All right-y, then...after all the responses were in on my last post (the first responders meme), and after going around to various other people's blogs and bending some rules, here's is my list of folks to give to or swap with:
Give:
Blonde Duck
Minka (online only per her request)
Michelle-Pixie
Swap:
Egassner
Sherrie
Amber
Cake
Alli
Little Shadow Creations
(If I've forgotten someone, PLEASE let me know! My memory is really bad, you know, due to depriving my brain of its daily chocolate requirement.)
To all those who didn't make the (very loose) list of...uh...5, I am thinking of doing it again next year (since I have until the end of this year to work on this batch), so please do come back! :)
Everyone else who is on the lists above, I'm going to take some time to think about what I'll make for each of you, and then I'll get started on them as soon as I decide. Once I complete something for a specific person, I'll email (or contact through your blog) the recipient to get your mailing address.
Have patience! I'm not the fastest crafter in the world. 8)
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." ~ Johann von Goethe
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Sunday, March 08, 2009
Thursday, March 05, 2009
First Responders surprise meme
I found this at Cake's (Whistling Leaf Blower), who got it from Julie (Craft Knife), who got it from...and so on...
The rules are (and I'm copying the text from Julie, with some edits):
The first 5 people who respond to this post will get something made by me: it will be my choice, but will, hopefully, be something you can use or enjoy for its aesthetic merits. In all likelihood, it'll be something I would sell at Etsy (if I ever get my site up). This offer does have some restrictions & limitations...
*I make no guarantees that you will like it...but I hope you do!
*You will receive this item before the end of the year...or sooner.
*You will have no idea what the item will be, or when you will receive it.
*To participate, you must re-post this meme on your blog and put together something to be sent out as 5 surprises of your own. These surprises can be anything....a piece of art, a photo, a poem...whatever you choose.
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." ~ Johann von Goethe
The rules are (and I'm copying the text from Julie, with some edits):
The first 5 people who respond to this post will get something made by me: it will be my choice, but will, hopefully, be something you can use or enjoy for its aesthetic merits. In all likelihood, it'll be something I would sell at Etsy (if I ever get my site up). This offer does have some restrictions & limitations...
*I make no guarantees that you will like it...but I hope you do!
*You will receive this item before the end of the year...or sooner.
*You will have no idea what the item will be, or when you will receive it.
*To participate, you must re-post this meme on your blog and put together something to be sent out as 5 surprises of your own. These surprises can be anything....a piece of art, a photo, a poem...whatever you choose.
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." ~ Johann von Goethe
Saturday, February 07, 2009
The Photo Tag meme
Meg of Get In, Hang On tagged me. Yup. And I have to follow rules:
1. Go to the 4th picture folder on your computer.
2. Post the 4th picture in that folder.
3. Explain the picture.
4. Tag 4 more bloggers.
Dh is a folder maniac, so we have folders inside folders. Within the Pictures folder, and there are folders according to years, starting from 2003. Inside each year folder, there are folders for each day that photos were taken.
I went to the fourth folder, 2006, and the fourth folder within that, Jan. 17th, and then picked out the fourth photo. Here it is:
Not much of a story. The kids were in the shed playing with dh's ancient army men while dh was building the new fowl hut that's to be attached to the shed.
I know some of you have played this already but I can't remember who did, so consider yourself tagged if you're game. Just let me know if you're playing (if I'm not a regular visitor to your blog already) so I can come see!
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." ~ Johann von Goethe
1. Go to the 4th picture folder on your computer.
2. Post the 4th picture in that folder.
3. Explain the picture.
4. Tag 4 more bloggers.
Dh is a folder maniac, so we have folders inside folders. Within the Pictures folder, and there are folders according to years, starting from 2003. Inside each year folder, there are folders for each day that photos were taken.
I went to the fourth folder, 2006, and the fourth folder within that, Jan. 17th, and then picked out the fourth photo. Here it is:
Not much of a story. The kids were in the shed playing with dh's ancient army men while dh was building the new fowl hut that's to be attached to the shed.I know some of you have played this already but I can't remember who did, so consider yourself tagged if you're game. Just let me know if you're playing (if I'm not a regular visitor to your blog already) so I can come see!
