Bonnie, a very sharp GodBlogCon 2005 blogger who writes at Off the top and Intellectuelle, has "tagged" me to participate in a new meme. See her own post about it here.

A meme is something like a chain letter that spreads from blogger to blogger until someone starts a new one. Most memes seem to involve lists. This one requires seven answers to seven questions:

1. Seven things I'd like to do before I die.
2. Seven things I cannot do.
3. Seven things that attract me to my wife.
4. Seven things I say most often.
5. Seven books I love.
6. Seven movies I watch over and over again.
7. Seven people I want to invite to join this meme.

Seven things I'd like to do before I die:

• visit Scotland
• publish a novel (that's read beyond my immediate family)
• learn to play the guitar
• sail single-handed to the Caribbean
• discover an underground cavern
• drive a Ferrari at high speeds on a race track
• scatter billions and billions of tumbleweed seeds on the grave of Carl Sagan

Seven things I cannot do:

• whistle
• play the piano
• yodel (not that I really want to...)
• touch spiders
• fold shirts like my wife does
• memorize anything
• eat Hot and Sour soup without slurping

Seven things that attract me to my wife:

• her indefatigable sense of humor
• her smile
• a mind that is never still
• her unwavering faith in God
• her wisdom
• she gets lost in parking lots (it brings out the Boy Scout in me)
• strangely, she loves me

Seven things I say most often:

• You're kidding!
• Whoa, baby!
• Shoot, I reckon.
• I do not think that word means what you think it means.
• Life is hard, and then you die.
• Vamos a ver.
• My computer hates me.

Seven Eight books I love:

• The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
• The New Testament, JB Phillips translation
• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, Taylor Branch
• The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Civil War: A Narrative (Vols. 1-3), Shelby Foote
• anything by Tony Hillerman
• Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier
• An Anthropologist on Mars, Dr. Oliver Sacks

Seven movies I watch over and over again:

• The Right Stuff
• The Natural
• Groundhog Day (every time I watch it, it seems like the very first time!)
• Amadeus
• Get Shorty
• Grand Canyon
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Seven people I want to invite to join this meme:

• Sword and Spirit (Mark)
• Jordan's View (Alex)
• The View from Her (Jan)
• Mike's Noise (Mike)
• Linea Lanoie
• Better Living (Mark)
• Talk Wisdom (Christine)

nhed Posted by Charlie at November 28, 2005 3:30 PM
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