Last July my lovely Australian friend Vanessa posted an interesting blogging tag on her her site, Nessbow, that I hadn't seen before (best I could recall) in which the person posting about it shares four different answers to a slew of various quick, fun questions.
Being a fan of blog tags and the like, this one struck a chord with me and I decided right then and there that I'd post my own replies to the Four Things questions as soon as I got the chance. Little did I know it would take the better part of six months for that to happen, but as the second half of the tends to be for me/us, this past one was immensely busy.
Today, on the first Monday of the new year, a time when many of our brains are still in holiday mood (even if we're heading back to work and/or school this morning), I thought it would be fun to ease into the blogging year by giving the Four Things blog tag a spin (with speedy, breezy answers). I'm not going to tap anyone specifically to play along, so if you'd like to do so yourself, by all means have at 'er!
Four places I've lived
* Calgary, Alberta
* Dublin, Ireland
* Toronto, Ontario
* The historical living ghost town of Barkerville (technically the tiny community of Wells, right outside of it), British Columbia
Four jobs I've had
* Candy store manager
* Printing company office manager
* Professional photographer
* Freelance writer (and ghost writer)
Four things I don't eat
As I've mentioned before here over the years, there is a huge volume of different foods that I can't safely eat because of some of my medical conditions, but I'm going to take that out of the equation and think back to foods that I wasn't a fan of in those glorious days when I could have eaten whatever I pleased (though should mention, I've always been an adventurous eater and there aren't many foods I strongly dislike).
* Most types of seafood (though I do really like some, such as grilled salmon or popcorn shrimp)
* Yellow grapefruit (or its juice)
* Blue cheese of any type (mixed into a "four cheese" sauce or such, I don't mind it though)
* Lime beans
Four of my favourite foods
Again, I'm going to answer these as though I didn't have any medical dietary restrictions.
* Pizza (especially a great Margarita, ham and pineapple, or bbq chicken pizza - yum!!!)
* English trifle
* Hamburger Pie
* Stroganoff
Four films I've watched more than once
* Hocus Pocus
* Back to the Future
* Roman Holiday
White Christmas
Four TV shows I watch
* Sherlock Holmes
* Masters of Sex
* Ripper Street (Bennet Drake for the win. Always.)
* Suits
Four celebrity crushes
* Cary Grant
* Marcello Mastroianni
** Pierce Brosnan
* Liam Neeson
Four pet peeves
In general I like to think of myself as an easy going person who doesn't sweat the small things too much and who tries to find and see the good in as many situations as I can, so this was the only tricky question, in terms of the answers, that I encountered in this post.
* Stores that close needlessly early and/or aren't open on completely logical days.
* When you want to buy something online and its sold out in your size on every single website that stocks said piece (and all the more so when its a newly released item!).
* Public restrooms - and there are no shortage of them - that doesn't provide paper toilet seat covers (I get around this by usually just carrying a purse pack of my own)
* When you get a pit in an olive that is supposed to be pitted (it's so easy to break a tooth that way!)
Four things I wish I could do
* Travel through time (1940s shopping spree, anyone? :))
* Have the health and funds needed to take an around-the-world trip
* Live in a gorgeous Victorian house akin to this stunner (who knows, maybe some day!)
* Paint like one of the great masters
Four subjects I studied in school
* English
* History
* Psychology
* Home economics
Four things that are (located) near me right now
* Our adorable little grey tabby cat, Stella
* The latest outgoing orders from my Etsy shop (where my 30% storewide winter holiday season sale is enjoying its last and final day)
* A great historical fashion book that I'm going to be reviewing and giving away here later on this month (you'll have to turn into find out which one!)
* An extra blanket (it is January after all!)
Four things I'm looking forward to this year
* Next Halloween (though that is true of every year! :))
* Hopefully getting the chance to do a little traveling
* Making more YouTube videos
* My Etsy shop's 2nd anniversary in early May
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I really did aim for brevity here, so if there's anything that I mentioned that you'd like to know more about, please don't hesitate to ask.
Thank you very much, dear Vanessa, for posting these questions on your terrific blog and in turn inspiring me to pen today's post. I always delight in sharing more about myself through such avenues and feel like this is a great note for any blogger to kick a brand new year off on!
