Eat Drink Run Woman

Just got tagged by Suzanne (yippee! My first tag!). I tag Database Diva and Warriorwoman.

Jobs I’ve held

• McDonald’s server/cashier
• Factory worker (making parts for quartz heaters)
• Deli counter clerk
• Movie concessionaire
• Clerk/typist for state of Alaska
• Mail carrier for U.S. Postal Service (don’t tick me off!)
• Admin assistant for college guidance center
• Dock worker for UPS (only lasted 2 weeks!)
• Phone survey taker
• Journalist for college newspaper
• Receptionist
• Public relations executive (at 9 different companies in 12 years; no WONDER I decided to change careers!)
• Personal chef
• Gourmet cookware sales person at Bon Marche (now Macy’s)
• Demo chef at Bon Marche
• Famous blogger 🙂

Movies I can watch over and over

• Okay, this is embarrassing: Grease! (I swear I’ve seen it at least 30 times)
• Eat Drink Man Woman (natch)
• Big Fish (I’m a blubbering fool every time!)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (the scene where Scout is told to stand in the courthouse because, “Your father’s passing” causes goosebumps every time)
• Terms of Endearment
• Animal House
• Caddyshack (just the first one)
• Driving Miss Daisy
• The Sound of Music
• Of Mice and Men (with John Malkovich and Gary Sinise)
• and too many more to mention

Guilty pleasures

• Flamin’ Hot Cheetos
• Cambozola cheese
• Running barefoot on lush grass (unfortunately neither we nor my neighbors have a great lawn!)
• Diving into a cool lake on a hot day (okay, so the last two aren’t ones to feel guilty about!)
• A double dirty vodka martini with double-stuffed olives

Places I’ve lived

• Manchester & Winsted, CT
• Bayville, NY
• Juneau
• Yakima, Pullman & Seattle, WA
• (gosh, is that all?)

Shows I enjoy

• The Biggest Loser (add that to my guilty pleasures as well!)
• My Name is Earl
• The Office
• ER
• Lost (although since it was on so late last season I’ll have to get caught up on Netflix)
• Buffy & Angel (didn’t watch ’em while they were still on, but our neighbor lent us all 7 seasons of Buffy and we got Angel through Netflix)

Websites I visit daily

• FAR too many to mention, but mostly food & fitness blogs

Places I’ve been on vacation

• Trenton, ME (family cottage)
• Chiang Mai & Krabi, Thailand (honeymoon)
• Baja, Mexico (kayak trip)
• Kona, Hawaii
• South Jersey shore
• Ocean Shores, WA
• Portland, OR
• Missoula, MT
• Reno
• Fairbanks and Anchorage, AK (visiting family)
• Los Angeles
• Vancouver & Whistler, BC
• and soon: Paris & Bordeaux, France!!!

If you include business trips:

• Dallas
• Philadelphia
• San Francisco
• San Diego
• Kansas City
• Atlanta
• Ottawa
• New York
• Boulder, CO
• Washington, DC
• London
• Phoenix
• Albuquerque
• Las Vegas
• Boston

Nicknames

• Betsy (my “real” name is Elizabeth)
• Sweetie girl
• Pooky darling (yes, my darling and I can be quite mushy)
• Beets (my former New Zealand roommates pronounced my name “Beetsy” so that’s how I got that)

Awards

• Totem Award (a local public relations award): 1st place for employee communications program, 2nd place for newsletter
• 2006 Kirkland Tri: first of the fat old ladies (Athena division, age 40 and over)
• No. 2 “Cheesiest Seattle Business Name” from Seattle Magazine (for Ovens to Betsy)
• Hmmm… do scholarships and academic awards count? ‘Cuz I won the Glenn Terrell Presidential Scholarship and the Women in Communications Scholarship at WSU. I also won a few 1st-, 2nd- and 3rd-place academic awards in junior high and high school (I forget what they were called, but we actually got cash!)