Crazy 8s Meme (Who comes up with this stuff?)

I was tortured, I mean tagged by Chicken Nuggets of Wisdom for the Crazy 8s Meme.

The rules are:
Link to the person who tagged you and then list of bunch of 8 fascinating facts about yourself.
Follow that up by inflicting this upon, I mean tagging 8 bloggers, and tell them you tagged them.
So much fun and I promise to be succinct and interesting as humanly and humanely possible.


8 things I'm looking forward to:
- Finishing cleaning out my closet.
- Going out to Fig Restaurant for our Anniversary dinner.
- A visit from our niece and her husband from New Orleans.
- Our family vacation in the Rogue River Valley of Oregon this summer.
- Converting a small patch of lawn into a rock and flower garden.
- Coming up with more inspiration to finish this post.
- The opening of our community swimming pool.
- Summer break for the boys. (It is really nice not to nag them about homework and school projects. It's great to let them sleep in, rot their brains with too much TV, and just laze around which is the right of every teen and preteen in the summer months.)


8 things I did yesterday:
- Went and bought rocks and slate for the garden.
- Laid out a slate path.
- Admired my work.
- Doted on my wildflower seedlings.
- Practiced with my nunchucks and hit myself numerous times with them.
- Was very relieved when my son requested to skip baseball practice.
- Encouraged to go to the Midnight Sun Festival in Yellowknife, NW Territories.
- Realized I had to go on a "blog diet". I can not follow and read any and all blogs that catch my fancy.


8 things I wish I could do:
- Finish cleaning closets, office, and garage.
- Garden today instead of work.
- Take a nap.
- Play my mindless I.touch games.
- Wiggle my nose and have a clean closet, office, and garage. Kitchen too.
- Make some ribbon belts to exercise my creativity muscle.
- Take a hike or bike ride with my hubby.
- Not be so behind on responding to memes, awards, etc.

8 shows I watch:
Project Runway
Real Housewives
Hell's Kitchen
Dog the Bounty Hunter
Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Jeopardy
Househunters
Ace of Cakes

8 favorite fruits:
Strawberries
Tim Gunn (props to Chicken Nuggets for this one)
Raspberries
Blood Oranges
Apples
Ollalieberries
Tomatoes
Artichokes


8 places I would like to travel (no one said I had to narrow it down or be overly specific or anything.):
Volcano Village, Big Island, Hawaii
Yosemite, California
Canada
United Kingdom including my husband's ancestral County of Cork
Portugal
Prince Edward Island
Eastern Seaboard of US to visit family/friends
Ohio for my 30th high school reunion


I am going to have to bend the rules and tag folks "Buffet Style" which means -
Please help yourself to this meme if you would like to play along! Many folks have already been tagged, so if you haven't and would like to, please consider yourself Tagged.

Eight is a revered and divine number associated with prosperity and good fortune. It is auspicious to be born on a date with the number "8" in it and good for your business to have an address or telephone number with an "8".