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." ~ Johann von Goethe
Friday, December 12, 2008
The "what have I done" meme
No, it's not as dire as it sounds. ;)
Pica (Feathers of Hope) posted a meme that I thought was pretty fun:
Things I’ve done are in bold.
1. Started my own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than I can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world (not proud of it though)
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sung a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched lightning at sea
14. Taught myself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown my own vegetables, mostly in conjuction with dh
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb (to castrate it)
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of my ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community (only in passing)
36. Taught myself a new language (am teaching myself and the kids Spanish)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
39. Gone rock climbing The Chief in Squamish, BC
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had my portrait painted I'm assuming painting my own portrait counts
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (sort of...2/3 to the top)
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class (well, sort of...my dad taught us at home)
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (the only times I weighed enough to give blood were when I was pregnant, and I wasn't allowed to give blood then)
65. Gone sky diving (I so wanted to in university)
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar (at least I think I have...I've eaten roe tons of times at sushi places)
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades (um, went through the Everglades...that's a tour, isn't it?)
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London (and the changing of the guards in Athens too)
77. Broken a bone (no, but I snapped a tendon)
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle (don't know if we were speeding, but we were going fast)
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book (no, just short stories and poetry)
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had my picture in the newspaper (hm, maybe my wedding photo? can't remember)
85. Read the entire Bible (most of it, having taken many bible study classes, but not all)
86. Visited the White House (drove by it; does that count?)
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (rabbit, chickens)
88. Had chickenpox (can't remember, but I think I did)
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous (define "famous"; have seen Kevin Bacon at the Chicago airport, and sat in on talks by Noam Chomsky and David Hubel)
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one (my favorite grandmother)
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee (and yellow jackets)
100. Ridden an elephant
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." ~ James Oppenheim
Pica (Feathers of Hope) posted a meme that I thought was pretty fun:
Things I’ve done are in bold.
1. Started my own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than I can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world (not proud of it though)
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sung a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched lightning at sea
14. Taught myself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown my own vegetables, mostly in conjuction with dh
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb (to castrate it)
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of my ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community (only in passing)
36. Taught myself a new language (am teaching myself and the kids Spanish)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
39. Gone rock climbing The Chief in Squamish, BC
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had my portrait painted I'm assuming painting my own portrait counts
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (sort of...2/3 to the top)
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class (well, sort of...my dad taught us at home)
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (the only times I weighed enough to give blood were when I was pregnant, and I wasn't allowed to give blood then)
65. Gone sky diving (I so wanted to in university)
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten caviar (at least I think I have...I've eaten roe tons of times at sushi places)
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades (um, went through the Everglades...that's a tour, isn't it?)
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London (and the changing of the guards in Athens too)
77. Broken a bone (no, but I snapped a tendon)
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle (don't know if we were speeding, but we were going fast)
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book (no, just short stories and poetry)
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had my picture in the newspaper (hm, maybe my wedding photo? can't remember)
85. Read the entire Bible (most of it, having taken many bible study classes, but not all)
86. Visited the White House (drove by it; does that count?)
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (rabbit, chickens)
88. Had chickenpox (can't remember, but I think I did)
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous (define "famous"; have seen Kevin Bacon at the Chicago airport, and sat in on talks by Noam Chomsky and David Hubel)
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one (my favorite grandmother)
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee (and yellow jackets)
100. Ridden an elephant
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." ~ James Oppenheim
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Book-tagged by Michelle
Michelle over at Chocolate and Marmalade Tea tagged me with this one.
The rules are: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal/blog along with these instructions. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Tag five other people to do the same.
Well, I have 2 books at equi-distance from me. The first one says, "We were right! Not for nothing is this our most populr sweater! Daniele knit up a killer sweater in a matter of days and it looks fabulous on her. Beginner knitters like it because it is knit on really big needles and has no ribbing or neck shaping."
