I admit it. I was a 33-year-old tag virgin. There's something about never having been tagged that makes you feel like that poor kid in junior high who always sat at a lunch table by himself. But Lauri's pulled me to the cool table. I'm a bloggy loser no more.

What were you doing 10 years ago?

I was rounding out my 3rd year at my first "real" job and beginning to realize that I was never going to go much further with that company. (I left about three months later. That was a goodbye party to remember!) I was living in a big old farm house with faulty electricity, bad plumbing, and the occasional mouse. I was dating a guy who was four years younger than me -- and that was before Demi and Ashton made robbing the cradle cool.

What were you doing 1 year ago?

Dating Mr. Inertia and wondering -- if he only owed less than $100 on the engagement ring as he said -- why he wasn't proposing. (I later learned that the ring was like a NY Times Bestseller -- pure fiction.)

Five Snacks I enjoy:

1. Anything chocolate
2. Crackers and cheese and/or deli meat
3. Popcorn (especially Kettle Corn - yummo)
4. Frozen grapes (weird, but really good)
5. Did I mention anything chocolate?

Five songs to which I know all the lyrics:
(I sing all the time. Not well, necessarily... but I sing. These five are songs that make me think of Peanut or bolster my strength during this waiting game.)

1. Sweet Baby James -- James Taylor
2. Baa, Baa Black Sheep (in Russian... I'm very proud)
3. Right to Be Wrong -- Joss Stone
4. Standing Outside the Fire -- Garth Brooks
5. Moses -- Patty Griffith

Five things I would do if I were a Millionaire:

1. Buy a cottage up north for my family to use
2. Pay my nieces' and nephews' tuitions
3. Set up a grant fund so other PAPs wouldn't have to stress as much as I have over $$$
4. Go to Ireland
5. Buy a house on the lake.

Five bad habits:

1. I pick at my fingernails
2. I'm a major procrastinater
3. I'm addicted to checking FRUA and Russian news -- I do it constantly
4. Lately I've been far too self-focused
5. I sleep on the couch (I'm an insomniac -- the TV in the living room can help sometimes. But for the most part, the couch is a habit. Tonight is a no-sleep night. It's 2:30 am and I'm blogging.)

Five Things I like doing:

1. Making landscape quilts
2. Reading
3. Scrapbooking (I'm making one for Bethany's youngest (Party Girl) right now.)
4. Talking on the phone (I swear, I'm like a teenager sometimes)
5. Visiting family and friends.

Five things I would never wear ( buy or get again):

1. My high school cheerleading uniform
2. Another bridesmaid's dress (I've paid my dues)
3. Bikini (unless I lose massive amounts of weight)
4. A tank top with bra straps hanging out (that's the epitome of tackiness)
5. A plaid skirt (I went to a private school as a child. I'm plaid-skirted out.)

Five Favorite toys:

1. Digital camera
2. Scanner
3. My new staple gun (I'm having an inordinate amount of fun with it)
4. Computer
5. The fabric scissors I got for Christmas (they're perfect for "fussy cutting").

I'm supposed to tag five people but I have a very small circle of blogs that I frequent. I think they've all been tagged already and I don't want to be a retagger.

Next I'm supposed to insert this list-

Afrindiemum
An Elephant's Gestation
So its come down to this
Ukraine Adventure
Peanut Pants