...and then you blink

Bags

As promised, here are pics of two of the bags I have made. The first is a chenille diaper bag that I put together last night and gave to my good friend today. It was really tough to work with this fabric (that is SO cute) because you couldn't iron it. When I tried to use the iron on it, the chenille changed colors. This little snafu made the handles a total bitch to do.
The second pic is one of the first (actually it was the third) bag I made, which I gave to my sister. She picked out that cool yellow lining. (yes, that pic was made in Wal-Mart...I was in a hurry before she left to go back to college.) That last pic down there is the fabric I bought yesterday while in Clarksville. I just fell in love with the colors in the striped fabric, and decided I couldn't leave without getting the provencial-looking duo as well. I can't wait to use them!

Good things

Here it is Tuesday evening and I'm just now posting. Truth is, I logged in to post last night, but Chase lured me away for something or another and I forgot. Ummm...tired much?

I had a really good weekend, and a really good day today. Most importantly...I bought a new camera!! I am so thrilled, and I haven't stopped playing with it since Saturday. It is leaps and bounds above my old P.O.S.

Today we (My mom, grandmother, Chase, and I) went to my sister's (pictured above) apartment. I managed to get a chance to sneak off to this cool little shop to get some fabric for a couple of purses I want to make, plus a smocking plate to start on this weekend. And to top the good day off...Chase was an angel baby! (however, I'm paying for it now, because he's pitching a fit as I type. Oh well, can't have it all, can we?) One more wonderful, fabulous thing before I go finish the diaper bag for my friend...I officially have child care lined up for when school starts back in August! WoooooHoooooo!!!!! (you SAHM have my respect...I would so love to be at home watching my baby grow up than someone's pre-pubescent mongrel) It's Chase's old babysitter who had to stop keeping him last November due to being put on bed rest with her second pregnancy. He loves her, I love her, she loves Chase...The world is good!

Going Domestic

Last fall I took a class on English Smocking taught by a friend. I immediately fell in love, and couldn't smock enough...but it wasn't enough to just do the smocking, I wanted to make the whole outfit. I had all these visions of buying a pleaterand sewing all kinds of things for Chase and my nieces/nephews. Never mind that I had never sewn a lick in my life. I asked for a sewing machine for Christmas, and the hubs reluctantly obliged. I was given a quick course in sewing by my mom, then went on to make a couple of things for my niece’s Bitty Baby (not the wonderful outfits I imagined, but hey, I was learning!). I moved on to scarves, curtains, purses, diaper bags...and they looked damn good for a newbie! Well, last night I made Chase his first article of clothing...these little shorts out of a patchwork Madras plaid I found at Hancocks. I'm pretty dog-gone proud of myself (by no means an expert, but still...I just got my machine at Christmas!)

If I can get my piece of crap digital camera to work (I told you I wanted a new one), I'll post a pic!

Summertime...and the living's easy

I saw this over at atypical mom's, but it originated at Keri Smith's web site Wish Jar Journal. Pass it on!

Here is my list of stuff I want to do this summer.

Get your Gmail account!

I have a few Gmail account invites if anyone wants one. You can either email me or just leave a comment here. Be sure to include a valid email address (note: sometimes Gmail invites disappear in Yahoo).

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UPDATE: I'm all out, but if you really want one, leave a comment and I'll send you one as invites come in.

Come Monday it'll be alright

It's been an eventful weekend. We had guests this weekend (hub's family), so it feels like we haven't had a real weekend, you know? Chase loved playing with his cousins(3 boys), though. Also, a local organization I volunteer for held a golf tournament on Saturday, so I was there most of the day (as was the Hubs because he played in the scramble). On a funny side note - this tournament was a 4 man scramble, and Hubs was paired with, of all people, my first "real" (ahem) boyfriend. Heh. Anyway...busy weekend, good Father's Day, super happy for it to be Monday. Chase and I slept late, and now can get back into our little weekly routine. Summer is so good.

You wanna have some fun??

Take one nationally-known chain discount store (you know the one that Paris Hilton thought sold walls), turn off the power to it and the red light at it's entrance, sprinkle with rude, uneducated (and I use this term literally ) hicks, and watch the hilarity ensue. You would think someone ripped out the heart and soul of the county! I hope I never have to experience that again.