The second book says, "Try to do this by visualizing your memorized color wheel. (If necessary, consult the wheel on page 24.) Find a bright-colored object among your surroudings, and name the source hue of that color."
Uh, does it sound like I read the most boring books in the world?
The first book is The Yarn Girls' Guide to Simple Knits by Julie Carles and Jordana Jacobs, and the second book is Color by Betty Edwards (of the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain fame).
Since I know most of my blog friends are super-busy this time of year (either making products for the holiday season, or in the throes of homeschooling), I won't tag anyone specifically, but if you play, please post a comment and let me know so I can read your book excerpts!
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." ~ James Oppenheim
The rules are: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next two to five sentences in your journal/blog along with these instructions. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. Tag five other people to do the same.
Well, I have 2 books at equi-distance from me. The first one says, "We were right! Not for nothing is this our most populr sweater! Daniele knit up a killer sweater in a matter of days and it looks fabulous on her. Beginner knitters like it because it is knit on really big needles and has no ribbing or neck shaping."
The second book says, "Try to do this by visualizing your memorized color wheel. (If necessary, consult the wheel on page 24.) Find a bright-colored object among your surroudings, and name the source hue of that color."
Uh, does it sound like I read the most boring books in the world?
The first book is The Yarn Girls' Guide to Simple Knits by Julie Carles and Jordana Jacobs, and the second book is Color by Betty Edwards (of the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain fame).
Since I know most of my blog friends are super-busy this time of year (either making products for the holiday season, or in the throes of homeschooling), I won't tag anyone specifically, but if you play, please post a comment and let me know so I can read your book excerpts!
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." ~ James Oppenheim
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Tagged and tickled
One little additional fact about soaps from my previous post: you know all the soaps I mentioned? Well, I have 3 times that sitting in my bathroom closet waiting to be used. Boy, me and my hoarding habits.
Julie of Cool Mom Guide tagged me today with the Six Wacky Things About Me meme. This actually ties in pretty nicely with Firefly Mom's Seven Wacky Things About Me tag, and also with Joanna's dare-to-reveal post.
Since the day was spent on ceramics, and baking buttermilk whole wheat bread, blueberry muffins, tomato pie, and making slip dumplings for chicken and dumplings, and we'll be gone all day tomorrow for the literary co-op and the boys' LEGO club, I don't have time to post more than 6 things about me.
Actually, I'm not even sure I can think of 6 things about me that I haven't already shared or that anyone would really want to know, but here goes:
1) My favorite apron says "designated deriver" and has "dy/dx" underneath, and that totally cracks me up because I am a serious nerd and a half.
2) I am really bad at remembering or recognizing faces, and have both not recognized someone I know, as well as mistaken a total stranger for someone I knew. And yet, my favorite type of art to do is portraiture.
3) Neither my sister nor I ever wanted to have kids; my sister kept her word, I got talked into kids by dh.
4) I once field-dressed a rabbit in our front yard by having dh hold the how-to book in front of me while I was doing it. This was a rabbit that dh got with a sling shot (talk about amazing). Luckily, living out in the country, our "front yard" is about a couple of thousand feet from our nearest neighbor's house.
5) When I was about 4 or 5 years old, I used to have this dream a lot where I was in a castle with the full moon outside, and this spoon with medicine kept flying toward me.
6) I have had a crush on Mr. Spock of Star Trek (not Leonard Nimoy the actor) since I was 4 years old. (I think this is related to my nerd issue.)
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." ~ Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Julie of Cool Mom Guide tagged me today with the Six Wacky Things About Me meme. This actually ties in pretty nicely with Firefly Mom's Seven Wacky Things About Me tag, and also with Joanna's dare-to-reveal post.
Since the day was spent on ceramics, and baking buttermilk whole wheat bread, blueberry muffins, tomato pie, and making slip dumplings for chicken and dumplings, and we'll be gone all day tomorrow for the literary co-op and the boys' LEGO club, I don't have time to post more than 6 things about me.
