7 Things Meme

My thanks to Bonnie Vanak for tagging me in on this one. It took me awhile and I had to really think about some of these...

Seven Things to Do Before I Die:
1. Get a book (or more) published with a NY house
2. Be able to work as a full-time writer (in other words, no day job)—just want to see what it would be like
3. Adopt a daughter from China
4. Own and operate a bookstore
5. Live in a small town again
6. Live some place warm, near the ocean
7. Visit Hawaii again (Hey, maybe I can knock out three of these at once by living in a small town near the beach in Hawaii?)

Seven Things I Cannot Do:
1. See a dead bird without flinching and gagging
2. Slow dance without leading (I don’t know, don’t ask)
3. Make myself taller
4. Climb up a rope—I always flunked that part of gym class
5. Go to outer space
6. Visit another planet
7. Get on a plane without worrying about crashing and memorizing the location of the emergency exits

Seven Things That Attracted Me to My Spouse/SO:
1. His eyes, his nose…okay, his whole face : )
2. His sense of humor (usually he’s brave enough to actually say some of the snarky comments I’m thinking)
3. His love for 80s music!
4. His patience
5. His ability to forgive easily
6. The way we just “clicked” when we talked
7. His intelligence

Seven Things I Say (Or Write) Most Often:
1. Um
2. Yeah, well…
3. Well, yeah…
4. Just
5. Like
6. Totally
7. Dude

Seven Books or Series That I Love: (Too many books! I can’t narrow it down to seven only. So here are seven of the many—in no particular order—and I’m focusing exclusively on fiction…)
1. Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
2. English as a Second Language by Megan Crane
3. Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton
4. Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris
5. Tithe by Holly Black
6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7. Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy (the book is better than the movie)

Seven Movies I Would Watch Over and Over Again (Just seven?!? Okay...):
1. Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope
2. Ghostbusters
3. Office Space
4. Serenity
5. Pretty Woman
6. Speed (Keanu Reeves has the most attractive elbows *grin*)
7. Clue! (I still can’t figure out how everyone got to where they needed to be to kill all the people in the various versions)

Seven People I Want to Join In (Be Tagged):
1. You
2. You
3. You
4. You
5. You
6. You
7. And, you guessed it…You.
Basically anybody who’s reading this and wants to participate, I’d love to read what you have to say. Write it in your blog and post a link in the comments or just write it up in the comments section. Have fun!