Fore!!

I'm all for my husband (hey babe) having a hobby he loves...something I'm not involved in, and something that doesn't remind him of work. Golf happens to be that hobby (never mind that it's an EXPENSIVE hobby). I feel like I'm pretty cool about it; I don't bitch and whine (much) when he heads off to the course after work or on weekends.

Except last night.

He came home from work about 5ish and headed right back out the door to "go to the driving range." He said he would bring dinner home after he finished hitting "a couple of buckets." Fast forward to 9:30. 9:30!!!! I'm here with Chase, who has long since hit his witching hour, and we are both starving! I can't get him on the phone, and I am PISSED. I really hated for Chase and I to eat because I knew he would eventually bring home food. When he finally did call he gave some lame excuse about being roped into playing a few holes with a friend and his sons (which I found totally not-fucking-funny after I put two & two together later on when he said how he had to convince the person running the course to let him play a few holes - and THEN he ran into previously mentioned friend. What about the couple of buckets on the driving range???????)

I suppose it all boils down to I'm just feeling lonely. He's at work all day, then when we should be having family time he doesn't want to stay. Also, I'm really tired of this trying to have a baby thing. I just don't know how some people get through it. I know I'll get over my feelings soon, but I just needed a little pity-party today.

Cool: Take two

I had a whole entry typed, but lost it when my two-year-old pressed the "sleep" button on the keyboard 10 times in a row. How funny, because I had written about how feisty he'd become as of late. It's weird, he'll be the sweetest, most loving "mama's baby" one minute, then pitch this screaming, crying, kicking fit. He's also developed this high pitched squeal (imagine trying to sing a high note - off key - overandoverandover) that makes me want to crawl under the house and die! (well, maybe not die, but cry lots and lots, and pray that he will just skip over this hysterical phase v. quickly) It doesn't help matters that he was in the middle of one of these fits when I sliced my middle finger (about 2 inches along the knuckle) on the cheese knife that the hubs placed in the utensil holder blade side up. I can't win for losing.

On a happier note, I finally snagged a Gmail account today (thanks DaisyHead) and it's pretty cool. I haven't been able to use it much (obviously), but I'm glad to have it. (Ironically on the same day that Yahoo launched it's 100 MB - "I want to run with the big dogs" - campaign. Oh, well.) Also, I've jumped right on the Rainlendar bandwagon and I'm really loving it! I got the snazzy Mod skin, too, from Shelby over at Yup-yup.com. Very cool.

And, one last thing...tonight's the first night of TBS's Sex and the City Five nights of Great Sex. They are going to show favorite episodes all week, then show all six seasons from here on out. Even though I have the "real" thing on DVD, I'll still be tuning in just for the heck of it!

Observations

I'm in a pissy mood. Bahhh.

Unconscious Mutterings

From Unconscious Mutterings:
I say ... and you think ... ? (week 71)

1. Colorblind:: Men
2. Shallow:: Men
3. Erotica:: Madonna
4. Figment:: Imagination
5. Eviction:: Tenant
6. Composed:: Collected
7. Chill:: Out
8. Girl:: Band
9. California:: Californication
10. Bond:: James

Required Reading

I first saw something similar to this at JustJenn, then today I saw it at Mindy's, so here goes...

Steal it, post it on your site, bold the books you've read and add three of your own! (I'm adding 3 of my fave chick-lit books to my list)

