But really, who DOESN'T want to vote for Goodspaceguy Nelson?
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I suppose that averages somewhere between 5-6 comments per posts of mine...and considering I've posted twice as many as I've received, in essence, I don't feel so guilty.
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Where the heck do people get $1000-1200/month to pay for daycare?!
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jennythe_reader jennythe_readerThe Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read but haven't read yet.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading.
5) Bold and strike books you read but hated.
6) Reprint this list in your own LJ
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (Someday I'll read this all the way through)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read some of them. All of them eventually, I should think)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
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
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (audio book)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (It's sitting on my bookshelf)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (Someday I'll be a real Smithie and read this book...)
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (And in the original French, which didn't make the title character any more likeable than she was in English)
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Hound of the Baskervilles gave me the CREEPS for months after as a kid)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo</lj>
We'll be arriving in Seattle sometime late tomorrow night. Don't know when I'll be online next. Hope all of you stay well in my absence!
pondhopper1. Think of the first word that comes to mind when you think of me.
2. Go to Google Images and search for that word.
3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don't tell me the word).
Now I feel guilty for all the people who didn't have a chance!!!
If you're going to try to sound chic and throw in French words, make sure you've got them right, please.
It's "bow-coo" (beaucoup), not "boo-kow"
It's "voila", not "viola" (the latter is a flower or a musical instrument, not a French exclamation). Pardon my own lack of accent on the "a" in voila.
Its not "le babe," it's "le bebe" and saying it in French doesn't make yours any more or less cute.
Maybe I'll go for the digital SLR I've been coveting if that is the case.
If so, what brands/makes do you all recommend (NOT CANON!)?
Teresa Wentzler:
pondhopper shortly!The Storyteller
English Garden Sampler
Summer Faerie
Tapestry Cat
Shepherd's Bush:
Charts (and any leftover floss from the kits they were originally in) for:
Cranberry Pinafore
Fair Philomel
The Shepherd's Bush ones may be slightly marked in pencil but this should be easily erased.
I'll probably post a bunch of magazines too and possibly some more charts, but this is a start ;)
If you want more than a couple I might need to charge postage, however, if it's only one or two it shouldn't cost me much to mail them. We could trade something, though, if you had anything on offer!
owlfish - Tal mentioned that you might be needing furniture, so if you're interested in any of this, let me know! You'd be welcome to take it if you could pick it up, which I know is the dilemma. Coffee tables - both are black.
One is like this (only in black!) one except without the under-shelf, which appears to have been added to the style since then.
The other we got used and DOES have an under-table storage area - it has beveled edges and the ends project out past the storage area, so it looks like a T. There is a small chip on one edge but otherwise is in good shape.
TV corner cabinet - an Argos purchase, in "mahogany" laminate with a slightly damaged corner bu otherwise fine. Lots of room for DVD player, CD player, and dvd/cd/cable storage.
Side table - Like this one and serves as storage space (we've used it as a toy box).
TV - it's not flat-screen but it's 28 inch and as yet I don't think anyone's claimed it!
I'm going to have a lot of craft stuff as well - will post a list of available charts, etc. soon. Those I'll mail, but I'd need to be reimbursed for postage.
Siggy, would you like your stitching stand back or should I Freecycle it?
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I'd like to do one of those photo albums that you design online and that the company then prints off for you and mails you. NOT one I have to put together myself, as right now I don't have the time or energy to go out and buy the album, photo corners, etc. It's faster online!
Flickr has a service where you can do this and so does Shutterfly - I'm sure there are other websites too.
Have any of you done this sort of thing before and if so, what service did you use and how did you like it? How much did it cost you, roughly?
I don't have a massive budget but I'd like to get one for my mom and both of my grandmothers, since I'm WAY behind on sending photos of Ciaran!
ETA: The books will be shipped to/within the US, not to me here in the UK, if that makes a difference!
Anyway, why I be boycotting this strike, yarrr, is because (taken from this entry - thank you
slammerkinbabe)So. How ’bout that content strike? I’m going to be blunt about this, folks: SUP doesn’t get paid for your posts, nor for your reads. They get paid either by you directly or by you responding to ads. In other words, if you’re a basic account holder or a paid/permanent account holder, your use of the system is completely orthogonal to SUP’s revenue. If you’re a basic account holder, they’d really you rather switch to a “Plus” account or drop into the sea. And if you’re a paid account holder, participating in the content strike is like boycotting your gym by continuing to pay for your membership but not using it. For one day. That’ll show ’em!
The only effective “boycott” is leaving LiveJournal. And that opens up a whole new can of worms, because those most likely to be annoyed with perceived changes in policy are those most likely to have been around a while, ones like me who are in the top quartile of connections. (A 2004 analysis estimated the median number of friends a LiveJournal user has at 30; a similar analysis I did this morning put it at 39.) In other words, the people most likely to be enjoying great benefits from the network effect—and thus, the people with the most to lose, socially, by leaving the site. It sounds great in theory to say, “Just move to (Greatest|Insane)Journal!” but in practice, GJ has 114,406 active users and IJ has 69,309, or just over 6% and under 4% of the userbase that LJ does, respectively. Your peeps just ain’t there, and no peeps, no point.
