Update (5:27 p.m.): More trivia. Which Hogwarts house?
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It’s Friday, so let’s have some blog fun. I found this meme at ChristWeb and figured it would be fabulous to give you some trivia about myself in fours:
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life:
Cashier at Burger King (fired for not smiling enough)
Flight Attendant
Day Care Worker (some places will hire any warm body)
Legislative Correspondent (wrote letters to constituents for U.S. senator)
Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have:
JFK
Malcolm X
Gone with the Wind
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Gene Wilder (Come with me and you’ll see a world of pure imagination…)
Four Places I Have Lived:
Long Island, NY
“Small Town,” SC
Philadelphia, PA
Washington, DC
Four TV Shows I Love To Watch:
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Law & Order (original series)
A&E’s Cold Case Files
Four Places I Have Been On Vacation:
Orlando, FL
Daytona Beach, FL (spring break!)
Los Angeles and Anaheim, CA
New York City, NY
Four Websites I Visit Daily:
Michelle Malkin
Drudge Report
BlackElectorate.com
Lucianne.com
Four Favorite Foods:
Most shellfish
Broccoli
My mother’s pork chops
My mother’s macaroni and cheese
Four Places I Would Rather Be Right Now:
South Carolina (home)
California (visiting my sister and niece)
Paris
London
Four People I Am Tagging With This Meme:
I’ll skip this part.
Bored at work? Why don’t you play?
Macaroni & Cheese is good comfort food. Would you post your mother’s recipe if you get a chance?
Comment by Philip — 01.27.06 @ 1:22 pm
I’ve never tried to make it myself, and I don’t know if she could tell you how to make it, either. She’s one of those old-school cooks who mixes ingredients without measuring.
Comment by La Shawn — 01.27.06 @ 1:45 pm
Fav Movies: Gone with the Wind, Dirty Dancing (lol..I’ll admit it), Dr. Zhivago, Shrek II
Fav TV Shows: Dancing with the Stars, CSI Miami, 24, American Idol after they get past all the idiots
Fav Foods: My mom’s Beef Vegetable Soup, Good heavy bread, Steak, Fresh Corn on the Cob
Lived in La Crosse, Wisconsin and now near Kansas City in a little burg
Vacationed in DisneyWorld, a couple of cruises with St. Lucia being my fav stop, San Francisco and the best vacation of all time..Alaska. It is simply gorgeous.
Comment by dianne — 01.27.06 @ 2:10 pm
My mother and grandmother cook by sight. I guess the good food comes from having done it over and over for years. My grandmother makes an awesome sweet tea which I’ve never been able to reproduce.
Comment by Philip — 01.27.06 @ 2:11 pm
Four jobs: sales clerk in lingerie department, waitress, cleaning lady, lawyer
Four movies: Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (original), The Hunt for Red October, Casablanca, Pride & Prejudice (newest version)
Four TV Shows: CSI (original), Cold Case Files, City Confidential, Medium
Four Websites: michellemalkin.com, lashawnbarber.com, instapundit, powerlineblog.com
Four favorite foods: Blueberries, fried eggs with runny yolks on hash browns, creamy polenta, grilled salmon! Now I’m hungry!
Comment by Theresa — 01.27.06 @ 2:22 pm
LS,
Surely as a flight attendant you have ventures out west? What about those “meat and three” diners they have in your neck of the woods?
If you buy a bag of elbow macaroni, they usually have the recipe on the side.
Also, Hattie Mcdaniel was originally from my
“neck of the woods” Denver,Colorado. A recent
History Channel docu about the de-segregation
of Las Vegas in the late 50’s was great.
Comment by Captain Kirk — 01.27.06 @ 2:26 pm
Jobs: Administrative Assistant, Computer Programmer, Stage Manager
Movies: The Wizard of Oz; A Christmas Story; Waking Ned Devine; Remains of the Day
Lived: NY NY; Nashville TN; Providence RI
TV Shows: The Simpsons; I Love Lucy; The Andy Griffith Show; Ballykissangel
Vacation: England, Ireland, Holland, Germany
Websites: Drudge; Townhall.org; Watch.org
Foods: Spaghetti w/meatsauce; Roast Beef; Meatloaf; Fried Chicken with white gravy
Rather be: London; Dublin; Garmisch Germany
Comment by Philip — 01.27.06 @ 2:32 pm
I did the Quartet Meme on my blog last week.
