The Miss Elaine-ous Life

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Old School Blogging, July

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I first completed this meme a WHILE ago… and at that time it was lists of eight things.  But my partner in crime this month, the fabulous Alison from Writing, Wishing and I decided that five was enough. 😉  We are firm believers in simplifying our lives…

So, here are a few lists of five for you to share with us and your readers too!

We sure hope you’ll join us for Old School blogging. Don’t forget to tweet with us (@elainea and @AlisonSWLee) and use the hashtag #OSBlog.

List of Fives Meme

Five Things I Have a Passion For

1. My family… I grew up in a pretty close-knit extended family, with lots of cousins and many trips to see both sides of grandparents.  Family has and always will be very important to me.
2. Photography – it’s a newer passion of mine but I will always love it!
3. Dessert – yeah, unfortunately. 
4. Taveling – I wish I could go somewhere different every month.  I love seeing and experiencing new places AND going back to places I liked before. 
5. Writing – I’ve always written.  Journals, poems, essays.  Even started a few “books”.  And of course here…


Five Things I Would Like to do Before I Die

1. Travel to Europe – LOTS of places in Europe

2. Have grandkids to hang out with – you know, kids I can send back… 😉

3. Live back in Texas – it will always be my true home.

4. Have a home by a lake or an ocean – I LOVE water and want to live by it.

5. Publish my writing and/or photography somehow (besides online)

Five Things I Say A Lot

1. WHAT are you doing?
2. Please stop doing that.

3. Where is your brother?

4. I love you.

5. Are you kidding me?

practicing my French (see below…)

Five Books and/or Magazines I Have Read Lately

1. Daring Greatly

2. Health (magazine)

3. Real Simple

4. Bared to You (yes, yes, I know…)

5. Beautiful Disaster


Five Favorite Movies (maybe you’ve seen them Five times…)

1. Love Actually – I watch this movie every Christmas
2. Pretty Woman – CLASSIC

3. So I Married an Axe Murderer – this movie has a lot of one-liners that Tim and I still say

4. Return to Me – sweet, sad, sweet, cute movie

5. My Big Fat Greek Wedding – Hilarious.  And cute And HILARIOUS!


Five Places I Would Love to Travel

1. Paris, France – I want to take my own photographs of the Eiffel Tower and eat croissants on a sidewalk cafe and go to Notre Dame and, and… 
2. Hawaii – enough said 
3. Back to Canada
4. Prague – where my peeps is originally from (that area anyway)

5. Australia – just for the hell of it.

Five People I Invite to do this Meme

Lisa, Hillary, Kami, Carolyn and YOU!

p.s. Me and Kami (oh and G).  We met up while I was in Canada – never would have thought it possible!  It was so great!! 😀

Also, linky is open for TWO weeks so you have plenty of time to join the fun!

Comments

  1. We have so much in common! Loving writing, photography, wanting to travel to Europe.

    Love doing this with you this month!!

  2. Prague is one of my favorite cities in Europe. I have such fond memories of my trips there. It’s a beautiful place… I hope, you will get to go there one day. I’ll link up over the weekend – wouldn’t miss it!!! 🙂

  3. I pretty much have the exact same passions: the best is ordering an amazing dessert, with my family, in a foreign city. Of course you then have to take a pic of the fam eating the dessert and blog about it!!

  7. I watch Love Actually every Christmas and every summer too. I can’t resist it. It is sooo good and the men in that movie are delicious.
    Today is my SITS Day and I don’t want to post anything else today but I’d love to do this OSB! Tomorrow or Saturday! It’s a good one, as always. We have very similar passions!

  8. Love this! We went to London for our honeymoon ten years ago and took a day trip to Paris. Best spontaneous decision we have ever made! Although, now that I just got a taste of it I NEED to go back…it’s magical.

  10. Our 5 list of things we want to do before we die is pretty similar. Photography is definitely a passion of mine too! I am doing a newborn photo shoot in about 3 hours 🙂 Thanks for hosting this fun meme.

  13. I love learning more about all of you! I do love Paris, and I also loved Prague the second time I went. I’m hoping to someday go to Paris. And your little boy is SO CUTE WITH THOSE DIMPLES!

  15. I’m excited to play along! My hubby has gotten to go to a few places in Europe (without me–boo) but his favorite is Prague. He says its the most picaresque and romantic place. How you imagine old Europe to be!

  17. We have many of the same passions. I have a feeling quite a few of us in the blogging world will share those passions 🙂

  18. I took your and You! to heart and decided I wanted to play! I wrote it tonight and then got tagged tonight too! 🙂 I loved Pretty Woman too, and I definitely want to go to Europe too! We went to Hawaii at Christmas to visit my brother in law and his family – I love it there! The ocean is so calming to me!!

  23. I love the Real Simple magazine. There is just something about it that sets it apart from all the others… now if I could just do half of the stuff in there my house would be awesome.

  25. I could watch Love Actually year round. It’s my neighbor and I’s favorite and at the holidays we take turn watching it at each other’s house.

  26. Thanks for hosting this, Elaine, it’s been so much fun to read everyone’s answers! I watch Love Actually every year at Christmas. It’s just such a feel-good movie. Plus I love Hugh Grant and his little dance.

  29. I love lists! I would love to live by the water one day too – it’s on my list as well. I love traveling. We haven’t had a chance to do too much of it lately, aside from visiting family, and I’m looking forward to doing more!

  30. Gosh, I haven’t been tagged in a meme for ages! I may just do it for old times sake;)

    Also, stealing your photo as it is 9,000 times better and G is too cute.

  32. I started reading this last night and read “desert” and though yeah that is unfortunate. Now that I’m bright eyed and bushy tailed – I’m totally you feeling your on DESSERT!

    So we have dessert in common – I have a version of “Are you kidding me?” and I love Pretty Woman.

    And I love Richard Gere. I know you didn’t mention that but I bet you do.

    Great link up – my first time here.

  36. I think I know every single line in Pretty Woman. I always love your photos. I’m glad you found that you love it so much, so you can share them with all of us. Thanks for hosting!

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