I'm it: 7 (maybe) things

I haven't taken up the 7 things post, but, since Macon tagged me, I'll play along, to an extent. I reserve the right to not answer, or do less than 7, or... Well, you get the picture.

7 Things . . .

I want to do before I die:

• climb Kilimanjaro again
• ballroom dance with Elizabeth
• (nothing comes to mind with Wil. We're living it now: sharing video games, comic books, Star Wars, etc.)
• visit Ireland
• write one novel (I have several ideas, but little discipline...)
• be happy empty-nesters with Christine (not that we're not happy now, or I'm looking too forward to getting her back to 'myself' or...)
• be a chillin' father to my adult children and a chillin' grandfather

Things I cannot do:

• let a typo or misstatement go without commenting on it (see my comments on Macon's post above)
• complete a long-term writing project
• get back into exercise and eating right post-twin fatherhood
• after that, make a list. You're probably right...

Things that attract me to the opposite sex:

• willingness to listen to me talk about the strange things that interest me
• interest in me
• intelligence
• piety
• modesty
• brown hair
• brown eyes (sadly (but just a little), neither of my two is a 'Brown Eyed girl')

Things I say most often Southernisms/down home slang I am working at saying often:

• fixin' to
• How you?
• or either
• Well ain't that a fat baby's behind?
• carry (instead of take)
• Do what?

Celebrity Crushes Anti-Crushes:

• Paris Hilton (if I never read/heard her name or saw her picture again it would be too soon)
• Ashlee Simpson

People I want to do this:

• Jason
• Eric
• Marshall (did reply to me in email)
• Aaron
• Brad
• Mark (gently reminded me in the comments that he did it before)
• Christine (in the comments? in an email to me?) (this sweet babooo hasn't had time because she's such a busy mommy :-( )