Another Meme - Again

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So I am pet sitting at the glamorous Chateau Rossmore and lemme tell you kids, it's better than eating a cheese sandwich. Tivo, big comfy bed, silence…it’s heaven indeed. Makes finding new digs hard though, since the motivation is low...

The only snafu so far was when the pup ate a bunch of chocolates. Alcohol filled chocolates. The chocolates pictured here in fact. I never even got a one. Sigh. Plus, it turns out, chocolate is really, really bad for our canine friends. Who knew. Needless to say, I was in a dither. Happily, after several calls to the vet, he is fine and I am free to share my answers to the Meme of the month, as given to me by that lovely lass, Miss Sarah of The Delicious Life. And just to be fair, the darling Crazy Gaijin from Nihon No Ryori tagged me for another meme (10 things you don’t know about me) which I seem to have neglected, so I will make this a two-fer. Enjoy!

Four Jobs I have had in my life:
Teaching Cooking
Product Development Test Kitchen
Stringing Pearl Necklaces
Being My Parents Daughter

Four Movies I watch over and over:
True Romance
Chinatown
Double Indemnity
The Big Lebowski

Four Television Shows I love to watch: (I have terrible taste in TV, sorry!)
How I Met Your Mother (if you ever wondered what my friend the Ombudsman looks like, the actor who plays Barney is his doppelganger)
Project Runway
New Scandinavian Cooking
Girlfriends

Four Places I have been on vacation:
The Galapagos Islands
Cambodia
Denmark
Tunisia

Four (almost all non-food) websites I visit daily:
www.GotMilk.com
imdb
Defamer
New York Times Online

Four places I would rather be right now:
A massage table at the spa
The dermatologist’s office getting botox
Tom Ford’s house
Having lunch with friends on a patio someplace warm

Four of my favorite foods:
Pickles
Cherries
Ryvita
Wasabi Peas

Four places I have lived:
Albuquerque, NM
Selly Park, England
Andover, NH
San Francisco, CA

Now, as if that wasn’t riveting enough, here are 10 random non-food related facts about me:

I am the youngest of my father’s four children, the younger of my mothers two and the second youngest of all eight of us. (You figure it out, I’m confused)

I have been to 49 of the 50 US States

My eyes are hazel

When I’m reading a book, I typically do it in one sitting

There is a baby crying in the office next to mine

I know how to say goodbye in 14 languages

I have serious issues with Proust, but then, don’t we all?

My car is “Atlantic green”

I subscribe to four magazines and two newspapers

My favorite painting of all time is Primeval Resurgence by Lee Krasner

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In Torino, Italy, fast food giant McDonalds is launching their new nutritional information packaging. Consumers will now be able to plainly see that a Quarter Pounder With Cheese, has 730 calories. - Brandweek

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