My view from this playground

A blog friend tagged me. Here's what I see from my spot in life:

Seven things to do before I die:

1. travel around the world in whatever amount of time I want with someone i love
2. thru-hike the Appalachian Trail with a community of people or have people i love join me for sections of the journey
3. enjoy a husband and children
4. be an actress in one major motion picture (comedy)
5. do a cartwheel down a grocery store aisle
6. start a children's museum in my hometown
7. carve my name in a tree and find a message floating in a bottle (ok...I cheated there...I know)

Seven Things I Cannot Do:

1. cartwheels
2. fly a kite
3. dance
4. talk about things that require seeing relationships in math
5. save money
6. jump out of airplanes
7. remember specific things about movies or fiction books


Seven Things That (Would Be) Attract(ive) (to) Me (in a potential) Mate

1. moves toward god
2. willing to connect with his heart and the heart of others
3. likes to repair drywall, change spark plugs, and do the bills
4. leaves surprise love notes in the lunch I take to work
5. listens and wants to be listened to
6. laughs from his gut
7. passionate about something in life (in addition to me, of course)


Seven Things I Say:

1. Ok, the bell just rang. You need to clear off your desks and fill out your planner.
2. do you know what I mean?
3. shoobiddee shoobidee
4. sure
5. pass you papers in (this is to be sung aloud)
6. ahhbidee ahhbidee ahhbidee
7. you need to put that note away or i'm going to tear it up into a million little pieces and snort it up my nose!