I’ve been blogging long enough that I suppose a meme is inevitable. I actually quite like reading other peoples - it makes me feel as if I know them better - and my brother-in-law just emailed us this one. I did learn some new stuff about him, so maybe you’ll learn new stuff about me, too (then again, probably not, cos I spill my guts constantly anyway!!).

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Kiwi fruit packer (watched kiwifruit coming toward me on a conveyor all day and then dreamed about kiwifruit coming toward me on a conveyor all night).
2. Clerk at Social Security. Good grief, what an education for a sheltered sixteen year old…
3. Mummy. Best job ever.
4. Quilt tutor. Second best job ever (has aspects of jobs 2 and 3!!)

B) Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. Fargo (yeah, yeah, I know, you’ve heard it all before!)
2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (heaven only knows how many times I’ve watched that)
3. Raise the Red Lantern. It’s so pretty that it’s like watching a painting.
4.Pulp Fiction. Grooviest sound track ever.

C) Four places you have lived:
1. Hamilton, New Zealand
2. Brisbane, Australia
3. Palmerston North, New Zealand
4. Middle of bloody nowhere, Australia (seeing a pattern here? Cross-cultural marriages can be a curse, y’know)

D) Four TV shows you love to watch:
Not the biggest fan of TV but four shouldn’t be hard.
1. Six Feet Under - series one had me ENTHRALLED. Then I got bored.
2. Northern Exposure - licking TV screen every time John Corbett (DJ Chris) came in shot. Also loved Marilyn Whirlwind (one of the best characters ever created in my opinion). NEVER warmed to Joel or Maggie - it was a show I watched for the second-tier characters. Oh oh oh! remember Ruth-Ann?? Now see that’s a great character, too.
3. Currently passionate about My Name is Earl. Very clever and wet-your-pants funny.
4.Rockwiz - Australian quiz show about music, filmed in a Melbourne Pub. It’s on SBS (the best TV station in Australia - Government broadcaster, no ads, best TV programmes from around the world) so they are allowed to swear and be naughty. As my son pointed out a couple of nights ago, “Only on SBS can you see a wang shot.” See, if it’s on a commercial station, it’s full frontal male nudity and they’d be in trouble. If it’s on SBS it’s art. We love SBS.

but I digress…

E) Four places you have been on vacation:
WTF is a “vacation”???? I’m married to a 24/7 engineer. He doesn’t DO anything else.
1. Mum and Dad’s house; visiting.
2. Other Mum and Dad’s house; visiting.
3. Assorted Australian beaches.
4. Sydney and Melbourne; shopping (my personal favourites).

F) Websites you visit daily
1. 88 of my favourite blogs (you know who you are!) via bloglines.
2. Flickr.
3. Craftster
4. My brother, my sister and me. (our websites)

G) Four of my favourite foods
1. Coffee. Don’t give me that. It is so a food.
2. Once a month I exist only for chocolate.
3. Salads with really yummy calorific dressings, such as Caesar, and crunchy toppings like almonds and pine nuts, and shaved parmesan, and roasted red capsicum and fetta cheese, and bacon but it has to be real not those nasty little lumps of puce-coloured dried stuff, and mushrooms and roast pumpkin and roast kumera and…
4. Anything with the following ingredients: garlic, mushrooms, cream.

H) Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Paris. Shopping with Ulla, being chaperoned byFlorizelle.
2. Venice with my sis, whose life ambition is drag the whole family back to the city she fell in love with!
3. New York. Badly want to go there, too.
4. Wellington. It may be shaky breaky and have the worst weather in the world, but it’s a wonderful city, God bless it’s wobbly little heart.
5. (I know it’s meant to be 4)… ____________ fill in the space with any city I haven’t visited. That’s a hell of a lot of cities, but if I had a million dollars tomorrow you wouldn’t see me for dust and I wouldn’t live anywhere, I’d just travel.

I) Four friends I think will respond:
This, I wouldn’t have a clue about. Go for it, taggees!

ps:I have found my newest favourite t-shirt (Capello, you’re going to love this site)