| Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
| another meme |
I just noticed I was tagged for a meme by Robyn, so here are my answers.
The Rules - Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.
1. What I was doing 10 years ago: 1998.
In the summer of 1998 I had, what I like to call, the Armageddon incident. I credit (or blame, depending on the day, lol) the movie Armageddon for me meeting Yannick. Three guy friends and I had gone to get tickets for the early show at the now-gone movie theater in the Zellers complex. The early show was sold out because the movie had *just* opened, and we were only able to get tickets for the late show that started over 2 hours later. Rather than leave, we decided to go to the bar in the same complex and hang out to kill time. As it was still rather early, the only patrons at the bar were the "regulars", a bunch of older guys who wouldn't "fit in" at other bars. We put our loonies down on the pool table to get in on the games, and they put theirs down, and after a few games we were all taking turns playing each other. I was much younger (and thinner) then, and I remember I was wearing a cute *little* tank top and shorts, and I was joking around with the regulars very easily, and the owner of the bar came up and offered me a job working there. I reminded him I'd applied when I was 18 and he wasn't interested then, and said I'd have to think about it because I already had a full-time job working at a retail store.
I did end up taking the job, and the owner taught me how to bartend, and I ended up working there until the following February. I also kept my retail job, and for 2 months I worked 5 days a week 10am-5pm at the store, and 3 nights a week 10pm-3am at the bar. It was loooooong, but I ended up giving up the retail job because the bar was more fun and made me more money.
There was only one guy bartender there, and a bunch of his friends would come and hang out every night. Yannick was one of his friends. We met over the summer...we started hanging out in November...and we started dating on December 1st 1998. The rest, as they say, is history. :)
2. What 5 things are on on my to-do list for today (not in any particular order):
-buy milk for Jakob before I go home
-go to a local pub for a SnB with the West Island knitters
-get as much knitting done as possible on my Mary Maxim submission
-make sure I get my mom's French Toast Cinnamon Casserole (or something) recipe so I can check what ingredients I'm missing to have everything on hand for this weekend when we do a Father's Day brunch with Yannick's family
-catch up on my Bloglines and maybe add an old project or two to my Ravelry notebook
3. Snacks I enjoy:
Regular flavored chips, Cheesies, almost anything that is fried or cheesy, fresh fruit, and lately anything that is sour.
4. Things I would do if I was a billionaire:
Clear my debts and any debts in my immediate family, give my dad enough to retire (my mom is retiring this year already), take a long trip with my family, buy the first 50 blog readers to respond 2 skeins of yarn of their choice, donate to charity, put money aside for my children's education and savings accounts then sit back, relax, knit and finally have time to work on my designs.
5. Places I have lived:
Montreal, Quebec.
I tag:Tara, Kadi, Dianne, Maaike, JayJay (if you're not too busy), and the blogless Kate to post her answers in the comments. |
posted by Jennifer Lori @ 10:35 am   |
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I am working on my meme. :)
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Thanks for playing along!
By the way - Blogless Kate now has a blogger account! And I need to go back to check but as of last no posts yet, lol...! I guess our nagging worked! LOL
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I am working on my meme. :)