Under your Favorite Movies, I take it you mean the original Willie Wonka with Gene Wilder? Have you seen the new one with Johnny Depp? What did you think? I know I was reluctant to see it at first…
Comment by March Hare — 01.27.06 @ 3:10 pm
I made note in the post. Definitely Gene Wilder. The Johnny Depp remake is called “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” after the book, right? Haven’t seen it. Gene Wilder is the only Willy Wonka for me.
Captain Kirk: What are “meat and three” diners?
Monika: I added you to this comment after you posted. Thanks for reading LBC! That goes for everyone who said they read the blog daily.
Comment by La Shawn — 01.27.06 @ 3:18 pm
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life:
Rally’s Hamburgers (double drive through),
Bank Teller, Retail Specialist, Analyst
Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have:
Remember The Titans, Blazing Saddles, Pretty Woman, Beat Street (Recovering Hip Hop head)
Four Places I Have Lived:
San Diego, Buffalo NY, Oakland,
Four TV Shows I Love To Watch:
Everybody Hates Chris, Cold Case, Love Monkey, Meet the Press
Four Places I Have Been On Vacation: Philadelphia, Hampton VA, San Diego, Tahoe (Future)
Four Websites I Visit Daily: blackelectorate.com, cnn.com, My Sorority, Zeta Phi Beta, Inc (www.zphib1920.org), Ms. LaShawn
Four Favorite Foods: Shrimp, Grapefruits, Chili, Spinich
Four Places I Would Rather Be Right Now:
Buffalo, Philadelphia, Puerto Rico (never been), Washington
Comment by Monika Brooks — 01.27.06 @ 3:18 pm
Fav movies: Magnificent Seven (Yul Brynner), A Christmas Carol, Batman (Michael Keaton), and My Fair Lady.
Foods: shellfish, prime rib, broccoli, chocolate. (Whaddaya mean, chocolates not food?)
Vacations: Orlando, Sedona, Aruba, Branson.
Rather be: Carribean or AZ.
Lived? NJ, CT, VA, CA.
Jobs: Security Guard, Carpenter, Industrial Pipefitter, Computer Tech.
That was fun - back to work!
Comment by Pete — 01.27.06 @ 3:24 pm
Four Jobs
Only one so far… Industrial maintenance laborer.
Four Movies
The Coneheads (1993 - Dan Akroyd, Jane Curtin)
The Shmenge’s Last Polka (1984 - John Candy, Eugene Levy)
The Fugitive (1993 - Harrison Ford)
True Stories (1986 - David Byrne, John Goodman)
Four Places I’ve Lived
Port Washington, WI
Sheboygan, WI
Coastal Georgia
Central Illinois
Four TV Shows
Seinfeld
King of the Hill
The Simpsons
Third Rock from the Sun
Four Places I’ve Been On Vacation
Vacation? What is a “vacation”?
Four Websites I Visit Daily (Other than LBC)
Michelle Malkin
Packers News
Rush Limbaugh
Drudge
Four Favorite Foods
Southern Pecan Pie
BBQ’d Pulled Pork
Friday Fish Fry
Chicago Stuffed Pizza
Four Places I’d Rather Be
Lambeau Field (center of the universe)
Sheboygan, WI (home)
Jekyll Island, GA (sand and sunshine)
Port Washington, WI
Comment by John — 01.27.06 @ 3:50 pm
Jobs: Taco Bell clerk, waitress, proofreader, book editor
Movies: Godfather, GF II, His Girl Friday, The Sound of Music
Places I’ve lived: Chicago; Dublin, Ireland; St. Paul; Minneapolis
TV shows: CSI, City Confidential, Arrested Development (sob!), The Office
Vacation spots: London; Savannah, GA; Italy; NYC
Websites: Instapundit, Lileks, Tim Blair, LBC
Foods: I love nutritous, low-fat stuff like baked ziti with three cheeses, eggplant sandwiches on Gonella rolls, toast with butter and jam, and Walker’s shortbread dipped in Nutella
Places I’d rather be: in a cottage by the sea, Savannah, Chicago, home on the couch
Comment by AK — 01.27.06 @ 4:10 pm
The Meme of Four
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life:
1. Bank receptionist for customer service department
2. CompUSA customer service
3. Church administrator
4. Web site designer
Four M …
Trackback by The View from My Chair — 01.27.06 @ 4:31 pm
Four places I’ve lived: Philadelphia PA, Talladega AL, Pittsburgh PA, Dallas TX
Four Favorite Films: Apocalypse Now, The Godfather I, The Apostle, Vanishing Point (1971)
Four TV Shows: 24, 24, 24, STTNG
Best Television I have ever seen. An episode of the 2nd incarnation of the Twilight Zone called “Nightcrawlers” Directed by William Friedkin - look this one up!
