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Poll of the Decade (stolen from P&CE)
For fun...a poll about you & the 2000s
1. Favorite/least favorite movie:
2. Favorite/least favorite song:
3. Favorite personal moment or accomplishment:
4. Favorite political moment:
5. Favorite/least favorite book:
6. Bonus: Where were 10 years ago? Where will you be 10 years from now?
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Re: Poll of the Decade (stolen from P&CE)
1. Favorite/least favorite movie: No clue
2. Favorite/least favorite song: I don't know about favorite but I'm really happy with the latest Reba album. I feel like she is finally starting to get back to her early 90s stuff and away from dull stuff she was doing.
3. Favorite personal moment or accomplishment: The moment K and I saw our baby's heartbeat and it felt real.
4. Favorite political moment: The teabaggers have been hilarious to watch.
5. Favorite/least favorite book: I read all of the adventures of Stephanie Plum and laughed through each book.
6. Bonus: Where were 10 years ago? In college. I had just joined my sorority and was about to meet the guy I would spend the next 4 years dating.
Where will you be 10 years from now? I'll have a 10 year old, maybe younger kids, maybe not. I hope K and I will still be enjoying our time together as much as we do now and that we have more smiles than frowns.
1. Favorite/least favorite movie: The Color Purple (fav)/No idea about least fav - but the last movie I slept through in a theater was Harry Potter. Since then, I have refused to go to movies I really don't want to see.
2. Favorite/least favorite song: Pachebels Canon - the George Winston version (fav)/Any loud metal music (least fav.)
3. Favorite personal moment or accomplishment: Having the boys. The entire day was surreal. We entered the hospital a family of two and by 11am, my wife was holding our sons and we were a family of 4.
4. Favorite political moment: Obama victory. Everyone was so into it.
5. Favorite/least favorite book: Time of Wonder (kids book) - but makes me think of my summers in Maine with my grandparents. No idea about least - typically if I don't like a book, I stop reading it. Although I was forced to read a lot of books I didn't like in school.
6. Bonus: Where were 10 years ago? Where will you be 10 years from now? 10 years ago, I was still a bit in love with someone who was mentally unhealthy and a complete wreck. I was trying my best to have a long distance relationship with said person and my friends were watching the train wreck. In 8 months, I would meet my wife and I was (mostly) be over the other girl. In 10 years, I'll have 13.5y old boys (teenagers, oh my), L will hopefully be done with the dissertation (ha ha ha), I have no idea where we'll be living (this area or if we'll have moved), and I might still be sitting in this office chair at work.
1. Favorite/least favorite movie: Favorite = Shrek, Least Favorite = Kill Bill
2. Favorite/least favorite song: no clue
3. Favorite personal moment or accomplishment: Our wedding day - best day of my life
4. Favorite political moment: MA passing SS marriage and first legally recognized gay marriages in US are performed
5. Favorite/least favorite book: no clue
6. Bonus: Where were 10 years ago? In high school. falling in love for the first time and coming to the realization that i might be gay. generally feeling very 'over' the whole high school scene and ready to break free and get on with my life.
Where will you be 10 years from now? I'd like to be a mom to a few kids. still happily married. likely still in the same house/career, albiet a few improvements to both.
Blogs: Our Growing Family - CT Working Moms
1. Favorite/least favorite movie: Big Eden is the first that comes to mind. I hated Someone Like You. I love Ashley Judd and Hugh Jackman but that film made me murderous.
2. Favorite/least favorite song: No idea. I remembering loving Mary J Blige's No More Drama around the same time I hated Eminem.
3. Favorite personal moment or accomplishment: Starting an urban agriculture project in Connecticut.
4. Favorite political moment: I'll be lame and say Obama winning.
5. Favorite/least favorite book: Hated Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind. Loved the Time Traveler's Wife.
6. Bonus: Where were 10 years ago? Where will you be 10 years from now? 10 years ago I was in college, dating a guy who looked like Keanu. 10 years from now...who knows?
