Nothing big, just three questions from a meme I saw on Iris' blog. I decided to stick to the "What were you doing, what are you doing, what would you do" questions. Enjoy!

1) What was I doing 10 years ago?

July 1998. I was 18 years old and had just finished grade 12 -- in Ontario at the time, there was a grade 13, aka OAC, so I had one year of high school to go. I had just started working in the bedding, bath and linens department of a department store, quite happy to leave my job at a movie theatre. I lived in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, where I was born and raised. I spent a lot of time hanging out with Allana, before she moved to Ottawa for school (I would visit her in Ottawa that coming winter, and move to Ottawa -- as planned for several years -- the following year). In July, I would have had a crush still on T, a high school friend whom I hadn't seen in a year, but encountered at grad night and hung out with at the grad party. He'd had a crush on me the year before, but I'd been kind of oblivious -- some things don't change! I remember talking to him on the phone a couple of times after that. (I wonder what he's doing now?) A month later, I would begin designing a website for an indie band based in Toronto, something that ended up shaping the next few years of my life.

2) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today?

1. Drink more coffee. No, for real. I was out til 2am, yet answering texts from Tina at 8am, then outside for a walk with Pico and just finished playing fetch with him. It's either more sleep, or more coffee.
2. Finish editing a video and work on some design mocks for a side project in progress.
3. Continue re-reading the Tao Te Ching (Blakney translation) -- it's been several years since I last read it.
4. Take Pico for a long walk, then take him to Petsmart so I can get him some more food.
5. Same thing I do every day, Brain... plan to take over the world. ;) Oh, and maybe stop at Borders.

3) Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

Get more sleep, probably. ;) Yeah, who am I kidding? I would do a lot of what I do now, since I always need to be doing something. If I have a few days off just to chill, I end up driving myself bonkers if I don't plan things to do! I'd move my family out to California (or at least build them a home they could visit during the winter months, if they didn't want to live out here full-time). Take a few trips I want to take - Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, and the Gold Coast), New Zealand, London, Paris, Greece... Definitely donate to the Humane Society and Animal Rescue groups, and also the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario -- CHEO has held a special place in my heart since j-skool. Help out friends if they need it, and see some of my friends a lot more I'm sure! Start a scholarship fund at my former high school. Think about what I could contribute to the world, not just monetarily, but what that monetary backing would allow me to instrument and move forward. So many possibilities.