Friday Fun

It seems that between my joining with PBU and generally uneventful life that I have time for frivolous posts about, um, once a week. Or, another way to say it is that I have adopted a new policy of posting self-centered memes, lists, and quiz results on Fry-days. I am only upset that I didn't publish this earlier. There is another blogger who just posted it yesterday and she wrote nearly half of the same answers I had come up with. I wrote this on Monday. Grrr. Well, I guess that is what I get for holding back posts.

Here is this week's edition: "List of Seven"

7 Things I want to accomplish before I die:

1. Travel, travel, travel (Great Wall of China, Barrier Reef, Pyramids, Easter Island, Antarctica, Machu Picchu, Moscow, Alaska, Thailand, etc.)
2. Defend my Dissertation (which is already f**king written)
3. Complete an Ironman (but I would settle for a marathon - that is the part of an ironman that I can't do yet)
4. Learn how to have style (this includes dressing "better", getting a "real" haircut, and wearing makeup)
5. Get married
6. learn to play another instrument (bagpipes or cello are high on my list)
7. Learn to 'smell the roses' on a regular basis (aka: chill out)

7 things I can do:

1. organize anything
2. roll my tongue, flare my nostrils, and wiggle my ears
3. cook/bake (better at baking)
4. parallel park anything equal to or smaller than a 15-passenger van
5. read a map correctly
6. stand up and speak in front of a variety of audiences (wedding receptions, classes, seminars, speeches, tourist talks, and training workshops. I just don't do sales pitches)
7. throw a frisbee forehand

7 things I can NOT do:

1. can't seem to cultivate the kind of patience I would like to have
2. play any sport at a competetive level (although can hold my own on the 'community' leagues)
3. speak a foreign language fluently
4. fix automobiles (beyond changing a tire or fluids)
5. stay on a diet
6. write (grammar, spelling, and punctuation continue to elude me)
7. knit (I am a single needle gal and prefer to crochet)

7 things that attract me to other people:

1. sense of humor
2. intelligence
3. some shared interests
4. a few vastly different interests (we can learn from each other)
5. responsibility (to themselves, to me, to the earth, to society)
6. charisma
7. a willingness to try new things or go new places

7 Celebrity crushes: (I feel like this has been overdone with the 5-stars-you-could-sleep-with-and-your-partner-could-not-fault-you thing but I am going to put a somewhat random list together anyway)

1. Michael Buble (lovin' his music right now)
2. Matt Damon (watched Bourne Supremacy last night and currently feeling very "warm" towards him - this may be fleeting)
3. Bill Maher
4. William Petersen (Gil Grissom) although George Eads (Nick Stokes) and Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders) are just as appealing. I just love CSI (las vegas) no matter how much B.S. it is. Gotta love any show that tries to make science and scientists cool.
5. Paul Teutul Jr.
6. Colin Firth
7. Will Smith

7 things I say most often:

1. so (I was told when I was in 9th grade speech class that I used too many 'ands' - 'so' was the new 'and')
2. um (anyone who says they don't use this is lying or a politician with speech writers)
3. yeah (okay, I should say 'yes' but I am lazy)
4. seriously (this is a curse of the family - we all abuse this one)
5. like (sigh - I have tried to erradicate this terrible word usage but it, like, just keeps rearing it's ugly head)
6. lol (a lot of online chat in my life)
7. what? (8 years of marching band did not do good things for my hearing)

Hope everyone has an excellent weekend!