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Current Mood: Cool

I have been tagged for the Crazy Eights Meme by my pal Jill over at The Diaper Diaries.  Who can pass up a good meme?  Not I…and this one is harder than it looks, so here it goes:

8 Things I’m Passionate About 

1. My Hubby
2. Clare
3. My dog Moonshadow
4. Far too much television
5. Movies
6. Music
7. Food & Fine Dining
8. Martini’s & Wine

8 Things I say Often

1. Stop harassing Moonshadow
2. Can Mommy just have a few minutes of quiet and relaxation
3. What do you need to say? (please, thank you, ect.)
4. Give me just a minute
5. Hang on!
6. Please go find something to go do or play with
7. What should we have for dinner?
8. I need another drink

8 Books I’ve Recently Read

1. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
2. Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling
3. Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult
4. The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards
5. Running with Scissors by Augustin Burroughs
6. Little Children by Tom Perotta
7. The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
8. Weird Michigan by Godfrey - Norman - Sceurman

8 Songs or Albums I could listen to over & over

1. The entire Ingrid Michaelson - Girls & boys Album (one of her songs is now in an Old Navy Comercial for sweaters - I found her on MySpace & fell in love with her stuff)
2. The entire Beck - Guero Album
3. Pretty much any Sarah McLachlan
4. Depeche Mode’s Violater Album
5. Any & ALL Hello Dave songs - they are out of Chicago, and we go see them when they come to MI…look them up at www.hellodave.com to listen to them - they are a soulful country-fried rock & roll band
6. All I got by Amel Larrieux
7. Spoon’s entire album - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
8. Scissor Sisters by Scissor Sisters (I love me some disco-esc music)

8 Things That Attract Me to My Friends

1. The need to have fun & a good laugh
2. Loyalty
3. Honesty
4. Enjoying good food with good drinks
5. The desire to watch Dirty Dancing on a Friday night (or any night)
6. Somewhat intelligent
7. A common link in life - such as kids, music, food, drinking, people
8. The desire to go dancing once in a while

8 Things I’ve Learned This Past Year

1. Me time is extremely important - especially when it comes to my blog reading/writing time
2. Date night/afternoon is almost as important as Me time
3. Our old house is a pain in the butt to get fixed & in the shape we want it in
4. Kindergarten is LOTS of fun
5. Getting back into going to the gym is a pain
6. Having nieces to spoil is better than having a second child right now
7. Suprise get aways are LOTS of fun & very romantic
8. I miss our road trip out to CO to visit our friends Beeko & Jackie

8 People I think should do Crazy Eights (I don’t know if I know 8 people that Jill didn’t already tag)

1. Adventure Mom
2. Good Idea Momma
3. Mom to 2 Boys
4. Look Mom Look!
5. Why Mommy
6. Anyone else that reads this and feels up to the challenge (just link back so I can come read your answers)