Tag, I'm It.

Welcome to the Blog version of chain mail. (Shut up, Susan.)

I have to say that since Susan and I have an ongoing joke/war about her constantly forwarding me the emails that end in "send this to 50 people or you'll be hit by a bus". So, Susan, I'm sorry for going back on my pledge to never ever respond to one of these things.

And I'm really sorry to have to contradict my set ways, but Kirsten over at My Life For The World To See tagged me and I tend to liken those to double dog dares. (Unless it involves sticking my tongue against a cold pole. Even I'm not that dumb... And it only took one time to make up my mind on that one.)

So here we go:

All Things Eight (Because Eight is Always Enough):

Eight Things I'm Passionate About:

1. The kid. She taught me at a very early age the meaning of life. (Yes, she's that good.)

2. The Geek. The first time I spoke to him on the phone and heard his voice, I knew I had to keep him. Then I met John. ( Sometimes I crack myself up..)

3. Food. A major passion which is why I'm passionate about Number 4.

4. The Nord. My treadmill has seen me through 2 rounds of weight loss and I love/hate him with all my heart.

5. The Environment. This blog is paperless, is it not?

6. Irony. I'm always finding it in everything I do and say and am and..yeah..

7. My family. It really should be up there under the kid and the geek, but I'm not feeling like rearranging, so Mom will most likely give me a guilt trip on this one.

8. OCD. (The fact that this list is only 8 items long is making me a little twitchy.)

Eight Things I'd Like to do Before I die:

1. See my daughter blissfully happy in love and life.

2. Go to England. ( Love the history, the accents, and the humor.)

3. Learn to speak Spanish. (Since the fact that I slept through 3 years of it in high school doesn't count, I was hoping that marrying a Spanish speaker would, but the judges say no...)

4. Write a Book. (Just don't ask me the genre. It changes on a daily basis.)

5. Stop this incessant rhyming. (I seriously think it's a mental condition as to why I sometimes think in rhyme. It seems I do it all the time, and although the feeling is so sublime... See?)

6. Find a way to stop all chain emails from ever reaching my in box. (I'm not sure how to go about it, but I believe it may involve explosives...)

7. Go on a cruise with my husband. Alone. No children. No contact with the outside world. Except for the people in the cabin next to us since we'll probably run into them in the halls and you can only get away with so much fake smiling and averting the eyes before you finally have to look at them and realize there's going to be a lot more of this interaction going on for the next seven days so you might as well break the ice and say something nice about their God-awful clothes and the fact that you KNOW they're hiding a dog in their cabin cuz there's a certain smell coming from that direction and you hope it's a nice dog so you'll keep their secret and they won't say anything about the Vodka bottles they saw you sneak into your cabin earlier. (This could go further, but I imagine you've already moved onto the next item.)

8. See Number 7. (Now you HAVE to read it. ) (I'm evil. It's known.)

Eight Things I Say Often:

1. "Dude." Yes, I graduated from college.

2. "Seriously?"

3. "Seriously." Same word, two totally different meanings as indicated by punctuation. Seriously.

4. "Sprite, don't eat that."

5. "Stop pinching the dog!"

6. "That's just it.." One of John's personal favorites.

7. "Make up a mind already.." Doesn't have to be yours..

8. "Oy."

Eight Books I've Read Recently:

1. "Monster At The End of This Book". Not just for toddlers.

2. "Blood Brothers" by Nora Roberts. Love her stuff.

3. "Wishes" by Jude Devaraux. Probably misspelled her name, but I've been a fan for years.

4. "The Genesis Race" by Will Hart. It was given to me by a friend. I'm trying to work my way through it, but I almost feel like I have to dare myself to do it. To say it's OUT THERE is an understatement.

5. "Toddler 411" by Denise Fields and Dr. Ari Brown. If you have a toddler, this book should be well dog-eared by now.

6. Um, oh crap. I've read like a bajillion romance novels (I call them "fluff"). Can that count for Number 6 and Number 7?

