Meme-ing

Here I am, coffee cup by my side, computer fired up, checking my stats, as I love to do, when I click on my Technorati backlinks (nerd heaven). I am always surprised by what I find, and today especially, since I see that I was tagged for a meme a few days ago by What a Card. I'm late, but here it is in its glory:

Four jobs I've had:

1. Ballet teacher to the UNLV football team. I think I can still smell that small, poorly-ventilated practice room (shudder). I ought to blog about that sometime.
   
2. Activities Director for a convalescent home in Las Vegas. I got to drive the little van to take the old folks out sightseeing and gambling. "And on your left, the Sands hotel. . ." Good times. Except for that time I backed the van into the jaguar. Remind me to tell that story sometime.
   
3. AIDS vaccine research. I was a Senior Clinical Research Associate for a major biotech company, until I had a whole bunch of babies all at once and retired.
   
4. Assisted with brain autopsies at the VA. The morgue was actually the most fun place to be at the VA. Guess what, I have stories about that too.

Four movies I could watch over and over:

1. Pride and Prejudice. I always wonder if those two are actually going to get together in the end. Colin Firth, you were born to be Mr. Darcy!
2. Sense and Sensibility. I'm a bit of a Jane Austen fan.
   
3. It's a Wonderful Life. Zuzu's petals! I cry Every. Single. Time.
4. Cinderella. She scrubs floors, but she cleans up real good, also she has intelligent conversations with small creatures who appreciate her. What's not to love?

Four places I have lived:

1. Portland, Oregon
2. Las Vegas, Nevada
3. Palo Alto, California
4. Bloomington, Indiana

Four TV shows I like: (This is a bit of a tricky question for me, since we stopped watching television years ago. I'll have to list old shows I liked)

1. ER
2. Gilligan's Island
3. X-Files
4. Little House on the Prairie

Four Favorite Foods:

1. Sourdough bread. Lack of sourdough makes travelling East painful.
2. The really spicy General's Chicken at my favorite Chinese restaurant
3. Godiva chocolate truffles, like the ones sitting in my refrigerator right now from my dear husband.
4. Tillamook cheddar cheese. A little bit of heaven from Oregon. My grandfather used to give everyone a brick of it at Christmas time. It's that good -- like gold bullion.

Four Places I Would Rather Be:

1. That secluded beach at Little Dix Bay on Virgin Gorda where we hung out and snorkled all day for a week on our honeymoon. The one where they had a guy whose job it was to walk up and down the beach all day waiting for us to shout "another rum punch for room 14!" so he could bring it to us.
2. At the Lyon and Healy harp factory buying that $170,000 gold harp featured in my profile after I win millions in the lottery.
3. In a dressing room, trying on gorgeous clothing several sizes smaller than my current clothing, and marveling at my amazingly small size that doesn't look at all like I had three kids in under two years.
4. In a self-cleaning house, with a self-washing/folding/storing laundry system. (The meme didn't say anything about real places).

Four People I'm Tagging:
I'm hitting up my friends from LaughingPlace.com for this one. You guys are some of my best fans, even if you never comment (hint hint). We do this type of stuff on discussion boards over there all the time so I hereby tag:

1. Monkey Memories
2. A Pirate's Life For Me
3. Although Life May Choose the Music. . .I Choose the Dance
4. Beth Loves Ice Cream