A very late tag response

As I have mentioned I have been neglecting reading my blogger peeps. While just now I visited my dear 'net buddy Wen and not only did she tag me two frigging weeks ago (slacker, right here on my forehead), but she sweetly implied a desire to help me out with my move. Made my eyes tear up, she did. Given that the Purple Beast suffered a cardiac arrest today, just knowing people care like that means a lot.

So I give you the Fiver:

1. Five favorite days of the year

• Set up at Dance New England camp, while it's quiet.
• Hanukkah (really 8 days, but...)
  
• TGF's birthday
• Christmas because TGF loves acting like a kid that day, it's fun to watch
  
• I'm partial to Wednesdays.
  

2. Five things I watched this week

• My dog running and swimming
• So You Think You Can Dance
• My yard get majorly pruned!
• A snippet of The Catherine Wheel, choreographed by Twyla Tharp
• Burn Notice
  

3. Five things you don't want to do but should

• Get a mammogram
• Pack my house
• File papers with the Behavioral Board
• Clip my cats claws
• Back up my computer
  

4. Five things you want to learn

• Ballroom dance with TGF (2-2 above)
  
• Spin yarn
• Find balance in my life
• Set tile
• Speak Spanish
  

5. Five animals you've had as or have pets who impacted you

• Max the first. The dog I don't really remember but acted as a nanny. Or so says my mother and why would she lie
• Sybil. When Ninia moved to Hawaii she said if she had children I would be their guardian so of course it was a no brainer to give me her cat who she couldn't transport across the ocean. She would spoon with me.
• Scully who demanded he come back to his house which I had bought. He communicated like no other cat I've ever met.
• Wyatt, our puppyman. He makes me laugh everyday. I never would have gotten a dog except TGF is a dog person. It is next to impossible to imagine life without him.
• Saana. Thoughts of her still make me cry. She touched my soul so deeply in the nine montha she was alive.
  

6. Five favorite pieces of clothing

• Black and white sundress that I bought from Kimberley at camp a number of years ago.
• Anything I've bought from Tienda Ho on Telegraph Avenue (the best dressing rooms. Ever!)
  
• A pair of Joe Boxers mens' black pajama bottoms
• A big gray Henley like top
• An olive green mesh silk sweater
  

7. Five things you enjoy in the summer

• Dance New England camp!
• Longer periods of day light
• The fog
• Warm weather
• Cool evenings
  

8. Five foods you don't like

• Liver
• Sea urchin
• Soft boiled eggs
• Chocolate covered candied ginger
• Over cooked spinach
  

9. You are given $50,000 to give to 5 people as $10,000 cash gifts, who and why

• My friend Adrienne, who is always struggling and always gives more than she has
• Sunny, my mother, because she has been more than generous and I really want to repay something to her. Maybe she could self publish her poetry
• Set up a college, or run around the world for six months fund for our niece, T'Mane
• My foster daughter Michelle so she can make choices she believes in rather than ones she can afford
• Ruth, so she could do her art more and work less, even just for a little while.
  

10. Five things that are not where they belong

• 30 extra pounds (on my body!)
• Bush (in the White House - stole this one from Wen, couldn't help it!)
• My academic record (it's in the toilet)
• The Purple Beast, stuck on the street refusing to start
• Veronica Mars (off the air)

I won't tag anyone specifically but feel free to do this. Just let me know so I can read your lists!