My First Meme

Yay! My first tag for a meme. I am very late in getting around to it though. Sorry El-e-e!
Here goes...


Three Things That Scare Me
1. roaches
2. flying
3. failure

Three People Who Make Me Laugh
1. My husband
2. Susan
3. My kids (can I count them as one?)

Three Things I Love ( it would be to cheesy and gushy to say my husband, right?)
1. truly great food - doesn't matter if it is down-home or haute cuisine, I appreciate greatness in all of its forms
2. uncluttered counter space and a shiny kitchen sink
3. my bedroom furniture

Three Things I Hate
1. closed-minded people
2. incompetency
3. raw onions and tomatoes (yeah, that makes 4 things, whats it to ya?)

Three Things I Don't Understand
1. people who cannot throw things away
2. why Bill Maher was taken off the air for what he said and why Rosie gets to stay
3. the religious and ethnic hatred that creates situations like those in Darfur and many places in the Middle East.

Three Things On My Desk
1. my coffee (decaf Starbucks with vanilla)
2. my camera waiting for me to download pictures
3. the plate that, until I just now finished it, held the slice of carrot cake I called breakfast

Three Things I'm Doing Right Now
1. enjoying my Sunday morning coffee
2. lamenting that I had cake for breakfast
3. writing this post, duh

Three Things I Want to Do Before I Die
1. have a house I LOVE complete with furnishings and a tasteful interior design that reflects me
2. help people less fortunate than myself
3. become more comfortable with the idea of dying

Three Things I Can Do
1. make beautiful desserts
2. clean a kitchen at warp speed
3. I'm not telling you! use your imagination!

Three Things I Can't Do
1. keep my house clean all the time
2. kill a roach
3. buy the clothes and shoes I would like to

Three Things I Think You Should Listen To
1. Miles Davis
2. your intuition
3. people with opinions different than yours

Three Things You Should Never Listen To
1. People who make you feel badly about yourself
2. People who talk out of their ass,know nothing about what they are talking about, and are never willing to say "I don't know"
3. Whiny, miserable people who want to drag you down with them

Three Things I'd Like To Learn
1. how to better fold a fitted sheet
2. a foreign language
3. how to play golf

Three Favorite Foods (really? only 3? don't know if I can do this one!)
1. perfectly sauteed fish
2. a fabulous creme brulee
3. there is NO way to pick only three! My mind is swirling to the point of dizziness thinking of all my favorite foods!

Three Shows I Watched As A Kid
1. Captain Kangaroo
2. Mister Rogers
3. The Smurfs

Three Things I Regret
1. Caring too much about what other people thought of me in high school
2. the rest of my regrets are probably all tied up in parenting or in how I handled myself amongst the crazy in Japan or they are too personal to share on the world wide web.

There, I did my first meme. I cheated a little though, is that okay?
Anyone else want to play along?