tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84453690364288126972023-07-17T23:53:59.498-05:00Forever In Search Of my MuseCBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-26807751252206697632014-09-15T23:39:00.003-05:002015-09-26T21:50:08.552-05:00Rory Gilmore Reading List<div class="buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_text buzz_superlist_item_wide " id="superlist_3101858_2648093">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>~~ This is a list of the books read by the character Rory Gilmore from the TV series Gilmore Girls. The ones that are crossed off and the ones that i have read. It may seem odd but i want to read all these books. This TV series has always been one of my favorites and i love how they are a family that loves to read. As the time goes on i will be re-posting this list with more books crossed off until i can say i have read or tried to read all of these books.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>1. <i>1984</i> by George Orwell</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>2. <i>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i> by Mark Twain</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>3. <i>Alice in Wonderland</i> by Lewis Carroll</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>4. <i>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay</i> by Michael Chabon</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>5. <i>An American Tragedy</i> by Theodore Dreiser</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>6. <i>Angela’s Ashes</i> by Frank McCourt</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>7. <i>Anna Karenina</i> by Leo Tolstoy</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>8. <i>The Diary of a Young Girl</i> by Anne Frank</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>9. <i>The Archidamian War</i> by Donald Kagan</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>10. <i>The Art of Fiction</i> by Henry James</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>11. <i>The Art of War</i> by Sun Tzu</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>12. <i>As I Lay Dying</i> by William Faulkner</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>13. <i>Atonement</i> by Ian McEwan</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>14. <i>Autobiography of a Face</i> by Lucy Grealy</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>15. <i>The Awakening</i> by Kate Chopin</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>16. <i>Babe</i> by Dick King-Smith</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>17. <i>Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women</i> by Susan Faludi</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>18. <i>Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress</i> by Dai Sijie</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>19. <i>Bel Canto</i> by Ann Patchett</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>20. <i>The Bell Jar</i> by Sylvia Plath</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>21. <i>Beloved</i> by Toni Morrison</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>22. <i>Beowulf: A New Verse Translation</i> by Seamus Heaney</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>23. <i>The Bhagava Gita</i></strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>24. <i>The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews</i> by Peter Duffy</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>25. <i>Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women</i> by Elizabeth Wurtzel</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>26. <i>A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays</i> by Mary McCarthy</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>27. <i>Brave New World</i> by Aldous Huxley</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>28. <i>Brick Lane</i> by Monica Ali</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>29. <i>Bridgadoon</i> by Alan Jay Lerner</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>30. <i>Candide</i> by Voltaire</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>3<strike>1. <i>The Canterbury Tales</i> by Chaucer</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>32. <i>Carrie</i> by Stephen King</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>33. <i>Catch-22</i> by Joseph Heller</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>34. <i>The Catcher in the Rye</i> by J. D. Salinger</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>35. <i>Charlotte’s Web</i> by E. B. White</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>36. <i>The Children’s Hour</i> by Lillian Hellman</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>37. <i>Christine</i> by Stephen King</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>38. <i>A Christmas Carol</i> by Charles Dickens</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>39. <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> by Anthony Burgess</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>40. <i>The Code of the Woosters</i> by P.G. Wodehouse</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>41. <i>The Collected Stories</i> by Eudora Welty</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>42. <i>A Comedy of Errors</i> by William Shakespeare</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>43. <i>Complete Novels</i> by Dawn Powell</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>44. <i>The Complete Poems</i> by Anne Sexton</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>45. <i>Complete Stories</i> by Dorothy Parker</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>46. <i>A Confederacy of Dunces</i> by John Kennedy Toole</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>47. <i>The Count of Monte Cristo</i> by Alexandre Dumas</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>48. <i>Cousin Bette</i> by Honore de Balzac</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>49. <i>Crime and Punishment</i> by Fyodor Dostoevsky</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>50. <i>The Crimson Petal and the White</i> by Michel Faber</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>51. <i>The Crucible</i> by Arthur Miller</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>52. <i>Cujo</i> by Stephen King</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>53. <i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</i> by