Crazy Eights

I've been tagged to do a meme by Red Pen Mama, and I've procrastinated long enough, so here goes...

8 things I am passionate about:

• My family
• Photography
• Music
• Cooking
• Voting
• Travel
• Learning
• Design

8 things I want to do before I die:

• See my kids grown up and living happy lives
• Ride the Shin-kan-sen in Japan
• Paint something I'm proud to hang on my wall
• Tour New Zealand
• Build another home
• Establish an academic scholarship at my high school
• See Ben Folds in concert
• Finish 18 holes under par

8 things I say often:

• You can't be serious!
• Where is ba-ba?
• Very good signing...now can you tell mama _____?
• How's it goin'?
• Sweet mercy
• Give that toy back to your brother
• 1...2...3...OK, you're in time-out
• Could you pick up another gallon of milk on the way home?

8 books I’ve read recently:

• Skippyjon Jones Up and Down
• Dr. Dog
• Blue Hat, Green Hat
• Eric Carle's ABC Book
• The Happy Man and his Dump Truck
• The Scrambled States of America
• Heat by Bill Buford (that one was for me)
• A Thousand Splendid Suns (again, for me)

8 songs I could listen to over and over:

• Street Spirit,  Radiohead
• Fall On Me, R.E.M.
• Beautiful Life, Fisher
• Cold, Annie Lennox
• Defying Gravity, Idina Menzel (the "Wicked" version, not the subsequent single)
• Better, Regina Spektor
• Gracie, Ben Folds
• True Love Waits, Radiohead

8 things that attract me to my best friends:

• A sense of humor
• Lots of optimism
• A touch of sarcasm
• Honesty
• Knowledge and curiosity
• An appreciation for the arts...and food
• Tolerance
• A sense of calm

Now, I am supposed to tag 8 people I think should do Crazy Eights. I'm not sure I have eight blogger friends, so I will choose a few people whose blogs I admire (and who will not mock me ruthlessly for this):

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Ramona
Beth
Maki
Emzeegee
Jozet
Carol Anne
Sara
And last, but not least,
Tracy, who wishes to remain link-less

Comments

[ramona]

heh, thanks. I will do it... eventually. But I do reserve the right to mock you if I so choose!

[red pen mama]

Yay! thanks for playing.

and Ben Folds in concert (well actually I saw the Five) is awesome.

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