i couldn't help but laugh at this from postsecret twitter. had a bad week, needed the laugh:
- Working on a PSA to be read by James Earl Jones for 1(800)SUICIDE. "If you're hurting there's help". What would you suggest?
- RT @_BrandiMarie_"You're never as alone as you feel."
- RT @no_absolutes "Simba! Remember who you are!"
ten percent overstock code: 140193 expires 7/31
- Mood:
mellow
no longer werkin? http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/Logon.html
money saving blogness:
http://www.5dollardinners.com/
http://jane4girls800dollarannualbudget.b
http://www.moneysavingmom.com/
consignment http://www.danisduds.com/
announcements www.purplestork.com http://rattle-n-roll.com/html/home2.html
baby stuff www.kellymom.com
bc forums: http://bccf.proboards.com/index.cgi?acti
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BusinessCa
nano guide http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iPod_na
tom sietsema columns http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/N
miss manners http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
heloise http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
ask amy http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
paperback http://www.paperbackswap.com/members/ind
post secret on twitter http://twitter.com/postsecret
word of the day http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/m
freecycle:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreecycleL
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AshburnArc
calendars http://www.vpcalendar.net/Year_Correlati
www.straightdope.com
www.cuteoverload.com http://icanhascheezburger.com/
conceptis http://www.conceptispuzzles.com/index.as
weather:
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/va
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/va
http://caloriecount.about.com/
http://www.backtothebible.org/index.php/c
ING https://secure.ingdirect.com/myaccount/I
https://www.cardmemberservices.com/cmsin
https://carenet.fnfismd.com/ncm/ACCLogin.j
( blogs blogs blogs )
i am really losing my mind. not enough adult interaction. like, i will think in my mind, i need to shave. then i'll say it out loud, but it comes out, "i need to vacuum." d'oh.
i'm craving a burger. (sorry james) though it seems that when i satisfy cravings, it doesn't hit the spot. and that's frustrating.
i can be germophobic and i can be strangely nonchalant about messiness, too. how does that work?? dust around the house, whatever. washing hands after touching a grocery cart, a must!!
it will take more than a lifetime to figure myself out. eesh. maybe it's good to have mystery. but for now, i need to vacuum ;)
okay, the fries aren't all that. but they have win!tater tots and win!onion rings. :)
so how many times do you go to a place/restaurant before you decide to dislike it? 3 is a good number, though with so many choices... it's easy to just go once.
-went to visit town hall today. n was like, do you want to visit your first floor friends? and i was thinking, um..no...not really. i'm not much of a parader, but we went. i get a little nervous about stuff - will we get chilled out sean, or grumptastic sean?? he got fussy right when we left. phew. heh. someone said i was looking skinny. i really wanted to say, it's my chest that's so big and it makes everything else look little. but there was a guy there. so i just make a face. (so instead i tell the interwebs. heh)
the stroller! it would.not.close. i started panickiing in the parking garage.. and s was crying, which gets me tense. and i tried to shove it in the car uncompacted. that didn't fit. i called N, and L came out, and it wouldn't budge for her either. it's comical, i suppose. but these days i'm still on the clock, and i felt the window of time shrinking, shrinking... L takes the stroller and we figure i'll pick it up another day. but L calls me when i'm on the road and tells me T got it to collapse. i make a uturn and pick it up. happy ending. :b
-what would i do if i had sextuplets/septuplets/octuplets?? besides cry a lot? thinking about this lately. i think the dvr's missing jon and kate plus 8, but i don't mind. i think that show has jumped the shark- is that mean or what. like the show has become their life and their work. but what would i do? would i not do the same? would i not take advantage of these opportunities? sigh. i hope the kids make out okay.
-la habra! my apologies to g and the memories of the salmon palace. i never thought i'd hear about la habra ever again.
jennifer tagged me for a 20 album meme. i had listed about 12, and i kinda gave up. half of those were just albums that i really liked; nothing that really signified anything or any turning point in my life. i could probably do a 20 significant song meme... which reminds
me..
i recently heard Calloway's "i wanna be rich" and paula abdul's "cold hearted snake" on the radio. they really bring back stuff from the back of the closet! hehehe. ya know what, i have itunes credit and i should get inspired to use it. maybe buy some mariah carey, or bare naked ladies or whateva.
this buy more save more for tombstone pizzas...
1,2, or 3 for 4.99 each
4 for 3.99 each
5 for 3.49 each
6 for 2.99 each
7 for 1.99 each
so even if you just wanted 3, you might as well buy 7.
i also like when you bring something to someone's house and it happens to be just what they needed. in our case, a case of bottled water. it was very random and very cool.
i don't like obviously fake, dark tans. unnecessary.
but
i thought of one good use for them. i mean, besides if you needed to buy feminine products. bwah! they accept pennies. so if you had a big jar of change, you could liquidate there.
jennifer's dog lucy, my neighbor's dog colby, sweet dogs in general. cute furry things. baby animals.
sean's laugh and smile
i'm asian!!!
spring is closer than it's been in...foreva..
when the vacuum picks up something good, and the zapping up noise.
genuine kindness from friends and strangers
cool memories of good times and awesome places
short commutes
comfy bed
love
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jawajames on to my nerdom!