Favorite STTNG Episodes: The Inner Light; The Wounded
Four Blogs: La Shawn Barber’s Corner, InstaPundit, Dr. Helen (The Instawife),Blogcritics
Hey, La Shawn, that *was* fun. Good idea!
Comment by Armand A. La Bes — 01.27.06 @ 4:32 pm
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life:
Pinsetter in an old bowling alley (human target)
Gas pump attendant at a marina
Welder/machinist’s helper
Factory foreman
Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have:
Casablanca (I can recite the dialog along with the cast)
The Cowboys (John Wayne really could act)
White Heat (Made it, Ma! Top o’ the world!)
Das Boot (ping…. ping…. PING….)
Four Places I Have Lived:
Lincoln, Nebraska
Chicago
Rural Indiana (my favorite place)
Tampa, Florida area
Four TV Shows I Love To Watch:
Lost (where the heck does that cable go?)
Andy Griffith (nip it in the bud)
The Sopranos (bada bing)
The Twilight Zone (original only)
Four Places I Have Been On Vacation:
Yellowstone (could spend ten years there)
Colonial Williamsburg
Canadian wilderness
New Orleans (best eating town in the world - hope it will be again)
Four Websites I Visit Daily:
This one, of course
Power Line
Rush Limbaugh
My antique John Deere site (green tractors are the only real tractors)
Four Favorite Foods:
Steak
Vanilla ice cream
Chocolate cake
Steak
Four Places I Would Rather Be Right Now:
Home
Fishing
Riding my motorcycle, pretty much anywhere
Tio Pepe Restaurant (for a steak)
Comment by RedBeard — 01.27.06 @ 4:39 pm
TV Shows, Extra
I only listed four in my post above, but Arrested Development, The Office and My Name Is Earl also qualify. (”Catalina”, the motel maid on “Earl” is out of this world!)
Comment by John — 01.27.06 @ 4:39 pm
LS,
They just had a segment on the cooking channel,
and when I was traveling in the Southeast I
encountered some fabulous little “luncheonettes”.
Kinda like mini-buffets, where you go in and say the daily special is meatloaf, then you get a choice of three sides. Usually #1 is mac n’ cheese
followed by veggies, mashed potatoes or any other
kind of food that fits in a steamer set up. UM,UM Good! Definitely not low-cal
Comment by Captain Kirk — 01.27.06 @ 5:41 pm
Four Jobs
auto factory worker
driving instructor
social worker
Legal Aid lawyer
Four Movies
Lilies of The Field
Predator
Romeo Must Die
Big Trouble In Lttle China
Four Places I’ve Lived
Fort Smith, AR
Tempe, AZ
East Lansing, MI
Detroit, MI
Four TV Shows
Seinfeld
CSI: Miami
Girlfriends
Hardball With Chris Matthews
Four Places I’ve Been On Vacation
Jamaica, West Indies
Disney World
Niagra Falls, Canada
Chicago, IL
Four Websites
BlackElectorate.com
DrudgeReport.com
LaShawnBarber.com
raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com
Four Favorite Foods
My Mother’s Creole Gumbo
My Wife’s Key Lime Pie
My No. 1 Daughter’s Macaroni & Cheese
My No. 2 Daughter’s Pasta Salad
Comment by Leon — 01.27.06 @ 5:49 pm
LaShawn, I loved your lists! I watched the old “Willy Wonka” over and over again when it first came out in the theater and you could see double features for $1! Wow — that dates me, doesn’t it!
Speaking of that movie and Gene Wilder–years later, when I worked in an office right next-door to Wilder’s Beverly Hills office I would sometimes see him — and the darling little Yorkie dog that always accompanied him to work. (His office assistant had another Yorkie…you could always hear the dog getting off the elevator and jingling all the way to the office — it was hilarious!)
One time at the end of a work day, I found myself getting on the same elevator as Mr. Wilder and I wanted to gush about how I grew up loving that movie…but thinking it was important to maintain a professional demeanor all I said was, “Cute dog!” I missed my chance to call him “Mr. Wonka”! Oh well — it’s probably just as well!
