THE BIG 8 MEME

Tagged by KELLEY over at MagnetoBoldToo!

8 Things I am Passionate About

1. My Kids - They are parts of me, they always come first.
2. My dream land & home - I want to just pack up and disappear into the outback, no traffic, smog, noise (well there will be natural noise, that i don't mind), no blaring street lights all night.
3. My SEXY MAN - who will read this and get cranky that I called him that :P
4. My degree - I will be a Registered Nurse by the end of 2009!
5. My Country - WHY DO WE NEED TO DOWNGRADE OUR HEALTH SYSTEM & EMPLOYMENT SYSTEMS JUST TO BE MORE LIKE AMERICA MR HOWARD???
6. My environment - Why do we need to use and abuse our planet?
7. Good Hygiene - I was born to be a nurse lol cause i cant stand people not washing their hands after toileting or playing with pets or gardening etc.
8. NO SMOKING - it doesn't just hurt you, it hurts people around you, like me who cant (and hasn't other than 10 mins the night i turned 18) go to nightclubs without a trip to the hospital just because other people smoke in enclosed spaces or in front of the only door into the shops etc, causing people like me to have asthma attacks etc. If you must abuse yourself with chemicals, choose one that only hurts you - eat heaps of apple seeds or lick a toad/frog etc!

8 Things I want to do before I die

1. Get my 100+ acres & live in a big shed home with no close neighbours or traffic
2. Give my kids what i didn't have - nice weddings, help getting their first home, grandparents to babysit or help with sick kids, someone to confide in.
3. Visit Ireland, England, Scotland to drool over accents and quaint architecture
4. Visit Ethiopia to see the archaeological wonders and to eat really hot Dorowot with traditional Teff Enjerra's.
5. Visit Egypt, see archaeological wonders and visit one of my friends from high school.
6. Find Tammy Dunstan and say sorry for standing there and not stopping the so called popular girls from humiliating her when we were 14.
7. Have my dream wedding, before the eyes of god, family and friends, but no idiotic govt paperwork.
8. Tell centrelink (the system, not the staff) to go shove their paperwork and regulations cause i don't need them ever again!
   

8 Things I say often

1. SHUT UP!!!! I can't hear myself think!
2. I told you to GO TO BED!
3. WASH YOUR HANDS!! WITH SOAP!!!
4. What part of NO do you NOT understand????
5. Hurry Up or you will be late for (school/soccer/athletics etc.)
6. (said to DBF) It's YOUR fault I'm a hormonal mess, You didn't give me enough Sex today!
7. I NEED MORE CHOCOLATE!!!
8. Please please please .. make me a coffee??
   

8 Books I have read recently

1. The Man in the Brown Suit - Agatha Christie
2. Murder in Mesopotamia - Agatha Christie
3. Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
4. Concepts of Altered Health States - Porth
5. Pharmacology for Professionals - Bullock
6. Anatomy & Physiology - Marieb
7. Anatomy & Physiology - Martini
8. Pharmacology - Bryant

Currently reading one of the Xwing series in the StarWars sagas.

8 Songs I could listen to over and over

1. YOU - Evanescence
2. You are the wind beneath my wings - Bette Midler
3. Summer Rain - Belinda Carlisle
4. Can't Fight the Moonlight - Leanne Rimes
5. Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy - Big & Ritch
6. Welcome to the Jungle - Guns & Roses
7. Enter Sandman - Metallica
8. Anything Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, The Corrs, DIXIE CHICKS!, Faith Hill etc

8 Things that attract me to my best friends

1. Honesty & Openness
2. Friendly personalities
3. Down to earth attitudes
4. Willingness to help friends & family
5. Loyalty and devotion to their children
6. Acceptance of me the way I am, who I am etc
7. Interesting, intelligent, enquiring minds (they don't have to be rocket scientists, intelligence comes in many forms!)
8. Able to chat about anything, whether it be religion, poo, kids, sex experiences, the weather, men, politics, money, clothes etc and be OK with each other having their own opinions, sharing opinions but not forcing them on each other.
   