Mark Haddon</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>54. <i>Daughter of Fortune</i> by Isabel Allende</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>55. <i>David and Lisa</i> by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>56. <i>David Copperfield</i> by Charles Dickens</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>57. <i>The Da Vinci -Code</i> by Dan Brown</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>58. <i>Dead Souls</i> by Nikolai Gogol</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>59. <i>Demons</i> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>60. <i>Death of a Salesman</i> by Arthur Miller</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>61. <i>Deenie</i> by Judy Blume</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>62. <i>The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America</i> by Erik Larson</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>63. <i>The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band</i> by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>64. <i>The Divine Comedy</i> by Dante</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>65. <i>The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood</i> by Rebecca Wells</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>66. <i>Don Quixote</i> by Cervantes</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>67. <i>Driving Miss Daisy</i> by Alfred Uhrv</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>68. <i>Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde</i> by Robert Louis Stevenson</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>69. <i>Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems</i> by Edgar Allan Poe</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>70. <i>Eleanor Roosevelt</i> by Blanche Wiesen Cook</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>71. <i>The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test</i> by Tom Wolfe</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>72. <i>Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters</i> by Mark Dunn</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>73. <i>Eloise</i> by Kay Thompson</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>74. <i>Emily the Strange</i> by Roger Reger</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>75. <i>Emma</i> by Jane Austen</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>76. <i>Empire Falls</i> by Richard Russo</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>77. <i>Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective</i> by Donald J. Sobol</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>78. <i>Ethan Frome</i> by Edith Wharton</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>79. <i>Ethics</i> by Spinoza</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>80. <i>Europe through the Back Door, 2003</i> by Rick Steves</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>81. <i>Eva Luna</i> by Isabel Allende</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>82. <i>Everything Is Illuminated</i> by Jonathan Safran Foer</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>83. <i>Extravagance</i> by Gary Krist</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>84. <i>Fahrenheit 451</i> by Ray Bradbury</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>85. <i>Fahrenheit 9/11</i> by Michael Moore</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>86. <i>The Fall of the Athenian Empire</i> by Donald Kagan</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>87. <i>Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World</i> by Greg Critser</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>88. <i>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas</i> by Hunter S. Thompson</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>89. <i>The Fellowship of the Ring</i> by J. R. R. Tolkien</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>90. <i>Fiddler on the Roof</i> by Joseph Stein</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>91. <i>The Five People You Meet in Heaven</i> by Mitch Albom</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>92. <i>Finnegan’s Wake</i> by James Joyce</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>93. <i>Fletch</i> by Gregory McDonald</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>94. <i>Flowers for Algernon</i> by Daniel Keyes</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>95. <i>The Fortress of Solitude</i> by Jonathan Lethem</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>96. <i>The Fountainhead</i> by Ayn Rand</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>97. <i>Frankenstein</i> by Mary Shelley</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>98. <i>Franny and Zooey</i> by J. D. Salinger</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>99. <i>Freaky Friday</i> by Mary Rodgers</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>100. <i>Galapagos</i> by Kurt Vonnegut</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>101. <i>Gender Trouble</i> by Judith Butler</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>102. <i>George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President</i> by Jacob Weisberg</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>103. <i>Gidget</i> by Fredrick Kohner</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>104. <i>Girl, Interrupted</i> by Susanna Kaysen</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>105. <i>The Gnostic Gospels</i> by Elaine Pagels</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>106. <i>The Godfather: Book 1</i> by Mario Puzo</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>107. <i>The God of Small Things</i> by Arundhati Roy</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>108. <i>Goldilocks and the Three Bears</i> by Alvin Granowsky</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>109. <i>Gone with the Wind</i> by Margaret Mitchell</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>110. <i>The Good Soldier</i> by Ford Maddox Ford</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>111. <i>The Gospel According to Judy Bloom</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>112. <i>The Graduate</i> by Charles Webb</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>113. <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> by