Thanks for helping me take a walk down Memory Lane!
Ann
Comment by Ann — 01.27.06 @ 7:29 pm
You should’ve start singing in your best Veruca, Don’t care how. I want it now!
I love that movie, love the songs, love Wilder’s quips, love the candy…
Comment by La Shawn — 01.27.06 @ 7:42 pm
Four Jobs
Waiter, grocery store cashier, bank teller, high school coach/teacher
Four Movies
The Manchurian Candidate (original w/Frank Sinatra)
Saving Private Ryan
Hoosiers
The Natural
Four Places I’ve Lived (I’ve only got 3)
Memphis
Dallas/Ft. Worth
Galveston
Four TV Shows
24
King of the Hill
The Simpsons
Law and Order
Four Places I’ve Been On Vacation
Disney World
Philadelphia
San Antonio
Monarch, Colorado
Four Websites I Visit Daily (Other than LBC)
Powerline
ESPN.com
Dallas News.com
National Review Online
Four Favorite Foods
Pulled Pork Sandwich (Memphis style w/cole slaw on top)
Grilled Salmon filet
Filet Mignon from Bob’s Steak and Chop House (a Dallas must visit)
Mom’s macaroni and cheese
Four Places I’d Rather Be
Austin, TX
San Diego
Barcelona, Spain
Any golf course where it’s sunny and 65!
Welcome back, Chris.
- Admin
Comment by Chris Roberts — 01.27.06 @ 7:58 pm
An Appeal from Center-Right Bloggers
I’m pleased to present the following statement on behalf of the undersigned bloggers. -N.Z. An Appeal from Center-Right Bloggers We are bloggers with boatloads of opinions, and none of us come close to agreeing with any other one of us…
Trackback by The Truth Laid Bear — 01.27.06 @ 8:29 pm
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life:
Dishwasher
Party Store Clerk
Program Manager
Engineer
Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have:
A Beautiful Mind
The Shawshank Redemption
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
Casablanca
Four Places I Have Lived:
Ceresco, MI
Beckley, WV
South Pasadena, CA
Simi Valley, CA
Four TV Shows I Love To Watch:
American Idol
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Modern Marvels
American Chopper
Four Places I Have Been On Vacation:
Big Bear, CA
Ormond Beach, FL
Gatlinburg, TN
Las Vegas, NV
Four Websites I Visit Daily:
Lucianne.com
The Bleat (Lileks)
Pyromaniacs
Instapundit
Four Favorite Foods:
Beef (prime rib, fillet mignon)
Almost any kind of seafood
Fettuccine Alfredo (with shrimp)
Peanut Butter and Jelly on buttered toast, dipped in hot chocolate (no joke)
Four Places I Would Rather Be Right Now:
At my Mom’s in Florida or Sister’s in Chicago
Big Bear, CA
Singapore
Las Vegas, NV
Comment by Impacted Wisdom Truth — 01.27.06 @ 11:14 pm
While Denzel Washington is one of the best actors of our all time, I wasn’t too fond of Malcolm X, the movie and the person. However, Denzel did play X to a t, which is no surprise since I haven’t seen him in a bad role yet. Nothing tops Glory, Ricochet, Courage Under Fire, Remember the Titans, and John Q.
Comment by Ian — 01.27.06 @ 11:52 pm
God bless you for having the patience for a meme. I’ve been tagged thirty seven times….I don’t do tags anymore than I do chainletters.
I just got tagged again two days ago with this same meme. Here was my reply:
http://bonniescalhoun.blogspot.com/2006/01/ive-been-taggedgrrrr.html
Comment by Bonnie Calhoun — 01.28.06 @ 12:15 am
four jobs I have has
carpet cleaner, food service worker, rent a car driver, manager
four movies I love to watch
starman, blade runner, windwalker, jerimiah johnson
four places I have lived
los angeles, northern kentucky, cincinnati, montgomery oh
four tv shows I love to watch
24, star trek-next generation, battlestar gallactica, babylon 5
four places I have been on vacation
jerusalem, las vegas, alaska, new mexico
four websites I visit daily
little green footballs, roger simon, jerusalem post, leshawn barber
four favorite foods
rib steaks, humous and olives, potatoes, eggs
four places I would rather be right now
Israel, las vegas, santa fe, alaska
Comment by michael thomas — 01.28.06 @ 12:32 am
Four movies I could watch over and over: The Parent Trap (newer one), What’s Up Doc (yes, even though it has Babs in it–before she got annoying), Legally Blonde (better than it sounds; a girl-power movie), Apollo 13
Comment by Michele — 01.28.06 @ 2:53 am
Jobs
USMC - Only job I’ve had for 18 years now.