8 people who should totally do this meme
(if you don't have a blog of your own feel free to do it in my comments section!)

1. Robyn
2. Kirstie
3. Nicole
4. Chookie
5. Precious 1
6. Lightening
7. Meg in the Mountains
8. Anyone else who would like to!

The Actors Studio 10 Questions Meme

1. What is your favorite word? I love you Mum ( i know its not just one word, but its the very best thing i get to hear each day).

2. What is your least favorite word? Swear word starting with C***. Not that anyone i know personally says this, but drunk bastards round the area like to yell it at people. To me its the most derogative term for a female of any race or culture.

3. What turns you on [creatively, spiritually or emotionally]? Umm magpies singing, birds at dawn, scent of rain coming and amazing fresh smell after rain on the garden.

4. What turns you off? People smoking cigarettes, especially pregnant women, I just want to slap them. Ohh and seeing (and having to walk through) a bunch of nurses and medical staff standing on the footpath outside the hospital to have a smoke now that the hospital and grounds are no smoking areas. How the F**K can they smoke when they see all the people with cancer, emphysema, COPD, cardiac disease, gangrenous limbs from toxin build up in extremities, and knowing that all these things are caused by cigarette smoking!!

5. What sound or noise do you love? Hearing my kids playing together nicely, rain hitting the metal roof out the back.

6. What sound or noise do you hate? Mosquito buzzing when i am trying to sleep & My dogs barking/howling/whinging every twenty minutes when the next siren goes past, especially at night when i am actually tired and trying to sleep and have to keep getting out of bed to shut them up before someone calls the police/council etc or the shift workers and early rising neighbours get peeved.

7. What is your favorite curse word? SFA (Sweet F**k All!)

8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? Architect and/or Engineer.

9. What profession would you not like to do? Teaching (had enough of it with my first bach of primary prac, didnt want to do anymore).

10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Your grandparents and everyone you love (including pets) are waiting for you just over there.

8 random things from my kitchen...& More about You...

Ok well tagged for this by Nicole , lol well my kitchen, hmm good thing i cleaned it today, so let's see :

1. Lots of Dead Flowers - I got the most gorgeous bouquet of natives as a thankyou present several years ago now and they are all long dead and still looking gorgeous in the corner near my sink.

2. 2 x cordless drills - because i have three cupboard doors that the hinges broke and bought new hinges for, but can NOT buy a screwdriver bit to match the damn screws the kitchen guy put in them, I even took the entire door into three hardware shops and was told that the particular type of "torque" screw is NO LONGER MANUFACTURED SO THEY NO LONGER SELL BITS TO MATCH IT ARRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!

3. vegi scraps - waiting to go to the compost bin, they tend to wait several days as the person responsible for them often is "too tired" to do his one daily chore.

4. Loads of magnets, including five copies of the same magnet, because every time i go to the chemist lately they put a new magnet in the bag with my scripts.

5. More flowers - silk variety this time.

6. 10kg bag of rice - waiting for the remaining 2kg of the previous 10kg bag to be used up, so the new bag will fit in the containers.

7. A yellow and red beany teddy bear that says Best Mum.

8. Multiple figurines, including our Chinese year of birth ones, the Snake for DD and Myself, the Ox for DS and the Tiger for DBF.

Lol loads more random bits n bobs as well.

And this one :

More About You

1. Something I do well: Anything that I put my mind too
2. Something I'd like to improve on: Ability to keep my focus, not get sidetracked so easily
3. My favourite food: Milk
4. Three words that describe me best: Nurturing, Bossy, Dictionary.
5. My happiest moment: Um I don't know which one was the happiest, any that involves seeing my kids do well, that makes them beam with self confidence, like Boo getting 2nd place at Zone last year, even though it was her first zone comp and she still couldn't skip with her left leg and had trouble balancing, or two weeks ago when DS made his very own cup of tea including boiling the kettle on the gas cooktop and then sitting down with a look of content normally only seen on a well fed cat.
6. The most important thing in my life right now: My kids!