John Steinbeck</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>114. <i>The Great Gatsby</i> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>115. <i>Great Expectations</i> by Charles Dickens</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>116. <i>The Group</i> by Mary McCarthy</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>117. <i>Hamlet</i> by William Shakespeare</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>118. <i>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</i> by J. K. Rowling</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>119. <i>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone</i> by J. K. Rowling</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>120. <i>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius</i> by Dave Eggers</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>121. <i>Heart of Darkness</i> by Joseph Conrad</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>122. <i>Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders</i> by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>123. <i>Henry IV, part I</i> by William Shakespeare</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>124. <i>Henry IV, part II</i> by William Shakespeare</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>125. <i>Henry V</i> by William Shakespeare</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>126. <i>High Fidelity</i> by Nick Hornby</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>127. <i>The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</i> by Edward Gibbon</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>128. <i>Holidays on Ice: Stories</i> by David Sedaris</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>129. <i>The Holy Barbarians</i> by Lawrence Lipton</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>130. <i>House of Sand and Fog</i> by Andre Dubus III</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>131. <i>The House of the Spirits</i> by Isabel Allende</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>132. <i>How to Breathe Underwater</i> by Julie Orringer</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>133. <i>How the Grinch Stole Christmas</i> by Dr. Seuss</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>134. <i>How the Light Gets In</i> by M. J. Hyland</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>135. <i>Howl</i> by Allen Ginsberg</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>136. <i>The Hunchback of Notre Dame</i> by Victor Hugo</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>137. <i>The Iliad</i> by Homer</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>138. <i>I’m With the Band</i> by Pamela des Barres</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>139. <i>In Cold Blood</i> by Truman Capote</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>140. <i>Inferno</i> by Dante</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>141. <i>Inherit the Wind</i> by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>142. <i>Iron Weed</i> by William J. Kennedy</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>143. <i>It Takes a Village</i> by Hillary Rodham Clinton</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>144. <i>Jane Eyre</i> by Charlotte Bronte</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>145. <i>The Joy Luck Club</i> by Amy Tan</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>146. <i>Julius Caesar</i> by William Shakespeare</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>147. <i>The Jumping Frog</i> by Mark Twain</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>148. <i>The Jungle</i> by Upton Sinclair</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>149. <i>Just a Couple of Days</i> by Tony Vigorito</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>150. <i>The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar</i> by Robert Alexander</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>151. <i>Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly</i> by Anthony Bourdain</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>152. <i>The Kite Runner</i> by Khaled Hosseini</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>153. <i>Lady Chatterleys’ Lover</i> by D. H. Lawrence</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>154. <i>The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000</i> by Gore Vidal</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>1<strike>55. <i>Leaves of Grass</i> by Walt Whitman</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>156. <i>The Legend of Bagger Vance</i> by Steven Pressfield</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>157. <i>Less Than Zero</i> by Bret Easton Ellis</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>158. <i>Letters to a Young Poet</i> by Rainer Maria Rilke</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>159. <i>Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them</i> by Al Franken</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>160. <i>Life of Pi</i> by Yann Martel</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>161. <i>Little Dorrit</i> by Charles Dickens</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>162. <i>The Little Locksmith</i> by Katharine Butler Hathaway</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>163. <i>The Little Match Girl</i> by Hans Christian Andersen</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>164. <i>Little Women</i> by Louisa May Alcott</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>165. <i>Living History</i> by Hillary Rodham Clinton</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>1<strike>66. <i>Lord of the Flies</i> by William Golding</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>167. <i>The Lottery: And Other Stories</i> by Shirley Jackson</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>168. <i>The Lovely Bones</i> by Alice Sebold</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>169. <i>The Love Story</i> by Erich Segal</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>170. <i>Macbeth</i> by William Shakespeare</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>171. <i>Madame Bovary</i> by Gustave Flaubert</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>172. <i>The Manticore</i> by Robertson Davies</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>173. <i>Marathon