Actually, I'm not even sure I can think of 6 things about me that I haven't already shared or that anyone would really want to know, but here goes:
1) My favorite apron says "designated deriver" and has "dy/dx" underneath, and that totally cracks me up because I am a serious nerd and a half.
2) I am really bad at remembering or recognizing faces, and have both not recognized someone I know, as well as mistaken a total stranger for someone I knew. And yet, my favorite type of art to do is portraiture.
3) Neither my sister nor I ever wanted to have kids; my sister kept her word, I got talked into kids by dh. 4) I once field-dressed a rabbit in our front yard by having dh hold the how-to book in front of me while I was doing it. This was a rabbit that dh got with a sling shot (talk about amazing). Luckily, living out in the country, our "front yard" is about a couple of thousand feet from our nearest neighbor's house.
5) When I was about 4 or 5 years old, I used to have this dream a lot where I was in a castle with the full moon outside, and this spoon with medicine kept flying toward me.
6) I have had a crush on Mr. Spock of Star Trek (not Leonard Nimoy the actor) since I was 4 years old. (I think this is related to my nerd issue.)
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." ~ Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Saturday, August 02, 2008
Meg's Book Meme
Meg had a book meme that I liked because it made me think about what I have and haven't read in my life. Embarrassingly, ds#1, nearly 32 years younger than I, has read as many as, if not more than, I have.
The RULES:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read (as in the book is bought and sitting on my shelf).
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
There are 98 books on the list.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - read this on the tour bus while touring Europe. Actually, my best bud from highschool was reading it, and I kept reading over her shoulder, and reading faster than she, so she just got fed up and gave it to me to read.
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - It's a guy thing, I've heard. I can't deal with it, but ds#1 has read every one in the volume at least a couple of times.
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - I think that was my precursor to the Victoria Holt phase.
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - everyone in the family did, although ds#1 was the only one who has read each one several times and it only took him about 6 hours to read #7.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - still moves me. The kids read it in our homeschool literary co-op a couple of years ago.
6. The Bible - King James version, NSE version, did several classes on it
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - like Meg, we have it, but I haven't read it.
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - This is a partial read. I started reading Golden Compass several years ago, recommended it to ds#1 who, then, read all 3 books, and I've not yet finished the first.
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - this was the first novel I read after learning English in grade 3. I credit this with my love of the English language and for wanting to be a writer.
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - want to, but haven't yet.
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - also a "partial-read", my favorites being Macbeth and The Tempest.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - does it count if I've seen parts of the movie? ;)
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - ds#1 read it
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - it was a juicy read for an 11 year old...me, that is; I'm not letting ds#1 read it yet.
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - I'm not quite sure why this received the critical acclaim that it did. I read it when I took an online course from the Gotham Writer's Grp.
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - I'd be happy if I could just finish Anna Karenina one day.
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - LOVED this book...the whole series, although the first 2 volumes more than the others. Ditto for ds#1. His "Last Chance to See" is excellent too! I have his "the Salmon of Doubt" on the book shelf to read one day.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - I may just borrow the BBC series to watch
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - nope...I think it'll be too depressing for me. There is a cute scene in "Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave" where Gromit is lying in his cell bed (in jail) and he's reading Crime and Punishment by Fido Dogstoyevsky. I love Wallace & Gromit!
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - both ds#1 and I read it. I think I liked it more than he did.
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - I thought this was one of the most boring books I had ever read (I was 11, and Gone with the Wind was a lot more exciting then), whereas it was ds#1's favorite book from ages of 5-7. I couldn't believe he could read that over and over and over again. :P
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - "partial read", gotta finish
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - if it seems like I avoid Dickens, it's probably true
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - read the whole series, but don't remember any of it because I didn't like it very much. Ds#1 read the whole series and liked it a lot more than I did.
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - I'm so not up to date with modern lit.
