tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13029687.post113780186060820780..comments2023-08-17T07:10:54.446-07:00Comments on Books, Tea, and Other Obsessions : 7 Meme and winter blahsAmanda McCabe/Amanda Carmack/Laurel McKeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15575437197334661544noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13029687.post-1138066362206057762006-01-23T17:32:00.000-08:002006-01-23T17:32:00.000-08:00The 7 MemeSeven Things to Do Before I Die:1 Write ...The 7 Meme<BR/><BR/>Seven Things to Do Before I Die:<BR/>1 Write my books<BR/>2 Start a business<BR/>3 Read all the books I want<BR/>(It's my list. It doesn't have to be realistic!)<BR/>4 Travel More<BR/>5 Grow a successful veggie garden<BR/>(I have the blackest thumb in America. If I were a Pilgrim I would have starved to death the first year after I landed.)<BR/>6 Lose weight<BR/>7 Spend time with my grandchildren<BR/>(as yet unconceived)<BR/><BR/>Seven Things I Cannot Do:<BR/>1 Intentionally hurt people<BR/>2 Grow younger<BR/>3 Laugh enough or Love enough<BR/>4 Spend enough time with my family and friends<BR/>5 Have enough time to read<BR/>6 Spend enough time writing<BR/>7 Have a clean house<BR/>(You could move me into a mansion and I would quickly find a way to make it look like a storage closet)<BR/><BR/>Seven Things that Attract Me to My Best Friends (or significant other, etc.)<BR/>1 Sense of humor<BR/>2 Honesty<BR/>3 Tolerance<BR/>4 La joie de vivre<BR/>5 Compassion<BR/>6 Creative thinking<BR/>7 Dedication and Reasoned Loyalty<BR/><BR/>Seven Things I Say (or write!) Most Often<BR/>1 I love you<BR/>2 Shit<BR/>3 It's an adventure<BR/>4 How did that happen?<BR/>5 Is the internet down?<BR/>6 Write it on the grocery list.<BR/>(Or the variation, Was it on the grocery list?)<BR/>7 Let's go<BR/><BR/>Seven Books I Love<BR/>(There is no way humanly possible I can limit this without driving myself insane. I love them all equally so I will just list catagories.)<BR/>1 Romance (OKRWA Outlaws especially)<BR/>2 Science Fiction (Robert Heinlein "Stranger in a Strange Land". Also, Bradbury, Asimov, Arthur C. Clark, HG Wells, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, )<BR/>3 Science (archeology, anthropology, astronomy, biology, psychology. Just about anything, really.<BR/>4 Poetry (From just about any period)<BR/>5 Spirituality, Philosophy, Self Improvement<BR/>6 Biography (My favorite form of fiction)<BR/>7 Current Events<BR/><BR/>Seven Movies I Would Watch Over and Over Again<BR/>(Okay I cheated. These are by 7 vague personally defined catagories instead of 7 movies. It is the tip of the iceberg and nowhere near complete)<BR/>1 Somewhere In Time (many couples have a song, my dh & I also have a movie)<BR/>2 Bull Durham, Dances with Wolves, Turner and Hootch, Jumpin' Jack Flash,<BR/>3 Pretty Woman, Sleepless in Seattle, You've got Mail, French Kiss, Out of Africa, Her Alibi, Runaway Bride,<BR/>4 An Affair to Remember, The King and I, Citizen Cane,<BR/>5 ET, Logan's Run, Mrs. Doubtfire, Tootsie, Close Encounters, From the Earth to the Moon Series, the 5th element, True Lies, Guarding Tess, The Banger Sisters,<BR/>6 Princess Cariboo, Oh Brother Where Art Thou ("I thought you was a toad!"), Second Hand Lions, Local Hero, Cats<BR/>7 Anything with Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, James Garner, Richard Geer, Sean Connery, Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts,Betty Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03660094507448047401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13029687.post-1138065614370604472006-01-23T17:20:00.000-08:002006-01-23T17:20:00.000-08:00I think my favorite books change from day-to-day. ...I think my favorite books change from day-to-day. Today, for example, I would pick:<BR/><BR/>Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels<BR/>Raymond Chandler, The Maltese Falcon<BR/>Jane Austen, Persuasion<BR/>Mary Balogh, Notorious Rake<BR/>Andrew Lang, Fairy Tales<BR/>Edith Wharton, House of Mirth<BR/>Charles Willeford, Cockfighter<BR/><BR/>I think I'd lose the Viehl and Stephenson books, at least today.Megan Framptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17196738392230684978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13029687.post-1138021723052873352006-01-23T05:08:00.000-08:002006-01-23T05:08:00.000-08:00Mandy,You can't DO ORLANDO! Unless you are