Man</i> by William Goldman</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>174. <i>The Master and Margarita</i> by Mikhail Bulgakov</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>175. <i>Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughte</i>r by Simone de Beauvoir</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>176. <i>Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman</i> by William Tecumseh Sherman</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>177. <i>Me Talk Pretty One Day</i> by David Sedaris</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>178. <i>The Meaning of Consuelo</i> by Judith Ortiz Cofer</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>179. <i>Mencken’s Chrestomathy</i> by H. R. Mencken</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>180. <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i> by William Shakespeare</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>181. <i>The Metamorphosis</i> by Franz Kafka</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>182. <i>Middlesex</i> by Jeffrey Eugenides</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>183. <i>The Miracle Worker</i> by William Gibson</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>184. <i>Moby Dick</i> by Herman Melville</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>185. <i>The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion</i> by Jim Irvin</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>186. <i>Moliere: A Biography</i> by Hobart Chatfield Taylor</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>187. <i>A Monetary History of the United States</i> by Milton Friedman</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>188. <i>Monsieur Proust</i> by Celeste Albaret</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>189. <i>A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister</i> by Julie Mars</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>190. <i>A Moveable Feast</i> by Ernest Hemingway</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>191. <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i> by Virginia Woolf</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>192. <i>Mutiny on the Bounty</i> by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>193. <i>My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath</i> by Seymour M. Hersh</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>194. <i>My Life as Author and Editor</i> by H. R. Mencken</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>195. <i>My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru</i> by Tim Guest</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>196. <i>Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978</i> by Myra Waldo</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>197. <i>My Sister’s Keeper</i> by Jodi Picoult</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>198. <i>The Naked and the Dead</i> by Norman Mailer</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>199. <i>The Name of the Rose</i> by Umberto Eco</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>200. <i>The Namesake</i> by Jhumpa Lahiri</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>201. <i>The Nanny Diaries</i> by Emma McLaughlin</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>202. <i>Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature</i> by Jan Lars Jensen</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>203. <i>New Poems of Emily Dickinson</i> by Emily Dickinson</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>204. <i>The New Way Things Work</i> by David Macaulay</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>205. <i>Nickel and Dimed</i> by Barbara Ehrenreich</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>206. <i>Night</i> by Elie Wiesel</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>207. <i>Northanger Abbey</i> by Jane Austen</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>208. <i>The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism</i> by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>209. <i>Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born</i> by Dawn Powell</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>210. <i>Notes of a Dirty Old Man</i> by Charles Bukowski</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>211. <i>Of Mice and Men</i> by John Steinbeck</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>212. <i>Old School</i> by Tobias Wolff</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>213. <i>On the Road</i> by Jack Kerouac</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>214. <i>One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest</i> by Ken Kesey</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>215. <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>216. <i>The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life</i> by Amy Tan</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>217. <i>Oracle Night</i> by Paul Auster</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>218. <i>Oryx and Crake</i> by Margaret Atwood</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>219. <i>Othello</i> by Shakespeare</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>220. <i>Our Mutual Friend</i> by Charles Dickens</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>221. <i>The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War</i> by Donald Kagan</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>222. <i>Out of Africa</i> by Isac Dineson</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>223. <i>The Outsiders</i> by S. E. Hinton</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>224. <i>A Passage to India</i> by E.M. Forster</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>225. <i>The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition</i> by Donald Kagan</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>226. <i>The Perks of Being a Wallflower</i> by Stephen Chbosky</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>227. <i>Peyton Place</i> by Grace Metalious</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>228. <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i> by Oscar Wilde</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>229. <i>Pigs at the Trough</i> by Arianna Huffington</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>230. <i>Pinocchio</i> by