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My birthday: April 17
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If I had a billion dollars, I'd give a million to each of my friends and family. I'd have an indoor gym and pool built at my college. I'd pay for teachers aides at my daughter's school. I'd buy every book Nora Roberts ever wrote, and I'd fly to her next book signing so I could tell her thank you for saving my sanity by giving me an escape from reality for a few hours at a time.
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1,000 Shades of Fool
American Girl
Buddhists Do Scratch Their Heads Too
DJGroovySlug
FlyLady.net
He Wrote, She Wrote
I choose not to believe
I Was Just Thinking...
Jill Shalvis
Long and Writing Road
Miss Snark
Passionate Chaos
Pub Rants
Questions Asked, Questions Answered
Running With Quills
Still I Rise
Sublime Vacuity
The Steal-Me Book
Turn the Page
Woodland Rambles
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Taken from the ALA website
Books I have read are italicized.
My mil sent these to me- I just had to share.
WOMAN'S PERFECT BREAKFAST
She's sitting at the table with her gourmet coffee.
Her son is on the cover of the Wheaties box.
Her daughter is on the cover of Business Week.
Her boyfriend is on the cover of Playgirl.
And her husband is on the back of the milk carton.
WOMEN'S REVENGE
"Cash, check or charge?" I asked, after folding items the woman wished to purchase. As she fumbled for her wallet, I noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse.
"So, do you always carry your TV remote?" I asked.
"No," she replied, "but my husband refused to come shopping with me, and
I figured this was the most evil thing I could do to him legally.
A WOMAN'S POINT OF THINGS
(A MAN'S PERSPECTIVE)
I know I'm not going to understand women.
I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the root, and still be afraid of a spider.
MARRIAGE SEMINAR
While attending a Marriage Seminar dealing with communication, Tom and his wife Grace listened to the instructor, "It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other."
He addressed the man, "Can you describe your wife's favorite flower?"
Tom leaned over, touched his wife's arm gently and whispered, "It's Pillsbury, isn't it?
The rest of the story gets rather ugly, so I'll stop right here.
CIGARETTES AND TAMPONS
A man walks into a pharmacy and wanders up and down the aisles. The sales girl notices him and asks him if she can help him. He answers that he is looking for a box of tampons for his wife. She directs him down the correct aisle.
A few minutes later, he deposits a huge bag of cotton balls and a ball of string on the counter.
She says, confused, "Sir, I thought you were looking for some tampons for your wife?
He answers, " You see, it's like this, yesterday, I sent my wife to the store to get me a carton of cigarettes, and she came back with a tin of tobacco and some rolling papers; cause it's sooo-ooo--oo-ooo much cheaper.
So, I figure if I have to roll my own ..........so does she.
(This guy could be the one on the milk carton!)
WIFE VS. HUSBAND
A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, the husband asked sarcastically,
"Relatives of yours?"
"Yep," the wife replied, "in-laws."
WORDS
A husband read an article to his wife about how many words women use a day... 30,000 to a man's 15,000.
The wife replied, "The reason has to be because we have to repeat everything to men...
The husband then turned to his wife and asked, "What?"
CREATION
A man said to his wife one day, "I don't know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time.
" The wife responded, "Allow me to explain. God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me; God made me stupid so I would be attracted to you!
WHO DOES WHAT
A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning.
The wife said, "You should do it, because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee."
The husband said, " You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee."
Wife replies, "No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee."
Husband replies, "I can't believe that, show me."
So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says.......... "HEBREWS"
Live well, Love much, Laugh often.
American Girl- don't try this! Almost arrested for giving birth.
And note to those with criminal tendencies: remove stash before selling car. Car problems.
Bicycle Casino on X-Box Live? I have discovered a new pastime. Like I didn't have enough to keep me busy.
I needed a distraction. Took my car in to have the brakes worked on cause they were squeaking and grinding. They called today. It's gonna be about $500. I don't have that much to my name right now. I think I'm in trouble. Then there's the other car... the one we bought last year, drove for a few weeks and it broke. Miscellaneous broken things later... it's gonna be $300 just to find out what's wrong with it, because they have to take the intake manifold off (which apparently takes 2 hours to do...) and we owe for an hour of diagnostic and a tow bill. I hate cars. I think my mom might be able to loan me the money to get one of them fixed, but I really, really hate to have to borrow money from her. It's not like she gives me a hard time or anything, it just makes me feel like a failure to have to run to mommy for help. Oh well, it could be far, far worse. We have a home, it has lights and heat and water and flushable toilets, and there is plenty of food in the fridge and cabinets. So maybe I have to get up earlier and walk A to school tomorrow. At least its supposed to be decent weather. My mom is coming over to take M to daycare and drop me off at school, and Oshu (hubby) gets off at 1 and will pick me up at 1:45 after my last class. He has to be at work at 7 tomorrow, otherwise it wouldn't be a big deal.
Anyway, time to sleep. G'night.
Oh, and I changed my mind. New movie quote: "I'm thinking of geting a Tercel. Yeah, that's a Toyota." or alternatively "I have a dick on my face, don't I?" (both from 10 Things I Hate About You)
Stolen from MizLiciouss... who snitched it from American Girl.
What did you have for dinner last night? Ham, potato salad, cole slaw, deviled eggs and a chocolate bunny's ears for dessert.
And breakfast this morning? Chocolate raspberry coffee.
What time did you go to bed last night? 11 pm
And what time did you actually fall asleep? About 2:30 this morning.
What time did you wake up this morning? 7:41 a.m.
What was the first thing you said today? "Good morning, A, time to crawl out of bed, Spring Break is over."
