...before 50 zillion other people put it on their blogs. It was found on a Caffeinated One's blog. And if you make it all the way through, then you'll get a bonus commentary on something...

What were you doing 10 years ago?
I was on maternity leave with A and trying to figure out how Stay At Home Moms managed to do it all... and how Working Moms managed to do it all. I was very confused.

What were you doing 1 year ago?
I was recovering from going to Sundance, and thinking really hard about a movie called '3-Iron' that I still haven't quite done justice to in this blog.

Five snacks you enjoy (in no particular order, as all snacks are created equal):
1. Doritos - Toasted Corn
2. Baby Carrots
3. Chocolate
4. spoonful of peanut butter
5. Clementines

Five songs to which you KNOW all the lyrics:
1. 25 or 6 to 4 (Chicago)
2. Goodbye My Lover (James Blunt)
3. Hounds of Love (Kate Bush)
4. 1985 (Bowling for Soup)
5. Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)
...and I know a lot more, these just were the first 5 that screamed above the din in my head

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1. Not quit my job
2. Visit Fiji again
3. Go to Australia
4. Pay off the house
5. Buy a new car (Subaru Forester)
I just realized that if you total up the property value of what I own in houses and stock options, I *am* a millionaire. Maybe not multi-multi-multiples, but I'm here. Silly.com property values and dot-com stock. Gotta love it

Five bad habits:
1. picking at my fingernails
2. biting my bottom lip
3. cracking my knuckles (but I'm trying to quit)
4. talking too fast
5. cracking my neck

Five things you like doing:
1. stitching
2. visiting new places
3. cooking
4. reading
5. playing with A & B

Five things you would never wear, buy, or get again:
1. Broccoli rabe
2. scratchy wool sweaters
3. mexican food in Utah
4. miniskirts
5. food from Carrows restaurants

Five favorite toys:
1. Rubik's Cube
2. PS2
3. Lincoln Logs
4. Legos
5. a certain rainbow colored koosh ball that lives in my office

...and I tag....
Suz
Stasha
Annette
Margaret
Kari
Wendy
Belinda
...and anyone else I've forgotten, because these were the names that flowed the fastest to my fingers.

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By the way, in case anyone hasn't noticed (and if you're still reading), February is here again. I hate February. I used to love it, because of all the birthdays of friends and family that are in it, and because of Valentine's Day (which my DH has all but written off due to the overblown commercialism surrounding it, but he's not abandoned Christmas yet, so I still have hope). Now I can't stand it when the calendar rolls around to February, because that's when it seems that everyone goes off the deep end, and everyone on the BBs is overly touchy and feelings get hurt and all sorts of random crap starts happening.

Last year, a bunch of bloggers and I rejected reality and substituted our own (the links at the end of that post are to the bloggers main blogs and not their rejection posts, FYI). I'd like to do the same thing this year. This isn't February - it's Happyary. It's the Angst-Free-Month. It's 28 days where I don't have to deal with people being crappy to each other. As I said there, my kids will be happy and not fight, my DH will tell me he loves me every day, and work? Well, I have a new boss coming in so I doubt that I'll get to go home at 10am every day while this transition is happening. But that's ok, as long as there isn't massive strife at work and the grousing is kept to a minimum.

And if February *does* turn out to be a month of angst, you can be sure that you'll hear about it here. That or I'll reject reality...

...and not publish a blog entry until it's all over and done with.