Crazy Eights: A Meme

So I've been tagged...more than once. Figured it was about time I got down to responding:



The Rules:

1. Mention the person who tagged you. Thanks Mrs. Spock and Wiseguy

2. Complete the list of Eights.

3. Tag 8 other bloggers and tell them they've been tagged.



Eight things I'm looking forward to:

1. Motherhood.

2. Getting through the crazy month of June at work.

3. Our vacation in July.

4. Being a beach bum. :)

5. R finishing his PhD.

6. Unwrapping my blank canvas and getting messy with my paint.

7. Seeing the world in a different way through my viewfinder.

8. The future.



Eight things I did yesterday:

1. Ate food. Constantly.

2. Peed every 20- 30 minutes ( yes, tmi, but no, not really joking). That's what happens when the baby either sits on your bladder or kicks it.

3. Responded to a lot of emails.

4. Went for a walk at lunch.

5. Felt Bean move from the outside.

6. Got R to feel her too!

7. Walked to the video store with R and snagged the movie Get Smart for $5.59. Only made it through 45 minutes of it before I really needed to go to bed.

8. Finished reading the 5th Har.ry Po.tter book. On to #6. :)



Eight things I wish I could do:

1. Do a cross-Canada photographic road trip. Coast to Coast and the Territories too.

2. Show my art in a Gallery.

3. Play the guitar well. I started learning last summer and got side-tracked by the two miscarriages. Never really got going again.

4. Afford to buy our own place.

5. Speak a second language fluently. My french really doesn't count, but I can read a cereal box! ;)

6. Not get so stressed at work. So much easier said than done.

7. Make my friend's wedding on Oct.31. The hitch? I'm due on the 15th. (Sigh)

8. Take all the things I love to do and am good at and make a business out of it. Just have no idea what that business looks like.



Eight shows I watch:

1. Grey's Anatomy

2. Private Practice

3. Canadian/ American Idol

4. So You Think You Can Dance

5. Dancing with the Stars (yes, I like reality shows but only the contest ones that actually require skill of some kind)

6. America's/ Canada's Next Top Model

7. House

8. Star Trek (all incarnations but the original- it's just not my favourite)



Eight favourite fruits:

1. Watermelon

2. Pineapple

3. Strawberries

4. Grapes

5. Peaches

6. Blackberries

7. Raspberries

8. Blueberries



Eight places I'd love to travel: (Eight is not enough but it's a start)

1. The United Kingdom and Ireland

2. As above, all of Canada I haven't yet seen.

3. Italy

4. Moldova (place where my maternal great-grandparents emigrated from)

5. Australia and New Zealand

6. The Galapagos Islands

7. Eastern Africa (I have my whole route mapped out)

8. The New England States



Eight places I've lived: (only 5)

1. Chilliwack, BC

2. Petawawa, ON

3. Chalk River, ON

4. Victoria, BC

5. Vancouver, BC


People I've tagged:

I think a lot of people have already done this but Claire, Dave and anyone else who haven't yet done this, go for it... :)

Tagged!

areyoukiddingme tagged me for a Photo Treasure Hunt. The drill:

1. Go to the 4th picture folder on your computer.

2. Post the 4th picture in that folder.

3. Explain the picture.

4. Tag 4 more people.

So...

This is Vancouver after our massive snowfall. Just in case you aren't familiar with my little corner of Canada, there's a reason it's dubbed "The Wet Coast". I live in a temperate rainforest. Everywhere you look there is green. Even through most of the winter. So that's why we were all a little shocked to have 89 centimeters fall in the South Coast in December where the normal snowfall is 16 centimeters.

I get that other places get a lot more snow over a season than us here but it also has been hovering a round 0, meeting and then re-freezing. The streets and sidewalks were solid sheets of ice. They say the ER was filled with injuries from slipping on the ice. Now it's raining again and there is a lot of snowing melting into our drains. Batten down the hatches, Brace for flooding!

The tagging:

1. Dave

2. Claire

3. mlr

4. Bunny

A New Meme: Show and Tell

Still trying to recover from my Christmas entertaining (another post to follow about that later) and I haven't had a chance to think about Show and Tell when...

I've been tagged! I missed it completely in the insanity that has been the last week, but better late than never. So no pics, just some fun. If you check back tomorrow I shall probably have some more holiday merriment to share.

1. Link to the person who tagged you. Thank you Kim. :)
2. Share 7 random and/or weird facts about you.
3. Tag 7 random people at the end, and include links to their blogs.

Okay, here we go...

1. I have a 2 1/2 inch birthmark on my back that my husband says looks like India. It's a great indentifying feature.

2. On my right hand, on the top of my palm underneath the beginning of my index finger is a grey dot that could technically be considered my only tatoo. It's the residual mark left from a very sharp graphite pencil that I accidentally stabbed myself with years ago and has decided to never go away. Yes, go ahead and laugh, I know you want to...

3.Whenever life scares the sh*t out of me (ie. I go through something traumatic) I do something drastic. I like change and tend to go all out. I have in the past, gone back to school, quit school and chopped and coloured my hair for examples (2006 & Fibro= short red hair).

4. I have always wanted to be a singer/musician. In high school, it was Broadway/ musical theatre. Earlier this year, I started learning the guitar so I could write my own music. And yes, I can actually sing.

5. In connection with #4- I have recorded two songs. In high school with four other girls, we sang with a local folk singer for a Watershed Sustainability project. I still have the album and am proud of being involved, but don't expect me to be recording anything anytime soon. I think it's a desire more than a reality (many things are for me).

6. I am a classical OCD Virgo. I like things neat and tidy. I will straighten things on a table top, desk, ledge or counter so they are just so (glasses, candles, coasters, papers, magazines, you name it). But I hate cleaning (must be the artist in me). Go figure...

7. I have Career ADD. I love so many different things but get bored easily. I have to be constantly growing and learning new things or I start to get antsy and start looking for some new job/ challenge to sink my teeth into. Usually this happens every four years or so. It drives my Mom nuts as it has resulted in a pretty hefty student loan. For the years and $ I have put into the educational system, I should have a Masters degree by now. Instead I have a Business Admin diploma and a lot of debt. But I don't regret a single second of it. The problem is that I want to do more art/ photography classes. Yeah, I will be saving them up and doing them one at a time.

Okay so I tag the following people:

1. Claire

2. Dave

3. Are You Kidding Me?

4. Meg

5. mlr

6 & 7. Okay, so my readership is still pretty small, so I don't think I have 7 people who will even know they are tagged, and since this thing is making it's way around the ALI community pretty swiftly, if YOU are reading this, are not on my list already and haven't yet done this: Consider yourself tagged. Yes, YOU. Seriously!

And don't forget to check out what the rest of of the class has to say this week...