I took up Michele's challenge.

Seven Things to Do Before I Die:
1 Orlando Bloom
#2 Visit Knossos on Crete
#3 Star in a STAR TREK Movie (I would love to see myself energized)
#4 Spend the Summer in Tuscany
#5 Watch the Cubs win the Worlds Series at Wrigley Field
#6 Swim with Dolphins
#7 Watch my niece matriculate

Seven Things I Cannot Do:
#1 Tolerate hypocrisy
#2 Listen to George W. Bush give a speech
##3 Look at snakes – in any medium
#4 Anything to do with heights (except fly – that doesn’t freak me out)
#5 Find enough time to do all that I want and need to do
#6 Advanced math
#7 Refrain from practical joke planning

Seven Things that Attract Me to My Best Friends (or significant other, etc.)
#1 Their humor
#2 Their intelligence
#3 Their open minds
#4 Their curiosity
#5 Their dedication to excellence
#6 Their naughty minds
#7 Their quick wit

Seven Things I Say (or write!) Most Often
#1 Yes, Orlando, Yes. That’s the spot!! (Dreams do count, right?)
#2 Remember to include your rough drafts with your final essay
#3 Duh!
#4 That ticks me off
#5 I’ll have a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit with a large iced tea (I never cook breakfast and instead get the same thing from Braums on my way to work almost each day of the week)
#6 Sure I’ll do it. Put it on top of that pile over there.
#7 ;-)

Seven Books (or series) I Love
#1 Raymond Feist’s RIFTWAR SAGA (Books 1-4)
#2 C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia
#3 J. K. Rowling’s HARRY POTTER
#4 My Riverside Edition of Shakespeare’s works
#5 The Gospels (New King James version)
#6 Honest Illusions by Nora Roberts
#7 Douglas Adams’ Hitchikers Trilogy

Seven Movies I Would Watch Over and Over Again
#1 Stephen King’s THE STAND (mini-series)
#2 The Hunt For Red October
#3 Blazing Saddles
#4 The Empire Strikes Back
#5 Finding Nemo
#6 Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
#7 Animal House

Seven People I Want to Join In (Be Tagged)
#1 Rinda
#2 Gena
#3 Jill
#4 Mandy
#5 Dana
#6 Jeff
#7 Betty

The unseasonably high temperatures we've been having in OK, 60s and 70s, have fooled my sinuses into thinking it's Spring. Thus, Monday morning I woke to the delight of a sore throat with mild congestion. Being well-versed in the lore of sinus infections, I knew what to expect: rapidly deteriorating conditions leading to bronchitis. Unfortunately, clinics were closed Monday, but I did get in yesterday. Got my medicine (used my new health insurance for the first time and saved over $75 in office visit and prescription cost - yay!). Since then, I have been living in a vaporizer and Vicks inhalent induced fog, propped up on my 7 pillows, with a box of Puffs at my side. I've only had chicken noodle soup to eat for 2 days. So far, this has been a very mild cold. I think the chicken soup is a very important key. But my back aches from sleeping vertically for 3 days.

This afternoon, in a test run, I entered the world again. I took a trip to Walmart to buy a Homedics Percussion Massager because my neck and back was hurting so much the pain was giving me a headache. All I can say is Wow! This massager is fantastic. I have a damaged nerve in my back from car accident in 1992, and it's just out of reach. So when it's hurting, unless someone is on hand to rub my back, I just suffer. Hah! No longer. This not only reaches the spot, but it provides more than adequate massage to ease the pain. I am quite ecstatic!