37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - surreal and lots of fun, much like the Mary Poppins books (NOT at all like the movie)
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell - ds#1 really enjoyed it; I haven't read it yet
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - "partial read" - I tend to start a lot of books and never get around to finishing them.
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - It was all right; not sure why the cult following. I preferred the Betsy-Tacy series by Maude Hart Lovelace more.
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding - I hated this book so much, I told the kids they were not allowed to read it as long as they lived in this house.
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert - dh loved this one; I thought it was ok, and I'm the sci-fi fan.
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - this one really affected me. I cried, and I really enjoyed it even though it's depressing (I say this as a mom of a child with mild autism).
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - ds#1 is reading it, but I don't think he cares much for it.
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - ds#1 read it.
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker - ds#1 read it
72. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - both kids read it too. Not sure that they liked it any more than I did.
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - ds#1 read this a couple of times.
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte’s Web - EB White - we all enjoyed this one.
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - It's a "partial-read" for me, and ds#1 loved all the books.
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - I don't know why I liked this so much, but I did.
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - This was another book we did a couple of years ago in our homeschool literary co-op. Ds#1 was 10 and loved it. I watched the movie and a stage play of it back in high school and thought it clever and sad.
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams - watched the animated movie...
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - like Meg, I watched the '70s Michael York movies
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - I find his works interesting and probably have read a half a dozen books of his, but it's ds#1 who was totally infatuated with all his books.
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." ~ Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
The RULES:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read (as in the book is bought and sitting on my shelf).
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
There are 98 books on the list.
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - read this on the tour bus while touring Europe. Actually, my best bud from highschool was reading it, and I kept reading over her shoulder, and reading faster than she, so she just got fed up and gave it to me to read.
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien - It's a guy thing, I've heard. I can't deal with it, but ds#1 has read every one in the volume at least a couple of times.
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - I think that was my precursor to the Victoria Holt phase.
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling - everyone in the family did, although ds#1 was the only one who has read each one several times and it only took him about 6 hours to read #7.
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - still moves me. The kids read it in our homeschool literary co-op a couple of years ago.
6. The Bible - King James version, NSE version, did several classes on it
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell - like Meg, we have it, but I haven't read it.
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman - This is a partial read. I started reading Golden Compass several years ago, recommended it to ds#1 who, then, read all 3 books, and I've not yet finished the first.
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott - this was the first novel I read after learning English in grade 3. I credit this with my love of the English language and for wanting to be a writer.
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy - want to, but haven't yet.
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare - also a "partial-read", my favorites being Macbeth and The Tempest.
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - does it count if I've seen parts of the movie? ;)
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien - ds#1 read it
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell - it was a juicy read for an 11 year old...me, that is; I'm not letting ds#1 read it yet.
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald - I'm not quite sure why this received the critical acclaim that it did. I read it when I took an online course from the Gotham Writer's Grp.
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy - I'd be happy if I could just finish Anna Karenina one day.
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - LOVED this book...the whole series, although the first 2 volumes more than the others. Ditto for ds#1. His "Last Chance to See" is excellent too! I have his "the Salmon of Doubt" on the book shelf to read one day.
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh - I may just borrow the BBC series to watch
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - nope...I think it'll be too depressing for me. There is a cute scene in "Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave" where Gromit is lying in his cell bed (in jail) and he's reading Crime and Punishment by Fido Dogstoyevsky. I love Wallace & Gromit!
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - both ds#1 and I read it. I think I liked it more than he did.
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - I thought this was one of the most boring books I had ever read (I was 11, and Gone with the Wind was a lot more exciting then), whereas it was ds#1's favorite book from ages of 5-7. I couldn't believe he could read that over and over and over again. :P
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy - "partial read", gotta finish
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens - if it seems like I avoid Dickens, it's probably true
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - read the whole series, but don't remember any of it because I didn't like it very much. Ds#1 read the whole series and liked it a lot more than I did.
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - I'm so not up to date with modern lit.
37. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - surreal and lots of fun, much like the Mary Poppins books (NOT at all like the movie)
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell - ds#1 really enjoyed it; I haven't read it yet
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown - "partial read" - I tend to start a lot of books and never get around to finishing them.
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - It was all right; not sure why the cult following. I preferred the Betsy-Tacy series by Maude Hart Lovelace more.
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding - I hated this book so much, I told the kids they were not allowed to read it as long as they lived in this house.
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert - dh loved this one; I thought it was ok, and I'm the sci-fi fan.
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - this one really affected me. I cried, and I really enjoyed it even though it's depressing (I say this as a mom of a child with mild autism).
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas - ds#1 is reading it, but I don't think he cares much for it.
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens - ds#1 read it.
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker - ds#1 read it
72. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - both kids read it too. Not sure that they liked it any more than I did.
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - ds#1 read this a couple of times.
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte’s Web - EB White - we all enjoyed this one.
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - It's a "partial-read" for me, and ds#1 loved all the books.
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - I don't know why I liked this so much, but I did.
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - This was another book we did a couple of years ago in our homeschool literary co-op. Ds#1 was 10 and loved it. I watched the movie and a stage play of it back in high school and thought it clever and sad.
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams - watched the animated movie...
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas - like Meg, I watched the '70s Michael York movies
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - I find his works interesting and probably have read a half a dozen books of his, but it's ds#1 who was totally infatuated with all his books.
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." ~ Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Tagged again
This time by Diane of "Much of a Muchness", who has made a new book! :)
This is a funny one. There is only one rule: you Google your first name with the word "needs" behind it and post the results. Here are a few of the things Teresa supposedly needs.
1) Teresa Needs To Lay Off The Sauce! (Honestly, you have one pom-tini a night, and someone thinks you're sauced...oh wait, maybe they mean another kind of sauce?)
2) Teresa needs one more miracle to become a saint. (Not even close!)
3) Teresa needs to make hard business decisions to keep the cash flowing. (Does deciding whether to buy yet another purse count as a business decision?)
4) Teresa needs an adoptive family who can offer her consistency, stability and security. (And money! Don't forget money. So, I'd prefer someone from the Fortune 500 list to adopt me, please.)
5) Teresa needs to give up on Ethan 'cause obviously he doesn't want her and shouldn't waste her time on someone that does not want her. (Who the heck is Ethan? Allen? Snobby furniture?)
6) Teresa tries too hard. She needs to be a bit more secure and relax. (A little too close to the truth on this one.)
That's the gist of the silly things one can find on Google. ;)
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." ~ Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
This is a funny one. There is only one rule: you Google your first name with the word "needs" behind it and post the results. Here are a few of the things Teresa supposedly needs.
1) Teresa Needs To Lay Off The Sauce! (Honestly, you have one pom-tini a night, and someone thinks you're sauced...oh wait, maybe they mean another kind of sauce?)
2) Teresa needs one more miracle to become a saint. (Not even close!)3) Teresa needs to make hard business decisions to keep the cash flowing. (Does deciding whether to buy yet another purse count as a business decision?)
4) Teresa needs an adoptive family who can offer her consistency, stability and security. (And money! Don't forget money. So, I'd prefer someone from the Fortune 500 list to adopt me, please.)
5) Teresa needs to give up on Ethan 'cause obviously he doesn't want her and shouldn't waste her time on someone that does not want her. (Who the heck is Ethan? Allen? Snobby furniture?)
6) Teresa tries too hard. She needs to be a bit more secure and relax. (A little too close to the truth on this one.)
That's the gist of the silly things one can find on Google. ;)
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." ~ Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Friday, August 01, 2008
Tagged: 6 random things
I've been tagged by Suds to Love, but Firefly Mom ran the same tag, so I'm killing 2 birds, so to speak. :)
These are the rules:
1) Link to the person who tagged you [check]
2) Post the rules on your blog [check]
3) Write 6 random things about yourself [below]
4) Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them [let those who want to play do so; no orders from me]
5) Let each person know they have been tagged and leave a comment on their blog [ditto above]
6) Let the tagger know when your entry is up [ditto the ditto]
Random items:
1) I used to have a humongous 3-D mole under my left armpit that the doctor froze off for me when I was about 16.
