Friend Makin' Monday

Kenlie over at All the Weigh does this fantastic little activity called Friend Makin' Mondays, and it's always centered around a specific topic. You simply add the questions and link back to her website via the comments.  Please invite your blog readers to add their links to Kenlie's blog so everyone has the opportunity to be seen. The idea is to connect with other awesome bloggers so take a moment to post your own FMM post and check out a few other blogs and postings.

FMM: Three Things

Three of your favorite movies:

1. My Favorite Wife (with Cary Grant)
2. Lord of the Rings trilogy
3. Harry Potter series

Three of your favorite things to drink:

1. Ice water
2. Simply Lemonade
3. Caffeine-free Diet Coke

Three of your favorite songs:

1. Beautiful Disaster (sung by Kelly Clarkson)
2. Everyday (by Toby Lightman)
3. Somewhere Only We Know (by Keane)

Three people who have recently been a positive influence on your life (outside of your family):
It may sound a little sad, but I cannot really think of anyone outside of my family who have recently had a positive influence on my life, so I'll list three people in my past...

1. George Sand
2. Mrs. Johansen (my senior English teacher)
3. And a certain boss I once had who showed me what NOT to do as a boss

Three things you to do keep yourself entertained:

1. Listen to music
2. Read the news (on the Internet)
3. Read People and Hello Magazines (on the Internet)

Three things you’re attracted to in the opposite sex:

1. Sense of humor
2. Intelligence
3. Height

Three things you love about yourself:

1. My sense of humor
2. My intelligence
3. My love of learning

The last three people who text messaged you:
I don't text, and I don't receive texts.  In fact, I have that feature blocked on my mobile phone.  So, I'll list the last 3 people who emailed me.

1. My co-presenter for a workshop I'm doing in July
2. One of my clients
3. My editor

Three things you’re looking forward to this week:

1. The rain (we haven't had rain in a while, and my garden needs it.  Besides, I love the rain.)
2. Family photos (we haven't had family photos since 2010)
3. Going to the iris fields

Three wishes specifically for yourself…What are they? (Be selfish, and be honest.)

1. To move me (and my family) to England
2. That my first book (due in September) is a huge success
3. To win the Lottery

Three of your favorite quotes:

1. Well behaved women rarely make history.
2. Your DNA must cry itself to sleep at night.
3. The best way to understand temptation is to give into it.

Three of your biggest fears:

1. That something seriously bad will happen to Mum.
2. That something seriously bad will happen to Dawn.
3. That something seriously bad will happen to me (especially since I don't have health insurance).

Three of your favorite TV shows:

1. Once Upon a Time
2. Grimm
3. Big Bang Theory

Three of your favorite things to purchase when you’re shopping.

1. Magazines
2. Books
3. Something for Mum and Dawn

Three things that you enjoyed last week:

1. Went on a drive with Mum and Dawn
2. Had a picnic with Mum and Dawn
3. Finished part of a major project ahead of schedule

Three things that you always have in your bag or close to you if you’re not a purse kind of person. 

1. A camera
2. A pen and notebook
3. Mobile phone (though I don't usually have it on)

Three types of food that you wouldn’t want to give up.

1. Mum's black bean casserole
2. Turkey
3. Pizza

Three things you do to enjoy burning calories:
It's rare when I do things solely for the purpose of burning activities, but the things I do that probably burn the most calories are...

1. Volleyball
2. Swimming
3. Hiking (never without my camera)

Three things you dislike about blogging:

1. When people don't leave comments.
2. Blogs written by moms who do nothing but talk about their kids (I'm glad you have kids, but I visited your blog to read more about you).
3. Comments that are mean, nasty, stalker-weird, or designed to lead you back to questionable websites (it happens a lot more than you think, but luckily I screen the comments).

Three ways blogging has changed your life:

1. I'm more creative.
2. I have made some amazing friends through other bloggers.
3. It's given me more opportunities to partner up with Mum and Dawn (via blog postings)