7 things to do before I die:
1. Stop asking God “why” and just say “thank you.”
2. Shoot a smilie face.
3. Learn Farsi.
4. Publish a novel.
5. Learn to juggle knives.
6. Pray with my mother, not just for her.
7. Travel to another country.
7 things I can’t do:
1. Waltz.
2. Sing well.
3. Make a lemon meringue pie.
4. Sleep well.
5. Tell jokes without laughing and messing up the punch line.
6. Take good photographs.
7. Know what is fashionable clothing and what is not. (Well, I don’t really care, so that does make it more of a challenge…)
7 things that attract me to blogging:
1. Writing helps me to clarify my thoughts.
2. When I’m doing a bible study that I know I’m going to blog about, I understand and retain it better.
3. I love the idea that it levels the publishing playing field – we’re no longer dependent on the approval of an elite few to put our own ideas out there to a broad audience.
4. Commenters who challenge me with new ideas and angles.
5. Commenters who agree with me.
6. Being part of the community of blogging – people from all over the country (and world) that I’d never interact with any other way.
7. Because everyone is entitled to my opinion! 
7 things I say most often:
1. I love you.
2. Ummm……
4. I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you.
5. When did you tell me that?
6. Not yet.
7. I don’t remember you telling me that.
7 books I love:
1. The Bible
2. Anne of Green Gables series
3. The Lord of the Rings (all three volumes equally)
4. The Hobbit
5. The Trixie Belden series (yes I know it’s hokey but I loved them as a kid and re-read them sometimes for nostalgia’s sake.)
6. All of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan books
7. Mary Stewart’s Merlin series: The Crystal Cave, The Hollow Hills, The Last Enchantment
7 movies I watch over and over:
1. True Lies
2. The Quiet Man
3. Independence Day
4. Twister
5. Father of the Bride (1 and 2, both the old Spencer Tracy versions and the new Steve Martin ones.)
6. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
7. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7 people I want to join in too
1. Veritas Redux
2. Matt Jones
3. Northshore Politics
4. Free in Him
5 Out of the Bloo
6. In His Steps
7. Called Saints in Christ
This seven things thing is still going around? …I did this years ago…
Me too. Things like this never die, just like that Microsoft and AOL will pay you a gazillion bucks for spamming your friends hoax. But this one at least is an amusing way to find out more about other bloggers.
Hey….thanks for the “tag.” It helps to have feedback…lets bloggers like us know that we are not just talking to ourselves.
1 thing to do before I die; Learn Konine Greek
1 thing I can’t do; make an omlette
1 thing that attract me to blogging: I’m opionated
1 thing I say most often: I apologize.
2 books I love (beside the Bible); A Christmas Carol and Pilgrims Progress.
1 movie I watch over and over; Star Wars (all six)
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You should copy the whole thing, put in your own answers and post it on your blog. I wish I had thought to put learn Konine Greek in my answers – it would be awesome to read it in the original.
Wow, I have never been tagged before! Look for my answers Monday(ish)!
Merry Christmas!
Well, I hate to burst your bubbles, but it is Koine Greek, not Konine Greek
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Nobody likes a smartass, Evan.
(Although I’m actually glad to know what is correct, I can’t resist picking back at Evan. It’s like a reflex or something. I was tempted to go back and fix it in the other comments so Evan would look like a lunatic but I managed to restrain myself.
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Konine? Is he related to Conan? Hmmmm…..
I relying on my grey matter that was built in 1958 with vacuum tubes. Unfortunately there is more vacuum than tubes. Thank you Evan May for the “heads up” on the spelling.
Laura do not knock a “smart” ass. I had to ride on an ass to school and he learned more than I did there. Last I heard he went to Harvard.
Actually Konine was a warrior that had only four fingers on his left hand. I think Conan beat him is a sword fight.
See…in the persuit of holiness…you can have fun too.