Four!

I have been tagged with the four things meme by my adorable blog buddy Nicole. I'm a little slow in finishing (I started this four days ago -- whoah, trippy), but I do enjoy being an It Girl. So here you go. :-)

Four Random Things I Like About My Husband/Best Friend:

1. He's a rock star. Seriously, he was the lead singer of the band Peyote Posse during grad school. All this was before my time, but I've seen pictures. I eagerly await the the reunion tour and the Behind the Music special on VH1.

2. DH is all kinds of smart. He has room in his head for all that doctor stuff, plus enough about Pharmacology to earn a PhD, and he could accurately give you sports statistics from teams he doesn't even care about from years before he was born up to the present, and he knows the complete lyrics to all sorts of random songs (including, I discovered yesterday, the Strawberry Shortcake theme song, which I didn't even know despite having been a little girl in the '80s). *Phew.* Where does he put it all?

3. Despite #2, I am still able to beat him semi-regularly at Trivial Pursuit. And no, he doesn't "let" me win. He's way too competitive for that. (His motto: "Nobody ever remembers who finished second!" Except that I do when it's him.) We'd make a great team if we ever played anybody else. And yes, you may consider that a challenge.

4. Something I like but simultaneously feel defensive about (because it highlights my own ineptness in this area): He loves to clean. And he's very efficient at it!

Four Jobs I've Had:

1. Grocery store check out girl at Winegar's. Wooo!

2. Web master / marketing assistant at a simulation software company (I got business cards and everything for that job -- still have 'em, in fact).

3. Assistant to the corporate budgets director at Trans World Airlines for about a year before they went under (but I don't think it was my fault, lol).

4. Assistant at an intellectual property law firm. (You might have noticed a trend by now: I like to assist. In politically incorrect analogies, I'm totally an Indian with no ambitions to ever be chief.)

Four Movies I've Seen More Than Once:

1. Dead Poet's Society -- Poetry! Cute boys! Preppy single-sex boarding school with gorgeous scenery! Yeah, seeing that movie 18+ times as an adolescent had no affect on me whatsoever, lol.

2. Waiting for Guffman, because I'll always have a place at the Dairy Queen.

3. The Princess Bride -- who hasn't?

4. The Usual Suspects -- "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he doesn't exist."

Four TV Shows I Watch:

1. How I Met Your Mother -- it's like Friends, but far less annoying!

2. House -- how could I resist such a cranky genius?

3. America's Next Top Model -- I'm rooting for Marjorie this time. (And is it just me, or has ANTM gotten exponentially cheesier this cycle? Is that even possible?)

4. CSI -- the original. DH doesn't know what I see in Grissom; he has a man-crush on Horatio from the Miami edition, himself. But all the women I know think Grissom's quiet intensity is way sexier than Horatio's unrealistic Superhero Leprechaun With Torticollis schtick.

Four Places I've Been:

1. Carhenge in Alliance, NE

2. The Chapel of the Bones in Evora, Portugal

3. The Prime Meridian at Greenwich, England

4. Eutaw, AL (There's nothing there but a prison and an antebellum house -- well, and a Piggly Wiggly -- but as a native Utahn I thought it would be cool to visit Eutaw, and it was)

Four People Who E-Mail Me Regularly:

1. Coldwater Creek

2. Land's End

3. 1-800-Contacts (despite refusing to fill my recent order because my Rx is too old -- whatever!)

4. Amazon.com

(Though that list might suggest otherwise, I don't spend all my time shopping -- but order something just ONCE from any of those places and you've got a new friend for life)

Four of My Favorite Foods:

1. Lately: Avocado quesadillas, with peach mango salsa on the side. Mmmmmmmm!

2. Always: Pizza

3. Too often: Ice cream

4. If a beverage counts as food: Dr. Pepper

Four Places I'd Like to Visit:

1. I want to take my family back to all the cool places I visited in my youth: Portugal, France, Germany, Austria, England, Brazil.... Plus dozens of fabulous road trips here in the US. Though I'd have to drug DH to get him in a car long enough for a road trip.

2. India!

3. Scotland! (Beckle, you & BigScottishJerk.com can be my tour guides)

4. Honestly, anywhere. I'm always up for a new adventure!

Four Things I'm Looking Forward to This Year:

1. The arrival of my newest nephew (happy!), even if I don't know when I'll get to meet him (sad!)

2. A weekend trip to Phoenix in December

3. Halloween, my favorite holiday

4. Christmas, my next favorite holiday

Four People I Tag:

1. Beckle the Freckle

2. K2

3. Anna Jo

4. Susan

And anyone else who wants to play!


~RCH~