I wish I had something interesting to say, but...nope. I got nothing. Not even a wee rant. Only... ::beckoning to dark figure in corner:: and I'll bet you won't be at all surprised by this ::dark figure presents sheets of parchment with a flourish:: I do have another meme.

::clearing throat::

Uh. You can push the mute button if you want.

TEN random things about me:
1. I did extracurricular Irish dancing for one semester in college
2. I adore Peter Wingfield...Methos...::sigh::
3. won a national writing award when I was 17
4. my parents only dated three weeks before getting engaged...and are still blissfully married
5. I'm an omnivore
6. language fascinates me but I couldn't learn another one to save my hide
7. if I could be any animal, today I'd choose a raven
8. I've wanted to smoke a cigar for a long time but can't quite get up my courage to try it
9. when I was a little girl, I believed (completely, utterly) that I was a mermaid
10. listening to the BeeGees makes me smile

NINE places I want to visit:
1. New Zealand
2. Scotland
3. Wales
4. Italy
5. Australia
6. Chile
7. the Blue Train in Africa
8. Spain
9. Costa Rica

EIGHT things I want to do before I die:
1. visit those nine places
2. fall in love...for forever would be best :D
3. write a novel
4. get said novel *published*
5. dye my hair electric blue
6. try my hand at playing an instrument or singing (with lessons!)
7. sit in a hot springs in the mountains under a starry winter night
8. *know* that I am brave

SEVEN ways to win my heart:
1. make me laugh
2. be able to laugh at yourself
3. challenge me
4. share my faith
5. engage my mind
6. know me
7. let me know you

SIX things I believe in:
1. God
2. the Bible (which does not automatically follow #1)
3. my family
4. my friends
5. love and joy and faith
6. that I'd be utterly, utterly lost without You

FIVE things I'm afraid of:
1. the physical experience of death
2. that I'm not good enough
3. that I'll be alone all my life
4. failure
5. writing a Novel-with-a-capital-N

FOUR of my favorite items in my bedroom:
1. my books
2. my bedside lamp: a wrought-metal faery with stained glass butterfly wings
3. the art, postcards, calendar, and cards on my walls---windows into stories and places
4. the ironwood and mesquite picture frame my dad made (with my art inside)

THREE things I do almost every day:
1. read and read and read and read
2. dream and imagine...usually not in the least productively :)
3. write (if nowhere else, in this thing)

TWO things I'm trying not to do right now:
1. sing to the music
2. look a word up in the online dictionary (do it *after* this, *after* this...)

ONE person I want to see right now:
1. no one, really...I'm quite happy sitting here by myself

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