Ms. Gina Holmes tagged me to play seven sevens, which is, well, what it sounds like. And since a few of the sevens are more interesting than your standard meme fare, I'm playing along.

Seven Things to Do Before I Die
1. Live.
2. Visit Germany.
3. Learn how to play a musical instrument. Any instrument.
4. Have a novel published. (Hey, I can check this one off next July.)
5. Help my lovely wife and lovely daughter with their own "Seven Things To Do Before I Die."
6. Retire from the evil empire of advertising.
7. Have the letter "k" stricken from the English language.

Seven Things I Cannot Do
1. Ski
2. Watch reality television. I get too nervous/embarrassed for the participants.
3. Swim. Yes, really.
4. The Dew
5. The Twist
6. Read music (See #3 on "Seven Things to Do Before I Die")
7. That Voodoo that You Do So Well

Seven Things that Attract Me to My Wife [husband, romantic interest, best friend, whomever]
1. She's beautiful outside--and inside.
2. She's completely supportive of everything I do.
3. She's funny. Ha-ha funny, not weird funny.
4. She's a light wherever she goes: people always love to talk to her.
5. She's the world's best mother.
6. She's put up with me for 12 years.
7. She makes a mean pan of Rice Krispy Treats.

Seven Things I Say Most Often
1. "Ostensibly." (A former employee pointed this out. When I denied it, I caught myself saying it about 10 times in the week after.)
2. "I'm not too horribly concerned." (A current employee just pointed this out. It's usually said in response to some stressful event, and most often means "I'm concerned.")
3. "No big whoop." (Used in the same situations as #2. Most often means "Big whoop.")
4. "Why don't you jump down, turn around and pick a bale of cotton?" (Thank you, Fletch. Okay, it was actually Fletch Lives.)
5. "I was to be a ham." (Thank you, Harper Lee.)
6. "I could use some more cowbell." (Thank you, Saturday Night Live)
7. "Huh?" (I'm not the world's best listener if I'm otherwise preoccupied.)

Seven Books (or Series) I Love
1. Peace Like A River - Leif Enger
2. It - Stephen King. Okay, pretty much anything by Stephen King. Except Cujo.
3. In the Moon of Red Ponies - James Lee Burke. Okay, pretty much anything by James Lee Burke.
4. Stick - Elmore Leonard. Okay, pretty much anything by Elmore Leonard.
5. The Tomb - F. Paul Wilson. Okay, pretty much any of Wilson's "Repairman Jack" novels.
6. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
7. The Bible

Seven Movies I Would Watch Over and Over Again
1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. North by Northwest
3. Gattaca
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5. Blazing Saddles
6. A Christmas Story
7. Grosse Pointe Blank

Seven People I Want to Join in Too
1. Ms. Deeanne Gist
2. Ms. Shelley Snyder
3. Mr. Michael Snyder
4. Ms. Dee Stewart
5. Mr. Chris Well
6. Ms. Michelle Pendergrass
7. Ms. Mimi Pearson

Man, that was harder than I thought it was going to be. I really had to put on the old thinking cap for some of those answers.