Tagged! From 20 Feet Away

My esteemed husband has tagged me for this old saw of a meme, and because he is a Promise Keeper and I am a submissive wife, I have no choice but to respond. Ha! As if ...

Rules:

• The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
• Each player answers the questions about himself or herself.
• At the end of the post, the player then tags five 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.
• Yadayadayada

Ten years ago:

I was teaching first grade at Hawthorne Elementary School, struggling through the fog of both grieving my daughter's death and taking care of my other two young daughters. Motherhood is not for the fainthearted!

Five things on today's "to do" list:

• Prune the dead branches from the cherry and redbud trees
• Weed the flower garden around the redbud tree
• Go to Meeting
• Walk in the arboretum for mothers' day, remember to take the binoculars!
• Dinner at Atlantis Taverna with my mother-in-law

Things I'd do if I was a billionaire:

• Get out of debt
• Pay for my kids' college
• Buy myself a new guitar (I'm fixated on the Gibson CJ-165, because it is an overall smaller-bodied acoustic guitar that supposedly has a big guitar sound; I have very small hands and sometimes the stretch is a struggle.)
• Send a great big donation, TOMORROW, to Shirley Golub in her bid to replace Nancy "I'm rich and impeachment is off the table" Pelosi
• Donate the several millions of dollars needed to restore the theater at Madison East High School (and I'd be in good company because actor Bradley Whitford has donated money to the same cause. It's his alma mater.)
• Remodel the library at my school, and while I'm at it replace all of the toilets. Really. They are ridiculous.
  
• Set up an endowment for the American Friends Service Committee
• Buy the Camp Woodbrooke land outright (that's the Quaker summer camp on whose board of directors I sit)
• Buy my husband an upright acoustic bass

Three Bad Habits:

• Procrastination
• Being something of a loose cannon
• Spending too much time on the computer

Five Places I've Lived:

• Terre Haute, Indiana (birthplace of me and Eugene Debs) -- 3 years
• westside of Madison, Wisconsin -- 16+ years
• Fannrem, Sør Trøndelag and Rauland, Telemark, Norway -- 1 year
• Spofford, New Hampshire -- 1 year, when I went to Keene State College. Why? I don't know!
• eastside of Madison, Wisconsin -- 25+ years

(The eastside and westside of dinky little Madison might seem like one and the same place, but to a local they are worlds apart. When I first moved over here, it was skid row and blue collar land. Gentrification is making too many inroads, sadly, but the realtors still steer newcomers to the westside and seriously, there are long-time residents who are afraid to come to my side of town! And if you listened to some people, you would never know that we also have a north and a south side!)

Five (or so) Jobs I've Had:

• Detassling corn
• A&W counter-help
• Laborer in a nursery (plants, not kids) in Norway
• Teaching in many child care centers
• Assistant/docent in fledgling Madison Children's Museum
• not to mention being a nursing assistant at a nursing home and at a "Happy Home for Handicapped Children"

Five People I'm Tagging (Please don't hold it against me and feel free to decline ...)

• Poodle Doc
• Sacred Suzie
• Yearning For God
• Sorghum Crow
• Sminthia