Thom tagged me with this Lucky Chinese Tag called “Eminent Eights”, so I guess I need to step up and do it!

Here goes:

8 TV shows I like to watch: (I don’t watch a lot of TV. Hrm.)

• Heroes
• Chuck
• House
• Breakfast Television (Toronto)
• Little Mosque on the Prairie (shocker, eh?)
• Anything Star Trek related
• Home Reno programs on HGTV
• The Weather Network (I did mention I don’t watch a lot of TV, right?)

8 Favorite Places to Eat & drink:

• Brydens (a local pub we frequent after most rehearsals) – they have awesome nachos!
• Cora’s (have a lunch date there this afternoon in fact!)
• Moxie’s
• Troy’s Diner (love to support a supporter!)
• Kelsey’s
• Montana’s (Wee One calls it “Hannah Montana’s”)
• Picnics in the park or on the beach
• Someone else’s house (What time do you want us over? What can I bring?)

8 Things I Look Forward To:

• The first hug from my kids in the morning. In the Teen’s case, it’s sometimes an after-noon occurrence…
• Singing with my group (another shocker, I know)
• Traveling of any sort (love getting out of my comfort zone)
• Good hugs
• Romance. Maybe. Someday. *sigh*
• Walking in the woods
• Laughter
• Growing old with someone who loves me

8 Things that Happened Yesterday:

• Power failure that took out a big chunk of our town, above the water tower. Got mighty cold in here!
• Went to the bank and panicked before discovering I had the Teen’s debit card instead of mine. Whew.
• Played chauffeur to the Teen, and the Teen’s BFF (how is that different than any other day tho?)
• Cleaned the cabinet that houses my many sets of bar glasses and cookbooks. Put aside a good many to get rid of, too! (ShaMoo, dearest, you’re a wino you drink wine, do you want some new glasses?)
• Broke in my new hiking boots. Or rather, they broke ME in.
• Made plans with Knarf to go GeoCaching next week with our dogs. Wonder if we can entice the rest of the group to come with us… that would be a hoot!
• Spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how Wee One scratched her face so badly… she has no idea.
• Visited my grandmother in the hospital – she’s rallying, can you believe it? I can, that is one strong lady.

8 Things I Love About Winter:

• Cosy sweaters
• Curling up by the fireplace
• Snow ball fights
• I don’t have to shovel snow (isn’t that why we get married, after all??), so I can enjoy it
• Christmas music (until Dec 26, then I’ve had enough)
• After it snows, how clean and fresh everything looks
• Watching the kids have fun building snowmen and snow forts
• Yeah, I got nothing else. Sorry.

8 Things I Am Passionate About:

• My family
• My group
• My friends
• Music
• Travel
• Photography
• Child safety issues
• Oh yeah… and blogging! Wow, almost forgot that one!

8 Words/Phrases I (too) Often Use:

• Awesome
• You’ve got to be kidding
• Anyway…
• So, I had this dream last night… (ShaMoo, did you just choke on your coffee??)
• Sure, I’ll do it (Note to self: learn to say NO)
• Bite me
• Are you out of your mind? (usually to the Teen)
• What NOW? (usually to Wee One)

8 Things I’ve Learned from the Past:

• Keep your mouth shut (ok, I’ve yet to learn that)
• Think before you speak/email (erm, yeah, need to work on that too)
• Tomorrow will NOT look after itself – plan ahead
• No matter how much you want something, you just might not get it. Deal.
• Life is short. Live.
• Do one good deed per day, no matter how small.
• Do things that make you happy. Make life worth living.
• Always have something to look forward to, no matter how small

8 Blog friends I want to tag (however, some of these folks never participate in things like this):

• Jade
• JennyMac
• Iva @ the Horizontal yo-yo
• Annie
• Saucy
• CoffeeYoghurt
• Scholastic Scribe
• Jenny from Chicago, a new blog buddy!