A few things I borrowed from other friend's blogs

So I've been checking out my friend's blogs and I have found a few things that I wanted to share with you here. Thanks to Dianna and Tara for letting me steal cool stuff from their blogs.

2005 Recap (Thanks Dianna!)

1. What did you do in 2005 that you’ve never done before?
Vacationed in Italy and France and hit the 2 year mark with Sam =)

2. Did you keep your new years resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t think I even had one last year. I think I am anti-new year's resolutions.

3. Did anyone close to you get married?
My lil brother Jay & Jennifer and Katie & Andras

4. Did anyone close to you give birth?
I don’t think so…

5. Did anyone close to you die?
If you are counting January 3 of this year as 2006, then no.

6. What countries did you visit?
Italy and France

7. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
Go camping!

8. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory and why?
This is tough…I guess I would go with June 16, 2005. The day my little brother got married.

9. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Finding and getting a new job in a new industry with less than a 20 minute commute that paid me more money than the last job.

10. What was your biggest failure?
Not staying on track with the weight loss

11. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nope

12. What was the best thing you bought?
I don’t think there was anything that I bought of special significance in 2005.

13. Where did most of your money go?
AWAY...just AWAY =(

14. What did you do that you were really, really, really excited about?
Go to Montmartre to Amelie-land in Paris. Okay there is no such thing as Amelie-land. But for me it felt like it.

15. What song will always remind you of 2005?
Anything from American Idiot, Green Day

16. Compared to this time last year are you:
A. happier/sadder? Happier
B. thinner or fatter? Probably fatter, though I would rather pretend that is not true.
C. richer or poorer? Well that is a hard one, considering my answer to #13. In some ways richer, (new job, closer to home, with lots more money) In some ways poorer.

17. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Spend time at home, see my parents, photograph, be creative, be what makes me myself.

18. What do you wish you had done less of?
Waste time, watch television that was not worth watching.

19. Did you fall in love in 2005?
No, I entered into 2005 already in that state =)

20. How many one night stands?
zero

21. What was your favorite TV program?
Desperate Housewives and LOST (although I only watched LOST on DVD)

22. What was the best book you read?
Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (the entire series…well almost)

23. What was your greatest musical (re) discovery?
Fun Live 105.3 music, The Sound of Music soundtrack, Green Day American Idiot…oh and Coldplay X & Y

24. What was your favorite film of this year?
Crash

25. What did you want and get?
A wonderful digital camera - Thank you Mom, Dad, Sam, Jay & Jennifer!

26. What did you want and not get?
One Million Dollars

27. What did you do on your birthday and how old were you?
I went to a Giants game with Sam, later we met my parents at Chevy’s for dinner. On the way to my parent’s house, Sam had car trouble. Hours later we celebrated the rest of my birthday in Pacifica. 27 years old.

28. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
I know the answer to this one, I am going to choose not to comment.

29. What kept you sane?
Sam. Especially during the stresses of Sierra Suites, the end of Sierra Suites, the looking for a new job, the new job and the hell I had to go through with the new job)

30. Which celebrity / public figure did you fancy the most?
None – On an opposite note: I really am mad about the Katie Holmes – Tom Cruise thing (Tomkat) She can do SO much better than him. Now she’s all knocked up. Sad story.

31. Who was the best new person you met? Katie O’Grady hands down. What an amazing person!

32. Tell us a valuable lesson you learned in 2005:
When you feel like you are sinking in quicksand, give in and reach for that helping hand that offers guidance and support.


4 Things (Thanks Tara!)

Four jobs I’ve had in my life:
1. Mall Easter Bunny / Bunny Helper
2. One Hour Photo Clerk
3. Customer Service - Front Desk Hotel
4. Wedding Photographer Office Assistant

Four movies I can watch over and over:
1. Amelie
2. Brokedown Palace
3. Muriel’s Wedding
4. The Sound of Music

Four places I have lived:
1. Pacifica, CA
2. San Bruno, CA
3. U.S.S. Universe Explorer
4. (3 is all I have…I wonder what will be next?)

Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. LOST (only on DVD, so I do not have to wait a week between episodes)
2. Six Feet Under (DVD as well – I have very basic cable) (I haven’t seen the last season yet so shhhh!)
3. Desperate Housewives (although it is much more fun in the presence of Sam’s dad, Mark)
4. The Girls Next Door (I am totally embarrassed about this one, but I can’t help it – It is so fun to make fun of them especially Kendra – what a stupid, stupid girl)

Four places I have been on vacation:
(I’m sorry but there are way more than 4, so I got a little creative and cheated =)
1. Italy (Rome, Florence, Venice) and France (Paris) (recently in Nov. 2005)
2. Albuquerque, New Mexico
3. Semester @ Sea (it counts as vacation) Nassau, Bahamas / Havana, Cuba / Salvador, Brazil / Cape Town, South Africa / Mombasa, Kenya / Chennai, India / Penang, Malaysia / Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam / Hong Kong / Osaka, Japan / Seattle, Washington.
4. Maui, Hawaii

Four of my favorite dishes:
1. Chicken Supreme Zingara (from Tavernetta San Mauricio in Venice, Italy)
2. Dal Bukhara, Chana Masala, Saffron Rice and plain Naan
3. Sam’s veggie loaded chicken primavera
4. Homemade Grilled Pizza (Thank you to Suzi & Noah, which essentially means Thank you to Bob Blumer (The Surreal Gourmet)

Four websites I visit daily:
1. burningpaper.net
2. http://colin.floresfamily.org/
3. during the week while at work: epitomics.com
4. nothing else every single day – I really like stuffonmycat.com though

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Italy – Somewhere in Rome or Venice. Preferably eating pistachio or chocolate & hazelnut gelato.
2. Home: either scrapbooking, listening to music, being creative, knitting or sleeping, I could use some sleep. Maybe making use of the BBQ.
3. Hanging out with Christine, Greg and Colin. (I really miss them) (I would put the city they live in, but I’m not really sure what it is – I am such a dork!)
4. Anywhere where I felt inspired to photograph.