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The DUrbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alices Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Joness Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnights Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. Georges Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick OBrian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlottes Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophies World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winters Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winters Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline LEngle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Rraft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. OBrien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen Gods Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setters Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magics Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magics Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magics Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace.
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison.
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving.
302. Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lions Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christs Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, Uri Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline LEngle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moors Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster loved
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howls Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Childhoods End, Arthur C. Clarke
368. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
369. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
370. The God Boy, Ian Cross
371. The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King
372. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
373. Misery, Stephen King
374. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
375. Hood, Emma Donoghue
376. The Land of Spices, Kate OBrien
377. The Diary of Anne Frank
378. Regeneration, Pat Barker
379. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
380. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
381. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
382. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
383. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
384. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
385. A Severed Wasp - Madeleine LEngle
386. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
387. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) - translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest
388. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown
389. Desire of the Everlasting Hills - Thomas Cahill
390. The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
391. The Things We Carried, Tim OBrien
392. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
393. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
394. Enders Shadow, Orson Scott Card
395. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
396. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
397. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
398. A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L'Engle
399. Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
400. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
401. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
402. The Bridge, Iain Banks
403. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit, Daniel Quinn
404. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
405. The Gold Coast, Nelson DeMille
406. Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner
407. Watermelon, Marian Keyes
408. Wifey, Judy Blume

Preppy days

I just love getting Daily Candy delivered to my inbox each day. When I was out of town earlier this week, I missed this post on the most cool, preppy golf bags for women. Oh I didn't know you played golf, you say...Well, I don't, but these bags could make me want to take it up (much to hubs's dismay...well, and the ungodly price tag).


Speaking of preppy, aren't these watches just awesome? I think I'll be experimenting with some ribbons and making my own little beribboned watch this weekend!

I just can't go anywhere

Don't you hate it when you think you have $10 in your purse, and as you are getting ready to run out for something to eat you realize that the $10 is gone? Or maybe I should be more specific...don't you hate it when you have $10 in your purse and your husband took it on his way to work that morning to keep from going to the ATM? Yep, I've been a victim of spouse-lifting. It really pisses me off, too - almost as much as not being able to call him and tell him that I'm pissed because he's in meetings all day at work.
Anyway...I've been out of town visiting my younger sister for the past 2 days, and it has taken me forever to catch up on all my daily reads (not to mention that I totally missed the 50,000 visitor drama on Mindy's site, and the missing co-worker mystery over at Marcia's!!!) It's official, I just can't leave town again.
My sister just recently moved into a new apartment and my mom made her some really groovy curtains out of some $1/yard sheer cream fabric and these really cool amber & wooden beads. I think she was pleased (as pleased as a 20 year old college student can be about curtains) Really...she does have a really cool apartment (picture Trading Spaces meets Pink Floyd - heh)

Ooohh, little boy just woke up...gotta go play Mommy!

D-Day

Every time our eyes meet
This feeling inside me
Is almost more than I can take
Baby when you touch me
I can feel how much you love me
And it just blows me away
I've never been this close to anyone or anything
I can hear your thoughts
I can see your dreams
I don't know how you do what you do
I'm so in love with you
It just keeps getting better
I wanna spend the rest of my life
With you by my side
Forever and ever
Every little thing that you do
Baby I'm amazed by you

Six years ago today I married the love of my life. He truly is my best friend. (He'd have to be to put up with me all these years!)

Where does the time go?

It doesn't feel like it's been 3 days since I posted. I went shopping with my mom Thursday, and I was busy up to my eyeballs yesterday with our local American Cancer Society's Relay for Life, so I suppose that's one reason. I did find the time to get my hair cut - a major plus! I was getting kinda shaggy. Chase and I have spent the morning at my parent's house and I HAVE PICTURES!! :o) He was in a really good mood today (which is rare!) so I thought I'd better take him up on it.

Wanna see more pics?(I hope this link works...I've never linked to Ofoto before!)

I am so dense

I just feel exhausted! I have wanted a "look" since I started blogging (3 whole weeks ago!). I first dipped my toes in the water by "tweaking" a couple of the Movable Type package templates. Sometimes even that boggled my mind, but nothing like trying to get this evil, evil stylesheet uploaded! I thought I'd lose it! Finally, when by the grace of God, I did get the stylesheet up, I couldn't get the friggin' sidebar back to the way I had it! AAARRRGGGHHHH! I just can't imagine how people create whole templates from scratch! My mind boggles at the most basic "all you have to do is copy and paste" linkware. Well, finally I have everything back to normal, with no tables behind other tables or anything else all whacked out. I would love to have my blog title all pretty and swirly, but that is just beyond my power tonight. I must go to bed and get the hell away from this machine!

Me, Only Better

Found this at Javamama [dot] net

Why don't you go and make your own portrait?