So, hubby comes home in 4 days. I have a list of things to do a mile long to prepare for his return. The last 4 weeks I have have avoided doing a lot of things that I wanted to have done by now. Just have to be sure to hide anything that may not need to be seen when he gets here! (Just kidding sweetie!)
What have I been doing with all my free time you might ask. Class knitting and teaching has taken up some of my time and also a secret project that I have been working on for some time. But all the class knitting is done and the secret knitting is almost done so in the next week I should be doing something that I have wanted to do for a while.
First up, I am going to cast on for some super cute little bathroom curtains. My bathroom has undergone a little color redo. It was looking really institutional with its belgian waffle color walls and all the white towels and clear shower curtain.Now I have beautiful green towels and a great new shower curtain and I will be adding some little linen knitted curtains with a cafe rod. I will be sure to let you see them!
I am sitting in Barnes and Noble (one of my favorite hang outs) having a decaf coffee. Some people might say, "decaf, what's the point!" but I am really caffeine sensitive and stay away from it after 5 pm. But I still love that delicious coffee flavor! The smell of coffee and books is almost the most sensual experience in the world! Almost.
Yesterday my friend, Roseanna, and I took a trip to Hillsborough, NC. We of course visited the Yarnshop, but we also found a really cute bookshop in the little town that has a big section on Hillsborough authors and apparently they are very prolific in that area. Roseanna and I both picked up books by Michael Malone. She got this one, and I picked up these two. I can't wait to dig in!
I know! You want to know what I got at the Hillsborough Yarnshop. Well I had a $20 card, so I picked up a beautiful skein of Pagewood Farms Alyeska in the Harvest colorway.
It was Hotttt in the Piedmont Triad region! Nevertheless, a great day!
Stay cool and take care "til the next time we meet!
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Hot D@#n Summer in Virginia!
I get to stay in the states for the Summer and I'm glad but miss Hubby.
While I am here I will be teaching at Yarn Explosion and hanging out at my other favorite places, Barnes and Noble, The Crooked Stitch, and Mosaic.
I was fortunate to be able to attend the Columbus TNNA (The National Needlework Association) show with the super nice ladies at Yarn Explosion and we had such a good time!! I met a cabbie whose name is Tom and was from Kentucky that called me Hillbilly, imagine that! I was able to sneak out on Sunday morning and go to a bookstore in the German Village in Columbus. It is called The Book Loft and contains 32 rooms of books. I am thinking about having my afterlife there! There were 4 rooms of bargain books and I managed to pick up a couple of lovelies. I got Le Morte d'Arthur complete edition for a mere $4.99, Out of Africa, Some Terry Pratchett, and Kurt Vonnegut all at steals! Long sigh-----I love books.
Also while I was there I picked up Shutter Island which was just a fabulous book. I read it on the way home from Columbus and finished it the next day still weary from jet lag and the weekend excitement. It was a wonderful book.
Hubby got me a Nook for Valentines Day this year and it went with me to China! I am enjoying it so much. I still shop around for the best prices as some of the books on the Nook use the trade paperback size for pricing and the mass market paperbacks are still cheaper. So I always compare prices first and, anyway, when I am in the states I still love that new book smell and feeling a nice tight spine. Wait a minute, I know hubby has been gone for a while, but this is a little ridiculous! (Fanning myself briskly!) Anyway, I have the 3G and Wireless model and I really do love it. Its MP3 feature is another of my favorite things about it and I have downloaded audiobooks on it to listen as I knit. I can plug it into the stereo speakers for the computer also and have real surround sound!
Before sweetie left we were able to take a long weekend to Chincoteague on the Eastern Shore and took the bikes and had homemade ice cream and fresh seafood. I just love it there. Not to mention the sea air is great for my sinuses. Click on any photo to embiggen. If you look carefully you can see the Assateague Lighthouse in the background of the center photo.
Talk soon!! All about knitting next time. Hope you are all enjoying your Summer!
While I am here I will be teaching at Yarn Explosion and hanging out at my other favorite places, Barnes and Noble, The Crooked Stitch, and Mosaic.
I was fortunate to be able to attend the Columbus TNNA (The National Needlework Association) show with the super nice ladies at Yarn Explosion and we had such a good time!! I met a cabbie whose name is Tom and was from Kentucky that called me Hillbilly, imagine that! I was able to sneak out on Sunday morning and go to a bookstore in the German Village in Columbus. It is called The Book Loft and contains 32 rooms of books. I am thinking about having my afterlife there! There were 4 rooms of bargain books and I managed to pick up a couple of lovelies. I got Le Morte d'Arthur complete edition for a mere $4.99, Out of Africa, Some Terry Pratchett, and Kurt Vonnegut all at steals! Long sigh-----I love books.
