The 8's!

A friend put these on her blog and "tagged" me to do them to. So, here you go M.S.

8 things I am passionate about:
1. family
2. friends
3. Aggie football!
4. community (neighbors, voting, supporting local business, etc.)
5. faith
6. cooking/baking
7. husband/married life
8. trying/seeing new places and things

8 things I want to do before I die:
1. run a marathon
2. go to the Kentucky Derby
3. watch a Wimbledon or U.S. Open game in person
4. see the Aggies win a National Championship!
5. have kids (no SLH, I am not pregnant)
6. open a bakery or catering store with my mom
7. see George Strait in concert (preferably at the Houston rodeo!)
8. raise happy/healthy children with my husband

8 things I never get tired of listening to:
1. husband's voice on the phone when he's at work
2. our wedding CD
3. movie quotes from Anchorman and The Wedding Crashers
4. any George Strait songs
5. Football (especially Aggie football!)
6. husband singing all the words to every single oldies song ever written!!
7. Christmas music
8. my sister telling ridiculously long stories, especially about work stuff

8 things that attract me to my friends:
1. sense of humor (and can also understand and put up with mine) :)
2. understanding
3. supportive
4. honest
5. mutual respect
6. authenticity (I really liked that one m.s.)
7. compassionate and caring
8. alike enough to share common ground, but different enough that I grow as a person being around them

8 things I learned in 2007-2008:
1. I would be working as a nurse in the NICU!
2. My husband (and myself by proxy) would join a local kickball team (Go S&B!)
3. The lightbulbs I can't reach will always go out (or someone will back into the car) the day the husband leaves for work - never when he's home or about to be home!
4. Painting is a lot of work, but totally worth it in the end.
5. I am ready to be done with school for awhile, grad school can wait!
6. Doing mission work in other countries is a passion I have and something I want to do as often as I can (went to Jamaica with my nursing school & had an amazing and eye-opening experience)
7. Dogs will seek out and eat chocolate even if it has made them violently ill on more than one occassion.
8. My husband is an amazing supporter and constant encourager in anything I do (I knew this before 2007, but he put up with my Type A, OCD personality very well during school this year).

8 things I say often:
1. I feel that. . .
2. How about you never do that again!
3. What would you like me to bake/cook?
4. Basically, . . .
5. I hate winter.
6. Mostly people (this is what I say to the husband when he's taking a pic, he likes "mostly scenery" pics)
7. I love you
8. I miss you

8 shows I watch often:
1. Paula Deen, Ace of Cakes, Everyday Italian (basically anything on Food Network)
2. House
3. Private Practice
4. Grey's Anatomy
5. The Hills (Team L.C.)
6. So You Think You Can Dance (only the re-runs)
7. Any football during the season
8. TLC (Bringing Home Baby, Adoption Stories, Jon & Kate +8, etc.)