? I think I have a few dozen times. Really, you should get to hear it though. How many part man-part machines do you know? Now be honest…

5. I’d like to become a professional and published writer, but I don’t have the attention span to develop characters and Dave Barry already gets paid pretty well for what I’m trying to write. I’d also like to write a sit-com, but they have all but been replaced by reality TV. Perhaps I could write for reality TV, but then that would defeat the whole ‘reality’ part of it, don’t you think? Lastly, I would like to have a newspaper column one day. Until then, I’ll live under the grand illusion that my blog is read daily in the LA Times. I mean I know it’s not, but I can pretend. I just won’t get the money for pretending. Maybe I’ll just mail my self an envelope filled with monopoly money once a week.

6. At work, I have to get up from my desk about every 10 minutes because no matter how busy I am, I get bored and need some sort of mental stimulation. I’ve noticed that my coworkers have started doing the same thing. That makes me wonder what else I can influence them to do. I might start with getting ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ stuck in their heads by me singing it aloud all day.

7. There are certain things I watch (whether it’s a movie or TV show) that keep me giggling from the time I start watching it until it’s over. I believe this greatly annoys anyone who watches anything with me. I think it actually makes them laugh LESS.

8. I like to have little catchphrases to say around people and I like to try new ones out from time to time. My most used is ‘he/she giggled like a 12 year-old school girl.’ Sadly, it’s never really caught on but I’m still very proud of it and use it almost daily. I have also used Husseined and Alec Baldwined, among many others. Yep, they didn’t catch on either. Maybe I should just go Dr. Kevorkian on the whole catchphrase thing and realize I don’t have the knack for it. I’d be better off pouring a tablespoon of salt into the ocean. Hey, that’s not bad…

Well, that’s it. Another Sunday post in the can. Thanks to Odat, Heart and Not Fearing Change for being nice enough to tag me. I promise I won’t press assault charges.