Also while I was there I picked up Shutter Island which was just a fabulous book. I read it on the way home from Columbus and finished it the next day still weary from jet lag and the weekend excitement. It was a wonderful book.
Hubby got me a Nook for Valentines Day this year and it went with me to China! I am enjoying it so much. I still shop around for the best prices as some of the books on the Nook use the trade paperback size for pricing and the mass market paperbacks are still cheaper. So I always compare prices first and, anyway, when I am in the states I still love that new book smell and feeling a nice tight spine. Wait a minute, I know hubby has been gone for a while, but this is a little ridiculous! (Fanning myself briskly!) Anyway, I have the 3G and Wireless model and I really do love it. Its MP3 feature is another of my favorite things about it and I have downloaded audiobooks on it to listen as I knit. I can plug it into the stereo speakers for the computer also and have real surround sound!
Before sweetie left we were able to take a long weekend to Chincoteague on the Eastern Shore and took the bikes and had homemade ice cream and fresh seafood. I just love it there. Not to mention the sea air is great for my sinuses. Click on any photo to embiggen. If you look carefully you can see the Assateague Lighthouse in the background of the center photo.
Talk soon!! All about knitting next time. Hope you are all enjoying your Summer!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Almost February?
This month has flown by and I haven't posted any! Sorry!!!
Hubby left for China on Sunday the 10th and had to come home on the 17th. MIL has been in the hospital since the 9th. We didn't know that it was going to turn into such an ordeal for her. She has since had her left leg amputated and they have discovered leaking valves, extremely low blood pressure, and fluid around her heart. The doctors were able to stop the progression of a second heart attack. She has become confused and nervous and it has been so hard on her and the members of her family that have had to see her this way. We have only missed one day going to see her and it is so draining, physically and mentally. Tonight she almost broke my heart- when someone begs you for help and you can't help, it is just heartrending. Tomorrow they will maybe move her closer to us to begin some therapy and we will have to see how everything else progresses.
Also, I taught 3 classes this month at Yarn Explosion and am planning my next sets of classes. I've enjoyed it enormously!
My plan to read a book a week? Yep, going strong! When Christ and his Saints Slept is a fabulous read and I actually missed it when it was done but the good thing is there are two more books in the series so I can go back to these characters and pick up where I left off! Death in the Stocks is the third Georgette Heyer mystery that I have read and they just keep getting better. I love early 20th century writers! The language and humor are just wonderful! Finished Fer-De-Lance and read the second novel, The League of Frightened Men. Again another early 20th century author and I can't tell you how much I truly enjoyed these mysteries. Nero Wolfe is an eccentric, and his personality is so true to his character. I have already bought several more Rex Stout and can't wait to dive into them! The current book on the nightstand is this one. I'll let you know.
In February I will be receiving something very special and will let you know all about it then! I can hardly wait!
Will have the first pair of socks for personal sock club done by the last day of the month. It's been a close race with everything that has been going on and the preparatory knitting that I have been doing for classes this month as well, but I am pretty sure that I'll get there!
My friend Roseanna and I have been able to catch two matinees this month. We saw Avatar in 3D which was just one of the most awesome things I have ever seen for the animation. Also caught Sherlock. As a huge fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his Sherlock I had to get past Robert Downeys looks as the master deducer, but he had the personality down to perfection. The fighting and action part was not true to the original stories either, but it was enjoying none the less. We are going to try to catch as many as we can because during the week the matinees are great!
Phew! Just reading back over what I have written made me suddenly feel very tired. I think it is time for that long winters nap!
Hubby left for China on Sunday the 10th and had to come home on the 17th. MIL has been in the hospital since the 9th. We didn't know that it was going to turn into such an ordeal for her. She has since had her left leg amputated and they have discovered leaking valves, extremely low blood pressure, and fluid around her heart. The doctors were able to stop the progression of a second heart attack. She has become confused and nervous and it has been so hard on her and the members of her family that have had to see her this way. We have only missed one day going to see her and it is so draining, physically and mentally. Tonight she almost broke my heart- when someone begs you for help and you can't help, it is just heartrending. Tomorrow they will maybe move her closer to us to begin some therapy and we will have to see how everything else progresses.
Also, I taught 3 classes this month at Yarn Explosion and am planning my next sets of classes. I've enjoyed it enormously!
My plan to read a book a week? Yep, going strong! When Christ and his Saints Slept is a fabulous read and I actually missed it when it was done but the good thing is there are two more books in the series so I can go back to these characters and pick up where I left off! Death in the Stocks is the third Georgette Heyer mystery that I have read and they just keep getting better. I love early 20th century writers! The language and humor are just wonderful! Finished Fer-De-Lance and read the second novel, The League of Frightened Men. Again another early 20th century author and I can't tell you how much I truly enjoyed these mysteries. Nero Wolfe is an eccentric, and his personality is so true to his character. I have already bought several more Rex Stout and can't wait to dive into them! The current book on the nightstand is this one. I'll let you know.
