Five by Five.

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fridayfiver
Name your favorite...
1. Candy: Milk Chocolate. Not terribly picky about silly things like brands.
2. Cookie: I know this makes me weird, but oatmeal raisin. The chunkier, the better. Although warm, homemade chocolate chip cookies are an extremely close second.
3. Donut: blackberry jelly from any bakery or Krispy Kreme Plain Glazed
4. Cold drink: non-alcoholic: lemon-lime seltzer. alcoholic: vodka tonic
5. Hot beverage: Tea.


thefridayfive
1. What’s the most embarrassing thing/job you’ve had to do to earn money?
School fund raisers. I hated making people sign up to buy overpriced crap, and dreaded them every year. Had they given out boxes of chocolate to sell, I would have been much happier - at least it would have been something tangible. But I'm still terrible at fund raising of any kind.
2. What’s the easiest and quickest way you have earned a buck?
I rocked the whole chores-for-allowance deal back in the day. Also, my parents and I had a deal - I got a bonus for straight A's. Considering I was going for that anyhow, I appreciated the cash bonus.

3. If you could set your own salary, according to your skills and worth, how much would you earn?
A minimum of $100k, plus bonuses and benefits. (Look, if you're going to ask me how much, I'm going to push as high as I can.)

4. Are you a good saver?
I'm trying to learn how to be.

5. What’s the most expensive and useless thing you have ever bought?
I just get to pick one? Hm. Probably the Dell handheld PC I thought would be an excellent idea at the time, but didn't do what it had promised and ended up being an annoying albatross.

Comments

[antheia.livejournal.com]

The only reason Chocolate Chip got the lead is that I ate a couple last night. Seriously, a good Oatmeal Raisin cookie? Mmmmhmm. And you know what I make exceedingly well? Oh, yes.

Not once in my entire life was I rewarded for a good grade. This is part of why I think I lacked motivation (every single report card? "Kate would be an honors student, if she would only apply herself."), 'cos there was no reward for turning in an A. Alas.

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Oooh, goody. See, baked goods? Should happen. Not when it's ten million degrees out, though. I haven't baked in forever, and I love cookies. That's probably why I haven't baked any. Because me + warm cookies + no recourse? Badness. (well, dietary and tummy ache badness. The rest goodness.)

Dude, I had a 90 or 91 average in high school. And most people? Thought I was a total slacker because I thought that was sufficient, or even *gasp!* good, and didn't think I needed a 95 or higher average in order to live. My parents wanted to reward the allegedly level head on my shoulders.

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When we get back to winter, and I have people to give them to so they don't sit on my counter? You're on.

Yeah, my school wasn't competitive. Which was hilarity. All the cats are Stuy knew their GPA to the tenth decimal place, and LAB wouldn't even rank us. Seriously, they'd invent a ranking for your college applications, but it wasn't based in any reality.