eight

8 things i am passionate about:
1. my boys (paul, george & charlie-man)
2. criminal minds (seriously the best premiere ever)
3. chocolate
4. holidays (love halloween, christmas, independence day & easter the most)
5. reading (i really love memoirs & historical fiction but will read pretty much anything except most sci-fi and that vampire crap)
6. having fun
7. using as much toliet paper as i want to
8. my friends

8 words or phrases i say often:
1. hurry (approximately 826 times a day to my kids)
2. just a minute (approximately 257 times a day to my kids)
3. georgie porgie pudd'en pie
4. charlie barley boo
5. love you baby boy (charlie likes me to call him my baby)
6. no messing
7. lets go
8. 1...2...3

8 things i want to do before i die
1. watch my boys grow up
2. play with my grand babies
3. take paul to costa rica
4. celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary
5. serve a mission with my hubby
6. catch a fish
7. see the fruition of paul's dreams
8. learn how to efficiently run my home or develop super powers

8 things i have learned from my past
1. don't make a mountain out of a mole hill
2. i can choose to be happy
3. you can pee without pooping but you can't poop without peeing
4. laughter really is the best medicine
5. i can't handle the presence of contention in my life and will do what needs to be done to properly eliminate it
6. go to bed mad (a good night of rest will clear your mind, calm your nerves, & make whatever it was that had you so upset the night before much easier to solve)
7. just when you think you have it all figured out something will happen to burst your bubble
8. boundries, boundries, boundries

8 places i would love to go or see
1. hawaii (i've been a couple of times but can't get enough)
2. disneyland with my boys
3. new zealand
4. the christmas tree lighting ceremony at rockefeller center
5. italy
6. russia
7. any five star hotel
8. peru

8 things i currently need or want
1. a wood floor in my family room
2. new carpet everywhere else
3. to finish my list
4. these and these
5. to lose seven pounds
6. to tell my husband i love him...seriously haven't been saying it enough lately
7. to clean my car
8. abs

thanks for the tag darci

Six

This is for Lara who tagged me and for Darci, Travis, Laurel, and Tyra all of whom I have just tagged.

1. I have no problem chucking my pride out the window when it comes to surprising my family with a good laugh. I am not coordinated or athletic in any way but have no problem dancing, competing in a good old fashioned foot race, or providing other unexpected performances that my body was clearly not designed to participate in. The key here is that it has to be unexpected in order to increase the shock factor.

2. I am unable to buy the first item on the shelf or rack. I really can't do it, in fact, when there is only one of a specific item left I have to really evaluate how much I want it before I am able to commit to buying the heavily handled version. I usually go three or four deep depending on how many of the item are available in order to find the most pristine one. I think there should be some kind of discount offered for that first item (which is actually sometimes the last item too because there are other people like me and some of them return the item that was in the front position to the very back after they look at it and then there becomes two "unpristine" items). In general you can't always count on the front item being the untouched one especially with clothes and you have to look through the entire stack to see which one appears least likely to have been tried on. The only exception to this rule is groceries though depending on the item I still sometimes find myself digging deep on the shelf. For some reason I am embarrassed about this quirk and find myself look around before I pull out three or four items in search of the most untouched one. This is especially true when I am shopping with someone else and will sometimes wait until they round the corner before indulging in my quest.

3. I am tone deaf. When I tell people I am tone deaf they think I am kidding and assure me that I am not. However, I really am tone deaf. Paul and I spent many road trips trying to see if I could match a pitch or carry a specific tune until he finally declared, "You really are tone deaf." I really can't hear tone at all and also have a hard time hearing the beat of a song.

4. I am a really good cook. Not many people know this about me because until this year I had cooked seven meals in my entire married life. This year I have really gotten into cooking and discovered that I am quite good at it.

5. I am really good at organizing closets and drawers. You would never know this by taking a cursory look of my house but if you took the time to open my closets and drawers it would make you wonder how this person can be so organized on the inside and such a cluttered mess on the outside. Now I am wondering if this could be symbolic of my entire being...

6. I am a really slow shopper. It takes me a long time to make a decision and I often find myself buying and then returning when I change my mind.