A Charmeng Life: I’ve been tagged!

I’ve been tagged by Marianne

Here are the rules:
1. Link to the person that tagged you
2. Post the rules on your blog
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.
6. Let your tagger know when your entry is up.

Here are my six non-important things/habits/quirks:

1. I took tap, jazz and hawaiian dance lessons for 9 years. It was so much fun. I loved the rush of being on stage, I loved performing, and I loved making friends–though we usually ended up staying in the same class, with the same group of people. I started when I was 5, took a year off somewhere in middle school, and stopped when I was 14–you know, when I started high school and too embarrassed to admit that I took dance lessons. I am definitely enrolling my own children in lessons too. Gotta pass on the tradition!

I don’t feel a need to point myself out in this picture…suffice to say that I AM in it, though.

2. My favorite game is Boggle. I don’t really know when it happened, or how it happened, but I think one day I bought it because it was cheap at Target, and I haven’t stopped playing it. I love it so much that John and I played it on the day we were engaged, before he proposed of course. I own two of them because I had one in CA, and one in WI. Forgetting that I had one in WI, I brought my CA one with me, and now I have two Boggles in WI. I love playing variations of it too. I love playing TextTwist on yahoo, and I now like playing WordTwist on facebook. I love Boggle.

3. I played 3 years of high school badminton, and went to the equivalent of “Counties” my senior year. I’ve heard it all through high school, and college, and even afterwards. Badminton IS a sport. John played 3 years of badminton too. He was naturally talented when it came to badminton, and I’d like to say I wasn’t too bad either. We played in CAL’s badminton tournament my freshmen year of college, and that’s when we realized that we couldn’t play on the same team. He was a single’s player, and I was a doubles. We couldn’t play mixed. He joined the CAL badminton club, and even went to Nationals his senior year. I, on the other hand, just enjoyed playing at open gym now and then. We bought new rackets during our trip to Hong Kong in 2004. He snapped his racket eventually, but I still have mine, and brought it with me to Wisconsin this year. We’ve played badminton here in WI about a handful of times this semester. I’m hoping we’ll play more next semester. John joined UW’s Badminton Club…but me…I just enjoy going to open gym now and then

4. One of my goals is to visit 6 continents by the time I turn 30. I enjoy traveling and don’t mind long plane rides. I was doing well for a bit, but now it looks like it may not happen. Obviously North America is covered. With my visits to the Philippines, Thailand and Hong Kong, I covered Asia. During law school, I did study abroad in Paris. John met me after my program and we traveled throughout Western Europe. John and I went to French Polynesia for our honeymoon…and I really want to count that as my “Australia” visit, but John says that’s cheating. I’ve gone on a Caribbean cruise with stops at Jamaica, Dominican Republic, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, but I think they are considered North America or Latin America. So in all honesty, I still need Africa, Australia and South America. 3 continents and 3 years to do ‘em.

5. I can probably recite the majority of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie. When I was younger, we only had a few videos or “laser discs” at my house, so my sister and I were constantly watching the same movies. Luckily for us, we LOVED our movies, one of which was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. John think it’s kinda creepy, but amusing at the same time. I seriously love that movie. I’m not that much of a fan of the new Johnny Depp version.

6. The Bay Area is my home. I was born in San Jose, but raised in Berkeley. Once I started school, my family moved back to San Jose, where I lived until I started college. I attended college at CAL, then moved back to San Jose for a year. When I got into law school in SF, I moved to Daly City for the first year. The last two years I lived in Emeryville with John. Once John got into med school, I moved back home to San Jose to plan the wedding. And after the wedding I moved to Wisconsin! So when I say the Bay Area is my home, it really is my home. Moving to Wisconsin was a huge change for me, but I know that someday we’ll return to the Bay Area, and hopefully by then we’ll be able to afford it on our own because: