notsoShyGirl

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:55:54 GMT

<lj user="notsoShyGirl">'s Halloween party: <lj-raw>

1oldmanfan dressed as a model shrimp. 
adrililith dressed as a camel, and it suited them disturbingly well. 
andeeh dressed as a bottle of Myloaughdine. 
buffys_beasley dressed as Marie Antoinette going to her death. 
carpedi7 dressed as Sigfried in need of testosterone. 
cashmerepett gets drunk, strips naked, and somehow emerges dressed as the Earl of West Daniel. 
chi2cali dressed as a very fake witch-doctor complete with a collection of shrunken skulls, though it looked more like a character from Harry Potter and the Queen's Paragraph. 
chrismarlowe dressed as the equator. 
chunkymonkee dressed as Pink's uncle, though it looked more like Optimus Prime. 
cornflakegirl23 didn't dress up, spoilsport. 
dunlin dressed as Zorak. 
evalie dressed as the love child of Elton John and Madonna. 
hollyn dressed as the Cold Power Ranger. 
jaanquidam dressed as a walking Guillotine. 
justroman dressed as a pixie. 
k8cre8 dressed as someone who just poked themselves in the eye, and it suited them all too well. 
keiran_c dressed as Lady Godiva without the horse and far too little hair!. 
kestratroi dressed as Josephine Baker but the banana "skirt" didn't survive the night. 
lady_ireland dressed as Gisele Bundchen. 
paksenarrion2 dressed as George Bush. 
petrona dressed as a character from a Final Fantasy game. 
princeoflunacy dressed as a new member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Beloved Knight. 
rgreeneyes dressed as a partner. 
scourgeoe dressed as the spirit of their dead grandmother Ellen. 
selenay936 dressed as a new superhero: Chameleon Protector. 
slayersteph dressed as Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster from Sleepy Hollow. 
spikmeister dressed as a piston. 
tiggz didn't dress up, spoilsport. 
tonymorel dressed as a character from "Duck Soup". 
violet_thoughts dressed as Mary Queen of Scots ... without her head. Most convincing. 
yourlittledog didn't even show up and doesn't get any candy.

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Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:24:54 GMT

Happy birthday paksenarrion2

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:14:55 GMT

Happy birthday petrona

It's been 20 years, but worth every minute

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:30:18 GMT

Today is my 20th wedding anniversary. It doesn't seem that long at all, until I realize that our son is almost 17. I wake up every day to the words "I love you". Our "bad" times are practically non-existant. I not only love my in-laws, but I like them, too. A day doesn't go by when I don't think about how lucky I am to have this man in my life.

I'm looking forward to the next 20.

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:27:42 GMT

Happy happy birthday adrililith !

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:41:12 GMT

Happy birthday chrismarlowe and hollyn !

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:16:45 GMT

Happy birthday tiggz !

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:43:07 GMT

Happy birthday rgreeneyes !

It's Official

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:35:18 GMT

My 16-year-old son just got his driver's license.

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:39:46 GMT

Happy birthday scourgeoe !

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:18:21 GMT

Happy birthday dunlin !

The Reading List - I've Read 20

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:16:37 GMT

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

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:17:26 GMT

Happy birthday spikmeister !

Yay greeneyes!

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:28:32 GMT

Yay rgreeneyes !

You're the yay of the day at the Beta!

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:47:36 GMT

Happy birthday paks!

I'm so glad you're an hour behind me!

Quotage Thing

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:33:41 GMT

"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

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:05:46 GMT

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

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:14:52 GMT

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....

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:58:34 GMT

Happy birthday tiggz!

Writer's Block: The Eternal Nocturnal Struggle

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:34:02 GMT

Vampires or werewolves?

View 501 Answers

Vampires. Although I'm quite fond of werewolves, as well.

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:32:41 GMT

Happy birthday rgreeneyes!

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:55:03 GMT

Happy birthday dunlin!

'Cause Dunlin says I have to...

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:22:11 GMT

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!

Dunlin Posted, So Therefore I Must Post

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:16:42 GMT

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.

It's Not Too Late...Here

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:11:41 GMT

Happy birthday

selenay936