talking...Mandy,<BR/>You can't DO ORLANDO! Unless you are talking about Florida. Now, I'm putting my foot down (Oops, sorry Orly, you can kiss the other one now). It is a NEW YEAR, so Orly is mine again. You can DO Gerard Butler (though I agree - no singing).Kelli McBridehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07754245995218930400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13029687.post-1137946535074015332006-01-22T08:15:00.000-08:002006-01-22T08:15:00.000-08:00What do you think you would change, Megan?What do you think you would change, Megan?Amanda McCabe/Amanda Carmack/Laurel McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15575437197334661544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13029687.post-1137894729117285772006-01-21T17:52:00.000-08:002006-01-21T17:52:00.000-08:00I did this meme already--http://meganframpton.com/...I did this meme already--http://meganframpton.com/2005/12/i-was-tagged-by-amy-thanks-amy-so-here.html<BR/><BR/>although I would probably change my answers now. And I really don't have the travel bug--I think I like Brooklyn too much. Or I'm a big scaredy cat about being in foreign lands.Megan Framptonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17196738392230684978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13029687.post-1137891436762047262006-01-21T16:57:00.000-08:002006-01-21T16:57:00.000-08:00LOL! "No tolerance for stupidity"? What I really...LOL! "No tolerance for stupidity"? What I really hate is willful stupidity. Or people who are proud to be ignorant (like certain members of my extended family). Don't understand that at all.<BR/><BR/>And how could I forget "Persuasion"! I think I've seen that about 60 times...Amanda McCabe/Amanda Carmack/Laurel McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15575437197334661544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13029687.post-1137809450430249812006-01-20T18:10:00.000-08:002006-01-20T18:10:00.000-08:00Well, I don't have a blog, so I guess I'll list th...Well, I don't have a blog, so I guess I'll list them here! Off the top of my head, so maybe not definitive: :-)<BR/><BR/>7 things to do before I die:<BR/>1) Go to Venice again.<BR/>2) Take my niece to England and show her why it's so cool!<BR/>3) read Tom Jones<BR/>4) become satisfied with my writing career<BR/>5) get in shape<BR/>6) learn to tap dance<BR/>7) get a really great Shakespearian role (e.g. Lady Macbeth)<BR/><BR/>7 things I cannot do:<BR/>1) stop falling down, apparently!<BR/>2) sing well<BR/>3) give up eating cheese<BR/>4) become happy with "alright", "alot", "comprise" used the modern American way, or "livid" as a synonym for angry. :-)<BR/>5) cease fearing bugs<BR/>6) spend lots of money on clothes<BR/>7) stop buying books<BR/><BR/>7 things that attract me to my best friends/significant others:<BR/>1) Intelligence. (Even when I was a child, my mother would say "Cara has no tolerance for stupidity." I know it's not a virtue, but unfortunately I think it's permanent!)<BR/>2) Sense of humor. (Including a certain tolerance for dark humor!)<BR/>3) They like me. :-)<BR/>4) They're not perfect.<BR/>5) They have similar interests.<BR/>6) They respect popular culture, but don't hate "high" culture.<BR/>7) They're caring people (or, as Amanda would say, "caringness.")<BR/><BR/>7 things I say most often:<BR/>1) "What was I saying?"<BR/>2) "He TOTALLY didn't have right-of-way."<BR/>3) "Totally," "as if," "majorly," or "WAY." (Sorry. You can take the girl out of the Valley, but...oh, you get the idea.)<BR/>4) "Good heavens, Gwendolen!"<BR/>5) "Why do they DO that?"<BR/>6) "The waiter's never going to refill my water, is he?"<BR/>7) "We never clean this place. We should clean it more often. We should clean it now. You wanna watch Battlestar Galactica?"<BR/><BR/>7 books I love:<BR/>1) Pride and Prejudice (Austen)<BR/>2) Black Sheep (Heyer)<BR/>3) Sweet and Twenty (Joan Smith)<BR/>4) Little Women (Alcott)<BR/>5) Charmed Life (Diana Wynne Jones)<BR/>6) Drowned Ammet (Diana Wynne Jones)<BR/>7) Half Magic (Edward Eager)<BR/><BR/>7 movies I watch over and over:<BR/>1) Shakespeare in Love<BR/>2) Persuasion (Amanda Root & Ciaran Hinds)<BR/>3) Grosse Pointe Blank<BR/>4) Singing in the Rain<BR/>5) Newsies<BR/>6) Fellowship of the Ring<BR/>7) Nightmare Before Christmas<BR/><BR/>CaraCara Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930608028959652445noreply@blogger.com