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4th Time Around

So JIM wants me to do this fours meme now that he is ex-Canadian. I don't know what kind of leverage that gives him, but I hear he has a very sexy voice and that makes me happy to oblige. Even though I have done the blasted thing one (and a half) times already.

To be contrary and different: One and A Half Things

Jobs I Have Never Had But Have Lied About Having So As To Make Myself Appear More Interesting:

• One: Dog Musher. Non-Alaskans love hearing about my mushing team and how I survive in an igloo year-round.
• And A Half: Crewman on a fishing boat. I mean, yes, technically I was being paid when seining with my family. But then, also, technically I was too young to legally have a job, and I probably spent more time reading and poking at jelly fish and finding pretty rocks for my mom than I did plunging or watching the purse line.

(Good grief, I am being long-winded on this thing.)

Movies I Have Great Difficulties Understanding:

• One: The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The number of questions I have asked during multiple viewings of these movies is enough reason for B to divorce me.
• And A Half: I could say The Princess Bride, but I have been instructed to never tell anyone that I hate that movie. I could also say Ocean's Twelve, but I think that was because I was tired and full of cold medicine. So instead I will say Mission: Impossible. The first movie. Because, seriously, WTF happens at the end? Who are all the people?

Places In Which I Want To Vacation:

• One: Paris. I've been once, but had no one to kiss at all those Romantic Spots™. The kissing is important.
• And A Half: Iceland. I have no idea why, but doesn't it sound lovely?

Foods I Cannot Stand:

• One: Bananas. I once had a bottle of shampoo that smelled like bananas even though the package claimed to be something benign, and it made me gag every time I used it. Good morning!
• And A Half: Cheez-its. And yet I eat them anyway.

Places I'd Rather Not Be, ThankYouVeryMuch:

• One: At dinner at my grandmother's hearing the same hunting and fishing stories and being grilled as to why I never visit.
• And A Half: Observing a hydrocolonic. Still, preferable to dinner at the grandparents'.

Albums In My Collection I Blame On the Husband:

• One: "The One Thing" - Michael Bolton. Really. I know. I might have had second thoughts about marrying him had I known about this dirty little secret beforehand. Who in their right mind buys a Michael Bolton CD? And then not pull their eardrums out?
• And A Half: "Millennium" - Backstreet Boys. There is one song of theirs, mind, that I do not find revolting. I can never remember which song it is, but I do know that the song is not on this album.

Vehicles I Have Nearly Totaled:

• One: Bertha, my 1984 GMC Sierra dark blue pickup (new paint job) while driving with B back to Fairbanks during Thanksgiving break, 15 miles north of the Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge. The laptop sitting on the seat playing music through the tape adapter (who needs an mp3 player!?) was thrown deep into the snow when the truck flipped over and still works to this day.
• And A Half: My mom's brand new 1999 GMC Yukon, less than 24 hours after they signed the papers while driving Melissa to a birthday party up West Hill in Homer, Alaska.

Family Who Hasn't Done This Yet And JIM Said I Had To Make You Do It:

• One: Heidi
• And A Half: Kate
• And A Half: Misti
• And A Half: Marty
• And A Half: Damon
• And A Half: Johnboy
• And A Half: Tay