1. What were you known as in HS (Jock, Princess, Geek)
A head.
2. What were you really?
A very smart head. I was in honors classes. I used to walk in the first day of class and the teachers would tell me I'm in the wrong class. Then the other students would correct the teacher and tell her I belonged there. That was fun.
3. If you could go back and tell your 16 year old self one thing, what would it be?
Besides for investing in whatever company would give me the most profit. I was smart enough to become valedictorian. It's upsetting to know what I could have had (earlier) if I would have applied myself. I did finally go to college at 30. It's taken me longer, but considering I have a 3.6 GPA in college, imagine what it would have been when I was much younger and on top of things.
4. If you could erase one moment from your school days what would it be?
The day I meet Freddy. It freaks me out that if I would have turned down the street the other way, I wouldn't have met him and my life would have been forever changed.
5. Who did you not date (or more) that you wish you did?
The guy I had a crush on since elementary school. We were in the band together since 5th grade. He was a prep and I was a head. I still have a thing for sax players and guys with dark hair and blue eyes. Funny that his brother is the personal financial adviser for my parents. I guess I could find out if he was still available. :)
Bonus (as in optional): If you went to prom, describe your outfit
Prom? What's that? I didn't wear dresses back then!
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
You Are What You Read
I stole this from last month's guest blogger, Tom Allen. Want to do it ? Steal away!
“Someone” reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. It’s not the Big Read though — they don’t publish books, and they’ve only featured these books so far. In any event . . .
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you started but did not finish.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 or less and force books upon them.
1. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
5. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
6. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
8. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
12. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13. His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman
14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
18. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
21. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
22. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
23. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
24. Animal Farm - George Orwell
25. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
26. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
28. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
29. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
30. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
31. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
32. Complete Works of Shakespeare
33. Ulysses - James Joyce
34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
35. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
36. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
37. The Bible
38. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
40. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (This was a personal choice for an 8th grade book report. I read the unabridged copy. I was crazy!)
41. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
46. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
47. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
48. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
49. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
50. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
51. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
52. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
53. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
54. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
55. Middlemarch - George Eliot
56. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
57. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
58. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
59. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
60. Emma - Jane Austen
61. Persuasion - Jane Austen
62. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
63. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
64. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
65. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
66. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
67. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
68. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
69. Atonement - Ian McEwan
70. Dune - Frank Herbert
71. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
72. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
73. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
74. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
75. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
77. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
78. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
79. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
80. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
81. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
82. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
83. Dracula - Bram Stoker
84. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
85. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
86. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
87. Germinal - Emile Zola
88. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
89. Possession - A.S. Byatt
90. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
91. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
92. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
93. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
94. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
95. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
96. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
97. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
98. Watership Down – Richard Adams
99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
100. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
18 out of 100 - I have some catching up to do! However, I've been spending my time reading other books. I usually read thrillers, like John Grisham and Michael Palmer. Also, my lifetime goal is to get through all 90+ books by Agatha Christie. I guess that'll count towards my 100. :)
“Someone” reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. It’s not the Big Read though — they don’t publish books, and they’ve only featured these books so far. In any event . . .
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you started but did not finish.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 or less and force books upon them.
1. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
2. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
3. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
5. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
6. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
8. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
12. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
13. His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman
14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
18. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
21. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
22. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
23. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
24. Animal Farm - George Orwell
25. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
26. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
28. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
29. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
30. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
31. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
32. Complete Works of Shakespeare
33. Ulysses - James Joyce
34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
35. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
36. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
37. The Bible
38. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
40. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (This was a personal choice for an 8th grade book report. I read the unabridged copy. I was crazy!)
41. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
46. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
47. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
48. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
49. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
50. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
51. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott
52. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
53. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
54. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
55. Middlemarch - George Eliot
56. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
57. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
58. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
59. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
60. Emma - Jane Austen
61. Persuasion - Jane Austen
62. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
63. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
64. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
65. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
66. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
67. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
68. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
69. Atonement - Ian McEwan
70. Dune - Frank Herbert
71. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
72. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
73. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
74. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
75. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
77. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
78. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
79. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
80. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
81. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
82. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
83. Dracula - Bram Stoker
84. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
85. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
86. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
87. Germinal - Emile Zola
88. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
89. Possession - A.S. Byatt
90. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
91. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
92. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
93. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
94. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
95. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
96. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
97. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
98. Watership Down – Richard Adams
99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
100. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
18 out of 100 - I have some catching up to do! However, I've been spending my time reading other books. I usually read thrillers, like John Grisham and Michael Palmer. Also, my lifetime goal is to get through all 90+ books by Agatha Christie. I guess that'll count towards my 100. :)
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
TMI Tuesday #142 - Deadly Sins Edition
1. LUST: Besides your current Significant Other who do you lust for or have you lusted for? Well, I don't have a SO right now. So pretty much every guy I meet that's attractive I lust for. :) Seriously, there's only one person I think about often and every time he looks at me I get goosebumps. I just don't think I'm the right girl for him. Don't want to start something that'll just end in heartache.
