Seven for Seven

I have been tagged three times with this meme over the last few weeks and finally I have time to come out to play! So, here are my lists of seven, courtesy of Gail Dayton and Carol Stephenson and Nalini Singh. Aside: is it just me or has the word "seven" never been the same since THAT movie? Shudder.

7 things to do before I die:

1. Submit one (just one!) book earlier than the last minute of the last deadline day
2. Rent a fabulously inspiring place (a Tuscan villa, a mountain cabin, a 5-star hotel penthouse) for a couple of months and write a complete book while there
3. See an opera
4. Fly first class
5. Play blackjack in Monte Carlo
6. Spoil my grandkids (but, hopefully, not for quite a few years yet!)
7. Read all the books in my TBR pile.

7 things I cannot do:

1. Stick to a chocolate-free diet
2. Waterski
3. Make a sponge cake
4. Ignore a good sale
5. Touch a snake or a spider or a mouse or anything that slithers or skitters or has too many legs!
6. Kill anything (except mosquitos)
7. Read the instruction manual before trying out a new gadget.

7 things that attract me to men:

1. Biceps
2. Hands
3. Ab's
4. The way they move, sit, lounge
5. Their cute cluelessness when it comes to stuff like the importance of chocolate and why LOST is not about the plot and deciding which shirt to wear with which trousers
6. Their ability to singlemindedly go after what's important
7. How they don't panic in an emergency.

7 things I say most often:
1. (insert middle child's name), what are you doing in my office? You know you're not allowed to touch that computer.
2. (insert middle child's name), are you in my office again?
3. (insert middle child's name), please don't do that!
4. (insert middle child's name), did you leave the gate open?
5. (insert middle child's name), did you let all the horses out?
6. (insert middle child's name), please don't let the dog lick your ice-cream!
7. (insert middle child's name), love you, buddy.

7 Books or Series I love:: (I already have my favourite books listed on my website so I'm going for 7 series I love)

1. Suzanne Brockmann: Tall Dark and Dangerous SEALs
2. Ruth Wind: The Last Roundup
3. Susan Elizabeth Phillips: Chicago Stars
4. Anne McAllister: Code of the West
5. Catherine Coulter: the Sherbrooke siblings
6. Nora Roberts: the McKade brothers
7. Nora Roberts: Chesapeake Bay.

7 movies I can watch over and over:
1. Pretty Woman
2. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
3. The Big Easy
4. Christmas Vacation
5. Pride and Prejudice
6. Shrek 2
7. Clueless

7 people I want to join in (tag, you're it):

1. Jennie Adams
2. Charlene Sands
3. Janice Lynn
4. Heather, Word Trix
5. Fiona Lowe
6. Ally Blake
7. Tanya Michaels