Crazy and 8 ain’t all.
Posted on December 19th, 2007 by On a Limb w/ Claudia
Amy Palko tagged me for the Crazy 8s meme, in which you need to answer the following:
- 8 Things I’m passionate about
- 8 Things I want to do before I die
- 8 Things I often say
- 8 Books I’ve recently or currently reading
- 8 Songs I could listen to over and over
- 8 Things that attract me to my best friends
- 8 People I think should do Crazy 8s
8 Things I am passionate about:
- Bees and beekeeping
- My beloveds - husband, dog, good friends
- Exercise and health
- Bettering myself (mind, body, spirit)
- Writing, particularly my thriller series
- Freedom
- This beautiful world
- Personal responsibility and choice
8 Things I want to do before I die:
- Become a bestselling novelist
- Make a living as a writer
- Spend a year in Paris
- Feel real financial security
- Watch the sun rise and set on every continent
- Learn to speak Spanish, French, and Arabic fluently
- Live in my ideal healthy body so that it is second nature
- Pay off my student loans.
8 Things I often say:
- “Weeellll…..”
- “That was dumb.”
- “Easy Peasy.”
- “Sit, stay, be quiet, Ok go ahead, good girl” (to Rose)
- “Fuck, fuckadoodle do, for fuck’s sake, fuck me, fuck that, fucking shit, etc.”
- “Sorry?”
- “I don’t know what that means.”
- “Good morning.”
8 Books I’ve recently or currently reading:
- “The Innocent Man” by John Grisham
- “Beyond Style: Mastering the finer points of writing” by Gary Provost
- “The Elements of Style” by Strunk and White
- “Golden Compass” by Phillip Pullman
- “This year I will…” by M.J. Ryan
- “Spanish the Easy Way” Barrons
- “Beekeeping for Dummies”
- “On becoming a novelist” by John Gardner
8 Songs I could listen to over and over:
- “I confess” by the English Beat
- “Rehab” by Rihanna
- “So Cold” by Breaking Benjamin
- “Gasoline” by Seether
- “Echo” by Trapt
- “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynard Skynyrd
- “Autumn” by Paolo Nutini
- “In the Mood” by Glen Miller
8 Things that attract me to my best friends:
- Loyalty
- Integrity
- Honesty
- Interested in bettering themselves
- Up for a crazy adventure
- Kind to others
- Don’t take things or themselves too seriously
- Doing something with their lives (other than consuming)
8 People I think should do Crazy 8s:
- Odat
- FuriousBall
- Heart in San Francisco
- No Nonsense Girl
- The other Claudia
- Samantha_K
- Slick
- She became a butterfly
Filed under: The nerdiverse, Thoughts on being human....
Hey I think I’ll join you watching sunsets on every continent!!!
Thanks for the tag….actually I was just tagged with this…but it’s the 8 divided by 2 tag, so I’m only doing four things…lol.
I’ve finished it and I’ll put it up in a few days….
Peace
Thanks for joining in, Claudia! I was glad to see a fellow Scot in your songs section (Paulo Nutini)
As I just said in a comment on Nengaku’s Crazy 8s, one of the things I like best about memes is that they help me find new blogs. I’ll most certainly be checking out the blogs you chose to tag!
thank you for tagging me, i can get away with that as a post tomorrow and avoid depressing my readers for another day.
Odat - Good thinking! I see you aren’t doing 16….
Amy Palko- I do love Paolo and his traveling scots. I had a chance to meet them and they were such great (but very short) people. Makes me want to move to Scotland.
FuriousBall - ((hug))
ooh, I just saw this…I will definitely work on this…can I also visit the continents with you??
Personal responsibility and choice
I REALLY like you, Claudia. Free will is up there on my list of passions, too.
P.S. Can I borrow $20?
The other Claudia - Cool. I’ll look forward to reading it!
Bottle Blonde - The feeling’s mutual, babe.
I love the idea of sunset on every continent!
None of your choices surprises me except maybe learning to speak Arabic. We could surely have a more peaceful world if everyone learned more languages and we could understand each other better.
Thank you for the challenge of clarifying these things for myself. Freedom will definitely be on my list, too, as will making a living as a writer. (Could it get any better?)
Heart in SF - Let’s go after we get John’s insurance check!