In February I will be receiving something very special and will let you know all about it then! I can hardly wait!
Will have the first pair of socks for personal sock club done by the last day of the month. It's been a close race with everything that has been going on and the preparatory knitting that I have been doing for classes this month as well, but I am pretty sure that I'll get there!
My friend Roseanna and I have been able to catch two matinees this month. We saw Avatar in 3D which was just one of the most awesome things I have ever seen for the animation. Also caught Sherlock. As a huge fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his Sherlock I had to get past Robert Downeys looks as the master deducer, but he had the personality down to perfection. The fighting and action part was not true to the original stories either, but it was enjoying none the less. We are going to try to catch as many as we can because during the week the matinees are great!
Phew! Just reading back over what I have written made me suddenly feel very tired. I think it is time for that long winters nap!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
2010 Here I Come!
These are not resolutions, just plans. I can't commit myself to say resolutions or right away I am resenting that I HAVE to do something. I guess it all goes back to my youth and the antiestablishmentarianism of those times. Whew, that is a helluva word! Said it lots, never typed it, wow!
Anyhoo, I plan to get healthier this year. If a perk of that is weight loss then much the better. My plan is just to eat well and get moving.
I plan to read a book a week, which is not unusual but will continue.
Several people here in blogland have done what they call a personal sock club. Already have mine bagged and ready to go and will have 12 pairs of socks at the end of 2010.
Write more, here and in my journals. Draw more.
Thanks to the commenters, you're all special to me.
Hope your 2010 is treating you well so far. We will all travel it together.
Oh, another plan is to take more pictures for this here blog! ;o}
Anyhoo, I plan to get healthier this year. If a perk of that is weight loss then much the better. My plan is just to eat well and get moving.
I plan to read a book a week, which is not unusual but will continue.
Several people here in blogland have done what they call a personal sock club. Already have mine bagged and ready to go and will have 12 pairs of socks at the end of 2010.
Write more, here and in my journals. Draw more.
Thanks to the commenters, you're all special to me.
Hope your 2010 is treating you well so far. We will all travel it together.
Oh, another plan is to take more pictures for this here blog! ;o}
Monday, December 21, 2009
On The 4th Day
This is day 4 of the snow in. I'm still here and have been living in flannel pjs for 4 days. Don't worry I am taking regular showers, changing underwear daily and have plenty of clean flannel pjs.
Didn't have to work up the courage for the John Deere as my son volunteered to do it for me. He scraped but has never used the tractor before so it still needs to melt out a little, but he has my appreciation and I am sure he did a much better job than I would have.
Actually, a lot has been accomplished during my confinement. The sewing machine was pulled out and book covers made from Laurel Burch fabrics in stash. It is hard to find covers for trade paperbacks or books with more than 400 or so pages. As most of my books tend to be rather large, I decided to take it upon myself to design and sew some myself and I must say they turned out pretty terrific. Laundry is all done and floors are clean. I have gotten some last minute Christmas knitting done, and have enjoyed every evening sitting in my living room watching Christmas shows and seeing the twinkling lights on my tree.
On my nightstand now is The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart. I haven't read the Arthurian books in a long time and have found lots of new authors which will be shared with you as I get to them. Most of the Arthurian authors call for this series to be read first and they have built on it. Personally, I don't know where any of them would have been without T.H. White, but that's just my opinion.
Two more days and hubby will be home! Whoohoo!!
Didn't have to work up the courage for the John Deere as my son volunteered to do it for me. He scraped but has never used the tractor before so it still needs to melt out a little, but he has my appreciation and I am sure he did a much better job than I would have.
Actually, a lot has been accomplished during my confinement. The sewing machine was pulled out and book covers made from Laurel Burch fabrics in stash. It is hard to find covers for trade paperbacks or books with more than 400 or so pages. As most of my books tend to be rather large, I decided to take it upon myself to design and sew some myself and I must say they turned out pretty terrific. Laundry is all done and floors are clean. I have gotten some last minute Christmas knitting done, and have enjoyed every evening sitting in my living room watching Christmas shows and seeing the twinkling lights on my tree.
On my nightstand now is The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart. I haven't read the Arthurian books in a long time and have found lots of new authors which will be shared with you as I get to them. Most of the Arthurian authors call for this series to be read first and they have built on it. Personally, I don't know where any of them would have been without T.H. White, but that's just my opinion.
