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Monday, July 13th, 2009
8:42 am	Happy birthday chrismarlowe  and </span> hollyn !</span> (Comment on this)
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
9:16 am	Happy birthday tiggz ! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
7:42 am	Happy birthday rgreeneyes ! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
5:33 pm	It's Official My 16-year-old son just got his driver's license. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
11:38 am	Happy birthday scourgeoe !</span> (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
10:17 am	Happy birthdaydunlin ! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
2:15 pm	The Reading List - I've Read 20 The BBC apparently says most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Instructions are to copy this and paste it into your own note. Place an X by the books you have read. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X 4 Harry Potter series - JK RowlingX 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X 6 The Bible X 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X 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 Faulk 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 X 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 X 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 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 - A.A. Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X 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 X 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 X 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 X 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 X 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 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Comment on this)
Monday, December 8th, 2008
10:16 am	Happy birthday spikmeister ! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
11:23 am	Yay greeneyes! Yay rgreeneyes ! You're the yay of the day at the Beta! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
12:46 am	Happy birthday paks! I'm so glad you're an hour behind me! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
9:32 am	Quotage Thing "Things involving the computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such, I'd be more in my element." -- Giles       (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, July 4th, 2008
9:05 am	Your result for The 4-Variable Buffy Personality Test by donathos ... Faith 55% amorality, 64% passion, 45% spirituality, 45% selflessness Faith is a powerhouse, and you might be, too. Passion-driven, down-to-earth, and willing to do what it takes to get things done and have a good time doing them, she is tough and sexy. Now, this test didn't rate your sexiness, but with these kinds of traits, that's probably true as well. You rate as one of the most dynamic characters of the Buffy universe. Congratulations!  THE 4-VARIABLE BUFFY PERSONALITY TEST (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
2:14 pm	Your result for The Imaginary-Job Employment Test ... Leprechaun Hunter! 23 Humor, 20 Skill and 20 Morality! Wow, you're a difficult case. You scored right in the middle on EVERYTHING, so we really had to work on finding an imaginary job for you. By our calculations, you'll need a little luck to get ahead... that's why we think you'd make a good leprechaun hunter.  All you have to do is move to Ireland and keep a watch out for anything small and green!  The beauty part is, they'll do the rest... Just remember not to trust them when you catch them, and you'll be raking in pots of gold in no time.... (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
12:57 pm	Happy birthday tiggz! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, June 13th, 2008
1:33 pm	Writer's Block: The Eternal Nocturnal Struggle Vampires or werewolves? View other answers  Vampires.  Although I'm quite fond of werewolves, as well. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
8:32 am	Happy birthday rgreeneyes! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
7:54 am	Happy birthday dunlin! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
6:06 pm	'Cause Dunlin says I have to... Was let go from my job today.  Which is actually OK, as I was going to give notice tomorrow.  The boss was very nice about it - gave me two week's severance and said she'd be happy to give me a good recommendation.  It just hasn't been a good fit because I don't have the background for that job.  I already have one good job lead, and I'm putting out feelers with some former co-workers.   Monster.com, here I come! In the meantime, this means I can go to a birthday lunch for a friend on Monday.  Also spend some time with my mother-in-law, who arrives Wednesday afternoon for a visit.  Oooh!  I should go work out.  I'll think of this as a mini-vacation! Also getting over the tag-end of the cold I caught on the plane ride back from Paris three weeks ago.  It's an amazing pain how they linger. dunlin    Tag!  You're It!   (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 7th, 2008
2:44 pm	Dunlin Posted, So Therefore I Must Post Life is...life.  Been at the "new" job for about 10 months now.  Love the job - not the boss.  It's her own business and she's good at it, but what a pain to work for.  Make any mistake and get a scolding and a lecture - regardless of the scope of the mistake.  She taught school about 25 years ago and it shows.  I love my co-worker, who may likely take over the business in a few years, but I don't know if I can hang on that long.  I'm committed to one year and then I'll re-evaluate. Spent a week in Paris over the holidays!  The county that my son's high school is in has a program for high school musicians - two years ago they went to London.  The trip is open to all high school students in the music programs in our county (one of the biggest in the country - we have 24 high schools, I think).  Of those that choose to go, a band, choir and orchestra is formed, if there are enough participants.  This year there was a band and a choir.  The eight or so orchestra students formed a color guard. We left on the 27th, arrived on the 28th, and on the 29th the whirlwind began!  We had a four-hour bus tour around Paris.  Over the next week we performed three times and saw all of the sites.  The Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre, Sacre Couer, Monmartre, the Moulin Rouge, Musee d'Orsay, the Arc d'Triomphe, the Champs Elysees.  I have to say, the Metro is wonderfully easy to use. The hubby and I volunteered to chaperone, and were given the 10 kids from our son's school (including him).  The kids were wonderful and so much fun!  We called ourselves the "Blue Amoebas".  Part of their uniform was a baby blue hoody.  When we went to the Louvre, I made them all wear the hoodies, as did the hubby and I.  Inside the Louvre, I told them to stay together like a big amoeba - hence the name.  They called themselves that for the rest of the trip.  I was Mama Amoeba and the hubby was Papa Amoeba.  We're planning a pizza party in a couple of weeks to share pictures.  The worst part of the trip were the flights - both there and back.  We flew nonstop from Denver to Frankfurt, Germany, then on to Paris.  On the way there, we had 3/4 of crying toddler surround-sound.  Eventually two the of kids settled to sleep, with the aid of attentive parents.  The third, however, cried every 20 minutes or so all night long, or at least until about 3:00 am.  Her parents didn't seem to give a rat's ass that she was crying and whining.  Dad would dump her on mom, who eventually would put her on the floor.  When she started crying again, Dad would pick her up and the cycle would start anew. The flight back was a day flight.  I swear it was 48 hours long (9.5 actually).  Both the hubby and I caught the canned air crud - a bad cold.  We got back last Thursday.  I worked a half day on Friday, and for 90 mintes today, until the other girl came in.  bleah... Need to get online and see what the mini-me needs to do to get his driver's learner permit.  OMG.  Don't know if I'm ready for this.  Don't know if there's enough hair dye to cover the gray I anticipate getting.  I haven't had to teach anyone to drive in 11 years - since his sister was 15. Hope all of you had lovely holidays and are all well in this new year. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
7:08 pm	It's Not Too Late...Here Happy birthday selenay936   (1 Comment |Comment on this)