It was Lisa‘s idea… so I thought I’d improve on it and add another category to make it a 7×7.

I could post something wittier tonight, but it’s simply not possible. The mental power gets used at work these days, which leaves me feeling like a braindead drooling idiot in the evening. Or maybe that’s the drinking. Well, either way, here goes nuttin’.

7 things to do before I die:

• Visit Japan and eat real sushi
• Live or at least travel for an extended period of time in the South of France
• Be my own boss and run my own business for a while (and sell it and get rich…)
• Be in an amateur musical production again (hopefully not TOO amateur…)
• Learn to drive (soon)
• Record and write about my life enough to leave something behind for the future generations
• Know that I’ve achieved the things I’ve always wanted to do and just be happy with life

7 things I cannot do:

• Read a livejournal blog
• Watch an MTV-related channel without muting it more often than not
• Pretend I want babies any time soon
• Make roast potatoes as good as Andrew’s
• Remember ANYTHING. My memory is absolutely horrible.
• Wear high heels and a dressy skirt for more than a few hours, I need my jeans
• Program anything in any language. I’d like to be able to but it’s not currently part of my skillset…

7 things that attracted me to blogging:

• Being able to motormouth and talk complete codshit without anyone telling me to shut up (or if they do, I can delete their comments, hah!)
• The idea of recording life snippets to look back on years later
• Keeping a diary without ever having to handwrite or worry about losing my diary
• The idea of an online presence – Had some sort of personal online space since 1994, not about to give it up! How many 13 year old girls had their own website on 94?
• Being able to show-off that my hubby’s a designer and made me a unique and very cool design
• Knowing that by writing my own, I’ll end up reading some fascinating, interesting or lousy blogs, but at least I’ll keep up with what’s happening in that sphere of technology.
• Being able to tell ONCE what is happening in my life and directing friends and family, especially the ones across the Pond, to ze blog.

7 things I say the most:

• Did I really say/do that? I truly don’t remember saying/doing that! (Andrew will vouch for my complete and utter lack of a memory of what I do)
• Pepperrell, that’s P-E-Double P-E-Double R-E-Double L, yes, double everything.
• Andrew, you get up, it’s your turn to go shower first this morning…
• OMG, I’m SO blogging that!
• American? I’ve known you this long and you think I’m American? You’re SO blacklisted!
• I’m going to jump off a bridge… Where’s the nearest one to the office, guys? (at which point they all gladly point me in the right direction… Are they trying to get rid of me or something?)
• Ooooh, I HAVE to have that gadget!

7 books I love:

• Three Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne Harris
• Any Jamie Oliver cookbooks, for their simplicity, beautiful pictures and for being so inspiring to try new things
• However mainstream the next two may be… Harry Potter collection, particularly the dark dark Triwizard Tournament one.
• DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, for being unusual and interesting
• 1984, because I only read it recently, having skipped Grade 10 English class when they read it.
• Bridget Jones books (not so keen on the movies), because she’s so unpretentious and genuinely trying to figure stuff out, like the rest of us.
• I don’t read enough books!

7 Movies I love:

• Lucky if I can find 7 movies, I’m not a big TV/Movies person… But definitely Hackers is up there as part of my collection of classics
• Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain is THE movie to remind me not to take life too too seriously
• L’Auberge espagnole, because it makes me dream of travelling again
• There, I’m already struggling to think of more movies…
• Because I can’t think of any more movies…
• I’ll fill up this space and say…
• La Course Destination Monde, while not a movie, was full of short movies that changed my views of the world and my life wouldn’t have turned out the way it has if it hadn’t been for it.

7 things you hold true at this very moment:

• I need a bare minimum of 7 hours of sleep to function properly, which is an improvement to my previous unbelievable grumpiness if I didn’t get a full 8 hours
• Dooce is one of the coolest bloggers of all time
• Wearing high heels is an art which I haven’t quite mastered at this point in time
• For the first time, I feel I’m learning new stuff in my job, unlike previous jobs where I felt my brain melting. This is exactly the feeling of constant learning and growth I’ve been looking to find since I left University
• Working on Mac in the office is much less frustrating than working on Windoze
• Blogging is fun, but sometimes it’s hard work
• This was fun to fill in, but probably will make very little sense as a whole once I hit Publish.

Tadah! That’s it! Good night!