Two more days and hubby will be home! Whoohoo!!
Monday, July 13, 2009
A Quick Catch Up!
First I found this meme over on Knitnanas place and I was curious how many I had read. Let's see......
Instructions: Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)
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(X)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ()
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)
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 (X)
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 (X)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (X)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (X)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (X)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ()
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ()
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (X)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (X)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (X)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (X)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (X)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - (X)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (X)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ()
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ()
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (X)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (X)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (X)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (X)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (X)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ()
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (X)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (X)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (X)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (X)
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 (X)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ()
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (X)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie()
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ()
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (X)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (X)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Inferno - Dante ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ()
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (X)
80 Possession - AS Byatt ()
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (X)
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 ()
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (X)
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 (X)
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 ()
Wow, I think I counted 54. Correct me if I'm wrong. I have always Loved to read, started reading very early and still read as much as I possibly can. Maybe I'll even tackle a few of these that I did not check.
I've decided to try to get a little more healthy and have started an exercise program 5 mornings a week with a personal trainer. I truly enjoy my knitting, and needlepoint and cross stitch as well, but they are not very conducive to good health as I sit the whole time I am engaged in them. Since I enjoy them so much, I was seated quite a lot. Now I get up and go to exercise and I am starting to feel stronger and have more energy. I'm starting to feel so much better, not to mention the benefits to my butt and other areas!!
I'm still knitting, though, believe it or not, and one of these days soon I am going to get pictures off the camera and onto the computer.
Hubby and I had such a great weekend and I hated for it to end. We just have so much fun together!! He's gone back to work this morning and I miss him a little even though I know he'll be home in a few hours. I know, I know. All of you with weak stomachs, I'll wait til you get back......
Okay, anyway, have a great Monday!!
Instructions: Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)
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(X)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ()
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman ()
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (X)
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 (X)
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 (X)
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot (X)
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (X)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (X)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens (X)
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ()
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ()
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (X)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ()
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (X)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (X)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (X)
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (X)
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (X)
34 Emma - Jane Austen (X)
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (X)
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (X)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - (X)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ()
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (X)
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (X)
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ()
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ()
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (X)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (X)
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan (X)
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ()
52 Dune - Frank Herbert (X)
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons (X)
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (X)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ()
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ()
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (X)
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (X)
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (X)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ()
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (X)
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 (X)
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ()
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (X)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie()
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ()
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (X)
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (X)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett (X)
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ()
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Inferno - Dante ()
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ()
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ()
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray (X)
80 Possession - AS Byatt ()
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (X)
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 ()
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ()
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White (X)
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (X)
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 (X)
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 ()
Wow, I think I counted 54. Correct me if I'm wrong. I have always Loved to read, started reading very early and still read as much as I possibly can. Maybe I'll even tackle a few of these that I did not check.
I've decided to try to get a little more healthy and have started an exercise program 5 mornings a week with a personal trainer. I truly enjoy my knitting, and needlepoint and cross stitch as well, but they are not very conducive to good health as I sit the whole time I am engaged in them. Since I enjoy them so much, I was seated quite a lot. Now I get up and go to exercise and I am starting to feel stronger and have more energy. I'm starting to feel so much better, not to mention the benefits to my butt and other areas!!
I'm still knitting, though, believe it or not, and one of these days soon I am going to get pictures off the camera and onto the computer.
Hubby and I had such a great weekend and I hated for it to end. We just have so much fun together!! He's gone back to work this morning and I miss him a little even though I know he'll be home in a few hours. I know, I know. All of you with weak stomachs, I'll wait til you get back......
Okay, anyway, have a great Monday!!
Friday, October 3, 2008
I Have To Agree On This
I was at over at Chez Knitnana and she had this great quiz to take. Mine matches me to a T! Try it for yourself.
I do love Adventure, and I do have that southern "drag talk" as I've been told by people even in my hometown. There are those who find it hard to take me seriously because I can change thoughts or beliefs pretty quickly. Prove something to me and I'm on board with it! And yes the more I learn about the world the less it makes sense, especially right now!
Besides, I always did love me some Samuel Clemens!
You're Adventures of Huckleberry Finn!
by Mark Twain
With an affinity for floating down the river, you see things in black
and white. The world is strange and new to you and the more you learn about it, the less
it makes sense. You probably speak with an accent and others have a hard time
understanding you and an even harder time taking you seriously. Nevertheless, your
adventurous spirit is admirable. You really like straw hats.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
I do love Adventure, and I do have that southern "drag talk" as I've been told by people even in my hometown. There are those who find it hard to take me seriously because I can change thoughts or beliefs pretty quickly. Prove something to me and I'm on board with it! And yes the more I learn about the world the less it makes sense, especially right now!
Besides, I always did love me some Samuel Clemens!
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