7. It counts.

8. "The Secret". I'd tell you, but I'd have to kill you...

Eight Movies I've Watched Eight Times: (This should be "or more")

1. "You've Got Mail" Every time this comes on tv, I always end up watching. So John thought he would get me the DVD so I could watch it any time I wanted. I think the shrinkwrap is still on the DVD, but I still tune in when it's on cable.

2. "Ella Enchanted" Everything about this movie works well with me, from the music to the actors to Cary Elwes.

3. "Clueless" Like you haven't?

4. "Mary Poppins" Love it, love it, love it. (Her perfection and efficiency are everything I aspire to be .....Seriously, need help here.) 

5. "Grease" More like 800 times.

6. "Singin' In The Rain" "Yes, yes, yes." "No! No! No!" A classic.

7. "While You Were Sleeping" Another "You've Got Mail" situation in which John bought me the DVD so I wouldn't have to sit through commercials..(Still in shrinkwrap.)

8. "Muppets Take Manhattan". My aunt worked for Jim Henson himself back in the day so we've always had a special affinity for the Muppets and this movie was one of the theatrical cornerstones of my childhood.

Tag 8 People To Do This Meme:

1. Sprite. (That ought to be interesting.)

2. Becca over at The Katz Cradle. (looove yoouuu.)

3. Allinole (Your first Tag! A blog milestone!)

4. Lisa over at Boondock Ramblings (her site is a favorite of mine)

5. Megan at Undomestic Diva (largely in part because I don't believe she will, but mostly I wanna see how many curse words I can get out of her in one post..)

6. Susan. (Mostly because she doesn't have a blog, but this in someway gets her back for all the emails she's sent my way. Hell, for all I know, I could be a freakin' millionaire by now if not for the bad luck that befell me because I didn't forward on one of those lame chain letters and stand on my head for 4.5 minutes.)

7. Andrea Frazer over at Pass The Zoloft. (Just because she's funny as hell, her wit is a level of snark I have only dreamed about, and she's going to Blogher '08. Soooo jealous. So, she's probably too busy for this, but I'm sure she would be hilarious.)

8. You. Yes, you. Don't look over your shoulder. I'm talking to YOU. Tag, you're it.

(Editor's Note: You know, I just got the irony of this. My first post on this blog was about chain emails and my hatred of them. And now, I'm doing just that, only in blog form. Lesson learned.)

Comments

[Aunt Sue]

Way to go Jen!!! I knew you could do it :) Tags and fowards in blogs, interesting and sooner or later would have been done-I like it;however what do I get for doing it....love, money, good luck for 100 years, snark????!!!!!!

[Baba]

Your DANG streight #7 your kidding we should be right under the geek that just about does it. Sometimes you need to sit down and remember what is most important in Life.........Did I make you feel guilty?.......No....I'll tell you what just call me and I will do a better job.
Baba

[Allinole]

I was tagged. I am honored!

[andrea frazer]

Okay, I'm going to do this on my blog later tonight or tomorrow.

But I can give you 8 things I'm pissed about if that helps: My sore throat, my 8 pounds I can't shed, my zip code which has 2 8's in it and I am tired of this town though I LOOOVE my house, small as it is, my insurance card which has 8 digits, what I ate for dinner dinner which was boring (8 / ate - get it?), that my son is closer to 8 than being a baby and I am friggin' sad about that and how perky that number 8 looks and if you turn it on its side it looks like a pair of perky tits and my little soldiers are now like droopy war mongrels and that just irritates the hell out of me.

[andrea frazer]

6. Um, oh crap. I've read like a bajillion romance novels (I call them "fluff"). Can that count for Number 6 and Number 7?

7. It counts.

The above was funny.

And your aunt worked for Jim Henson? Blog on that please!

[Kirsten]

I can't believe I forgot about Grease..lol LOVE that movie. We like "Monster At The End Of This Book" too, very cute!
Thanks for doing my Meme!