yanksI'm still fairly new at this whole blogging community thing, though I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. Besides just commenting on other bloggers' blogs and joining different blogging communities, one way bloggers sort of spread the love around is to "tag" each other (or "meme" each other if I can verbatize that word). Basically this consists of a short (or long) series of personal questions that a blogger has to answer and then pass the "tag" on to other friends/users to keep it going. Sometimes they're boring, sometimes they're hysterical. All depends on the questions and the person answering them. I've pretty much stayed away from these types of things since they seem a bit too spam-like to me, plus it isn't really why people are coming to my blog in the first place. (I assume they're coming to either get the latest coupons, freebies or deals, or possibly see what hysterically horrible cake I've decorated this week...)

But I was just tagged by Tiny, who's got a great little blog that I love following mainly because she has such a genuine, honest and innocent writing style. Plus she's a fan of Roald Dahl ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") so she's got some good taste. So here now is my first official entry into the word of blog tagging... Please let me know if you like it, love it, hate it, don't get it, etc. Should I do more things like this or stick to straight coupons? That's right I'm actually asking YOU to help shape the future of this blog. No pressure, right?

Anyways, on to the quick tag! Which, oddly enough, centers around the #4, who happens to be my older son's favorite number (and his age)!

4 jobs I’ve had:

  • Managing Editor for a medical publishing company
  • Executive Editor at an magazine publishing company (monthly magazines about toys, action figures, comic books, etc.)
  • Product Manager for a semi-big Web portal (iWon.com and Excite.com)
  • Paige at my local library

4 films I could watch over and over:

  • Say Anything ("I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.")
  • Shawshank Redemption
  • Lord of the Rings (Doesn't matter which one, any part of the Trilogy and I'm hooked)
  • War Games

4 Places I have lived:

  • New York
  • New York
  • New York
  • New York (the town's may've changed but the county's always been the same)

4 Favorite TV shows:

  • Lost
  • Dr. Who (the new ones)
  • The Prisoner
  • Futurama

4 Favorite Foods:

  • Sushi
  • Pizza
  • Hot Dogs (Nathan's being the bestest!)
  • Steak

4 Websites I visit everyday:

4 Places I would love to be:

  • Hawaii (pick an island)
  • San Diego
  • San Francisco
  • London, England

4 Favorite Colors:

Uh, do I really have to pick 4? Who the heck has 4? I don't even have one. Okay fine...

  • Black
  • Orange (cause my 4 year old says it's my favorite color for some reason)
  • Blue
  • Red

4 Names I love but would/could not use for my children:

I don't really get this question and since my 2 kids already have names (Jason and Ryan), I can't list those. So I guess I don't really have an answer. Though if we get a dog, I'd love to name him Gowron. (500 geek points for anyone who gets that reference...)

Okay, that was fairly painless. Now I get to spread the pain, er, painlessness by tagging the following folks with the same questions: Jo, Tish, Wonder Woman, and Danielle.