I feel like I should apologize for my lack of posting and commenting. As seen by my previous post, I’m suffering slightly from the winter blahs. Blah.
I do believe that both writer4him and alizona tagged me with this one.
8 Things I'm Passionate About:
1. Books
2. Newbery books
3. Making other people read books I like
4. Lists
5. Getting out of work
6. Bugging my family and friends
7. Hope chests
8. Using scratch paper
8 Things I Want to do Before I Die:
1. Read all the Newbery Award and Honor books
2. Serve on the Newbery committee (hey, you didn’t say I had to be realistic)
3. Learn to improvise on the piano
4. Adopt
5. Bake bread
6. Have a home library that any book-lover would kill for
7. Know God
8. Become productive
8 Things I Say Often:
1. What’s for dinner?
2. Who was that?
3. Can we go to the library?
4. You’re funny.
5. Can I stay in the car?
6. You should read ____!
7. Rats!
8. Eeeew!
8 Books I've Read Recently
1. Freddy the Pied Piper by Walter R. Brooks
2. The Patriotic Murders by Agatha Christie
3. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
4. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
5. Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter
6. Please Pass the Guilt by Rex Stout
7. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster
8. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
8 Songs I Could Listen to Over and Over:
1. What Is This Feeling? ~ from the Wicked soundtrack ("Wicked" sounds rather ominous, but don't worry, it's not.)
2. Dive ~ Steven Curtis Chapman
3. Freedom Battle ~ Michael W. Smith
4. A Place Called Grace ~ Phillips, Craig & Dean
5. More ~ Matthew West
6. Wonderful ~ from the Wicked soundtrack
7. Popular ~ from the Wicked soundtrack
8. There Is Power In The Blood ~ Selah
8 Things That Attract Me to My Best Friend(s):
1. They listen
2. They relate
3. They say things without worrying that I’ll be offended
4. They share common interests with me
5. They push me out of my comfort zone
6. They laugh at me
7. They disagree spiritedly with me
8. They also agree with me spiritedly
8 Things I've Learned This (past) Year:
1. I learned that Chemistry is survivable
2. That Fflewddur Fflam is possibly the bestest character to appear in a book ever
3. I’m not as great as I thought I was (I learn this lesson quite often)
4. That reading God’s words really does make a huge difference in my relationship with Him
5. I’m not as great as I thought I was (told you I learned this often)
6. Deciding what you want to do in a life is harder than I thought
7. Driving in snow isn’t any fun. At all.
8. College cafeteria food isn’t that great
8 People I'm Tagging:
I think this one has pretty much made the rounds, so I guess I won’t tag anyone specific. (If you haven’t done it yet, though, I hereby tag you.)
Feb. 27, 2008 - <em>Untitled Comment</em>
Ooooh, it would be cool to serve on the Newbery committee!! (and I especially love #8 on your "Things I want to do before I die" list).
You're passionate about using scrap paper? lol
I remember The Phantom Tollbooth...it was quite funny. I especially loved the doldrums. ;)
Fflewddur Fflam is my hero!!
Edited by totustuus on Feb. 27, 2008 at 9:21 AM
Feb. 27, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Hi, I wanted to ask you, have you read The Holy War by John Bunyan? It is sooooo good! (At least I like it.) It's slow reading, but it's really good. Have you read it?
Yeah, I know, I didn't really tell you much about it, but why waste my time if you've already read the book? And if not, I can tell you more about it. :o)