what i've learned along the way
. . . but I will support the habit
Published on December 8, 2005 By lobsterhunter In Misc
So my friend Bruce tagged me again. I guess this one is a little different. I suppose I could join in on the fun.

1. Seven things to do before I die:
Experience the abundant, spirit filled life God promised
Have a baby (precursor - marriage of course)
Learn how to cook a gourmet meal
Get my masters degree
Travel to all seven continents
Meet the President
Volunteer at the public library when I'm retired

2. Seven things I cannot (or won't?) do:
Anything athletic
Alegebra or Geometry
Hang outdoor Christmas lights
Speak another language
Live with an alcoholic
Make people do what I think they should do Cut hair
3. Seven things that attract me to my wife (or significant other or best friend):
laughter
commitment
resiliency
intelligence
a friendly smile
gentleness
faith

4. Seven things I say most often:
I don't understand
Hey
I'm sorry
I love you
Please stop talking ( I teach 4th graders)
Come on dude?
Grrrr Fist!

5. Seven books (or series) I love (This is a cruel question. Only seven?!!)
Searching for God Knows What - Donald Miller
Praying God's Word - Beth Moore
Everybody is Normal Until You Get to Know Them - John Ortberg
The Language of Letting Go - Melody Beattie
Home to Harmony - Phillip Gulley
You are Special - Max Lucado
The Message

6. Seven movies I watch over and over again (or would watch over and over again if I had the time): I don't watch any of these over and over again, but I have watched them more than once.
Hope Floats
Beaches
Armageddon
The Parent Trap
Pollyanna
Overboard
Steel Magnolias

7. Seven people I want to join in, too: (I'll email them later and let them know the good news that they've been tagged.)
Trinitie
And Brandie
And Melissa
And Rose
And Angie
And Dan (Trin's love)
And Alana (Trin's "little sis")
And Jennifer from Cincinnati (Trin's friend)

*** Most of the bloggers I know are Trin's folks. If I double tagged you, sorry!

Comments
on Dec 08, 2005
Thanks for joining in. That was relatively painless, wasn't it? And a little revealing.

Love you.
B~
on Dec 08, 2005
Seven things to do before I die:


1. Watch my children graduate high school and college and get married.
2. Hold my grand babies.
3. Travel to a foreign country.
4. Write a children's book.
5. Have something freelance published in a magazine.

I really can't think of anymore. I don't know if I'm an underachiever or just content, but I'd be cool with just those. The first two would be enough, actually.

Seven things I cannot (or won't?) do:

1. Kill anyone for any reason beyond defense of my family.
2. Expand my meat-eating.
3. Drive drunk.
4. Get up at 5 am.
5. Become morbidly obese.
6. Jump out of an airplane.
7. Harm my children (not intentionally at least, haha).

Seven things that attract me to my wife (or significant other or best friend):

1. Sense of humor...a mix of immature and intellectual. I love it.
2. Compassionate.
3. Strong work ethic.
4. Playful personality.
5. Excellent with the kids.
6. Charm.
7. Smokin' hot.

Seven things I say most often:

1. Not *fill in the blank with whatever someone just said or just came on TV, etc.*
(example, "Not a tagged blog!")
2. Dude. I get in trouble when I call my husband dude. He thinks it's immature.
3. Tina, you fat lard! (Napoleon Dynamite)
4. You're the best in the biz *insert person's first and last name here* (SNL)
5. *Fill in person's name* is the fattest one in the car! (Simpsons)
6. Did you know that you are precious to me? (I say this to the boys often)
7. I love you.

5. Seven books (or series) I love :

1. The Cobra Event (Richard Preston)
2. Tess Gerritsen books
3. Robin Cook books
4. Dean Koontz books
5. Jinn (Matthew BJ Delaney)
6. The "No David!" books
7. The Bible (believe it or not, I read it often because I think it's interesting)

Seven movies I watch over and over again (or would watch over and over again if I had the time):

1. Return to Me
2. Ali G In Da House
3. 50 First Dates
4. Mixed Nuts
5. Dirty Dancing
6. The Wedding Singer
7. School of Rock

Seven people I want to join in, too:

1. Jeremy (AvantiTexan)
2. Mom (LostinTexas)
3. Little Whip
4. dharmagrl
5. dynamaso
6. ForeverSerenity
7. Locamama

This was neat.

