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[disneydream06]

Swiped from mtpati

Ping me and I will:

1) Tell you why I friended you.
2) Associate you with a song/film.
3) Tell a random fact about you.
4) Tell a first memory about you.
5) Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6) Tell you my favourite user pic of yours.
7) In retort, spread this disease in your LJ, should you feel so inclined.

Comments

[mtpati.livejournal.com]

well, I did you, now it's your turn! Very brave of you to try!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

1. Because you friended me. :p Seriously, you are very nice, and I love Yellowstone, so to meet someone from out there is great.
2. Why is this one so hard? How about John Denver's Rocky Mountain High. Just skip the Colorado part. lol........
3. You work with the Girl Scouts. (lame I know)
4. You spoke of your dieting and I found another support person. :)
5. Why West Yellowstone?
6. I think it is a toss up between Old Faithful and Snow Covered Trees in Yellowstone.

[mtpati.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I think you did an excellent job!
in answer to #5 it's kind of a long story, but I'll try and give the condensed version.
Back before the turn of the latest century, my husband Jay and I were living in the San Francisco Bay Area. After years of working as someone else's accounting and computer nerd I had started my own consulting business. He was woring for his brother selling computers to mostly law firms in San Francisco.
We had just gotten DSL and were surfing the internet together looking at RV sites because we enjoyed camping on weekends and traveling in our RV.
We discovered a site called workampernews.com which listed seasonal job opportunites for full time RV'rs. We had never heard of such a thing, but thought it sounded great. We seriously looked at each other and said, why shouldn't we sell our house and most of our belongings, buy a trailer and live this way now? This was in July of 1999. In March of 2000 we left.
WE didn't sell the house for a year, we rented it out for a while.
We had looked for jobs all over the rocky mountains, but we had a preference for Yellowstone or the Gunnison CO area. We both were offered jobs with Hamilton Stores, the company that ran most of the gift shops in Yellowstone. My job was right up my alley, working with computers and with all the store auditors consolidating their information. Jay's was driving a forklift in the warehouse. But then he saw an ad for a tour guide, and began calling the owner of the company. In about a week they decided it was easier to hire him than have him call them daily, so that's what happened.
It's the best job he ever had, he's been doing it ever since, with the exception of the two winters we spent away from here, one in Mexico, and one in the Florida Keys.
After about three years we sold the RV and bought our house and my store. My original job didn't last more than the first season, and I worked in hotels, and spent one summer telecommuting to San Francisco. I've always had a hard time working for other people, so this was a natural.
Anyway, that wasn't exactly short...but there it is!

[owlstorm_9]

Do I dare??...I'm still waiting for a write up from you from a couple of months ago...lol

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not I actually thought about that the other day. I know I own Joe something, but what was it. :o

1. I believe you approached me first over on Blurty. You seemed like a very cool guy so I happily added you.
2. By The Time I Get To Phoenix by Glen Campbell. :p
3. You drive a LOT. :p
4. Your amazing connection with Janet.
5. Why did you friend me?
6. I think I will go with the Owl Head one. :p

[owlstorm_9]

That works...

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

YAY Me. :p

[bogarantyu.livejournal.com]

Ping!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

1. You are a good friend of Derek's and I trust his feelings, and you have such a caring personality.
2. That's What Friends Are For by Dionne and Friends, and you are a good friend.
3. You are a great mail lady. :)
4. This is a toughy. I think my first memory of you was when I emailed you to ask if it was okay to mail packages to you for Derek, and you kindly said yes. :) Another good memory though is the wonderful cards you and your students sent me.
5. Would you ever want to visit the USA? Or have you?
6. I think I still like your drunk cat the best. lol...

[bogarantyu.livejournal.com]

I have visited the U.S. three times. First when I was in 9th grade, I spent two months in Kansas, that was in 1992-93. Yep, Christmas, too.

Then I spent November 1994 in Chula Vista, CA with my class. And finally I was a Mormon missionary for 18 months in Utah/California.

Do I want to go back? Yeah, I'd like to visit the East Coast (New York and Florida) and the Pacific North West, and would be nice to see some Cali friends again. But not in the near future.