My Life Is Now Complete

So I just got tagged. I hate these surveys when they come in the form of an email, but for a blog, I'm all for it. I did the math and if everyone follows through, tagging five legitimate bloggers, and those tagged actually visit the five blogs on the list, your blog will receive 3,125 visits by the time your name falls off the top of the list. If they like you, they might come back regularly to read more. If your readership expands, that's cool. Because you can get, like, money and stuff... and that's cool. So here I go.
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Remove the blog from the top, move all the blogs up one, and add yourself to the bottom.

Novembrance
The Lyon's Tale
Sundial in the Shade
Inksplasher
ShrekLovesFiona

What were you doing ten years ago?
I was 15 years old, in my first boyfriend's room teaching him how to play the guitar. He thought Stairway to Heaven was so cool so we were listening to it, trying to pick it out. That song was entirely too long and old for me, but I enjoyed it anyway because I was "in love". He's now a famous guitar player. My claim to fame.

What were you doing one year ago?
Working on launching my company, Urban Botanic. It's been an amazing ride and so much fun!

Five snacks you enjoy:
1. Vanilla protein shake mixed with a handful of oats, a pinch of banana creme pudding powder, a spoonful of peanut butter, and ice... swirled around in my Magic Bullet for 15 seconds. Better than icecream and my breakfast every morning I'm in the mood to cheat on my diet.
2. Green apple slices with Laughing Cow cheese on top.
3. Fresh strawberries.
4. Butterdillas (quesadillas, but with butter instead of cheese)
5. Carter's cheeks.

Five songs you know all the lyrics to:
1. Baby Got Back
2. Ice, Ice, Baby
3. Shoop
4. Edelweiss
5. You Are My Sunshine
I know the words to many more, but these are the ones I'm most proud of because 1-3 are particularly difficult and fun to sing, and 4-5 make my son's face light up.

Things you would do if you were a millionaire:
1. Build my dream house and hire a full time personal chef and housekeeper.
2. Start an insurance fund, providing the best health, car, life, and home insurance money can buy for all my friends and family.
3. Visit all the corners of the world and watch people live in their own unique ways.
4. Grow my money through businesses and investing.
5. Buy my Tokidoki purse... several of them.

Five bad habits:
1. Sleeping in
2. Working too much
3. Swearing
4. Letting the mail pile up
5. Not calling people from church back

Five things you like to do:
1. Create fragrances
2. Watch SYTYCD
3. Create music
4. Talk nonstop
5. Graphic Design

Things you will never wear again:
1. The pair of jeans I just took to goodwill because they're now one size too big.
2. Tapered leg pants
3. A retainer
4. Eyeliner (it's now tattooed on)
5. Acrylic nails

Five favorite toys:
1. Computer
2. Dance, Dance, Revolution
3. My under-counter-mounted radio, DVD, TV, and iPod player, the only thing that keeps me sane while cooking and cleaning.
4. It's really sad that I can only think of three toys.
5. I think it's because I work all the time.

Where will I be in ten years?
In the Bahamas with my UB Fragrance Designers or my family.

Five people to tag:
1. Natasha
2. Steve
3. Chante
4. Ryan - you KNOW you want to!
5. Dooce, since she visits my blog all the time.

Summer Reading Thing!

I decided to join Karlene over at InkSplasher in her Summer Reading Thing Program. You make some reading goals for the summer, link up to her website, and then write at least one review on the books you read. She's giving out prizes, books, and gift certificates for participants. If you want to join, click here, it will be fun!

So, I've chosen my books for the summer:

Bridge to Terabithia
I read this one in about 4th grade. I can't remember anything about it except that I loved it very much. I missed it in theaters, so I thought I'd give it another read before renting the movie.

The 5th Horseman
James Patterson's 5th contribution to his lazily written Women's Murder Club series. I say lazy because clearly the man can do better, but his fame allows him to go for quantity instead of quality. Plot-holes and all, it's still very addictive.

New Moon
My friend, Kristen, turned me on to a book called Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. To be honest I only bought the book for its cover, despite Kristen's warning that it was a poorly-written piece of teen lit. Several hundred pages later, I found myself worrying what I'd do when I reached the end of the story. There would be no more nights with my favorite vampire, Edward Cullen. I later found out this is Stephenie's first book, which is pretty impressive. If you can get through some awkward dialogue, it's a magical tale. New Moon is the sequel. It's saying something when I tell you I'm reading it even though it's only in hardback. I can't hold a hardback book up while lying in my back in bed for more than 5 pages, and it's no use propping on the pillow, because the last 3 lines of text on each page get swallowed in feathers.

The 4-Hour Workweek
Sounds very appealing, doesn't it?

The Four Agreements
This book just makes me happy. It's a book on Toltec wisdom that teaches four agreements you should make with yourself in order to lead a life where you're completely truthful to yourself. I read the first half of it some time ago when it was given to me as a gift, but never finished.

So there they are, my 5 books for Summer reading. Which order I read them in will be played by ear, but I promise to review each of them here.