Blame it on Rhonda Nelson, brilliant Blaze author, fellow BentQuillPosse rabblerouser, and general good friend. She “tagged” me yesterday on her blog to play the “Four” game by saying some really nice things about me. Hmmm…I think she tagged me because she knows I’m a sucker for things like this. Of course, the instigator for Rhonda’s participation was the inimitable Kris Starr.

I will forewarn you, as Rhonda did, that you may find out more than you want to know…

Four Jobs you’ve had in your life:

1) Waitress at Sonny’s Real Pit Bar-B-Que. When I got the job one of my brothers said, “You’re way too bitchy to be a waitress.” He was right.

2) Olan Mills Portrait Studio Telemarketer. Yes, I confess. I was one of those hated telemarketers who called while you were trying to cook dinner, let the dog out and change the baby’s diaper after you got home from a full day at the office. Sorry. I’m not proud…I needed to eat and pay the bills.

3) Sex T.A. I was the teacher’s assistant for a psych professor’s class on human sexuality. The boys in Pi Kappa Alpha dubbed me the sex t.a. :)

4) Merchandiser for The Athelete’s Foot corporate stores. Hated the number crunching…loved the travel.

Four movies you would watch over and over again:

1) Sabrina with Harrison Ford, Julia Ormand, and Greg Kinnear. And I have watched it over and over and over…

2) Lonesome Dove. What? You mean it’s over after only six hours. It can’t be over!

3) The Full Monty.

4) Romancing the Stone

Four TV shows you love to watch:

Much as in real life, I can’t just answer a question. I always have some goofy story to go with it or some qualifier, but I’ll say there are lots of shows I think I’d like to watch. I saw Everybody Loves Raymond once and thought it was really funny. I think I’d like some of those crime dramas like CSI and Bones. I’m pretty sure I would’ve liked Sex in the City (or is it Sex and the City?). On the other hand I’m so sure I would hate The OC and Desperate Housewives. But I don’t know any of this for sure because the t.v. just never really works out for me. It’s a combination of other people in charge of the remote…programming having to be age-appropriate for a kid…books to be read…a resistance to arranging my life around a specific television show at a specific time. But one day I’m going to watch more t.v. I always feel culturally illiterate when people are discussing all these programs. Really….makes me feel inadequate. Damages my psyche.

1) The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (or it may be Mandy and Billy – I also have a tendency to screw up titles). Love this cartoon. Grim is the Grim Reaper who takes up residence with these two kids. Billy is gross and stupid. Mandy is smart and snarky…and never smiles. I love Mandy.

2) Keeping Up Appearances. I only get to see it when I visit my parents because no one in my house likes it except me and I forget it’s on when I’m at home anyway.

3) How Do I Look?

4) Animal Planet, Discover, History channel

Four places you’ve been on vacation:

1) Alaska

2) Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria (I should tell you the story of the dh and I bumbling into an international arms summit and finding ourselves facing soldiers with their M16’s trained on us. Well, perhaps another time…but they sent us on our way, having decided we were too pathetically stupid to be terrorists.)

3) Mexico a couple of times, once for a month.

4) West Indies

Four websites you visit daily:

1) readrhondanelson.com

2) tarot.com

3) my bank account because it’s always so dismally low. :(

That’s it. Can’t come up with a fourth.

Four of your favorite foods:

This is tough. I like food. I take my food seriously (just ask Rhonda). And I haven’t had breakfast yet, so I’m hungry and the things that sound good and I like are tough to narrow down to four, but I’ll give it a shot.

1) Cheese. Almost any kind except for nasty, slimy processed American cheese. Wait, that’s good too when it’s melted and has sausage and a can of Rotel dumped in and you eat it with nacho chips.

2) Sea bass with mango salsa

3) Warm crusty rosemary bread dipped in olive oil with fresh-ground pepper

4) Figs when you pick them off the tree and they’re warm from the sun and you eat them standing there

Four places you’d rather be right now:

1) Baja

2) Costa Rica

3) Ireland/Scotland

4) Fiji

Yes, with the exception of Ireland/Scotland, there’s a pattern there. And this list could go on and on and on as well.

Four friends you are tagging who you think will respond:

This is a problem…if I only had four friends…wait, how about YOU?