2) I can play the ukelele (blame it on the cheap-*ss elementary school I attended for 2 years).
3) If I had to choose a non-useful pet (that is, one that doesn't give us eggs or guard the house), I'd pick a lab rat. They're so smart and cute.
4) The two things I really wanted to be when I grew up were opera singer and astrophysicist, neither of which worked out.
5) I got my first piece of fiction published when I was 29, squeaked in just under 30, my deadline age for "making something of my life."
6) I have terrific cholesterol and blood pressure levels even though I eat as much fried and fatty foods as dh would allow me (or as I can sneak in when dh isn't around) and I am a very uptight person.
If you play, let me know! (I see that Carrie-Gigi and Heather have done this too.)
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." ~ Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
These are the rules:
1) Link to the person who tagged you [check]
2) Post the rules on your blog [check]
3) Write 6 random things about yourself [below]
4) Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them [let those who want to play do so; no orders from me]
5) Let each person know they have been tagged and leave a comment on their blog [ditto above]
6) Let the tagger know when your entry is up [ditto the ditto]
Random items:
1) I used to have a humongous 3-D mole under my left armpit that the doctor froze off for me when I was about 16.
2) I can play the ukelele (blame it on the cheap-*ss elementary school I attended for 2 years).
3) If I had to choose a non-useful pet (that is, one that doesn't give us eggs or guard the house), I'd pick a lab rat. They're so smart and cute.4) The two things I really wanted to be when I grew up were opera singer and astrophysicist, neither of which worked out.
5) I got my first piece of fiction published when I was 29, squeaked in just under 30, my deadline age for "making something of my life."
6) I have terrific cholesterol and blood pressure levels even though I eat as much fried and fatty foods as dh would allow me (or as I can sneak in when dh isn't around) and I am a very uptight person.If you play, let me know! (I see that Carrie-Gigi and Heather have done this too.)
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." ~ Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Where Four Art Thou?
So I'm a punny sort of gal, so sue me. ;)
Diane at Much of a Muchness tagged me with the Four Meme, so here goes nuthin' -
Four jobs I have had
Research Associate - psychology, Indiana University
Office Assistant - undergrad library at University of British Columbia
Docent - Dr. Sun Yat Sen Chinese Classical Garden in Vancouver, BC (check out the photo gallery at the link)
Research assistant - biopsychology, UBC
Four movies I could watch over and over
Roman Holiday - *sigh* Could Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn be any cuter??
Alien - could Sigourney Weaver and the cat be any cuter??
Star Wars, Episode IV - could Harrison Ford and Alec Guiness be any cuter??
Chicken Run - no, honestly, could Ginger, Rocky and all the chickens be any cuter?? (I have a soft spot for Mac.)
Four TV shows I love (or loved...)
X-Files - creepy with some real science thrown in at times, like Star Trek, but on Earth, no transporter, and, uh, did I say creepy already?
Firefly - Joss and Nathan: what a combination
Twilight Zone - Oh Rod Serling, how I miss your warped sense of entertainment
House - so the main character is obnoxious, but Hugh Laurie does an American accent better than some Americans! Plus, everything I know about medical jargon, I learned from House.
Four places I’ve vacationed
Greece
England
Austria
Italy
(sorry, no photos; you'll have to use your imagination. Actually, if you want to see Italy photos, check out Diane's!)
Four of my favourite dishes
Badenjan borani - recipe to come in another post
roast duck - Chinese style (see photo in previous blog post)
tiramisu - is that a dish?
seafood anything - well, maybe not so much geoducks or sea urchins or sea cucumbers
Four blogs I visit every day
Now that Blogger has this nifty feature which show which blogs have been updated recently, I no longer have to play favorites. ;)
I won't tag four people, but please do play if you have time! I'll be watching my "updated blogs" list....
