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4 May 2009 By Leave a Comment

My mother in law and her sister (aunt in law?) are in town. I think they are leaving tonight, but I’m not positive. They got in on Saturday, but we didn’t see Pam till 10PM b/c they crashed at the hotel (they drove down, we weren’t expecting them till past 10 anyway). We cleaned from 8AM – 3PM Saturday – big clean, not superficial it’s good enough for us clean.

Sunday we got up early as fuck, Michael got bagels, we ate with the boys before they went to Hebrew school, ate with Pam & Susie, picked up the boys from school, ate lunch, came home, decided not to go to the beach (it was very hot out), hit Target (whoohoo Target! totally warranted, my menfolk needed shoes), ordered pizza and came home to eat. We all hung out outback in between lunch & Target.

Today we went to the post, Michaels, then Festival. Picked up the boys, Michael is at the shop with the two of them so they can get some tattoos and I need to make dinner. Then we need to go *back* to Target so Pam can return something and so she can get something for the boys. We didn’t find anything for her to get them this morning. I say the don’t need more crap, but she gets them stuff and sees them so rarely… at least it’s stuff I don’t have to buy them lol Dor wants those Wolverine claws and Malachai wants a movie. Eshiva got jelly shoes last night (they’re still jellies, right?)

I just want to go to sleep. It takes a lot out of me to be in “company” mode, especially day after day. I crashed in the carpool lane at school and I’d like to go back to sleep.

Ok, my sexy beast of a man decided to get, well, beastly last night, so that didn’t help me in the sleep department (but it was much appreciated) but I still say company mode just drains me.

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Today

5 April 2009 By 1 Comment

We’re hitting the beach. We haven’t been yet this year, cold fronts, rain, etc… The kids are excited. Me, not so much. It’s just more sand. Sand to get in your creases. What, you don’t have creases? Meh, even BK (you know, before kids), when I didn’t have creases, I got sand in my creases. Now that I have lots of creases, it just means more sand in them.

I am pretty excited about dipping my hair in the ocean though. I haven’t been spraying it down with saltwater, so it’ll be nice to have my dreads tighten up a bit more.

I think we’re heading berry picking tomorrow morning. I joined a new meetup group, mainly because Punky Moms has no local group. What’s funny is, meetup.com has Punkymoms as a freaking interest and nothing we have done has made them remove it. The name is a registered trademark. It’s irritating to say the least. Tangent aside, it looks like a cool group. I wish we didn’t live in suburbanite hell. No one lives around here. They’re all south of here. I’m not bitching. Much.

I think we might try and get into the shop tonight. But we’re going to a water park in a couple of weeks, so I’m undecided right now. Two weeks is long enough to scab over and peel…. tough choices.

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25 January 2004

25 January 2004 By


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Bold=Actually read at least 80% of it
Italics=Listened to the audio book (alone or in combination with
reading)
Red=was supposed to read it, never did, but did
well on the test anyway
ALL CAPS=READ THE CLIFF’S NOTES
Underline=Never read, but understand content
enough for prolonged discussion.
*=Own a copy
+=Saw the movie, play, Masterpiece Theater version, etc.
!=Can produce a sufficiently entertaining anecdote about it to fool people at
parties into thinking I read it

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1. The
Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien*+
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen*|
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker’s 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. Nineteen Eighty-Four,
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 Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo
Tolstoy!*
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell+
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s 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 D’Urbervilles, Thomas
Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot,
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany,
John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice‘s 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 < span class=GramE>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* (But I HAVE read The
Magus by Francis Barrett)
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman*
69. Guards! Guards!,
Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding*+
71. Perfume, Patrick Suskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,
Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl*+
75. Bridget Jones’s 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. Midnight‘s Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracul
a, 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?, 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*+ (Do I get extra points for my
eldest child being named after Mr. Gray?)
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! (But I am extremely familiar with the painting by
Giger)
131. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. George’s 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 O’Brian
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
Cuckoo’s 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. Charlotte‘s 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. Sophie’s 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 Grossmith
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 Trut
h, 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 (WTF?
My son has it!)*
200. Flowers In
The Attic, Virginia Andrews

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04 December 2003

4 December 2003 By

swiped from who stole it from spikyporcupines

Age: 24

Where did you grow up: Baltimore MD

WHAT DO YOU CALL:

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
creek (but it sounds like crick)

2. The thing you push around the grocery store? cart, and it’s a food store, damnit!

3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
lunchbox

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
frying pan

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
couch or sofa

6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
gutter

7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
porch

8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
soda

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup?
pancakes

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself?
sub

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach?
swimming trunks

12. Shoes worn for sports?
tennis shoes

13. Putting a room in order?
either cleaning or picking up

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
lightning bug

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball?
potato bugs

16. The children’s playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down?
seesaw

17. How do you eat your pizza?
huh? from the point up. unless it’s sicilian. then it’s square and it doesn’t matter.

18. What’s it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
yard sale

19. What’s the evening meal?
dinner

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
basement. i miss my basement.

21. A window covering on rollers that pulls down.
window shade

22. A new, limited access, multi-lane road.
beltway

23. Heavy garments worn for work.
?? clothes? coat?

24. The highest grade of gasoline?
the expensive shit we don?t buy *laughs*

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08 October 2003

8 October 2003 By

I realized I hadn’t posted since last Sunday……

Sunday night we went to Halloween Horror Nights. It was cool. did three of the 6 houses, and I sat with Chai. He had a blast! He loved the guys running around w/ chainsaws, the “random” (timed lol) fire balls, and this demon person with a staff w/ a blow torch on one end. While we were waiting for after the drive-in house, Chai sat and watched this guy for almost 20 min solid! All the ghoulies who were supposed to be jumping out to scare you were stopping and waving at Chai, which was cute.

had to chug his monster at the gate b/c he couldn?t take it in (we had been hoping that b/c it was unopened, he could) and I in turn had to chug my sex on the beach (but they were calling it something else) before we left. I wanted a pink-glowey cup *laughs*

We slept in Monday morn, and drove up International and hit wonderworks (the upside down house) which was a bit of a let down for Michael, but I suspect we will fork over some cash again so we can take Dorian. I was inside a bubble! They have these HUGE metal rings and dish-soap bubble liquid so you can make huge bubbles. Well, Michael was playing w/ Chai with one of the huge ones, and suddenly he put it over my head. I think I was about 3/4 or 4/5 of the way in the bubble before it popped. So I was in a bubble :-)

Then we went to Johnny Rockets for lunch, which was an experience in itself. Michael had been to one in DC, I can’t recall ever being in one. The waiter gave up a few nickels for the mini table juke box, which was cool. I had a turkey burger with onion, swiss and salad, onion rings, and some fries. Michael got a plain ol’ burger or some sort, and Chai had some fries, some turkey, half an onion ring, and a lemonade that was real lemonade judging by it’s tartness. Oh, and we shared a malt. I drank what was left in the metal mixing cup and Michael drank the cup full lol

The we hit FAO Schwartz and got Dorian this kick ass all natural wooden toy. I am going to slowly get rid of this plastic junk and replace it with decent, wooden toys. Quality over quantity! We also wound up getting a stuffed duckling at the checkout b/c Chai went nuts over it.

And then we got on the road to come home. At Ft. Drum I got a chaco taco b/c I hadn’t had one in prolly 5 years.

So yah, that’s what we did. Tuesday I went to the post, today I went to the post, and we hit Whole Foods.

My parents & brother & sister leave tomorrow for PA, so it will be odd having the house to ourselves. I might clean…. or cook… or walk around stark naked. You never know.

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