4 Movies - Deer hunter, true romance, passion of the Christ, black hawk down.
4 places I have lived. - Erie, pa, port orange Fl.
point loma Ca. Kennewick, WA.
4 TV shows - Seinfeld, Hill street blues, 24, night court.
4vacations - Washington dc, Vegas, Mt.Rushmore, nanimo Canada
4 web sites - Drudge, milkins, orgish.com (for the videos) gt. hook. And now I have found this one I will make it a habit of stopping by.
4 Foods - Pizza, stake, liver and onions, kfc meal.
4 places I want to be - Iraq with my marines, any where my son is, Erie, Miami fl.
Comment by Rick — 01.28.06 @ 3:21 am
LaShawn, it really is amazing how well your thoughts and writing represent those of us in flyover country, when you’ve spent your own life on one coast or the other. They dipped you in blue and somehow you came out red!
Comment by Dave in Montana — 01.28.06 @ 7:26 am
LaShawn, it really is amazing how well your thoughts and writing represent those of us in flyover country…
That is a wonderful compliment, Dave. Thank you. May it always be so.
Comment by La Shawn — 01.28.06 @ 9:56 am
Jobs:
McDonald’s cashier
Electronics Technician U.S. Navy
Baggage handler for Delta
Structuring Debt offerings for Hospital and Higher Ed clients
Movies:
Glory
Hoosiers
Jerry McGuire
Anything with Sanaa Lathan
Lived:
Southern Illinois (home)
San Diego
Charleston, SC
Miami
TV:
24
STTNG
ST Voyager - can you say Dax?
JAG - hello Mac!
Vacation:
What’s that?
Websites:
This one
Booker Rising
The Weekly Standard
Daily Kos - to see what the enemy’s up to
Food (Combinations):
Collard Greens & hot water cornbread at my Grandmother’s house, when she was still with us
Chicken Tikka Masala and Saag @ Sitar in Nashville
Rib-eye medium and creamed spinach @ Brennan’s NO
Carrot Cake from J Alexander’s
Other than here in Nashville:
Chicago (in the summer)
Fishing on the pond behind my parent’s home (IL)
Pebble Beach - Mizunos in tow
Indianapolis to watch the Final 4, 500 and US Grand Prix
Comment by Craig Bardo — 01.28.06 @ 10:05 am
Me in Quadruplicate. I'll Play!
Found this at LaShawn Barber's and it looked fun. But, be at ease, I'm not tagging anyone with it.
Trackback by Susie-Q&A — 01.28.06 @ 11:11 am
La Shawn, I’ll always prefer the original Star Trek to The Next Generation. The Enterprise-D’s holodeck gets my vote for SF’s cheesiest stunt. It seemed that 75% of the episodes in ST:TNG (maybe more) took place on the Enterprise-D holodeck.
Comment by Mwalimu Daudi — 01.28.06 @ 3:04 pm
La Shawn: There’s a very good article in the L.A. Times called “Back to basics: Why does high school fail so many?”. Apparently, according to them, only 48% of freshmen entering public high school in Los Angeles, manage to graduate. 48% ?????
“For many, the traditional U.S. education system is a dead end.” –LA Times, January 29, 2006
FAVORITE FOODS:
1. Fried Chicken (drumsticks, preferably)
2. Macaroni-n-Cheese (anyone’s, including Kraft)
3. Lemon Meringue Pie (or, Lemon bars)
4. Lasagna
5. Chocolate layer cake (with chocolate buttercream frosting)
FAVORITE MOVIES:
1. Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn/Gregory Peck)
2. Wizard of Oz
3. Postman Always Rings Twice (Lana Turner/John Garfield)
4. It Happened One Night (Clark Gable/Claudette Cobert)
5. Casablanca (Bogart/Bacall)
Comment by Glamchild — 01.28.06 @ 3:38 pm
I, too, was fired for not smiling enough. But it was McDonalds and I was working the bun-toasting area (back when McDonalds actually cared about their food).
I never did understand the importance of smiling at those darn buns.
Comment by TWM — 01.28.06 @ 3:45 pm
Wow…there aren’t too many female Trekkies out there, let alone Black females.