Carlo Collodi</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>231. <i>Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>232. <i>The Polysyllabic Spree</i> by Nick Hornby</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>233. <i>The Portable Dorothy Parker</i> by Dorothy Parker</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>234. <i>The Portable Nietzche</i> by Fredrich Nietzche</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>235. <i>The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill</i> by Ron Suskind</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>236. <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> by Jane Austen</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>237. <i>Property</i> by Valerie Martin</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>238. <i>Pushkin: A Biography</i> by T. J. Binyon</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>239. <i>Pygmalion</i> by George Bernard Shaw</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>240. <i>Quattrocento</i> by James Mckean</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>241. <i>A Quiet Storm</i> by Rachel Howzell Hall</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>242. <i>Rapunzel</i> by Grimm Brothers</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>243. <i>The Raven</i> by Edgar Allan Poe</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>244. <i>The Razor’s Edge</i> by W. Somerset Maugham</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>245. <i>Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books</i> by Azar Nafisi</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>246. <i>Rebecca</i> by Daphne du Maurier</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>247. <i>Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm</i> by Kate Douglas Wiggin</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>248. <i>The Red Tent</i> by Anita Diamant</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>249. <i>Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad</i> by Virginia Holman</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>250. <i>The Return of the King</i> by J. R. R. Tolkien</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>251. <i>R Is for Ricochet</i> by Sue Grafton</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>252. <i>Rita Hayworth</i> by Stephen King</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>253. <i>Robert’s Rules of Order</i> by Henry Robert</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>254. <i>Roman Holiday</i> by Edith Wharton</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>255. <i>Romeo and Juliet</i> by William Shakespeare</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>256. <i>A Room of One’s Own</i> by Virginia Woolf</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>257. <i>A Room with a View</i> by E. M. Forster</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>258. <i>Rosemary’s Baby</i> by Ira Levin</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>259. <i>The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>260. <i>Sacred Time</i> by Ursula Hegi</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>261. <i>Sanctuary</i> by William Faulkner</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>262. <i>Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay</i> by Nancy Milford</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>263. <i>Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller</i> by Henry James</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>264. <i>The Scarecrow of Oz</i> by Frank L. Baum</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>265. <i>The Scarlet Letter</i> by Nathaniel Hawthorne</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>266. <i>Seabiscuit: An American Legend</i> by Laura Hillenbrand</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>267. <i>The Second Sex</i> by Simone de Beauvoir</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>268. <i>The Secret Life of Bees</i> by Sue Monk Kidd</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>269. <i>Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette</i> by Judith Thurman</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>270. <i>Selected Hotels of Europe</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>271. <i>Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965</i> by Dawn Powell</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>272. <i>Sense and Sensibility</i> by Jane Austen</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>273. <i>A Separate Peace</i> by John Knowles</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>274. <i>Several Biographies of Winston Churchill</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>275. <i>Sexus</i> by Henry Miller</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>276. <i>The Shadow of the Wind</i> by Carlos Ruiz Zafon</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>277. <i>Shane</i> by Jack Shaefer</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>278. <i>The Shining</i> by Stephen King</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>279. <i>Siddhartha</i> by Hermann Hesse</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>280. <i>S Is for Silence</i> by Sue Grafton</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>281. <i>Slaughter-house Five</i> by Kurt Vonnegut</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>282. <i>Small Island</i> by Andrea Levy</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>283. <i>Snows of Kilimanjaro</i> by Ernest Hemingway</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>284. <i>Snow White and Rose Red</i> by Grimm Brothers</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>285. <i>Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World</i> by Barrington Moore</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>286. <i>The Song of Names</i> by Norman Lebrecht</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>287. <i>Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos</i> by Julia de Burgos</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>288. <i>The Song Reader</i> by Lisa Tucker</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>289. <i>Songbook</i> by Nick Hornby</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>290. <i>The Sonnets</i> by William