fracas

Honest. I don’t brag about myself, do I? I was tagged for this meme by Shinade.  Really, I was.

Although she displays a tag-free zone button on her site, someone tagged her. Now, I don’t promise that all my responses will be 100% truthful, but hey… that’s part of the fun for you, you get to try figure out which ones are!

Four jobs I have had:

1. Tutor 
2. Sanitary Engineer
3. Head Sandwich Maker
4. Party Planner

Four films I have watched over and over:

1. Titanic (No matter how I try, I just can’t get that spitting thing down…)
2. Groundhog Day (Oh, the irony…)
3. Pirates of the Caribbean (I must have a thing for ghosts with bad manners ’cause it ain’t Orlando Bloom.)
4. Pretty Woman (It was a form of punishment. I’ve reformed so as not to have to watch it again.)

Four Places I have lived:

(I prefer to list four places I would find interesting to live instead of places I have lived. And by that, yes,  you can assume I’ve only lived in very boring places. I suppose I could’ve chose some of the really interesting places on that list, but hey.. I wanted to at least try keep this post clean.) 

1. Wahoo, Nebraska
2. Yeehaw Junction, Florida
3. Good Grief, Idaho
4. Purgatory, Colorado (Seems natural I’ll end up there, lol)

Four T.V. Shows:

1. Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader (I’m not telling.)
2. Mythbusters (My dream job.. how did that doorknob get it? Guess which one is the doorknob.)
3. The Shopping Bags (Note – no comment necessary DaddyP)
4. Ghost Whisperer (I told you, I have a thing for ghosts with bad manners)

Four favorite foods:

1. Dark Chocolate (Shut up - White Chocolate isn’t chocolate and milk chocolate is to fracas what non-alcoholic beer is to Homer Simpson) 
2. Arabica Coffee (Dark Roast, no tangy Columbians for me!)
3. Lobster (No creepy whole things on my plate though.)
4. Strawberries/Berries (Even better if in conjunction with #1)

Four websites I visit everyday:

1. Fracas
2. Canada.com
3. Google News
4. WordPress.com

(Hah! Pickin’ favorites? No way. I visit all your sites every day… sure… I do. Just like everyone visits me every day… I know… you do.)

Four places I would love to be:

1. I refer you to the above list and challenge you to guess.
2. It’s a quest to find those ghosts with bad manners.
3. Iceland. So I could see these up close and for real.
4. A character in the book Pride and Prejudice (Though only so I could slap Lizzy and Darcy for being so stupid.)

Four favorite colors:

1. Black
2. Blue
3. Green
4. Purple

(Note: I’ve listed them alphabetically so that unlike mine and most people’s children, they don’t have the chance to whine, “You favour the other one… you don’t like me enough…”) 

Four names I love but would never name my children:

Oh gosh. I threw out those baby name books after #3 was born. I didn’t think I’d need them. I figured if some “accident” happened, I’d just name the kid after whatever newest kid Angelina Jolie was adopting… you know, so that when I’m at the Calgary Zoo and the kid’s running away from me and I call out “Maddox, come back…” everyone will either

a)  Think they’ve just been lucky enough to spot Angelina and Brad (who really cares about the kid anyway?)

b)  Realize I’m a big ole tool for naming my kid after Brangelina’s kid. 

Indeed, that was a true story. I was at the Calgary Zoo last summer and some big ole tool was making a big production about letting everyone around her know that her baby was named Maddox. I threw up a little bit in my mouth. I should’ve socked her one just for that alone.

So… how about we revisit  some of those ingenious celebrity baby names instead of sending an over-40 fracas into heart palpitations just by the thought of having to come up with another baby name?

1. Bamboo (Son of Big Boi from Outkast)
2. Dandelion (Daughter of Keith Richards, who later changed her name to Angela)
3. Rolan (Marc Bolan – just slap him for that, ok? )
4. Fifi Trixibelle (Bob Geldof and Paula Yates wanted a dog but had a kid instead)

With these same questions I tag: Anyone who wants to do the questions! And Shinade… not to worry. I wasn’t at all angry for being tagged.