Easing Back In . . .

So the wonderful Quigs78 has allowed me to take a deep breath and slowly ease back into this blog thing via my first meme (Quigs you too stole my meme virginity, you lucky one).

So, here goes nothing.

5 Things About Meme

First, the foreplay-
1. Post the rules of the game at the beginning.
2. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
3. 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 the player's blog.
4. Let the person who tagged you know when you've posted your answer.

And, the real action-
What were you doing five years ago?
Five years ago almost to the day I was starting law school. I had just convinced my husband to move back to Champaign-Urbana from beautiful Denver, Colorado. We bought our first house (the same one we live in now, and the same one that remains one hell of a fixer-upper) in July of 2003, and I spent the entire month of July scraping wallpaper out of every room in the house, and painting every room as soon as the wallpaper was gone.

What are five things on your to-do list for today?
Well the day is nearly over, but on my to-do list was:
1. An early morning pro-bono court appearance on behalf of a juvenile delinquent's mother.
2. Drafting a dissolution (divorce) petition for a very sweet client who has found herself in a very unfortunate situation.
3. Negotiations on behalf of two different clients with two very complicated family law cases.
and switching gears
4. Purchasing a new Baby Bjorn with lumbar support (my 4-month-old is now a back-breaking 16 pounds) in preparation for our family vacation to Denver next weekend .
5. A trip to the Chambana Sweet Corn festival to introduce Mr. O to his first bounce house experience, and to indulge in some carney-food goodies (we went to the sweet corn festival and left without eating corn).

What are five snacks you enjoy?
1. pretzels (pretty much any kind)
2. popcorn (particularly Smart Pop Kettle Corn)
3. cheese-its
4. Kashi Go Lean Crunch
5. graham cracker sticks

What are five things you would do if you were a billionaire?
1. move the hell out of this fixer upper
2. establish a foundation to fund research for Huntington's Disease
3. hire a personal chef
4. ensure my children had a secure future
5. travel around the world

What are five of your bad habits?
1. worrying about things that are beyond my control
2. being extremely critical of myself
3. my tendency to cuss like a sailor
4. raising my voice at my husband when I'm angry
5. refusing to delegate/ask for help when needed

What are five places where you have lived?
1. Urbana, Illinois
2. Normal, Illinois
3. St. Louis, Missouri
4. Boulder, Colorado
5. Denver, Colorado

What are five jobs you've had?
1. lifeguard
2. waitress
3. nanny
4. newspaper reporter
5. attorney

Five people I tag:
Yeah, so being new to the blog thing (and an incredible loser), I don't know bloggers, so I don't know how this will go over, but here goes-
A Few Local Blogs I Enjoy Reading
1. Mrs. Chicken-http://www.mychickencheese.com/
2. LBOTP-http://lbotp.wordpress.com/
3. Larkin's Place-http://www.larkinsplace.com/
4. Pammiecakes-http://pammiecakes.blogspot.com/
5. And my fiend Angela (God bless her she has two sets of twins, 2 2-year-olds and 2 2-month-olds)-http://betterthanwedreamed.blogspot.com/

That was a lot of work. TO further the cause of easing back in after the trauma that was my blogging beginnings, tomorrow there shall be a plethora of pictures posted because I've neglected to take more than a handful of my poor new second child, and I just hacked all my hair off and I'm kind of digging it.