7 Things

My cool blogger friend, JD Riso, tagged me recently. I'm finally getting around to doing my bit (i.e. post my "7 Things" or "7 Answers to 7 Questions").

7 Things I Plan to Do Before I Die

1. Try scuba diving.
2. Learn to speak Chinese.
3. Go to Kathmandu.
4. Get published in "The New Yorker".
5. Pay for two college educations.
6. Live happily ever after.
7. Look back when all is said and done and say, "WOWSER!"

7 Things I Can Do

1. Sightread, sing on tune and play my favourite piano pieces over and over and over again.
2. Consistently find the silver lining.
3. Read, speak and write French; fake Spanish and Italian (and I mean fake) and make people laugh when I try German.
4. Think outside the box; colour outside the lines.
5. Figure out how to do most things technological.
6. Birth a baby naturally.
7. Surprise myself and others.

7 Things I Can't Do

1. Cut or draw a straight line.
2. Ski.
3. Hold a snake, a spider or an alligator.
4. Do what everyone else is doing because everyone else is doing it.
5. Use violence to solve a problem.
6. Play basketball.
7. Go a day without reading.

7 Things that Attract Me to the Opposite Sex

1. Carriage, build, line.
2. How often he makes me and others laugh.
3. Kindness, compassion.
4. How often he smiles.
5. Body language.
6. Generosity, humility.
7. How he treats waiters and waitresses, animals and small children.

7 Things I Say Most Often

1. Honey!, Honey ... and Honey?
2. Little one.
3. Tjiba choo.
4. What are you doing?
5. Love you.
6. Sois positif ! (Be positive!)
7. Et voilà ! (And there you have it.)

7 Celebrity Crushes

1. Zinedine Zidane
2. Brad Melhdau
3. Einstein (no one said they had to be alive - or "celebrity" celebrity)
4. Malcolm Gladwell
5. James Blunt (for the moment - a couple of years back it was David Gray: these things change)
6. Cary Grant
7. James Stewart

7 People I Want to Do This:

1. Sophie
2. Stevie
3. Sheila
4. Tiffany
5. Alex
6. Laurent (I know you won't - but it's worth a try!)
7. You!

Tag! You're it!