Kelly Lantz

There is a game of online tag going around town, my husband Rob Lantz tagged me.  When you are 'tagged', you are supposed to write 7 things about yourself, then tag 7 more bloggers. 

Here are mine:

1.  My first real job (other than babysitting) was as an ice cream scooper at the old Garden City Dairy on the corner of University and Fitzroy (former Playhouse Bar).  I worked there for a summer when I was 15.   It was hard work, scooping ice cream all day, making sundays, working the cash, cleaning the place, mopping that floor.  Met lots of interesting characters down there.  

2.  I am a Newfie. 
 
3.  My Grandmother and I went to Smitty's for lunch every Tuesday when I was in University.  When she was older and in a nursing home, I went to see her every Sunday morning (no matter how late I was out on the previous night).  I met Rob just a few months after she passed away.  She would have *loved* him and I wish they could have met.
 
4.  In my early 20's I tried out being a Hippie for a while.  I went to Grateful Dead Concerts and hung around with Hippie-like people.  I didn't like anything about it.  Especially the flat sandals, it's hard to look like a hippie in high heels.  The concerts were fun though.
 
5.  In my later 20's I had a beer lovers dream  job.  I worked for DME, selling and marketing brewery equipment in North America.  I went to the Siebel Institute in Chicago to learn how to drink beer.  I went to beer festivals in New York City, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Phoenix, and lots of small towns in between.  It was a *great* job to have then, I loved it and learned a lot.
 
6.  I spend way too much time reading online gossip blogs (though I don't watch much TV anymore).
 
7.  I am turning the big 40 in May of this year.  In anticipation of this event, I have been working out like a crazy person since last fall.  I might as well be fit and 40! 

Everyone I know has been tagged ... for now I'll tag my friend and coworker Dan Gass and Perez Hilton and try and come up with a few more .