So the planet's been tagged, twice

So here goes:
TEN random things you might not know about me.
1:I have been attacked by a spruce grouse
2: I secretly think (on good days) that I look a wee bit like Boticelli's Venus.
3: I can roll my tongue.
4: I have a "food intolerance" to carrots and celery (they give me symptoms similar to those lactose intolerant people get after drinking milk)
5: I yell at the tv or the radio when someone on it says something stupid or smarmy. (Only when I am by myself, though)
6: My car is named Eggbert.
7: I never thought of "naming" a car until I dated a guy who had named his. After that, it seemed like a cute idea.
8: I have 12 bookcases in my house but I still have books double-banked or piled on tables.
9: I use a lot of British or Scots expressions (or words) because I like them.
10: Because of the way I talk, I regularly have people ask if I'm from Canada.

NINE places I’ve visited
1: Hawaii
2: Snowbird, Utah (not to ski; in the summer, for meetings. It was still awfully expensive)
3: Hot Springs, Ark.
4: Madison, WI
5: Upper Peninsula of Michigan
6: Longview, Texas
7: Dinosaur National Monument
8: Harper's Ferry, W. Va.
9: Bent's Old Fort

EIGHT ways to win my heart
1: Make me laugh
2: Value my intelligence and my interests
3: Offer to help me when it's clear that I'm getting frazzled
4: Open doors for me, do all the old "chivalry" stuff (Yeah, I'm pretty "easy" in some ways. No, I don't mean "easy" in the high-school sense. I mean "easy" in the sense that it doesn't take a whole lot to charm me).
5: Be polite and kind to other people, especially 'anonymous' people like waiters or shop attendants (that should really be #1 if this is a ranked list)
6: Be able to discuss books or poetry intelligently with me (but with enjoyment; I don't go for the whole deconstructive-argument thing)
7: Do something with your hands (Men who cook? Dead sexy to me.)
8: Smile at me. Notice me. Don't just treat me like part of the scenery. (Yes. I am reaching the "invisible age." Next stop, being treated like a grandma.)

(If I can add a ninth, which I know would never happen in THIS world: write me poetry or come serenade me.)

SEVEN things I want to do before I die.
1: fall in love for real, and have that love reciprocated
2: learn at least a few phrases in Irish Gaelic
3: be an aunt. (If I'm not going to be a mother...)
4: make full professor
5: tour Alaska
6: learn to spin, weave, play the violin or take the piano back up.
7: learn how not to be hurt by people who behave like jerks.

SIX things I’m afraid of:
1: Buzzards and other really large birds
2: driving across bridges where there are what feel to me like inadequate guardrails
3: hypodermics, especially intramuscular shots
4: the phone ringing some morning and having a family member tell me that someone I love very much has died.
5: that people are laughing at me behind my back
6: that people are rolling their eyes and making snide comments about me behind my back

FIVE things I don't like:

1: People who think it's a mark of being "important" when they are rude to waiters or shopgirls or people at the airline counter
2: People who use four-letter curse words in place of more appropriate words. (I'm not a total prude, but I think the four-letter words are best reserved for times you REALLY mean them. Don't go all "boy who cries wolf" with them)
3: People who have LOUD cell phone conversations in public places, or who stop dead with their cart in the middle of the grocery-store aisle because the cell-phone convo is getting really juicy, or people who answer their cell phones in meetings when it's not an emergency call. Hang up and live, folks.
4: People who offer criticism but don't offer to help
5: Ingratitude

FOUR ways to turn me off
1:Talk incessantly about the amount of calories in, and how unhealthy the food is, that is currently being consumed. Or any kind of killjoy behavior.
2:Be rude
3:Be ungrateful, or talk smack about people who have been kind to you behind their backs
4:Complain incessantly (especially if it's about something you COULD change if you had the volition to)

THREE Things I do everyday
1: Read
2: Make stuff
3: Pray (even if it's just a quick, "please give me strength equal to this day" first thing in the morning)

TWO things that make me happy
1: Making stuff
2: Saying something funny and having other people laugh

ONE thing on my mind right now
1: Getting the various stylistic changes done to this paper (which I need to get back to, now. I'm working on updating the tables. Using "Table for Microsoft Word." Ugh.)