Rules of Seven, a Thursday Edition

I wanted to lighten the mood from yesterday. I'm sorry I struck a nerve in so many people, but my neighbors make me absolutely nuts. I don't have my mother to vent to anymore. My father and sister rarely answer their phones, my grandmother is too busy talking to everyone else, and my nephew has kids he now plays with after so school so I can't vent to any of them. Since I have to let my frustrations out somehow, that pretty much leaves this blog and Twitter as my only outlets. Sometimes you just have to type what's pissing you off to fully get it out of your system.

Anyway, not much has happened today other than Wendy's didn't give me the almonds that went with my mandarin chicken salad so I had to go inside. The older guy at the register, who might have been the manager now that I think about it, apologized for me having to stand in line just to get almonds and offered to give me a free soda for my troubles, and then--get this--I turned him down. He said that the drink was on him, which I thought meant he would have to buy it, and I didn't want him to have to do that since he wasn't the one working the drive-through. Plus, I really wanted an icee from Quiktrip, and the drinks there cost half of what they cost at Wendy's and are less watered down.

Since my Wendy's experience wasn't all that exciting, despite the entire paragraph that I just devoted to it, I thought I would do this meme that I found on Squidoo called the Rules of Seven. The meme requires you to give seven answers to the following seven questions or prompts.

Seven Things That Scare Me

1. My father's old toupee.
2. Circular saws.
3. My sister walking in heels.
4. My grandmother's toenails.
   
5. Semis that drive too close to the line.
6. Wharf rats.
7. Bella near an inground pool.
   

Seven Things That I Like

1. Wolfgang Puck organic soup.
   
2. Movie theaters with stadium seating.
3. Electric blankets.
4. Milk Duds.
5. Veggie pizza.
6. A good whodunnit.
7. The smell of a real Christmas tree.

Seven Random Facts About Me

1. I once caught the dishwasher on fire in law school.
2. When the original 90210 first started, I was so obsessed with it that I recorded every single episode, and that was back in the days of VHS.
3. In junior high, I dotted my i's with hearts because Stacey from The Babysitters' Club books did the same thing.
4. My sister bought me a thong one Christmas because she said my Hanes Her Way were "little girl underwear." To humor her, I tried to wear it the next day but only made it an hour. I haven't worn one since. I'd rather have panty lines than having something riding up my butt all day.
   
5. In the fifth grade, I had a killer hamster. Literally, the hamster killed its cage mate one night while I slept. Try waking up to a gutted hamster on a Sunday morning.
6. If I didn't have dogs, my dream car would be an apple green VW bug.
7. I failed the driving part of the driver license exam the first time.
   

Seven Things I Want to Do Before I Die

1. Learn how to scuba dive, preferably somewhere beautiful and not in a pool.
2. See the Eiffel Tower in person.
3. Write and publish a novel.
4. Find a job that I love and have it find me back.
5. Have LASIK surgery. I've been wearing contacts since the sixth grade but should have worn them sooner. I want to know what it's like to swim and wake up in the morning with clear vision, to go somewhere without having to first make sure I have my rewetting eyedrops,and to be able to use allergy eyedrops without taking out my lenses first.
   
6. Live at the beach.
7. Get out of this neighborhood. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
   

Seven Things I Can Do Well

1. Procrastinate.
   
2. Trip over my own feet. I've practically made it a sport.
3. Along those same lines, walk into furniture. I'm great at it. In fact, a few hours ago, I walked into the coffee table for the 100th time and bruised my knee.
   
4. Retain soap opera history. Just don't ask me to retain real history.
5. Tetris.
6. Microwave.
7. Color inside the lines.

Seven Things I Can't Do But Wish I Could

1. Cook an edible, from scratch meal without blowing something up or burning it.
2. Splits.
3. Cartwheels. I can flip over. I just can't go in a straight line.
   
4. Drive a stick.
5. Reach the top shelf at stores without standing on the bottom one.
6. Wear a size 7 shoe.
7. Fly a plane.

Seven Phrases I'm Known to Use

1. Seriously.
   
2. Well...
3. Bite me.
4. Whatever.
5. Y'all.
6. Like. (I was like, and she was like, not I like this or that.)
7. No, bad dog.