Book Meme

100 Book Meme -- as found on Dawn's Blog
According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on this list.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE. (note: I will put a * next to the ones I love since I forgot how to code underlining)
1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (that's a "love" for each book)
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (not all, though)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
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
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit
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
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (Magician's Nnephew, Lioon)
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
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - 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
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
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' 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
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
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
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 (started)
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

This stinks!

My life is soooo exciting at this point I can't keep up!! Uh, do you hear the sarcasam in my voice?? Life is SOOOOOO BORING at this point, I'm about to scream!! I had decided to not have a job this summer due to trying to be with my son a little more and hopefully have him start getting back home. WELL.....he's been moved again. Seems the little squirt did a no-no again in March which caused him to have to move yet again. This move was much farther, like TOPEKA!! Needless to say, I haven't been able to visit him as often or be where I was hoping to be with this whole process. GGGGRRRRR.......KIDS!! Since this turn of events, I have realized I NEED something to do, but now it's kinda late!
I do have a few things still going on, but nothing that is keeping me busy full-time. In the mean-time, my self-esteem has gone to the dogs! Literally!! I feel like I have had so many "bad" things (or has my mother likes to call them "learning experiences", happen recently, that I need something good to come about. So I guess I'm waiting, although not sure what I'm waiting on. Maybe I'm being to hard on myself, or maybe I'm not seeing something....I don't know. All I know at this point is something has to change!!

Who Are You?

Hit forward and place an X by all the things you've done and removethe X from the ones you have not. Answer 30 questions at the end & send it to your friends (including me) This is for your entire life!
(X) Gone on a blind date
(x ) Skipped school
( x )Watched someone die
( ) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico
( ) Been to Florida
( x) Been on a plane
( x ) Been lost (When am I not???)

( ) Been on the opposite side of the country
( ) Gone to Washington, DC

( ) Swam in the ocean

(X) Cried yourself to sleep
( X ) Played cops and robbers --
( X ) Recently colored with crayons
( X) Sang Karaoke
( X) Paid for a meal with coins only?
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't?

( ) Made prank phone calls --
(X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose
( x) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
( x ) Danced in the rain
( X ) Written a letter to Santa Claus
( x ) Been kissed under the mistletoe
( ) Watched the sunrise with someone you care about
(X) Blown bubbles
( X ) Gone ice-skating
( ) Been skinny dipping outdoors
(x) Gone to a drive-in movie theatre
1. Any nickname? Stac

2. Mother's name? Jean

3. Favorite drink? DIET Coke

4. Tattoo? no

5. Body Piercing? Ears (2 each)
6. How much do you love your job? Love it!!!
7. Birthplace? Wichita

8. Favorite vacation spot? ?? Any
9. Ever been to Africa ? No

10. Ever eaten cookies for dinner? yes
11. Ever been on TV? Yes

12. Ever steal any traffic signs?? no
13. Ever been in a car accident?? Yes
14. Drive a 2-door or 4-door > vehicle? 4 door
15. Favorite salad dressing? Ranch

16. Favorite pie? Strawberry or Pumpkin
17. Favorite number? 21
18. Favorite movie? Grease

19. Favorite holiday? Thanksgiving

20. Favorite dessert? Peach Cobbler

21. Favorite food? Italian

22. Favorite day of the week? Friday
23. Favorite brand of body wash?

24. Favorite toothpaste?? Colgate

25. Favorite smell? Strawberries

26. What do you do to relax? sing, read, write
27. How do you see yourself in 10 years? hopefully more content then now

28. Are you happy with your life? Most of the time

29. Furthest place you will send this message. Don't know

30. Who will respond to this the fastest? Don't know