Eight Things...

About a month ago Christy tagged me for this "Eight Things" meme. It's taken me forever, but I've finally finished. For some of these I really had to struggle to get eight. Here they are – in no particular order:

Eight things about me:

• I’m short, only 5”6’, but I have size 10 feet.
• I’m a total geek.
• I can remember almost anything set to music.
• I love pizza.
• I could drink Diet Coke pretty much constantly all day long - if I could afford it.
• I read fast – averaging about 100 pages an hour.
• I like Star Trek.
• I have to wear custom made orthotic arch supports in my shoes. Combine that with the size ten feet and you have very limited footwear options.

Eight TV Shows I watch:

• Mythbusters
• Intervention
• What Not to Wear
• NBC Nightly News
• Battlestar Galactica
• Judge Judy
• Stargate SG1
• House

Eight restaurants I enjoy:

• The City Park Grill (Petoskey, MI)
• The Jockey Club (Mackinac Island, MI)
• The Mustang (Mackinac Island, MI)
• Chee Peng (St. Ignace, MI)
• The Pier (Harbor Springs, MI)
• Tokyo (Petoskey, MI)
• Tony’s (Birch Run, MI)Pretty much any restaurant that isn’t one of the three on the island that stay open year-round.

Eight things that happened today:

• I dried the condensation on all my upstairs windows.
• We took the kids out for a special breakfast and we were the only people in the restaurant.
• I had about five cups of coffee. Which was way above my normal caffeine intake.
• I fed live meal worms dipped in calcium to a friend's lizards this morning.
• Before noon I had already done five loads of laundry.
• I watched my husband's new toy, a Roomba, vacuum my living room.
• I sang and danced to Harry Belafonte tunes with my son and daughter.
• I crossed the ice twice - shuttling friends so they wouldn't have to leave their snowmobiles on the mainland.

Eight things I look forward to:

• Time with my husband and children.
• My trip to Egypt in 11 days. (More on this very soon.)
  
• Uploading and viewing my photos.
• Sewing time.
• The new Meijer opening nearby (only an hour away) this summer.
• Spring!
• The new Star Trek movie coming in May.
• The Harry Potter movie opening in June.

Eight things I wish for:

• The end to these hard financial times.
• To have my house paid off.
• Good health for my family and friends.
• For my children to grow up into good people.
• To lose 10 pounds.
• That no child on Earth knew about hunger or war. To have my house magically clean itself while I slept.
• For all my students (and their parents) to care about their schoolwork.

Eight songs I just listened to:

• Mary Miche – Kookaburra
• Mary Miche – Dirt Made My Lunch
• Sister Suffragette (From the Mary Poppins soundtrack)
• Brothers and Sisters (From the Free to be You and Me soundtrack)
• Song of the Lakes – Benzie Rover
• Barenaked Ladies – The Old Apartment
• Barenaked Ladies – Wind it Up
• Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance

Eight favorite Movies:

• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Witness
• Ever After
• The Piano
• Mulan
• The Hunt for Red October
• Apollo 13
• Sleepless in Seattle

Eight people I tag:

Since the cube root of eight is two, the math geek in me hopes only tagging two people is OK.

Brenda

Kate