Laura at Pursuing Holiness has tagged me. And, doggone it, weren’t you in the mood for a new meme? I sure was. So here goes:
7 things to do before I die:
1. Publish a book.
2. Grow old with my wife and best friend, Jill. I want us to be one of those cute old couples that still flirt with eachother when they’re like 85. Although if God wants to take me before then that’s totally cool too.
3. Release the Bloo software into the public domain, and see it be used by people I don’t know.
4. Do something courageous.
5. Walk both my daughters down the aisle at their weddings.
6. See my sons grow up to honorable manhood.
7. Play with my grandchildren.
7 things I can’t do:
1. Dance
2. Sing
3. Do woodwork
4. Park a car (seriously, I’m a terrible parker)
5. Have a sense of direction
6. Stay neat (I’m somewhat of a slob)
7. Understand that complex and crazy entity that is the human being. Especially me.
7 things that attract me to my wife:
1. Her beauty
2. Her smooth skin (smoothest skin ever! The first time I touched her face I was blown away)
3. Her laughter
4. Her laid-back, peaceful attitude to life
5. The way she loves our kids
6. Her steadfastness in the Lord
7. Snuggling!
7 things that attract me to blogging:
1. The community
2. The immediacy
3. The software (I love writing blog software!)
4. When someone says that something I wrote has blessed them
5. Being able to keep up with people I know who have moved away
6. Interesting comment threads
7. Bizarre but strangely compelling comment threads
7 things I say most often:
1. “Whoa!” (If I die in a car accident, my last word will be “Whoa!”)
2. “Cr*p” (I know, I really need to work on that. It’s my all-purpose expletive)
3. “I love you”
4. “Freakin'” (See my note on #2)
5. “I like what you’ve done here” (from Wayne’s World)
6. “I like alcoholics?” (substitute “alcoholics” for any suitable word – this is a quote from She’s Having a Baby)
7. “Ooooo-kaayyyy”
7 books I love:
1. The Bible
2. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
3. The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
4. The Space Trilogy – C.S. Lewis
5. Watership Down – Richard Adams
6. Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
7. All The Trouble In The World – P.J. O’Rourke
7 movies I watch over and over:
1. The Lord of the Rings
2. It’s a Wonderful Life
3. Parenthood
4. She’s Having a Baby
5. The Incredibles
6. The Emperor’s New Groove
7. West Side Story
7 people I want to join in too:
1. Blo from the Thinklings (hey, hope springs eternal, y’know?)
2. Bethany
3. Molly
4. Susan
5. Bob
6. BlestWithSons (although I’ll bet she’s already been tagged)
7. Sherry
Here’s the link to the one I already did! 😛
Me, too..
Oops!
Bethany – I already knew you had memed this. The Bethany I’m referring to here is a different one 🙂
Sherry – d’oh!
I just noticed in its original form this meme had a “seven things that attract me to my wife” category. The person who tagged me left that one out, but I see you both had that on yours. I’ve updated my post. 🙂
Well, looky there. I thought I was special…being tagged by Bloo and all. I didn’t even check the link. (Really, in my entire life I think I’ve met one other Bethany, but since I’ve been in the blogosphere I’ve met about 100…:P)
Heh – well, doesn’t mean you’re not special. Just didn’t want to double-tag you 🙂
These are great lists, I’m a little thrown off by your book count. I’m getting 82 in my count, although I wasn’t positive how many books there were in the Bible. I got some help from these guys in Japan.
1. The Bible – 66?
2. The Lord of the Rings – 3 (not including the Hobbit or course)
3. The Chronicles of Narnia – 7 (although why Horse and His Boy is considered I couldn’t say. Didn’t people get enough of the twin thing way back on the Patty Duke Show? I guess they don’t have to contend with the unspoken vertical line in a book.)
4. The Space Trilogy – 3? (I was too lazy to look this up. I am so lame.)
5. Watership Down – a. 1 (this is probably one of my favorite books as well, though I saw the cartoon first like a poser. ): )
6. Till We Have Faces – 1
7. All The Trouble In The World – 1
I tried to think of more book collections that you could use to get the actual book count up really high, but I drew a blank after coming up with Dune, and most of those books just aren’t worth it, regardless of the mega-geek points. Happy holidays and thanks for the card!
Your children are growing up so quickly, making the passage of my time here ever so apparent. 🙁
Heh – good point, Jason – I guess I did pack my list a bit 🙂
Yeah, time does kind of move, doesn’t it?
Indeed. This is what I look like now:
Okay… You were right. I had been tagged before. But I hate to let a tag go to waste! I did it again- in a new form – and boomerang tagged you back! T’will be up right after midnight tonight! So there!