SRP tagged me (and Vicki sorta tagged me) for this meme almost two weeks ago, when I was putting together the Carnival of the Cats roundup. I read nothing but cat-blogging posts that weekend, and I didn’t realize I’d been tagged until a couple of days ago.
Seven things I plan to do before I die:
1. Raise a child.
2. Design my own house. I’ll probably have someone else build it, but maybe not.
3. Visit McKittrick Canyon in the autumn, when the leaves are turning.
4. Learn to tango.
5. Have nothing in [my] home which [I] do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. (with thanks to William Morris)
6. Write a book.
7. Explore more of the world with Paul.
Seven things I can do:
1. Play the violin.
2. Make preserves.
3. Delight in small things.
4. Think critically… sometimes too critically.
5. Drive fast on a windy road.
6. Make Paul laugh.
7. See both/all sides.
Seven things I cannot do:
1. Sit still while listening to really good music.
2. Solve the world’s housing problems.
3. Put down a good book when I should go to sleep.
4. Have a (biological) child with Paul.
5. Walk past a cat on the sidewalk without stopping to talk to or pet it.
6. Speak a foreign language well.
7. Give up.
Seven things that attract me to the opposite sex: (Rather heterosexist, that phrasing. These are attributes that I find attractive in women as well as in men.)
1. Brains and the willingness to use them
2. Sense of humor
3. Perceptiveness
4. Way with words
5. Competence
6. Gentleness
7. Eyes
Seven things that I say most often:
1. Hi, this is Kimberly.
2. Sasha!/Sergei! Be nice to Lyra!
3. Let me check the building code on that.
4. … and a diet Coke, please.
5. Have you seen/read this?
6. -ly! (when someone on tv/radio uses an adjective in an adverb’s place)
7. I love you.
Seven celebrity crushes:
1. Jon Stewart
2. Eva Cassidy
3. Martin Carthy
4. Annie Lamott
5. Martin Sheen
6. Ira Glass
7. Audrey Hepburn
Would anyone else like to do this? If you do, or have, let me know. I’d love to read yours.
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I’d love to. I need to think this through a bit first, though. Want to make sure I say the right thing!
Sounds like an interesting game. I like learning about people this way! I’ll have to give it a go sometime soon, but like Carmi I’ll have to give it some thought.
Michele sent me.
I envy someone who can sit at a piano or pick up a violin and make beautiful music. I took piano and violin but did not put in the time or energy to master either enough to just sit, pick a song and play. If I had my life to live over, this is something I would pay more attention to. If I could play, what would I play? Mozart, Beethoven and the Theme from Schindler’s List, which I think has one of the most haunting melodies I have ever heard. How blessed you are.
Thanks for doing the meme.
oh! oh! pick me! pick me! (hand in air, waiving all around)
I did the meme.
I did this meme a while back. It was fun.
Thanks for visting me today! It was so nice of Carmi to direct traffic to me!
This sounded like fun. So…
Seven Things
A tip of the enrevanche chapeau to Kimberly at Music and Cats, from whom this meme is lifted.
Ooh, those are good ones, and very telling. I like you even more after reading your lists. And love the upside down blissful cat banner.
Getting to know you, getting to know all about you…
You have a poetic soul, Kimberly!
I have an adverb peeve, too, and I often play Eva’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” for my teenaged girls yoga class’ s final relaxation asana.
Do you know the Beethoven Duets for Violin and Cello? They are originally for clarinet and bassoon, but work quite well for the strings.
Gimme a bit, and I’ll hunt that dog…
Great answers, BTW! Audrey Hepburn rocks, yes?
I like the multiple lists of seven things… I sent your page to a few friends. I have some lists on my site (http://www.grudknows.com/inanemutterings/me_latest_lists.asp) but may even add some more/different ones now as I really like some of yours… some of mine don’t really change while others change over time - some every week or so and others to no discernable timetable.
I couldn’t resist this one.
I also have a crush on Jon Stewart and I remember Michelle Kwan skating to Eva Cassidy’s Fields of Gold.
You will make a wonderful mother one day, Kimberly.
i’ll do this one, but give me a bit to figure it al out…
This was fun, though much harder than I thought it would be.
Here’s mine.