Shakespeare</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>291. <i>Sonnets from the Portuegese</i> by Elizabeth Barrett Browning</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>292. <i>Sophie’s Choice</i> by William Styron</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>293. <i>The Sound and the Fury</i> by William Faulkner</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>294. <i>Speak, Memory</i> by Vladimir Nabokov</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>295. <i>Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers</i> by Mary Roach</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>296. <i>The Story of My Life</i> by Helen Keller</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>297. <i>A Streetcar Named Desiree</i> by Tennessee Williams</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>298. <i>Stuart Little</i> by E. B. White</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>299. <i>Sun Also Rises</i> by Ernest Hemingway</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>300. <i>Swann’s Way</i> by Marcel Proust</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>301. <i>Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals</i> by Anne Collett</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>302. <i>Sybil</i> by Flora Rheta Schreiber</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>303. <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i> by Charles Dickens</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>304. <i>Tender Is The Night</i> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>305. <i>Term of Endearment</i> by Larry McMurtry</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>306. <i>Time and Again</i> by Jack Finney</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>307. <i>The Time Traveler’s Wife</i> by Audrey Niffenegger</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>308. <i>To Have and Have Not</i> by Ernest Hemingway</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>309. <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> by Harper Lee</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>310. <i>The Tragedy of Richard</i> III by William Shakespeare</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>311. <i>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</i> by Betty Smith</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>312. <i>The Trial</i> by Franz Kafka</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>313. <i>The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters</i> by Elisabeth Robinson</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>314. <i>Truth & Beauty: A Friendship</i> by Ann Patchett</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>315. <i>Tuesdays with Morrie</i> by Mitch Albom</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>316. <i>Ulysses</i> by James Joyce</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>317. <i>The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962</i> by Sylvia Plath</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>318. <i>Uncle Tom’s Cabin</i> by Harriet Beecher Stowe</strike></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>319. <i>Unless</i> by Carol Shields</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>320. <i>Valley of the Dolls</i> by Jacqueline Susann</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>321. <i>The Vanishing Newspaper</i> by Philip Meyers</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>322. <i>Vanity Fair</i> by William Makepeace Thackeray</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>323. <i>Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico</i> (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>324. <i>The Virgin Suicides</i> by Jeffrey Eugenides</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>325. <i>Waiting for Godot</i> by Samuel Beckett</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>326. <i>Walden</i> by Henry David Thoreau</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>327. <i>Walt Disney’s Bamb</i>i by Felix Salten</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>328. <i>War and Peace</i> by Leo Tolstoy</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>329. <i>We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews</i> edited by Daniel Sinker</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>330. <i>What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005</i> by Richard Nelson Bolles</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>331. <i>What Happened to Baby Jane</i> by Henry Farrell</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>332. <i>When the Emperor Was Divine</i> by Julie Otsuka</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>333. <i>Who Moved My Cheese?</i> by Spencer Johnson</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>334. <i>Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf</i> by Edward Albee</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>335. <i>Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West</i> by Gregory Maguire</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>336. <i>The Wizard of Oz</i> by Frank L. Baum</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><strike>337. <i>Wuthering Heights</i> by Emily Bronte</strike></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>338. <i>The Yearling</i> by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>339. <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> by Joan Didion</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">~~~ i got accused of being very small and closed minded about religions and "Gay Rights." Now let me explain i am pagan specifically Wiccan, i came to settle on the religion after exploring, searching, and studying many different religions from all over the world. i am will to discuss and talk about religions with anyone who is willing to have an open and honest conversation even a lively and fun debate but i will not discuss it with someone who is going to sit there and tell me i am going to hell or their religions version of hell because i do not believe what they believe. Do not lob at me statements such as, "My religion tells me i must 'SAVE' the non-believers." i do not need saving from anything except maybe you. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">~~~ i live my life as a good person and help others that need the help stranger or friend. i do not judge others, not even when they judge me or try to force their beliefs on me. Everyone is free to believe what they want and worship who they want in their own way. i only ask for the same respect and yes i mean ask i do not demand or expect it for anyone. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">~~~ As for the being closed minded on "Gay Rights" i was told that i "need to look at it from the point of a true Christian who is being asked to accept this sin as part of their life now and being forced to share their holy sacrament of marriage with these sinners." To which i was floored and was not sure what to say without being rude and calling the person a bunch of things i really try not to call people. When i finally was able get to past the screaming obscenities of my mind i responded with asking if they felt divorce was a sin against the holy sacrament of marriage, or if a spouse beating and raping the partner was a sin against marriage, or if a spouse emotionally and verbally degrading their partner was a sin against marriage? They looked at me and said yes and i said and yet you do not have a fit when people who do these things get married and do not protest and cry religious persecution. Why is the way someone is born a persecution to your religion? To which they tried to argue that one chooses who they are attracted to by what they are taught growing up. At which point i just about exploded but calmly asked them if they chose to be attracted to their wife and their past girlfriends? They said, "Yes." i was dumbfounded could they really not tell the difference between being attracted to someone and acting on those attractions? They then asked me, "what if they chose to be attracted to a horse?" Internal rage filled me to the brim but did not spill out, where they really now comparing the love of two human beings to the act of bestiality? Now i admit i was a little childish in my response and said, "Well according to Greek mythology you would create a Centaur." To which they replied deadpan, "to that i say, my science proves that cannot happen." Now i am shaking my head and laughing, "i said mythology as in myth <span id="hotword"><span class="hwc" id="hotword" name="hotword">from the</span><span class="hwc" id="hotword" name="hotword"></span> <span class="hwc" id="hotword" name="hotword">Greek</span> </span><i><span id="hotword"><span class="hwc" id="hotword" name="hotword">muthos</span> </span></i><span id="hotword"><span class="hwc" id="hotword" name="hotword">meaning word,or story</span><span class="hwc" id="hotword" name="hotword">" i did tell them repeatedly that it was their right to believe that homosexuality was a sin but that they needed to understand that science has proved that it is a way someone is born not a choice. i also said that they are told in the bible, "Let you who is without sin throw the first stone." And then chose to end the conversation before i said something i would later come to regret. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span id="hotword"><span class="hwc" id="hotword" name="hotword">~~~ Yet i am the closed minded one? Mind you i have known the person i was having this conversation with since the day they were born literally. Yet they do not know much about me because i would never hear the end of it from them. i am by no means ashamed of who or what i am, i just choose to keep peace around this person and not cause drama that others would also have to deal with. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span id="hotword"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span class="hwc" id="hotword" name="hotword">~~~ Yes, i do come across a little more closed minded on the "Gay Rights" front because i believe it is matter of human rights not religious choices. And i will always fight for the rights of those whom are being oppressed. Everyone has the right to be married and it does not matter the gender of the other human they wish to marry. </span></span></span> </span>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-62321186924405821352014-02-22T01:51:00.000-06:002014-02-22T01:51:07.918-06:00A Lot Has Happened<span style="color: #cc0000;">~~~ A lot has happened in my life since my last post. i am still in
school though i am taking this semester off to get my life back in order
and ready for the next part of what may come my way. my GPA is still
perfect at a 4.0 and that is part of why i have not posted on here in so
long i was so busy with school work and taking care of Son. Son is now
14 years old, 6'2" tall and growing like a weed. He is a freshman in
high school and in the NJROTC and i could not be a prouder mom. More on
Son in a moment. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">~~~ Two of the biggest things to
happen since i last posted are that my ex-husband and my oldest sister
have passed away. my ex-husband passed away of an accidental overdose of
his medications. He passed away August 28, 2012 and then on December
20, 2012 i lost my oldest sister to complications from her alcoholism
and drug abuse. With my ex-husband passing that means that Son is now
with me all the time. i no longer have every other weekend to myself and
Son has been in counseling since then as well. This and all my school
work has kept me so busy that i have not been able to post on here. </span><br />
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i am not in school this semester as i have said i am trying to get my
life back in order and that includes going to see a neurologist for my
back and my migraines. i am also trying to develop new daily routines to
keep things caught up and here at home. That however has not been
happening yet as my insomnia has been really kicking my butt and then on
Tuesday i accidentally ate onions and i am extremely allergic to those
so for the next two weeks i will be dealing with my reactions to that.
Then before all of this i was sick for over a month with a horrible
cough and chest congestion that would not go away. </span><br />
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i am working on lowering my stress as well but as it is late and i need
