Five Things I was Doing 10 Years Ago
1. Living in Japan (as I was 14 years ago, 10 years ago, 2,3 and 4 years ago!)
2. Working 3 jobs, 6 days a week
3. Studying tea ceremony
4. Hosting my mum
5. Missing my cat
Five Things on My To Do List Today (That 10 Years Ago Had Not Crossed My Mind)
1. Edit the family portrait shoot photos
2. Ignore my emotions
3. Continue and maybe finish watching Season 1 of So You Think You Can Dance
4. Do the dishes (always the dishes – never thought they could be such a bugbear)
5. Snuggle up with my husband (forget 10 years; I wouldn’t have thought of that TWO years ago!)
Five Snacks I Enjoy
1. Chocolate
2. Ohagi
3. Stone fruit
4. nuts and seeds mix
5. vanilla slice
Five Things I Would Do If I Were a Millionaire, in No Particular Order
1. Pay off our mortgage
2. Take zen_cat to Japan without a budget
3. Extend and finish renovating our house
4. Find a charity to donate to that DOES NOT employ people to harass passers by on the street corners
5. Save the rest
Five Things I Would Do If I Were a Millionaire Who Already Owned a House:
1. Extend and renovate the house so it could match our current dream right now!
2. Save half
3. Take zen_cat to Japan for a month, no budget limitations
4. Spend a month or two travelling around the UK with zen_cat
5. Buy an environmentally and family friendly car
Five Places I Have Lived
1. Ballarat
2. Geelong
3. Kokawa (Japan)
4. Kyoto (Japan)
5. Wakayama (Japan)
Five Jobs I Have Had
1. Life model
2. Clincal Training Associate for University of Melbourne
3. Student Enquiries Officer
4. Assistant Language Teacher
5. Assistant at an elderly daycare centre
I had some time to kill 🙂
Five Things I was Doing 10 Years Ago
1. Writing a Botany Honour Thesis
2. Going out with a zoologist
3. Not having much sex
4. Living in a student house
5. Driving a Subaru 4WD
Five Things on My To Do List Today (That 10 Years Ago Had Not Crossed My Mind)
1. Have offspring
2. Contact Bioinformatics experts in Amsterdam
3. Scrape the ice off my car to go home from work
4. Send in application to become a Fellow of the Linnean Society
5. Buy sculptures for my backyard
Five Snacks I Enjoy
1. Chocolate
2. Wasabi peas
3. Lime and Black Pepper Chips (can’t get them here though)
4. Almonds
5. Tim Tams
Five Things I Would Do If I Were a Millionaire, in No Particular Order
1. Work part-time on my current project, employing other people to do the boring bits
2. Buy a concert venue and run concert series
3. Travel frequently (with Carbon offsets)
4. Buy lots of art
5. Donate to charities
Five Things I Would Do If I Were a Millionaire Who Already Owned a House:
1. Work part-time on my current project, employing other people to do the boring bits
2. Buy a concert venue and run concert series
3. Travel frequently (with Carbon offsets)
4. Buy lots of art
5. Donate to charities
Five Places I Have Lived
1. Melbourne
2. Enschede
3. Christchurch (if you count four months)
4. London (if you count two months)
5. Nope, that’s it
Five Jobs I Have Had
1. Naturopath Assistant
2. Telephone surveyor
3. Environmental Consultant
4. University Science Practical Demonstrator
5. Global Compositae Checklist Editor