Bel from Belinda Moore has tagged me. Wow, my first one. Thank you Bel.
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
Each player answers the questions about themselves.
At the end of the post, the player then tags 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.
a) What was I doing 10 years ago?
Ten years ago I was living in our first house. I lived in that house 16 years altogether and was at year 14 or so. I had a one year old baby girl, plus her four year old sister, her seven year old brother and her ten year old brother, and their Dad of course lived there. Not sure what hubby was doing at work, he had been to the US in that year, so we were into corporate things I guess. I was doing the kindergarten run three times a week. We didn't live right near the school so I had to drive through the freeway traffic on the main street to get there with lights etc. I'll have to break out the photo album.
That year our four year old daughter was doing tap dancing classes. I remember there was lots of supervision involved to get here there etc. There were lots of photos of the kids playing in the leaves and in the sandpit. Pumpkin Patch was a new thing, and I remember getting my four year old lots of clothes. We had just renovated the lounge room with all these colors! Then a few months later got new carpet. Easter must have been late, and our four year old had an Easter bonnet parade at kindergarten.
b) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today:
Today is my off week for jobs. I think I will put away some dry clothes that are in front of the fire. Later on I will take and pick up our 11 year old daughter from ballet. I will start getting things ready for when hubby comes home for lunch. I will try to keep a better eye on the wood heater than I have in the last few days. I will make sure my book gets back to the library and check out what we are having for tea. Also will check on my forum to make sure it is going OK. I will deal with the mail and pick up our six year old and her sister from school.
c) Snacks I enjoy:
I haven't had much luck with afternoon snacks lately. I have a bag of mixed nuts and dried fruit and usually put some in a bowl and slowly eat them. I have half a block of chocolate that I will get through in the next few days. I love a good scone too, but that doesn't happen very often.
d) Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
I really don't know, I can't say I think about it. I guess you have to start with what would happen if the money just appeared today. I would pay out our two mortgages and organise a plumber to plumb both of them to the storm water system. That is not thinking big is it? I would put lino on this kitchen floor and a new hot water service as it will soon flood the ceiling. Then I would buy another car that is new with LPG if there is such a thing to replace hubby's car, though it is fine really. A smaller engine car that goes a long way on a smell of an oily rag. Then I guess I would put some superannuation away for me, more for hubby.
We haven't travelled overseas together, so I guess that would be great, maybe I would have to try a shorter flight than Europe or America first. Put some money aside for our three daughters weddings, of course that is a little premature. Same with their education. I would look into putting headstones on two of our ancestors (past and closer) graves. I would get quite a few pair of new shoes and clothes and some furniture, like a bed that actually goes with the mattress, nice kitchen table and couches. This is very telling, if I sold the houses, where would I live? Would hubby want to retire? Maybe we would live where he could do further study or in a great house that has grounds that we could garden in with nice trees, or a house on a few acres near a creek, but I would still have the snake problem wouldn't I? I think I would buy a nice horse. How does all this fit in with the day to day of looking after our four children at home? Sounds very hectic. Maybe hubby could take two years off.
Maybe we could put aside some money to publish hubby's family tree. I would want to work out a fair way for my step-children to receive an inheritance from their father. I would like to go out more at night, maybe if I lived near Mum she would babysit, either that or we would just go to the pub with the kids and also eat more pizza. I would pay my son's first two years HECS bill. I think I would get a pure bred Siamese cat.
I would take a couple of short flights to Melbourne to save driving and go to a tearoom with my online friend who I haven't met in person. I could fly to Sydney and take the kids to Taronga Zoo.
I was thinking of buying property because I like managing or developing property. With the kids I thought it would be a bit hard. DH reckons the interest on a billion dollars would pay the house payments and you could even hire an accountant nearly full time. So I guess I would buy the best looking farm I could, instal a manager and visit whenever I wanted to see farm life or just walk around. I would buy a house to fix up for the fun of it, well maybe the challenge.
e) Places I have lived:
Five places in North East Victoria including a farm and suburban styled living. Also Flowerdale near Melbourne in a rented farmhouse. Flowerdale is a very unusual place, lots of trees, a creek, lots of birds, little TV and mobile phones, though I can't remember the details, also wood heating. I also lived a couple of months in Melbourne.
And who am I tagging?
Monica AU
quiverfullacres
Monica
Linda
Debby
Tania
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 - Tag
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