1. Favorite/least favorite movie:
Favorite: The Hours
Least Favorite: Any of the Austin Powers movies
2. Favorite/least favorite song:
Favorite: "Tuesday Morning" by Melissa Etheridge
Least Favorite: "Boyz in da Hood"
3. Favorite personal moment or accomplishment:
Coming out to my parents
4. Favorite political moment:
Voting for a woman as the Democratic nominee for President
5. Favorite/least favorite book: (With an added professional slant)
Favorite: Fundraising for Social Change
Least Favorite: Not-for-Profit Accounting Made Easy.
6. Bonus: Where were 10 years ago? Where will you be 10 years from now?
Ten years ago I was in college-- Dec of 1999 found me struggling with my sexuality in a big way while falling in love for the first time. Ten years from now I hope DW and I are raising a bunch of kids, spending quality time with our families and doing work that makes us feel alive. I really hope that we're still going out on dates and as connected and happy as we are today.
1. Favorite/least favorite movie: I see so few movies, I have no idea what I've seen, let alone what would be a favorite from the last 10 years. I do remember really disliking Gladiator.
2. Favorite/least favorite song: Favorite -- probably the song we used for our last dance at our wedding, "Home To You." Least favorite -- I don't know specific song names, but I dislike angry rap in general.
3. Favorite personal moment: Watching the love my wife has for our twins grow on a daily basis. What an awesome journey this is!
4. Favorite political moment: Being down on the Mall when Obama was sworn in. I most loved realizing that I will be able to tell our (mixed-race) kids that they can grow up to be anything they want to be, and actually mean it.
5. Favorite/least favorite book: Favorite -- anything I got to read for fun. Least favorite -- theory texts I had to read in grad school.
6. Bonus: Where were 10 years ago? Where will you be 10 years from now? Ten years ago I was working as a research analyst at a DC research institute and contemplating going to grad school. Ten years from now I could very well be sitting behind this same desk, doing this same job. I am going to relish "Mommy" being my most important title from this point forward.
IUI #3 gave us the best 2nd anniv. gift ever: 2 babies! (born 03/09/10)
Peanut and Little Man are getting so big! 2 years old already!
finally blogging again at This Will Be: An Adventure
Ohh...I can't tell you how much I hated Non-profit Accounting in grad school. Seriously, the worst/hardest class I ever took.
1. Favorite/least favorite movie:FAVORITE - Marie Antoinette LEAST FAV- Napolean Dynamite
2. Favorite/least favorite song: FAV- Again by Janet Jackson LEAST FAV- Anything Reggae
3. Favorite personal moment or accomplishment: Moving to NYC by myself at 17
4. Favorite political moment: OBAMA of course!!!
5. Favorite/least favorite book: FAV- The Secret LEAST- I don't know lol
6. Bonus: Where were 10 years ago? Where will you be 10 years from now? I just moved to NYC and was studying dance. Spending my first year away from home. In 10 years K and I will have kids and would have probably have moved to a house. I hope to be running my own dance studio.
1. Favorite/least favorite movie: Well, it didn't come out in the last 10 years, but I saw Annie Hall for the first time within the past 10 years and it is one of my favorite movies of all time.
Least favorite - maybe Phantom of the Opera. I remember going to see it with C's parents and being miserable! Loved the stage play - hated the movie.
2. Favorite/least favorite song: I am far too much of a music lover to have one favorite song of the past 10 years!! Ditto for least favorite, lol - there has been a LOT of bad music in the past 10 years...I'm looking at you, Miley Cyrus!
Some of my favorite artists that I started listening to since December 1999 would be Neko Case, Ray Lamontagne, John Legend, John Mayer, Lilly Allen and Nellie McKay.
3. Favorite personal moment or accomplishment: Geez, a lot of really big things have happened in the past 10 years of my life! I will say getting pregnant, because I feel like everything else was leading up to C and I starting our family.
4. Favorite political moment: Legalization of same-sex marriage in my home state of MA for sure.
5. Favorite/least favorite book:
Favorite authors I started reading in the last 10 years: Chuck Palahniuk, Sarah Waters, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood.
Least favorite would have been something I had to read for school - if I really don't like a book, I stop reading.
6. Bonus: Where were 10 years ago? High school, having lots of fun. Where will you be 10 years from now? We'll have a 10 year old, and hopefully one or two younger children. We should have a house, and by then I'll probably be back to work - doing what, I have no idea!
sahm ~ toddler breastfeeder ~ cloth diaperer ~ baby wearer