Are you reading anything these days? O'Hurley's Return by Nora Roberts.
Turn to page 99 and share the first complete sentence: She was wearing a brief strapless bra that would stay below camera range and a pair of baggy jeans.
Share one quote you know by heart, from any movie in the world: "The first rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club. The second rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Someone says stop, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. ...(Memory lapse) ... If this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."
Is there a song that gets stuck in your head every time you hear it? "The Hands That Built America" by U2
If you had to come back and live as an animal, which would you chose? A dragon
What did you watch on TV last night? Didn't watch anything, unless you count the video game I played.
Any comments about what you watched? I like to play Animal Crossing.
What are you wearing right now? Black slacks and a funky purple cream brown and black patterned shirt. (I know, it sounds hideous, but its actually quite neat.)
How long did you spend getting ready this morning? Myself- 10 minutes, A- 5 minutes, M- 5 minutes.
What will you be having for your next meal? Hazelnut coffee- the coffeemaker is already set for 7:45 am.
Is that song mentioned above stuck in your head now? No. But I do have an overwhelming urge to turn it on.
Hope everyone has a sugar-induced high right now.
The kids and I did our traditional Easter routine- we went to a friend's house for lunch and an egg/candy hunt. I wised up this year. Last year, I wore a skirt, and there are skirt-cam pictures of my undies in the photo album. This year, I wore jeans.
We had probably 7 or 8 dozen plastic eggs filled with candy- and a few with money... A came home with $2, I found an egg with $5. The way we hide it is, we walk out in the yard, 'hide' the eggs in pretty easy to find spots, and toss handfuls of candy all over the yard. (Keep in mind that A, at 6, was the oldest kid there, followed by two 5's, one 4, three 3's, two 2's and a 7 month old.) The kids came home with bags of candy and a dozen colored eggs. They dyed 5 dozen, I think... but a bunch of them got turned into deviled eggs for lunch. Then, while the kids tossed fake grass all over the livingroom and ate stupid amounts of candy, a bunch of us played poker. We started with a dollar each in chips... everyone else kept pulling money out of their pockets and purses. I came home $4.89 ahead... which is pretty good since there were only 5 of us playing. I got everybody's money, hahaha! I like poker. I really need to learn the rules so I can play more games. Well, time to be sure A actually put her jammies on and brushed her teeth- it's bedtime. M is supposed to be getting ready for bed too... but I have my doubts.
Oh, well... Spring Break is over tomorrow... back to school and work for us.
It's that time of year again- when people do bizarre and peculiar things with fluffy Easter candy. Since I'm studying to become a librarian, this one is particularly close to my heart. Peeps in the Library.
I'm blowing spit bubbles at my friend using YIM. She is not amused. Nobody is ever amused by me these days.
This week is spring break. The mil took the short people Sunday-Tuesday. This would have been far cooler if I had not agreed to work Monday and Tuesday. I pulled into the parking lot after work Tuesday and there sat her truck. I had no time to myself all weekend. I mentioned (okay, whined about) that fact to hubby and as a result got last nite and tonight pretty much to myself once he got home from work. He kept the kiddos downstairs with him so I could watch 5 straight episodes of Stargate SG:1 last night. I watched another 4 today. I only have one left of Season 5, but I'm not going to watch it until I have Season 6, because it's always a cliffhanger, and it will make me nuts if I have to wait to find out what happens. (I learned the hard way after the first season I bought- which was #3 for a stupid reason I won't go into.) Well, that's about all I know. Time to go back to reading.
Tuesday was M's birthday. He is four now... not that you can tell from his behavior at the moment. He's mad cause I refused to put his shoes on for him. He can do it himself. They're velcro... We're going for a walk/bike ride. They're riding (him on his new birthday bike) and I'm walking. Well he put em on. Must go. Maybe I'll be back later.
Stolen from MizLiciouss.
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... or why I haven't posted lately. I've been playing Animal Crossing on Gamecube. I have become an addict. That and I've been reading. Now that my favorite authors are all tidily arranged on a bookshelf so I can see all of them at once, I've been reading the series ones in order. (I think it's a bad sign that the manager at Waldenbooks knows me by sight and greets me with "We're having a buy 4 get one free sale on romance today!")
I have most of the books on my new bookshelf logged into a database by author, title, series and order. Yup, I'm a geek, but I figure I'll stop buying duplicates once I have a comprehensive list of all my books in an easily accessible format. Yay for technology, and yay for Lucinda... without her I wouldn't have gotten this far- can you imagine carrying books downstairs to put them in the computer and then carrying them back up, one armload at a time? (At the moment there are about 230 books in the database, and I have about 1800 more to put in that are still in boxes.)
That's about all I know... aside from the fact that I'm going stir-crazy. M has been sick all week (just a head cold, but it came with that nasty croupy cough that kept hubby and I awake listening just in case this time he was going to stop breathing), so I've been trapped in the house with a not-quite-four-year-old since last weekend. Speaking of which, his birthday is next Tuesday. He wants a big-boy bike, and a race car to drive, and "A picky-up truck that picks up cars with". I think he means a wrecker. Are you sensing a trend? Everything has wheels. If it doesn't have wheels, it better be a wrestling guy. Granny (mil) said she was going to buy him clothes and give him cash to buy wrestler guys with since she doesn't know which ones he already has. Gammy (my mom) called earlier asking for ideas. Er... I'm not sure... although I think I just had a good idea. If he's getting a bike, he needs a helmet. Oh Gammy? (Must call. Suggest helmet.)
Well, the lasagna is done... time to feed the natives... they're getting restless.
