Sorta tagged

I suppose I could get away with pretending I'm not included in Daravanh's tagged group.

But you know what? I am feeling lazy. A meme like this makes an easy blog post.

So there you go. I've been tagged. Sort of.

8 Things I'm Passionate About

• my faith
• my children (and racial awareness, foster care, and adoption - it's a package deal)
  
• my husband
  
• my extended family
  
• my job (and science, higher education and the health of the regional economy- another package deal)
  
• my friends
• food and cooking
• reading and writing
  
• music and singing (I think that makes nine ... I have a lot of passion to go around, ok?)
• oh, and the Obama campaign.
  

8 Books I've Read and Enjoyed

• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (Erdrich)
  
• The Master Butcher's Singing Club (Erdrich)
  
• The Twilight series (Meyer) (polar opposite of an Erdrich book - but what they have in common is good storytelling)
• The Birth House (McKay)
• A Child Called It/The Lost Boy (Pelzer)
• Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
• Jane Eyre (over and over and over)
• Pretty much everything by Orson Scott Card
  

8 Things/Words I say often

• I don't know
• Wait a minute
• Maybe next year
• I love you super
  
• You can play outside or in your room.
• What?
• Is it ok if I get back to you on that tomorrow/next week?
• Are you trying to kill me?
  

8 Things I want to do before I die

• Be with all of my children in the temple
• See big changes that I hope and pray for (yes, I'm being intentionally vague)
  
• Get a graduate degree
• Publish a novel
• Serve a mission
• Maintain a healthy weight and body image
• Travel internationally, for fun
• Learn to accept and celebrate the chaos that is life on earth
  

8 Things I learned or remembered this year

• My relationship with Heavenly Father opens the way for me to live without fear or regret.
• Faith is a choice.
• Sometimes the right thing to do is put up a fight.
• How it feels to have a completed family. I think.
  
• How the cytoskeleton moves and behaves.
• What quantum dots might be able to do.
  
• New respect for lawyers.
• How to talk with people with whom you have fundamental differences in belief or agenda.

8 People I Want to Tag

• Frederick Douglass
• Jane Austen
• Bo Diddley
• Marie Curie
• Eliza R. Snow
• Ira Gershwin
• Annie Oakley
  
• Jacques Cousteau

OK, so I hate tagging people, and that says I should list 8 people I want to tag, not 8 people I am tagging. You can't tell me you wouldn't want to read their responses, though.