it is the 27th of march, right?

from February, Anna and Everett being monsters at Saseenos playground

It's been snowing for two days, off and on. nothing's sticking to the ground, but it's disturbing nonetheless. normally, i'm all for snow--love it, seek it out--but this morning all i can think about is how i went to my last class in a sundress one march at uvic, sandals, no sleeves, brilliantly hot day. i sure hope we have a decent summer to make up for this madness.

oh, and the following looked like fun, so i'm going to answer, too:

What were you doing ten years ago?
frantically finishing my thesis, a novel, for my MFA at UBC, wrapping up things at PRISM, writing a manual for the next exec editor, looking for a place for tim and i to live in victoria, working on a contract to put a handbook into a cd-rom (wow, html of ten years ago), and feeling like i could barely stand another day in vancouver.

What were you doing one year ago?
waiting to hear if i had the job at the sooke library. working there casually, while trying to finish up a contract with the ministry of advanced ed. and looking forward to moving into our new house.

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1. donate money to climate change research (not just because it's snowing here right now)
2. buy some land with a water view and put two or three tiny houses on it and go live there- one tiny house for living and eating and sleeping, and one each for working
3. take weekend trips to visit friends scattered across the country
4. work full time on the diary book until it's done
5. hire someone to clean my house

Five bad habits:
1. procrastination
2. eating way too much chocolate
3. being messy
4. intense self-criticism
5. putting my appointments just in my dayplanner and not writing things down on the big calendar so Tim doesn't know I'm doing something that day and we get double-booked

Five things you like doing:
1. going swimming with anna
2. reading in bed
3. mixing bartinis
4. playing games with tim
5. writing

Five things you would never wear again:
1. pink tracksuit
2. double denim
3. small orange bikini (so why is it still in my closet? See bad habit no. 4)
4. a perm
5. the dress custom made for me when i was 20, at age 33, to a wedding (unless I wanted to repeat the experience of holding the thing closed at the back for most of the evening)

Five favorite toys:
1. new laptop
2. iPod
3. new mp3/cd player in car
4. blocks (making towers is soothing)
5. pasty cutter