(7X7)+20

One.
Seven things I plan to do before I die:

1. Travel the world.
2. Design and build my own home.
3. Immerse myself in all seven seas.
4. Learn to love, accept and have compassion for my faults.
5. Raise some/a children/child to see the world as it is and rise above the bullshit while appreciating the glory and beauty that is hidden in the cracks.
6. Get a master's degree.
7. Be recognized (by few or many - at least my friends) as an artist with skill.


Two.
Seven things I can do:

1. Laugh easily.
2. Dance with abandon.
3. Love.
4. Sew.
5. Philosophize.
6. Fard well - for myself as well as others.
7. Recite Rudyard Kipling's poem When Earth's Last Picture is Painted.


Three.
Seven things I cannot do:

1. Abide knowing ignorance.
2. Get my awareness to stay in the absolute field of all knowing.
3. Not be tone deaf.
4. Hang out in crowds for too long.
5. Live too far away from the ocean.
6. Wait to finally go to the Caribbean.
7. Wear heels (for very long periods of time).


Four.
Seven things that attract me to people of the opposite sex:

1. Intelligence.
2. Sense of humor.
3. Sense of perv-ness.
4. Sweetness.
5. Patience.
6. Open-mindedness.
7. Hands.


Five.
Seven things I say the most:

1. I love you.
2. Indeed.
3. SWEET!
4. Exactly.
5. WOOT!
6. Whatever [rolls eyes and sighs].
7. [air quotes]


Six.
Seven celebrity crushes:

1. Angelina Jolie
2. Madonna
3. Gael Garcia Bernal
4. Drew Barrymore
5. Carrie Ann Moss
6. Anthony Hopkins (as Hannibal Lector)
7. Dita Von Teese


Seven.
Seven people I want to take this quiz:

1. Marino's friend Sean (apparently, he answers surveys for a living...)
2. My mom
3. My boo
4. Miks
5. Me in a bad mood.
6. RATIO
7. Rick

20 random factoids

1. I collect jars to hold things and I take great pains to get all labels off - including massaging the jar with oil to get all the sticky off.
2. I love rocks.
3. My boo made me change the name of this blog (from 7x7) so I thought I'd add this part.
4. I like using big words incorrectly and then defending my definition.
5. I used to say esoteric when I meant to say metaphysical.
6. I think pretention is only for the upper class.
7. If I had a car, it would be a hybrid.
8. My fingers are crossed that if I ride my bike enough, I'll shed some extra pounds without having to join a gym (they never work for me anyway).
9. I wish my boo had suggested +10...
10. I'd rather be on the astral plane.
11. Painting is my most favorite thing that I don't ever do anymore.
12. I make KILLER pot brownies.
13. I can point my toes really well.
14. In a past life, I lived in Persia and really liked it.
15. My favorite foods come from ethnicities that are not included in the blood that runs thru my veins.
16. I really need a vacation on a beach.
17. My vacation time might be spent in Germany in the winter - almost as good as the beach.
18. I can't decide if I want to get a master's degree in art or psychology.
19. Dancing is another favorite thing that I don't do enough - but I do do it sometimes.
20. I think our president is a puppet for the lizard people.