This is definitely something to celebrate. So when are we going to set up a Trekkie night?
Comment by Xavier Pickett of RBA — 01.28.06 @ 6:13 pm
High five to you on A&E’s Cold Case Files.
My wife and I make sure there is at least one episode on the Tivo ready to go at all times. Because if nothing else good is on, you know Cold Case Files will satisfy.
If you don’t have the utmost respect for cold case detectives after watching one episode of that show, well, you must be clueless!
It’s a fascinating and engrossing show.
Comment by Alex Nunez — 01.28.06 @ 7:22 pm
La Shawn,
I “discovered” your website this last week and have returned several times already. Today I was amazed to see that GWTW was one of your favorite movies. I’ve known people, black and white, who are very critical of this movie because of it’s positive portrayal of the ante bellum South.
Several years ago when I lived in Atlanta, I started some family tree work and discovered that North Georgia was the land of my “roots” and that many of my ancestors were right in the thick of things when Sherman came to call.
I had always heard that Margaret Mitchell wrote GWTW using stories that she had heard while she was growing up down there. I ran across a news article from 1939 describing how some older women in the Howell family (my great-grandmother’s name) were upset with Miss Mitchell because she had borrowed several stories from that family and had not asked their permission. The story about Scarlett leading Melanie and her new baby away to escape the Yankees with a cow in-tow was “borrowed” straight from the family of Captain Evan P. Howell. It is interesting that the same family ran a very successful lumber mill after the war and were criticized heavily for doing business with and being too friendly to the Northern occupiers.
I guess my point is that while GWTW is a romantic fantasy of sorts, it is not ALL fiction. Even some of the characters are probably based on people with whom Margaret Mitchell was familiar. For example, you can read about a man named James Dunwoody Bulloch and even Raphael Semmes and see a little of Rhett Butler in both of them. Bulloch’s mansion in Roswell survived the war and was not far from another business owned by another Howell family. (My Howells, by the way, were the poorer cousins!) As insulting as it is to the politically correct crowd, accounts of “faithful” servants like Pork and Big Sam are abundant.
I apologize for the length of this comment but I just thought you might be interested. Thanks
Comment by Stephen — 01.28.06 @ 8:51 pm
I do much of my cooking by sight, or make modifications by sight even if there’s a base recipe. I’ve come up with recipes I blogged after pointedly working out what the measurements had to be to taste right, but darn that’s hard.
I always think of recipes more as guidelines, anyway. If you have a fair idea what interacts how and what tastes how, it’s easy to experiment. You learn something even from failures, then have fewer of those.
Comment by Jay — 01.28.06 @ 10:45 pm
Meme — Me Me?
Well, I saw this meme over at La Shawn Barber’s Corner and thought it would be fun: Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life: Busboy Waiter (much better busboy than waiter!) Short Term Missionary: Reach Out Singers Computer Programmer Four
Trackback by Conservative Musings — 01.29.06 @ 12:28 am
Best Macaroni and Cheese
Following ingredients per cup of dry macaroni…
one tablespoon of butter (margarine is ok but greasy)
three tablespoons of half and half
one slice of Kraft American Cheese
1/4 cup of grated cheddar
milk for thinning
salt to taste
Boil as much macaroni as you want.
(great for a quick meal of leftovers)
Drain
Immediately return to pot on a low flame and add butter and half and half.
Stir till butter melts.
Add American cheese and stir till melted.
Add a shot of milk to thin.
Stir in cheddar and remove from heat.
Cover pot and let sit for a minute.
Stir before serving.
If it is too thick; return to heat, add a little milk at a time and stir till you get it the way you want.
After you make this a couple of time you become an expert at it.
