3's and 8's - My response to being tagged

3's and 8's

3 Joys
1. My children
2. My grandchildren
3. My sibs

3 Fears:
1. Dying in a fire
2. Drowning
3. Belinda’s house without haint blue shutters


3 Obsessions:
1. Swimming
2. Atkins
3. Movies

3 Surprising facts:
1. I was a cheerleader
2. I played center guard on the basketball team in school
3. I won a doubles tennis tournament in college

8 Things I'm passionate about:
1. Seeing the good in others
2. Force – Hate it!
3. The death penalty (I have a solution for Californians who think it’s inhumane. There was a case in 2006 of a guy who had brutally killed a high-school girl. One of my friends had known her. There was a lot of press about how it was inhumane for him to undergo lethal injection because … Wait for it… HE WOULD FEEL THE PAIN OF THE NEEDLE!!! So my first thought was that he wouldn’t have cared about that pain if he was diabetic and needed that daily insulin! And here’s my solution: Drive a gang of death row buddies out to the desert once a month. Tie them securely to a chair and drive away. No needles… No human interaction to cause their death… Just them and God. Each month, the next ones get the special effect of seeing others get carted off to the morgue before they take the deceased’s place. No political infractions and cost-effective, too!)
4. Garage sales
5. Old books
6. Music
7. Comedy
8. Reverse discrimination – I hate it! I shouldn’t have to cross a language barrier of any kind if I haven’t left the country. State and federal governments need to figure out that the same laws they put into place to avoid discrimination have only advanced it. People who move here should not be accommodated in any way. You know where you’re coming, so YOU make the adjustments. And, by the way, I don’t want to have to keep hearing how I owe anybody anything because of travesties that happened IN THE PAST. Build a bridge and GET OVER IT.

8 words or phrases I say often:
1. Dude
2. I’m just sittin’ here lookin’ like this
3. Nekkified (as in, What are you doin’ all nekkified, Faith?)
4. Is my music on? (At the pool, I get to listen to music when I swim)
5. It’s hot in here
6. Hello Lil Boo Boo Dey, which was recently changed to, Hello little Doo Doo Day (I started calling Lia Boo Boo Dey, until I noticed the number of dirty diapers ( I have to mention here that when I was young, we were not allowed to sing the Boo Boo Dey song, because of the ugly part and the part where it says Mama tells them to shut up their mouth. My mother hated that. I can’t help it. It stuck. So I don’t mean anything bad by it when I say it.
7. Poo Tinky Feet (This started with Faith. One day I grabbed her foot and put it up to my face and said, “Ewwww! Poo tinky feet!” Now I do it with all my grandkids. When I come home from work, Faith will just lie down on the floor for me to get her feet. And Jackson is fun to do that with. I love how he crinkles up his nose when he laughs when I do it. Guess y’all better be ready for Granny Robin when you come for your visit, Andersin, Laycie, and Masen!
8. Bah choo! (When I sneeze, that’s what it sounds like)


8 Things I want to do before I die:
1. Get to my goal weight
2. Get remarried
3. Write a book
4. See Paris again
5. Have my own place
6. Water ski again
7. Snow ski
8. Go on a mission


8 Things I pray for:
1. Drew
2. Willpower
3. For my will to match Heavenly Father’s will
4. Grace under fire
5. Gratitude for all of my blessings
6. To have unconditional acceptance of others
7. To forgive people who give me a reason to cry


8 Things I've learned:
1. You can’t force anyone to do anything
2. There is something good in every person
3. Fear is the opposite of love
4. Everybody has a Gethsemane
5. To forgive others and myself
6. I don’t control anything
7. The Atonement was for me, too
8. Laugher IS the best medicine


8 People I tag:
1. Lance
2. Bryce
3. Amie
4. Drew
5. Curtis
6. Lindy
7. Kim
8. Anybody else who will play along