Double Tagged

A couple weeks ago I got "tagged" twice, which apparently is a phenomenon floating around the blog world where you answer a set of questions about yourself and then name several blog friends at the end who you'd like to answer those same questions. Well, I got tagged with a "6 facts about yourself", as well as a more detailed set of questions, so I guess I'll just put some hybrid of the two, or whatever I feel like.
Things I'm passionate about:
1. Aaron.
2. Seth.
3. Giving patients a good operating room experience.
4. Cooking
5. Tonsil rock removal (yuck!)
6. Understanding people/ trying to not be self centered
7. Save Darfur
8. Nothing should be heavily spiced with cloves or anise
Books I've read recently/reading right now:
Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
Things I often say:
1. "Who fed this boy a slice of crazy pie?"
2."That sounds like you."
3."I forgot to tell you, Seth, you're actually not allowed to do that. So stop." (He gets into everything now that he crawls)
4. "fluffy" It's probably my favorite word. I use it all the time. Examples: "Will you change Seth's fluffy? (that means a fat diaper full of pee), "My teeth feel fluffy, I need to brush them."
5. "I'm sick of these dishes. Can we blow up the kitchen and start over?"
6. "You're delicious."
7. "That's what I call a fuss boy."
8. "Who pulled the pork?"
9. "I'm sick of you."
10. "Those bastard people" (everytime a Walmart commercial comes on)
11. "The government bought this for me so I could make milk for Seth." (we get groceries from the WIC program)
12. "I'm junked" (tired), or "this baby's junked"
Things I want to do before I die:
1. Live to be 100
2. Own a cello and learn to play it (When I was 27 I rented one and took lessons for over a year. It's an expensive hobby that I miss)
3. Go on surgery missions to third world countries
4. Become an awesome cook
5. Have a garden and make it thrive
6. Travel to India, New Zealand, Thailand, see more of Africa (the list goes on)
Songs/albums I could listen to over and over:
I love music and if I could remember who sings what and what's on what album, I'd probably fill this in. (Aaron makes fun of me for this)
Things that attract me to friends:
1. not mean
2. not dumb
3. find the same things funny/laugh at my lame jokes
4. will listen to my dreams (i don't mean hopes and aspirations, although that's nice too)
5. enthusiasm for fresh produce (this i mention mostly for my friend marcus with whom i could discuss fruits and vegetables for hours. aaron usually rolls his eyes at us)
6. generous (i'm not looking for friends to give me lots of stuff, i just really enjoy people who have this characteristic)
Random things about me:
1. I love to throw things/give things away. I hate keeping extra stuff around. Sometimes I go a little overboard I guess. Aaron is far more sentimental than me (and more welcoming of clutter). He recently rescued a pair of shoes, a baking dish, and my high school diploma from the trash.
2. It's embarrassing, but I like watching "Kitchen Nightmares" with Chef Gordon Ramsay. I'm ashamed that I've gotten hooked into a reality tv show, especially one with the typical angry British guy formula. Every episode is virtually the same. Half of it is bleeped out because of Ramsay's foul mouth. He's over-the-top mean and nasty, makes the owner look like an idiot, exposes their fridge full of moldy food, and everything is transformed and happy in the end. It's just so satisfying.
3. I love telling stories (mostly my own experiences), and have loved it ever since I could learn to talk, according to my Mom. I guess I'm a bit like my Dad, in that once I've worded a story a certain way, I often tell it the same way on every subsequent occasion. My poor husband. I'm sure once we're married for 37 years like my parents, it'll get pretty old. Everyone in our family can tell my Dad's tale of taking a Spanish pronunciation class, which always ends with "and guess who got the only A in the class?" Hopefully my stories are a little better than that.
Who Am I Tagging?
Aaron, Kelsey and Justin, Allison (I don't know a whole lot of blog people)