Comment by Beto Ochoa — 01.29.06 @ 11:37 am
4 Jobs:
Factory Worker (assembly line)
Child Care Worker (Farm for Boys)
Lead Teacher/Group Supervisor
Day Care Director
4 Movies:
Stormy Weather(love the music and dancing)
Singing in the Rain (best dancing)
Steel Magnolias
Jurassic Park
4 Places I Have Lived:
Phila., PA
Bowie, MD
Millington, NJ
Lansdale, PA
4 Favorite TV Shows:
Lost
Gilmore Girls
The Cosby Show (Huxtables)
St Elswhere
4 Vacation Places:
Wild Wood, New Jersey
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Banff, Alberta, Canada
Disney Land
4 Websites:
La Shaun Barber’s Corner
Earl Paulk CapWeb Log
Right Wing Sparkle
Yahoo Groups - UK Royalty, Black Conservatives,etc
4 Favorite Foods
Shrimp
Steak
Porto Bello Mushrooms-Grilled/Sauteed
Freshly Juiced Blend - Mango,Peach,Orange & banana
4 Places To Be Right Now
Anaheim, California
Montreal, Quebec
London
Paris
Comment by Bev — 01.29.06 @ 12:28 pm
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life:
Sold sodas at University of Texas home games
Repaired guitars at JR Reeds in Austin, TX
Learned toolmaking from the great Willhelm Nieman
Made prototype flight qualified hardware for the space station
Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have:
The Wild Bunch
The Outlaw Josie Wales
The Shootist
The French Connection
Four Places I Have Lived:
Fort Worth
Austin, TX
Evanston Wyoming
San Jose
Comment by Beto Ochoa — 01.29.06 @ 7:34 pm
4 Jobs:
Limo Driver (worst job)
Navy (20 years)
Phone Sales
Pastor (best job)
4 Movies:
Raising Arizona
Princess Bride
LotR
Tombstone
4 Places I Have Lived:
Spain
Hawaii
Winter Harbor ME
Pensacola Florida
4 Favorite TV Shows:
24
House
ummmm…. that is about it
No wait, King of the Hill
4 Vacation Places:
Camping (just about anywhere)
East TN
Hawaii
The Caribbean (only went there for work but long to return)
4 Websites:
Blog and MaBlog (dougwils.com)
Michelle Malkin
TeamPyro
Drudge
4 Favorite Foods
Grilled Steak
Chicken-n-Dumplins (my wife’s only, please do not invite me over to try yours)
Cornbread
Fried Chicken
4 Places To Be Right Now
Heaven
On the beach
Home with my wife and kids
Did I say Heaven?
Comment by AL — 01.30.06 @ 9:33 am
Xavier says:
“Wow…there aren’t too many female Trekkies out there, let alone Black females.”
Now you know of two.
La Shawn: I cracked up at the not-smiling thing.
Comment by Juliette — 01.30.06 @ 5:10 pm
Four Things
Saw this at LaShawn’s blog, and thought “what the heck, I’ll play along.”
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life:
Delivery driver (put me through college in the late 1980s.
Restaurant “X”. Assistant manager from 1993-2003. Some GM work, as they s…
Trackback by Iowa Voice — 01.30.06 @ 6:57 pm
Jobs: model, scuba shop, small film production company, my business now for 19 years(skateboard shop).
Movies: Godfather 1 & 2, Any Bond(Connery or Moore), Any Star Trek, Ground Hog Day.
Lived: Houston, Playa Del Carmen, Las Vegas, Austin.
TV: Star Trek Next Gen, Simpsons, Battlestar Galactica, ABC Soaps.
Vacation: Costa Rica, Cayman Islands, NYC, lots of spots in Mexico.
Daily Websites: LBC, Michelle Malkin, Drudge, Turningpointonline.org (great Christian site…GO THERE!)
Fav Foods: Tex-Mex, Barbeque pork ribs, Filet Mignon, Shrimp.
Rather be: Love life right here(Austin, TX)…just wish there was more time to spend with loved ones.
Comment by Laurie — 01.31.06 @ 12:54 am
The Fours Meme
Ok. No one tagged me on this directly, but I’m taking my lead from Gus, Tracey, and
Trackback by The Noonz Wire — 01.31.06 @ 9:25 am
Four Jobs I’ve Had in My Life-Cashier, HUD Apartment Manager, Collection Representative and Loss Mitigation Technician
Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over, and Have:
Blast From the Past,Gone With The Wind,The Shootist and Big.
Favorite Blogs- Michelle Malkin, La Shawn, Drudge and Ankle Biting Pundits
Represhing to post something different other than politics…I love your style La Shawn
Four Places I Haved Lived- New Haven, CT. Leemore, Ca, Jacksonville, FL and Germantown, TN
Comment by Gori from TN — 01.31.06 @ 10:44 am
Because I’m Bored, OK?
For want of something better to write, I’ll play along with this little meme via Iowa Voice (who needs a little help, by the way) and LaShawn Barber. Four jobs I’ve had in my life: Sales assistant at Toys’r'Us (fired for swearing in earshot of the …
Trackback by Sortapundit — 02.01.06 @ 12:01 pm