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A few more (What have you done to me, Jessica?)

Nicki, Mia, Sadie Mae, and Jess

Dolly time

Sophia and Abygael

Very cute

Thanks for the website, Jessica!

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Books

I stole this from Jessica. Thanks!

The Big Read* reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
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 only read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman – Though, I still haven’t finished the last one.

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. The Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. 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
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. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis- I’ve only read the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. There is no 36 anymore. I'm going to add Anne Frank, everyone needs to read The Diary of Anne Frank.
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 - A.A. 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 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- One of my favorite books of all time.
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 - A.S. 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 - E.B. 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
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Yay!

Which Harry Potter Character Are You?

My Result: Ginny Weasley

You rarely need Polyjuice potion because you're usually happy just being you! While you might not make the biggest splash or cause drama, you slowly and steadily win over lots of people who think you're pretty darn wonderful. While you can be a little shy and self-conscious at times (especially around a crush), you're probably considered to be a BFF by more than just one person.


Luckily, your talents aren't just the magic kind. You're also kind and smart and just great to be around. Looks like you'll have a very charmed life indeed!

What are you?
http://web.tickle.com/jumpto?test=harrycharacterogt&c=50652

Too fat

Tristan is becoming too too fat. He might have to go on a diet.

Tristan

My room is in the basement and it gets a little lonely there. I've been thinking about getting a small pet for a long time because, for some reason, it helps me sleep when I can hear a little animal running around. I've had my heart set on a hamster for a while. My brother had a hamster a long time ago that was a little crazy and very bitey. Because of that, I've always chosen gerbils for myself. However, years later, I decided that hamsters deserved another try.

I went last night to check out the hamster selection. There were not many to choose from. However, there was this one Winter White dwarf that I totally fell in love with. He was all by himself, playing in the wheel. There were several more all bunched together in a house.

This morning I picked up a paycheck and headed back to the pet store. My Hammie was still there, by himself in the wheel. I got him a good house, bedding, food, etc and then asked the sales lady to box him up for me.

She was looking very concerned when she got him out and said he was walking funny. She looked him all over and discovered the reason: He only has three legs. He is missing one of his front. He appears to have been born without it. She asked if I still wanted him, which of course I did. Since she couldn't sell him, She had me adopt him for free! My family always takes in the hard-luck cases.

I named him Tristan, from the movie Stardust. If you have seen that movie, you'll know why Tristan is a good name for a hamster/mouse.

Anyway, sorry for the long post. I am very excited about my new little guy. You would never know that he is missing a foot. He runs and eats and drinks and runs some more. He is just very happy to be on his own now. (The lady said that the other hammies had been picking on him. >:( )

Here are some pics! They are a little blurry, this little guy really likes to run!

ETA: It was weird because when everything got rung up, the total was within 1 penny of what I had gotten in my paycheck. I think it was meant to be! :) :-*

By the way, he is very sweet. Not bitey at all. I've held him a couple of times to get him used to me.

Perfect!

I did this again and got an even more perfect match! Red foxies are my favorite!

Stardust

Woo-hoo, 2 posts in one day!

You should all know that I'm completely obsessed with the movie Stardust. If you haven't seen it, SEE IT!

Blobbins gave it to me for Christmas and I've watched it 6 times since Christmas Eve.

And now I have Charlie Cox/Tristan/Stardust wallpaper as my computer background.

*hearts* !

Christmas 2007

Christmas was really great this year!
I got all sorts of great presents, including Felicity's carriage...which was extra neat because you can't get it anymore. I keep looking at all the little details. It is really amazing!
I also got Tiffany & Co earrings, BAB Triceratops, J Crew clothes, Bath and Body works stuff, DS games, calendars, and lots of great AG things.
Everyone was pretty relaxed all day, which was nice. I played DS Fashion Designer a lot and read some Christmas books.

Here are some pictures:


One of my favorite things about Christmas is when my dad brings home all the presents he has had stashed at work. They are always wrapped in different paper, and are always surprises!



Pit Pit on Christmas morning!



The tree lit up on Christmas evening.



Treeva and me.