A Meme from Bea

Bea, over at Baa Baa Blacksheep, tagged me for my first meme ever!  Since I don’t have much in the way of new knitting or crafting to show you, I thought I would participate in this.  Here we go:

1.  What was I doing 10 years ago?  Hmmm….1998. I was living on 4th Street (in our first home), working in a trust department 40 minutes away as a Land Trust administrator.  Probably cherishing my life with no children.

2. What are 5 things on my to-do list for today (in no particular order):  okay, it’s 10:30 p.m., so we’ll have to say what do I have planned on my to-do list for tomorrow: 

-Go to work, try to remember to get party favors (or some such nonsense) for Cole’s last day school party on Thursday, try to remember to move laundry from the washer to the dryer before it smells moldy and I have to wash it again, work on stitch markers perhaps and walk Archie (sounds good, but will I get it all done?  That’s debatable).

3.  Snacks I enjoy:  I’m a salty and sweet gal…so I like popcorn, crackers, pretzels (but the bagel chip kind), cherry sours, m&m’s (sugar!) (do you see why I named the etsy shop Stitch Candy?)…when I’m eating healthy I like to have yogurt or a banana or a granny smith apple.  I think the question should be more:  what am I hopelessly addicted to?  Sugary Coke or Dr. Pepper.  I have it every day – it is the scourge of my life.

4.  Things I would do if I was a billionaire: (get ready, this list is long)

• Pay off my mortgage
• Set up an irrevocable trust for my mother and fund it with a lot of money, so she could live in comfort
• Pay off my mother-in-law’s mortgage and her car
• Set up a charitable foundation so that I could have the fun task of giving away money to charities and get a tax deduction!
• Buy up old houses in my town and either renovate them or tear them down and rebuild.  I’d seriously try to beautify this town.  If I tore something down and didn’t rebuild, I’d make the lot a mini-park and hire someone to go and water all of my gardens across town.
• I’d love to do unexpected nice things for people anonymously.  Like give the older lady on a fixed income new siding for her house.  Send major bucks to my favorite town as a kid to help beautify or enhance their library.  Give my local public library a boat load of money to buy new books and replace the street lights outside of the library and give their gardener a fat raise and more money to buy flowers – it’s beautiful now, so I can only imagine how much more beautiful it would be if he had a huge budget!
• I’d probably quit my job and maybe have a 3rd kid, if I could convince Craig. And try to spend more time knitting and crafting.

But really, Craig said we’d get the hell out of DeKalb!

5.  Places I have lived: (I have to do this chronologically through my life, otherwise I’d never remember it all)

• Stillwater, OK (where I was born)
• Weatherford, OK
• Bethlehem, PA
• Mechanicsburg, PA
• Wichita Falls, TX
• Denison, TX
• Weatherford, TX (yes, that’s right, I lived in the samed named town in 2 different states)
• Bartlesville, OK
• Naperville, IL
• DeKalb, IL
• St. Charles, IL
• DeKalb, IL

6.  Jobs I have had:

• High School:  I worked at Waldenbooks
• College:  I worked at B. Dalton Booksellers, American Eagle Outfitters (horrible job, not my style of clothing at all, and I still stayed for over 2 years!), Sears (in their credit central dept. as a person who approved increases in credit limits for Sears cards), Rose Records, Illinois Council on Economic Education
• After College:  I worked for a filing service in downtown Chicago for about a year (filing pages in law and tax libraries, my whole day was timed!), at a temp service (when I could no longer take the Chicago job), then as a waitress (when the temp thing slowed down), then in the trust dept. at a Bank in St. Charles, IL.  After that job was eliminated almost 8 years later, I went to another Bank in Geneva IL.  Then to a local Bank for 4 years and at my current Bank for a year and a half.  Banks, banks, banks!  Or I should say:  trust departments! 

7.  People to know about:  there’s lots, but I feel bad about tagging anyone.  So, sorry, Bea…but I’m going to end it here.  I never have luck with these things, anyway.  Thanks for tagging me, though, what a compliment!