1960 The Apartment, The Alamo, Elmer Gantry, Sons and Lovers, The Sundowners
1961 West Side Story, Fanny, The Guns of Navarone, The Hustler, Judgment at Nuremberg
1962 Lawrence of Arabia, The Longest Day, The Music Man, Mutiny on the Bounty, To Kill a Mockingbird
1963 Tom Jones, "America, America", Cleopatra,How the West Was Won, Lilies of the Field
1964 My Fair Lady, Becket, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying...", Mary Poppins, Zorba the Greek
1965 The Sound of Music, Darling, Doctor Zhivago, Ship of Fools, A Thousand Clowns
1966 A Man for All Seasons, Alfie, "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming", The Sand Pebbles, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1967 In the Heat of the Night, Bonnie And Clyde, Doctor Dolittle, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1968 Oliver!, Funny Girl, The Lion in Winter, "Rachel, Rachel", Romeo and Juliet
1969 Midnight Cowboy, Anne of the Thousand Days, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, "Hello, Dolly!", "Z"
1970 Patton, Airport, Five Easy Pieces, Love Story, M*A*S*H
1971 The French Connection, A Clockwork Orange, Fiddler on the Roof, The Last Picture Show, Nicholas and Alexandra
1972 The Godfather, Cabaret, Deliverance, The Emigrants, Sounder
1973 The Sting, American Graffiti, Cries and Whispers, The Exorcist, A Touch of Class
1974 The Godfather, Part II, Chinatown, The Conversation, Lenny, The Towering Inferno
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws, Nashville
1976 Rocky, All the President's Men, Bound for Glory, Network, Taxi Driver
1977 Annie Hall, The Goodbye Girl, Julia, Star Wars, The Turning Point
1978 The Deer Hunter, Coming Home, Heaven Can Wait, Midnight Express, An Unmarried Woman
1979 Kramer vs. Kramer, All That Jazz, Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away, Norma Rae
1980 Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Tess
1981 Chariots of Fire, Reds, Atlantic City, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 Gandhi, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict
1983 Terms of Endearment, The Big Chill, The Dresser, The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies
1984 Amadeus, The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story
1985 Out of Africa, The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi's Honor, Witness
1986 Platoon, Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, A Room with a View
1987 The Last Emperor, Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, Moonstruck
1988 Rain Man, The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Mississippi Burning, Working Girl
1989 Driving Miss Daisy, Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot
1990 Dances with Wolves, Awakenings, Ghost, The Godfather Part III, Goodfellas
1991 The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, The Prince of Tides
1992 Unforgiven, The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Howards End, Scent of a Woman
1993 Schindler's List, The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, The Piano, The Remains of the Day
1994 Forrest Gump, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption
1995 Braveheart, Apollo 13, Babe, Il Postino (The Postman), Sense and Sensibility
1996 The English Patient, Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Secrets & Lies, Shine
1997 Titanic, As Good as It Gets, The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential
1998 Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth, Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line
1999 American Beauty, The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense
2000 Gladiator, Chocolat, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Traffic
2001 A Beautiful Mind, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge!
2002 Chicago, Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Pianist
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Lost in Translation, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River, Seabiscuit
2004 Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Ray, Sideways
2005 Crash, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich
2006 The Departed, Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen
2007 No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood
2008 Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Put an x by the ones you've read and tally them up. watching the movie doesn't count...
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible - X
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 X
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 - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
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 x
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 X
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’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
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 X
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert x
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
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 x
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams x
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 X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x (abridged version)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X
6 The Bible - X
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 X
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 - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky x
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll x
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X
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 x
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 X
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’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
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 X
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert x
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
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 x
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams x
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 X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x (abridged version)
says the chick who has more pics of sean than pics of her entire childhood ;)
Joseph's Lullaby
Go to sleep, my son
This manger for your bed
You have a long road before you
Rest your little head
Can you feel the weight of your glory
Do you understand the price
Or does the Father guard your heart for now
So you can sleep tonight
Go to sleep, my son
Go and chase your dreams
This world can wait for one more moment
Go and sleep in peace
I believe the glory of Heaven
Is lying in my arms tonight
Lord, I ask that He for just this moment
Simply be my child
Go to sleep, my son
Baby, close your eyes
Soon enough you'll save the day
But for now, dear child of mine
Oh my Jesus, sleep tight
- Mood:
embarrassed
( the questions )
( my answers )
since i wrote it, you *have* to answer. :P
trying to recall the concerts i've seen, so i pulled out the ticket stubs.
musicals/ plays, etc:
miss saigon '94
hedda gabbler '95
phantom of the opera '97
rent '98, 2x in '00, 2003
cats '00 (last chance in NYC)
Jesus Christ Superstar '00
stomp '00 and 07
aida '00
penn and teller '02
pippin '02
les miserables '02
beauty and the beast '03
pirates of penzance 03
chicago '03
tracy morgan 03
the lion king 05
tick tick boom! 07
Sports:
Washington Warthogs vs Monterrey La Raza '94
orioles v yankees 00
washington mystics vs cleveland rockers '01
orioles v white sox '01
chicago cubs vs...?? at wrigley field '02
washington wizards vs new orleans hornets '03
bowie baysox vs reading phillies '03
o's vs minnestoa twins 03
capitals vs anaheim ducks 03
virginia cup the 79th.. 04
delmarva shorebirds vs lake county captains 04
o's vs toronto blue jays
nationals vs diamondbacks 05
o's vs indians
frederick keys vs potomac nationals 06
frederick keys vs winston salem warthogs 07
Concerts:
steven curtis chapman '94
newsboys '94, '98, 2004
third day '98??
jars of clay '97
dc fest '98... uhh, i think newsboys, jars of clay , point of grace were there.
superchunk, calaphone, and chris mills '01. i have no recollection of this. i sorta hadta google all these guys. *blush*
baltimore symphony orchestra - a bunch of times, starting in '01
weezer 2x in 01, 2002,
jimmy eat world
tenacious d
tool '01
jason mraz 02
jewel '02
everclear '02
m.o.w.s.e. '02
michael w smith
mercy me 04
take 6
rebecca st. james 04
