{"id":282,"date":"2007-11-20T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/20\/another-8-things-meme\/"},"modified":"2007-11-20T00:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T22:11:00","slug":"another-8-things-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsavta.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/20\/another-8-things-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Another 8 things meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thank my dear daughter<\/a> for the opportunity to wrack my brain to answer this meme. I had thought that she would have stopped keeping me up all night about 28 years ago, but last night’s foray into the wonderful world of CT scans was only the latest of our late-night bonding sessions. As she pointed out, in one of the more successful ones, she ended up coming home with a baby. All kidding aside, this was an interesting one to work on. Answers are not necessarily in any logical order.<\/p>\n

8 passions in my life:
\n1. My husband, despite his beard
\n2. My children– who couldn’t be more terrific
\n3. The dentist, the juggler, the nurse, and the professor (in alphabetical order)
\n4. My grandchildren– each and every one of those magnificent young people– they all make me very proud!
\n5. My extended family including my sister and my cousins and others we include as family
\n6. The Land of Israel
\n7. People who walk humbly with G-d
\n8. China<\/p>\n

8 things to do before I die:
\n1. Live 120 years (or more if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still having fun)
\n2. See my grandchildren grow up
\n3. Spend lots of leisure time with my family
\n4. Be a great-grandmother
\n5. Get my house in enough order that my kids won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t curse me when they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re cleaning it out
\n6. See the people of Israel living without external threats
\n7. See all of the Jews come home
\n8. Let those I love know how much I love them<\/p>\n

8 Things I often say:
\n1. You always have to behave yourself
\n2. Somebody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to be the grownup
\n3. Take it easy
\n4. Take care of yourself
\n5. Be kind to each other
\n6. Okie Dokie
\n7. I sure could use a coke
\n8. Where are my keys?<\/p>\n

Eight Books I read recently<\/p>\n

1. Wild Swans- Jung Chang
\n2. To Live- Yu Hua
\n3. Chronicle of a Blood Merchant- Yu Hua
\n4. Mao\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Last Dancer- Li Cunxin
\n5. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan- Lisa See
\n6. Empress- Shan Sa
\n7. Leaving Mother Lake- Yang Erche Namu & Christine Mathieu
\n8. Mao: The Unknown Story- Jung Chang and Jon Halliday<\/p>\n

8 songs that mean something to me:
\n1. Try to Remember
\n2. The Green Leaves of Summer
\n3. Shanghai Breezes
\n4. HaMalach Hagoel
\n5. Min HaMaamakim (Idan Raichel)
\n6. Let Me Call You Sweetheart
\n7. Ki Tin’am
\n8. Ra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122iti Ir Otefet Or<\/p>\n

8 Qualities I look for in a friend:
\n1. Kindness
\n2. Healthy outlook
\n3. Good sense of humor
\n4. Self-awareness
\n5. Intelligence
\n6. Optimism
\n7. Energy
\n8. Passion<\/p>\n

8 people I am tagging
\nEveryone I know personally who has a blog has already been tagged. Anyone reading this who wishes to be tagged, consider yourself tagged and please link back and leave a note so that I can find where you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thank my dear daughter for the opportunity to wrack my brain to answer this meme. I had thought that she would have stopped keeping me up all night about 28 years ago, but last night’s foray into the wonderful world of CT scans was only the latest of our late-night bonding sessions. As she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life","category-ramblings","category-interpersonal-relationships","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t