Anywho, this particular user also makes an excellent point by saying, "But I don’t think this “post-LJ service” is here yet. I don’t know what it’ll look like, but I don’t think it’ll use the LJ code base. (Please.) Instead of catering to the 18-24 crowd, it’s going to consciously skew older, because it won’t want to be in direct competition with Facebook and MySpace, either. What new features will appeal to older users? You tell me."
I think there's a shedload of cash in the making for someone to create an LJ-like site to appeal to MY age group (and older). I wish I knew anything at all about computerprogrammingcodingwotsit, because I'd love an LJ alternative with the networking features LJ has but sure as heck can't create one on my own. Any of you computer geniuses want an "aesthetic advice" partner? ;)
anaxila, who has sent me enough marshmallow eggs, peanut-butter eggs, and Peeps to keep me happy until NEXT Easter!!!You've absolutely made my week (and my work-buddies' week too, as they have partaken of the bounty).
Thank you!!!!
Do let me know if I can reciprocate and send you any nice British choccies, as I'd be happy to mail out a care package!
pondhopper, I still haven't made it to the store to buy YOUR peanut butter cups but will make a special effort to do so this week, as I have been shamed by the parcel on my desk this morning ;) I haven't forgotten you!Hay guyz, who WAS Rabbit back at Smith? I know I was Eeyore!
Your Score: Rabbit
You scored 15 Ego, 18 Anxiety, and 14 Agency!
IT was going to be one of Rabbit's busy days. As soon as he
woke up he felt important, as if everything depended upon him.
It was just the day for Organizing Something, or for Writing a
Notice Signed Rabbit, or for Seeing What Everybody Else Thought
About It. It was a perfect morning for hurrying round to Pooh,
and saying, "Very well, then, I'll tell Piglet," and then going
to Piglet, and saying, "Pooh thinks--but perhaps I'd better see
Owl first." It was a Captainish sort of day, when everybody
said, "Yes, Rabbit " and "No, Rabbit," and waited until he had
told them.
You scored as Rabbit!
ABOUT RABBIT: Rabbit is generally considered Clever by his many friends and relations. He is actually a much better reader and writer than Owl, but he doesn't consider it worth mentioning. Instead, Rabbit's real talent lies in Organizing Plans. He organizes rescue parties, makes schemes to reduce Tigger's bounciness, and goes on missions to find out what Christopher Robin does when he's not at the Hundred Acre Woods. Sometimes, however, his Plans do not always go as Planned.
WHAT THIS SAYS ABOUT YOU: You are smart, practical and you plan ahead. People sometimes think that you don't stress or worry, but this is not the case. You are the kind of person who worries in a practical way. You think a) What are my anxieties about and b)what can be done about them? No useless fretting for you. You don't see the point in sitting around and waiting for things to work out, when you could actually work them out today and save yourself a lot of time and worry. Your friends tend to rely on you, because they know that they can trust you help them work things out.
You sometimes tend to be impatient with people who are less practical in their ways. You don't have much patience for idiots who moan about things but never actually DO anything about them. You have high expectations of everyone, including yourself. When you don't succeed at something, or when something goes wrong despite your best efforts to prevent it, you can get quite hard on yourself. You need to cut yourself some slack and accept that everyone has their faults, even you, and THAT IS OKAY. Let yourself be faulty, every now and then, for the sake of your own sanity.
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Q: Microwave directions, please.
A: Wellsir, you need to know that times vary because microwaves vary and because of a Peeps' age. Basically, the older the Peep, the more water that has evaporated, causing more scorching and quicker explosions. For a fairly fresh Peep:
• At 30 seconds, they begin to inflate just a tad.
• At 60 seconds, the chest inflates, points proudly upward; at this point, the Peep is double in size.
• At 2 to 21/2 minutes, they're three-four times their size and ready to eat. NOW.
• At three minutes, they begin melting into Peep-goo.
• At four minutes, Peep puddles begin to overflow, making a nasty mess in the microwave.
I am now consumed not only with Peeps cravings but also with a desperate, evil desire to MICROWAVE A PEEP AND SEE IT EXPAND!
I also am missing:
Reese's PB eggs
Chocolate marshmallow eggs
Life is hard in England, you see :(
I swear, I *cannot* find it and my sister says it's not anywhere in Seattle that she's seen, so WHERE IS IT?!
Argh!
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Two very good things happened to me, by the way, that I completely forgot to mention in my fury at the GP's office.
1. A lady on the way home smiled at me and said she hoped I felt better, as I looked very upset! I'm not generally into people interfering with my moods but for once I appreciated the sentiment.
2. When I told the nice man at the library that I thought I'd lost one of Ciaran's books, he said he was sure it would turn up somewhere and not to worry, as kids put things in weird places. He took it off our list of checked-out books, so that I wouldn't get overdue notices or have to keep renewing it, and said just to bring it back when it turned up in the flat.
There, two NICE bits to my day. I can be a little optimistic, sometimes ;)
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