PS - Would you mind emailing me your current mailing address?
on Dec 08, 2005
Seven things to do before I die:

1. Go on a hot air balloon ride
2. Watch my boys grow up to be kind and self suficient men
3. Learn to speak, read and write Spanish fluently
4. Travel the world
5. Sell my artwork, then I will be a professional artiste
6. Take Latin dance lessons
7. Go scuba diving


Seven things I cannot (or won't?) do:


1. a slam dunk
2. be a prima ballerina
3. enable my boys to be lazy moochers
4. stay in a soul destroying relationship
5. drive a Hummer
6. start a Nickelback tribute band
7. be an exotic dancer


Seven things that attract me to my husband


1. Funny, he makes me laugh daily
2. Playful, not too serious and definately not boring
3. Great dad, kids and animals all love him - me too
4. Usually easy going and laid back
5. Athletic
6. I love how he smells.
7. The whole package, smile, eyes, body. He's not perfect but he's perfect for me.

Seven things I say most often

I want to run away.
I love you.
I'm the boss.
Who's stinky?
Does that belong there?
Geez Louise!
God Bless America!




Seven books (or series) I love


Amelia Peabody books by Elizabeth Peters, any books by her or her other pen name Barbara Michaels

The Shell Seekers
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Mermaid Chair
By The River Sweet
The Legend of Olivia Cosmos Montevideo
Iris Johanssen mysteries
Tammy Hoag mysteries

Seven movies I watch over and over again (or would watch over and over again if I had the time):

Moulin Rouge
Lord of the Rings (all)
Harry Potter (all)
Sense and Sensibility
Muriel's Wedding
The Princess Bride
Napoleon Dynamite


Seven people I want to join in, too:

Inbloom
Moderate Man
Dr. Guy
Trudygolightly
Tova
Janders
Parated
on Dec 08, 2005
Thanks guys for taking the time to play! Enjoyed reading your list!
on Dec 09, 2005
Oh God...

Ok, here goes:

Seven things to do before I die:

1. Meet MY LOVE face to face (I already know who he is).
2. Write something that nobody has ever written.
3. Become the person I pretend to be.
4. Smoke weed and get high....I mean....really high.
5. Feel completely free in my own skin, if only for a moment, in front of others (this is sort of attached to the ganja thing).
6. Learn to belly-dance.
7. Learn to play the harmonica.

Seven things I cannot (or won't?) do:

1. Lose weight.
2. Take control of my life.
3. Lick a frog's ass (alright, I might do that).
4. Conform.
5. Laugh quietly.
6. Have children (this is a "won't" issue, not a "cannot").
7. Leave something on my plate.

Seven things that attract me to my significant other or best friend:

1. He's honest to the point of hurt.
2. He loves completely.
3. He feels no obligation (to be sweet, to be like other guys, to be like other people, to apologize, to laugh at my jokes, to lie, etc...).
4. He's eloquent with words. He knows exactly how to explain a single emotion on paper.
5. He's in love with the Lord, which allows him to question his faith without straying.
6. He found me interesting (once upon a time).
7. He taught me how to love unconditionally.

Seven things I say most often:

1. No me conoces (You don't know me.)
2. Love. Just the word....mostly as a noun....as in "Hello Love".
3. I hate this job.
4. I'm hungry.
5. Ok Crazy (I really enjoy using adjectives as nouns).
6. I don't feel good, I look like ass, or I'm having a bad hair day. (I usually just say "I don't feel good" to cover up for the fact that I'm struggling with the other two.)
7. Bitch.

Seven Books I Love:

1. Angela's Ashes and T'is by Frank McCourt.
2. Anything by Shel Sylverstein.
3. Anything Robert Fulghum.
4. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.
5. The Curious Incident of the Dead Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon.
6. You Don't Know Me by David Klass (an amazing teen-age book).
7. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Seven movies I watch over and over again:

1. The Cure.
2. Crybaby.
3. Liar Liar.
4. The Goofy Movie.
5. Boys and Girls.
6. Grease, Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Phantom of the Opera, Funny Girl, Rent, The Sound of Music, West Side Story and basically any musical you can come up with (A Goofy Movie and Crybaby could fall into this category, but they're really special.)
7. The Princess Bride

Trinitie
on Dec 22, 2005
trin you truly are a funny girl. but smoke weed and get high come on isnt that a little overrated have fun in life is all i have to say