Google Meme

i think by now you know the drill.  when i don't know what to post, i post a meme.  this one is from  jenifer at cast on cast off (check out her stylin' banner) who got it from the fearless knitter, who got it from someone who ate the rat that lay  in the house that jack built.

Google an image for the following things in your life:

First Car

any excuse is a good excuse to post a picture of my mini.  yep, the mini cooper 2004 is my first car ever.

Place where I grew up.

this kind of complicates things a little because i moved around so much as a kid ...

i was born and lived until i was 3 in midtown, manhattan, in the section known lovingly as hell's kitchen.  i'm not so sure it was very hellish at the time though.  (i ended up living here again after graduating from college.  a little more closer to hell).

then we moved to irving, texas, a suburb of dallas.  (look how close i came to growing up a republican!  the mind reels.)

that 3 year stay was followed by 5 years in california, palos verdes peninsula to be exact.

and because my parents hated me (not really), they moved me from this idyllic setting to emerson, nj, right in the middle of the 5th grade.

then because being 13, starting the 8th grade, going from a 32 AAA to a 34 B in 4 weeks and getting my period wasn't bad enough, my parents moved us to france.   chaville, a suburb of paris west of paris to be exact.  it was a pit.  we lived there for a year.  i went to the american school of paris in st.cloud,  another (much nicer) suburb of paris. 

after only a year, dad got transferred to tehran iran. 

i like this picture because this is how i remember tehran.  this was the view from our kitchen window.  i loved it there. 

after getting chased out by revolutionaries, i ended up back in france to finish off high school.  this time, not so bad.  we lived in le chesnay, another suburb of paris right next to versailles.  we had moved up in the world.

Place I live now.

milford, massachusetts.  it's a far cry from tehran, iran but it's starting to grow on me.  and i'm less likely to get chased out by revolutionaries. 

What showed up when I typed in my name.

my full name, nothing.  (phew)

my first name ....

none of these are pictures of me (phew again ... hell double phew!!!)

What showed up when I typed in my blog name.



i really should finish those chicken pillows.

My Favorite Food

mmm puppies .... just kidding... i love me some of that chinese food! 

and pho

Favorite Drink

 

and of course ...

yes, i like my beverages to be mood altering...

Favorite song

i don't really have one ... but i am a sucker for Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife...

that must be mack.

Favorite smells

oleander

linen (not the fabric ... duh ... but the scent commonly called "linen")

baby powder ... i know i'm a sicko

 

and a pyro ..

Favorite shoes

the lowly clog -- from my first pair at the tender age of 11 -- shiny red leather on a cork sole -- to my dansko professionals -- also red.

these might actually fit me!

ok that's enough.  i'm not passing this to anyone ....