Janet asked me to complete this so here goes…..

Seven Things To Do Before I Die

1. Live without a mortgage
2. See the Grand Canyon
3. Stop obsessing over my weight
4. Get my PhD
5. Stop caring what other people think… especially family.
6. Start exercising… even if I hate it… just do it. (or….alternatively… liposuction!!!!!!)
7. Sing with a band

Seven Things I Cannot Do

1. Water ski
2. Let things go (as in "water off a ducks back" mentality… boy I envy those people)
3. Eat fish.  I keep trying and I just can’t make myself like the stuff.
4. Fair Isle and Intarsia
5. Make a grilled cheese sandwhich
6. Draw/paint
7. Car repairs

Seven Things That Attract Me to… blogging

1. Writing
2. Learning from other knitters
3. Closest thing to being a published author as I’ll ever see
4. Emailing and keeping up with folks from all over
5. For me, it’s a sort of risk taking.  And I did it.  I just got out there and did it.
6. The support from all the new friends, allies, etc.
7. It’s doing something creative.

Seven Things I Say Most Often

1. No, Maam (to Anna Grace when trying to get her to quit something. It’s my southern version of no no)
2. Oh get off it
3. "not so much".  Used in the Jon Stewart manner
4. What smells funny?
5. Just kill me now
6. Precious gift (to Anna Grace)
7. How Yankee is that?

Seven Books That I Love

1. Gone with the Wind
2. Ahab’s Wife
3. Knitting books
4. Anything by Bill Bryson
5. Ethan Fromme
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
7. White Oleander

Seven Movies That I Watch Over and Over Again

1. Same Time Next Year
2. You’ve Got Mail
3. Gone with the Wind
4. Sleepless in Seattle
5. The Breakfast Club
6. Ferris Buellers Day Off
7. Anything by Alfred Hitchcock

Seven Songs I Play Over and Over Again (revealing my musical schizophrenia)

1. "Be My Yoko Ono" Barenaked Ladies
2. "Brian Wilson (Live version)" BNL
3. "Suds in the Bucket" Sarah Evans
4. "Don’t Bring Me Down" ELO
5. "Don’t Think Twice" Joan Baez and the Indigo Girls (live version)
6. "40 Days"  Third Day
7. "Disappear" Metallica

Next up….. Lorette, Shelly  and Pam .

This is officially, I think, my last post for 2005.  Have a great New Years, everyone!