AH! I’ve Been Hit!

Alright, so I guess “tagged” is the official term. Either way, Lydia has requested that I post the following information in these Seven categories of Seven items each:

Seven things I hope to do before I die:
1. Become fluent in reading New Testament Greek.
2. Go skydiving.
3. There’s a place in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee where in order to stay in a lodge at the top of the mountain, you have to hike up on foot. (Even all the supplies are brought in on donkeys!) Our family heard about it one year when we were hiking in that area and I’ve always wanted to go back and make the trek to the top.
4. Pick a ripe banana off a tree and eat it!
5. Produce a CD of all of our original AIC songs.
6. Marry a Godly man and be a helpmeet to him in fulfilling the calling God has given him.
7. Help raise a host of children who will become Godly men and women and leaders in their generation.

Seven things I cannot do well:
1. Consistently go to bed and get up early.
2. Keep a straight face when I’m trying to play a practical joke on someone.
3. Remember information unless I write it down.
4. Handle distractions graciously when I’m working under pressure.
5. Go shopping when I don’t know exactly what I’m looking for.
6. Play the piano and carry on a conversation at the same time.
7. Refrain from making sarcastic remarks.

Seven things that would attract me to my future husband:
Declining to answer this one. However, interested parties may send applications here at their own risk. ;-)

Seven things I say often:
1. How did your practicing go this week? (roughly 30 times a week during piano lessons.)
2. Are you serious?
3. That’s interesting.
4. Okay…here’s a question for you…
5. Did anyone get the mail today? (I love getting the mail! Usually, when one of my three younger siblings is in earshot, this query propels us into a mad race to see who can get to the mailbox first, retrieve the mail and eventually make it back into the house without being attacked by the other – all in good fun, of course.)
6. Dad, do you have this week’s WORLD magazine?
7. Yogurt and bananas. (In response to Mom asking if I need her to pick up anything for me at the store. This is my standard response, since my family knows this is my morning staple and we can rarely keep enough of either “in stock.”)

Seven authors, books or series I love:
1. The Bible
2. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
3. Howard Hendricks (esp. Living by the Book)
4. John Piper (esp. Don't Waste Your Life)
5. Francis Schaeffer (esp. A Christian Manifesto and How Should We Then Live)
6. Melody Green (No Compromise-biography of Keith Green)
7. John Bunyan (The Pilgrim's Progress)

Seven movies I watch over and over again:
(I’m racking my brain trying to think of movies I’ve seen more than once. To be honest, I hardly ever watch movies and I tend to watch documentaries or teaching tapes when I do. My family doesn’t let me select movies very often anymore… :-)) Here are seven of my favorite “real” movies:

1. Emma
2. The Inheritance
3. Gods and Generals
4. Gettysburg
5. Sergeant York
6. The Three Musketeers
7. Sgt. Bilko

Seven people I want to do this:
(Okay, so I’m not really in the blogging loop – most of the blogs I read have already been tagged. Here are three anyway.)
1. Julia (I know where you keep your blog hidden…)
2. Myklin
3. the other Natalie