Seven Things Meme

Mark Pettus over on his blog The Bluff tagged me. Just me. It’s a singular honor. *snirk* I made a pun…

I enjoyed thinking about it and writing it quite a bit. However, because I subject all my AW cyberspace friends to the weekly AW Monday Meme I hesitate to tag any of them, so, if you like this meme, I encourage you to do it and propagate it.

Seven Things to Do Before I Die:

• Go back to Ireland and see the places I didn’t see the first time


• Go back to Australia and actually snorkel off the Great Barrier Reef


• Completely humiliate my children by including my grandkids (currently only in my imagination) in my second childhood


• Find work I’m passionate about and do it till I go completely senile


• Take a cruise – I think I want to take an Alaskan one


• Perform in a musical – community theatre, I have no aspirations to being on Broadway


• Get published

Seven Things I Cannot Do:

• Wink (I lost the ability after my recovery from Bell’s Palsy


• Stay mad at someone, no matter how they test me


• Knit. I can do just about every other form of needlecraft – I can tat for goodness sake! But give me two needles and I fail.


• Stay productive when I disagree with what’s being asked of me


• Touch a picture of a bug, unless I don’t know that I’m touching it. Give me a book with a bug on the cover and I either put a book cover over it or remove the dust jacket.


• Eat raw oysters


• Be alone

Seven Things I Say (or write!) Most Often:

• I Love You


• Thanks!


• Just (I edit that word out of more sentences than any other)


• Disappointed (this is the word I use a lot with suppliers at work who’ve screwed up royally – I’d rather say “you screwed up royally” but instead I say “I’m very disappointed in…” they’re not fooled – they know I’m very upset)


• But (as in, “but did you consider looking at it from another angle?” I’m saying that more and more these days. See 4th bullet in the list of 7 things I can’t do, above)


• So (another word I edit out of all kinds of things I write. It’s a bad habit of mine to start a sentence with “So, yadda yadda”)


• Dawno (I sign a lot of stuff that way – on top of the occasional ramble, a la Bob Dole, wherein Dawno talks about herself in the 3rd person)

Seven Books (or series) I Love (this one is so hard – I could go on for pages):

• Everything Stephen King – but especially Dark Tower as a series and The Stand – my most re-read book ever


• Discworld series (Pratchett)


• Everything Asimov


• Star Trek books (except for Voyager and Enterprise)


• Pern series (McCaffery)


• Dune (Herbert)


• Valdemar series (Lackey)

Seven Movies I Would Watch Over and Over Again:

• The Shawshank Redemption


• When Harry Met Sally


• Sleepless in Seattle


• French Kiss (and no, it’s not Meg Ryan I have a thing for)


• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home


• Star Trek: First Contact


• Dr. Strangelove

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