2. GLUTTONY: What food brings out your inner glutton?
Coffee & chocolate.
3. GREED: What are you greedy for?
Money so I can quit my job and spend more time with my children. Also, I "think" my ex-husband wouldn't be so much of an ass if he didn't have to pay child support. Nah, he'd still be an ass.
4. SLOTH: What is your plan for an ideal day of sloth?
Staying in my pjs watching t.v. and playing games on the computer.
5. WRATH: Describe a time that you let out a can of whoop ass on someone.
Everytime I get in the car down here in Louisiana. No one knows how to drive.
6. ENVY: Who or what do you envy? Why?
A co-worker. She's pretty and has an awesome body. Everytime we go out she gets all the looks. (And no, I'm not attracted to her, I'm not wired that way.)
7. PRIDE: Have you ever had to swallow your pride? What are you proud of?
Yes, I drank too much too fast one time. It's been over a year and we still laugh about it.
I'm proud of my children. I have to watch how often and how much I brag about them. (BTW, they all make the A/B honor roll! They're smart and sweet!)
2. GLUTTONY: What food brings out your inner glutton?
Coffee & chocolate.
3. GREED: What are you greedy for?
Money so I can quit my job and spend more time with my children. Also, I "think" my ex-husband wouldn't be so much of an ass if he didn't have to pay child support. Nah, he'd still be an ass.
4. SLOTH: What is your plan for an ideal day of sloth?
Staying in my pjs watching t.v. and playing games on the computer.
5. WRATH: Describe a time that you let out a can of whoop ass on someone.
Everytime I get in the car down here in Louisiana. No one knows how to drive.
6. ENVY: Who or what do you envy? Why?
A co-worker. She's pretty and has an awesome body. Everytime we go out she gets all the looks. (And no, I'm not attracted to her, I'm not wired that way.)
7. PRIDE: Have you ever had to swallow your pride? What are you proud of?
Yes, I drank too much too fast one time. It's been over a year and we still laugh about it.
I'm proud of my children. I have to watch how often and how much I brag about them. (BTW, they all make the A/B honor roll! They're smart and sweet!)
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
TMI Tuesday #141 - Marriage Edition
Alright, this is a BAD week for me to start back up at TMI. I stopped posting because I was about to separate from my husband (and he was spying on me trying to use my fantasy blog for whatever evidence he wanted in court). Now that I've been separated for 6 months, I don't give a s***.
1. Do you believe in marriage?
Yes.
2. What is marriage to you?
Not just a commitment to "stay" with the person until death. It's a commitment based on a friendship. It's saying I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I will work on this relationship on a daily basis. Not just saying the vows, ignoring problems, shrugging your shoulders, and saying divorce is not an option.
3. If you are married, why did you do it? If you are not, why have you not married?
Been there, done that. Don't know if I'll ever do it again.
4. Do you believe in divorce?
I didn't until it was my choice over suicide.
5. If you are divorced, why did you do it? If you have not, are there certain circumstances under which you would agree to a divorce?
I was so depressed, drugs didn't even help. I stopped being a mother to my children. I did it to live again. I did it for them.
Bonus (as in optional): [ed note:I am not trying to spark a get political debate, I am much to superficial for that]Do you believe that same sex marriages are a threat to traditional marriages? What people do behind closed doors is between them and their God. You can't legalize morality.
1. Do you believe in marriage?
Yes.
2. What is marriage to you?
Not just a commitment to "stay" with the person until death. It's a commitment based on a friendship. It's saying I want to spend the rest of my life with you and I will work on this relationship on a daily basis. Not just saying the vows, ignoring problems, shrugging your shoulders, and saying divorce is not an option.
3. If you are married, why did you do it? If you are not, why have you not married?
Been there, done that. Don't know if I'll ever do it again.
4. Do you believe in divorce?
I didn't until it was my choice over suicide.
5. If you are divorced, why did you do it? If you have not, are there certain circumstances under which you would agree to a divorce?
I was so depressed, drugs didn't even help. I stopped being a mother to my children. I did it to live again. I did it for them.
Bonus (as in optional): [ed note:I am not trying to spark a get political debate, I am much to superficial for that]Do you believe that same sex marriages are a threat to traditional marriages? What people do behind closed doors is between them and their God. You can't legalize morality.
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