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." ~ Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Diane at Much of a Muchness tagged me with the Four Meme, so here goes nuthin' -
Four jobs I have had
Research Associate - psychology, Indiana University
Office Assistant - undergrad library at University of British Columbia
Docent - Dr. Sun Yat Sen Chinese Classical Garden in Vancouver, BC (check out the photo gallery at the link)
Research assistant - biopsychology, UBC
Four movies I could watch over and over
Roman Holiday - *sigh* Could Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn be any cuter??
Alien - could Sigourney Weaver and the cat be any cuter??Star Wars, Episode IV - could Harrison Ford and Alec Guiness be any cuter??
Chicken Run - no, honestly, could Ginger, Rocky and all the chickens be any cuter?? (I have a soft spot for Mac.)
Four TV shows I love (or loved...)
X-Files - creepy with some real science thrown in at times, like Star Trek, but on Earth, no transporter, and, uh, did I say creepy already?
Firefly - Joss and Nathan: what a combinationTwilight Zone - Oh Rod Serling, how I miss your warped sense of entertainment
House - so the main character is obnoxious, but Hugh Laurie does an American accent better than some Americans! Plus, everything I know about medical jargon, I learned from House.
Four places I’ve vacationed
Greece
England
Austria
Italy
(sorry, no photos; you'll have to use your imagination. Actually, if you want to see Italy photos, check out Diane's!)
Four of my favourite dishes
Badenjan borani - recipe to come in another post
roast duck - Chinese style (see photo in previous blog post)
tiramisu - is that a dish?
seafood anything - well, maybe not so much geoducks or sea urchins or sea cucumbers
Four blogs I visit every day
Now that Blogger has this nifty feature which show which blogs have been updated recently, I no longer have to play favorites. ;)
I won't tag four people, but please do play if you have time! I'll be watching my "updated blogs" list....
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." ~ Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Thursday Thirteen
I will admit to being lame this week with the TT. I had thought about it in advance, but didn't get to it, and then I was bitten by some insect from heck last nite. I took a Benadryl (something I hate to do usually) and 2 Tylenols, and my right ring finger is still a huge, throbbing, swollen mess, making it hard to type. The Benadryl (non-drowsy my butt!) has put me in a haze.
I was going to blog about Joanna's lovely soap last night, but that will have to wait until tomorrow now.
Well, here goes nothing: FOOD!
13 foods that I can eat every day for the rest of my life and never get tired of ~
1. Badenjan borani - The Afghan Horsemen in Vancouver, BC makes the best one, but dh is perfecting his version.
2. Roast duck - Chinese style. It's celebration food but life is so good, I can celebrate with that every day! ;)
3. Tiramisu - if there is a more perfect dessert, I have yet to hear of it.
4. Sushi - love them all except maybe sea urchin (looks like and tastes like cow brains...ick). I've never tried pufferfish though.
5. Pomelos - Asian grapefruit. I'm not all about fried, greasy foods after all.
6. Fried chicken - and speaking of fried, greasy foods....
7. Salmon - wild caught, natch. I love it in any form: grilled, poached, raw...oooh, especially raw!
8. Dim sum - ok, I'm cheating because this encompasses a whole range of foods that is served at this type of meal. Vancouver probably has the best dim sum places outside of Hong Kong and China.
9. Shrimp, lobster, shellfish in general - Yum yum!
10. Anchovies - yeah, seafood trend. Black Lab Bakery in Wilmington, DE makes the most scrumptious anchovy foccacia.
11. Lamb kebabs - Greek or Afghan style, equally fabulous.
12. Calamari - oh, I had the most delicious plateful on the Isle of Aegina, Greece.
13. Asparagus with butter - freshly picked from our garden.
Join the Thursday Thirteen fun! Visit other Thirsday Thirteeners at:http://thursdaythirteen.com/2008/06/25/thursday-thirteen-151st-edition/ and let the TTers know you're participating by leaving the link to your Thirteen in your comment.
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." ~ Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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