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February 02, 2006

My First Meme (Whatever That Means)

Editors Note: I'm not really a blogger (I mean, I do have a blog but I'm not really aware of blog culture) so if anybody knows what "Meme" means please feel free to enlighten me. Thanks!

I'd like to thank friend and internet blog superstar Heather for shouting me out or linking me or whatever the kids are calling it these days. I thought that it'd be fun to include wife Rebecca's answers as well as it made for a good Q & A session during one of Ruby's late night/early morning feeding sessions.

So, here you go people of the internet (as if):

Four jobs I’ve had

Rebecca:
1. Cashier
2. Candy Counter Manager
3. Parking Valet
4. "Mad Scientist" after school tutor where I wore a lab coat and goggles.

Pat:
1. My first paying job was playing drum set at an amusement park. I played in two different shows five times a day. "Countryside" was a live band consisting of a rhythm section, four piece horn section and four singers. We played current hits of the day splashed with a mix of a few golden oldies (favorite song: Higher Love and despite having a big solo enhanced by the technologically forward Roland Octapad I Sing The Body Electric was my least favorite). The other show was called "Music USA" which included a live rhythm section mixed with canned horns and strings. There were eight singers and dancers on summer hiatus from their stint performing with BYU’s Young Ambassadors. This was the summer of ’86 when I had just turned 17. The hairspray was thick, the drama large and dance belts freely roamed about back stage (shudder). Show biz, baby. Ain’t it grand?
2. Barista and short order cook at Café Venue in San Francisco.
3. Door to door pest control salesman. Fortunately for me it was a break even venture due to the fact that the company had their business heads firmly implanted somewhere else. Life lesson learned: You Cannot Sell Anything. Don’t Even Try.
4. Lift Operator at Deer Valley Resort. I got to ski all day and watch the 2002 Olympics with my own two eyes. With any kind of luck, this was the last job where I had to wear a name tag.

Four movies I can watch over and over

Rebecca:
1. Pillow Talk
2. Rushmore
3. Say Anything
4. Zoolander

Pat:
1. Rushmore. I have seen it now probably more than any other film except for Spinal Tap.
2. The Last Waltz. My favorite band brilliantly captured. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down is mesmerizing and when Pops Staples comes in with his verse on The Weight I still get chills.
3. The Pink Panther Strikes Again. I remember seeing this in the theater when I was seven years old. It was viewing this movie that I realized that I liked girls as Lesley-Anne Down made me feel all funny inside. Also, the scene with Cato and Clouseau battling it out in one of their epic training sessions still cracks me up.
4. American Splendor. Now, I’m not sure if I could see it over and over again, but brilliant in it’s originality in adaptation from reality to cartoon to film. Brilliant.

Four places I have lived

Rebecca:
1. St. George, Utah where I was born and raised.
2. Toronto where I preached the Mormon Word.
3. Jerusalem where I nearly started WW III.
4. Salt Lake City where I fell in love with the most wonderful man on the planet and birthed the most beautiful little girl this world has ever seen.

Pat:
1. Provo Utah, where I was born.
2. Bountiful Utah, where I was raised.
3. Minneapolis Minnesota, where I preached the Mormon Word.
4. San Francisco, where got all my angst out, ate a mountain of burritos from Cancun Taqueria and played lots of great music.

Four TV shows I love

Rebecca:
1. America's Next Top Model
2. Project Runway
3. E.R.
4. Anything on HGTV

Pat:
1. This Old House. I’ve been a fan for as long as I can remember. Tom and Norm are like my two surrogate fathers.
2. Project Runway. Two words: Austin Scarlett. I’d personally like to thank the producers for bringing this (ahem) man to our consciousness.
3. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. A beacon of light in very dark times.
4. The Office. Both BBC and NBC versions are great but if I had to pick one it’d be the BBC. Ricky Gervais is the funniest man alive.
Honorable mention goes out to Cheap Seats on ESPN Classic. Take a little MST3K and mix it in with ABC’s Wide World of Sports from the 70’s and there you go. Not completely original, but wonderfully brilliant nonetheless.

Four places I’ve vacationed

Rebecca:
1. Lake Powell
2. Florida (both Tampa Bay and Orlando)
3. Hawaii
4. Thailand

Pat:
1. Lake Powell
2. Montreal, Quebec. My absolute favorite city in North America. I have spent about two weeks of my life there working with the great Lullaby Baxter. Canadians man, they know how to support the arts.
3. Tampa Bay, Florida
4. Uintah Mountains, Utah. Being the child of two school teachers we didn’t have a lot of money to travel very far but we made the most of our resources and camped a lot. Some of my favorite memories as a child are from these trips.

Four of my favorite dishes

Rebecca:
1. Mom Julie's home made Chicken Noodle Soup
2. Mom Julie's home made Pizza
3. Lemon Beef Salad from Tu Lan in San Francisco.
4. Soup & Salad

Pat:
1. Lemon Beef Salad from Tu Lan in San Francisco. The best $4.89 I have ever spent on Asian food.
2. Café Rio’s Pork Salad. The tomatillo ranch dressing probably contains nicotine.
3. Veggie Burrito, Mission style from either Cancun Taqueria, El Farlito or El Castillo in San Francisco. For the seven years I lived in SF I probably ate an average of four burritos a week. I have a high tolerance for repetition I suppose.
4. Massaman Curry with Tofu from Thai Siam in Salt Lake City.

Four sites I visit daily

Rebecca:
I don't really visit web sites very often, but when I do it's either paying bills, looking for light fixtures, or researching baby stuff.

Pat:
1. The Deseret Morning News’ opinion page. Design concepts for school keep flowing thanks to this gem. I seem to have a very deep well. Keep those letters coming in!
2. Blurbomat. Jon’s my boy and now that we don’t work together anymore (hence, lunch together) I gotta get my fill of "The Jon" somehow.
3. The Onion. Still so good after all these years
4. ESPN. Yeah, I’m a sports junkie and I love sports talk radio. Becca has this belief that men get their dose of drama through sports while women get it through drama TV.

Four places I would rather be right now

Rebecca:
1. With my Mom
2. With my sister Suzanne in DC
3. With my sister Robin in South Dakota
4. With my two favorite people (Pat & Ruby) on a warm tropical island

Pat:
1. Sitting on the back of The Rebel (The Hursts’ timeshare houseboat) somewhere in Lake Powell with my two favorite ladies nearby. We’re wondering how Ruby will like it this summer on the boat. I can’t wait to take her on her first swim in a lake.
2. San Francisco. I miss my old home and think about the next time I’ll watch a Giants game with Bill and Bob, eat a burrito with my brother Erik, hit the Pork Store with Kenny, or visit my old friends Jose and Randy at Café Venue.
3. On the Deer Valley ski lift Wasatch Express pondering which run I’ll be heading down: Tycoon, Reward, Keno or Nabob.
4. My parents living room talking with my brothers and their wives wile the kids go crazy with the giant Lego stash in the basement.

Four people I am tagging

1. Paul
2. Matt
3. natalucci
4. Magic Matt

Posted by patatomic at February 2, 2006 12:59 PM

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