to get to sleep i will try and most more updates later. </span>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-68515938235105377102012-03-02T10:43:00.000-06:002012-03-02T10:43:40.613-06:00my Lifesaver<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_q9-GDydUr_Y55vdGJ6Ip_oI4TAp5WH0NDy5GlFRhRNk7LN6drInBOwzkkq04ZkhPtDyYzwjo2kHaEbmwvzgBb1oMU6lc0Se6vgfA9azqF8PUPLocX5WFWLtnpole8mkDIqZveY6hho/s1600/icdbx700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_q9-GDydUr_Y55vdGJ6Ip_oI4TAp5WH0NDy5GlFRhRNk7LN6drInBOwzkkq04ZkhPtDyYzwjo2kHaEbmwvzgBb1oMU6lc0Se6vgfA9azqF8PUPLocX5WFWLtnpole8mkDIqZveY6hho/s320/icdbx700.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ i bought this at the bookstore of my school for about $60 and i love it. i have been recording my lectures from my classes and i can re-listen to them while i am reading my notes and going through my books and it really helps. i have never had to really study before as i have said so i am learning how to do it now. i been using it for my Anatomy & Physiology class and i am going to start using it for statistics class as well and see if it helps there.</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ i have had a few classmates from A & P borrow it and listen to the lectures that they have missed and they have really liked it as well. It records decently from the back of the lecture hall i can still hear what my professor is saying and i can usually hear what the others answers are when we are asked questions. It records everything as a .pdf file so it is really easy to listen to from my laptop or if i really wanted to i could put them on my iPod as well. Usually i just back it up in my laptop the speakers on it are really good and the earphone jack works very well also. So i just listen to the lectures right off of it.</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~~~~ This is one of the smartest things i have invested in and i will get lots and lots of use out of it and it even has a slot form micro SD cards so i can save right to them or play from them also. It is so much nicer than having to change the cassettes and carry extra cassettes. i just carry two extra AAA batteries just in case and the connection cord so that it can be connected to someone's laptop and they can get a copy of the lectures as well.</span></span>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-30140362574108634852012-02-10T10:49:00.000-06:002012-02-10T10:49:45.070-06:00ACK!!!!! Statistics SUCK<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtdn0qxXka9nUMwNm-ds4vLfhOYiodKMKwOzAmD8Fc6dbaO_oHwbEQ4ZdSWC2DiiZNZzEtG9b5cGZwkejnql8kPYAfR8xo0NJWSZLiTVfF_EEgnEXI_vuWHMdHfmazV4O0ZdT2Qvcufo/s1600/Stat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXtdn0qxXka9nUMwNm-ds4vLfhOYiodKMKwOzAmD8Fc6dbaO_oHwbEQ4ZdSWC2DiiZNZzEtG9b5cGZwkejnql8kPYAfR8xo0NJWSZLiTVfF_EEgnEXI_vuWHMdHfmazV4O0ZdT2Qvcufo/s1600/Stat.jpg" /></a></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><---- Does that make sense to you? NO. Okay me either. Now this is just a picture of a Statistical Formula that i found online but the ones in my book do not look much different. i spent 2 hours on the phone the other day with a very dear friend of mine that is great in math and farther along in his schooling than i am. He was explaining to me how to do my problems in a way that i could actually understand them. i am so very very grateful that he is able and willing to do that. </span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ Now do not get me wrong i LOVE math i always have but Stats confuse the hell out of me. i mean i get the concepts easily enough but i am having problems following the procedures and getting the correct answers. i know with practice and study things will get easier and make more sense. i am just not used to having to study. Schooling has always come so easy for me that i really have never had to study before and i do not know how to do it. </span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ When i was going into high school my mom made me take a summer school course on studying but most of that course was a joke. The only thing i remember about the whole course was reading the book <u>Tuck Everlasting</u> and HATING it. It is not often that i hate a book but that one i do with a passion. It was just bad. Yes, i know a lot of people love that book and it is supposed to be a modern classic but i am sorry it is as bad as <u>The Great Gatsby</u> (another book i can not stand). Back on topic of this paragraph. i had to write an essay about <u>Tuck Everlasting</u> and rate the book. i was honest and said i hated it and would not even give it to <u>fifth</u> graders to read. The teacher was not happy with me because it was her favorite book and she gave it to her <u>eight</u> graders to read. i told her my idea of a good book was <u>To Kill A Mockingbird </u>a book that i read in eight grade and have LOVED ever since.</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ Now if that is the only thing i remember about learning to study for those weeks that i was in that class what does that tell you. Either my grades suck or she did not teach well or i have just never needed to use it. Well far be it from me to say if she was a bad teacher or not because i do not remember but i also very rarely find a bad teacher, my grades do not suck my GPA is a 4.0 i have gotten nothing less than an A in all of my classes. So i guess that means that i have never needed to use the study skills before, and that is the truth. i always do all of my homework and i read all of text books and do all the exercises that they have in the chapters but when it comes to actually studying and make flash cards and things like that i have no clue how to do it or what i am doing. If i have to outline a chapter and write down what i think is important i write a book because to me it is all important or they would not have taken the time to write it all out for us to learn. </span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ i spend hours every day doing my school work and reading my chapters and i guess some might call that studying but to me that is just being prepared for class. i do not know how to explain why it is different to me when to others it is studying. But to me studying is re-reading your notes and making flash cards and things like that i those are the things that i do not know how to do. </span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~~~~~ Okay back onto the topic of Stats as i have gone off on a complete tangent here. i am allowed to use a 3 x 5 index card with notes on both sides as well as my graphing calculator but i am still worried that i am not going to do well on this exam. i really want and need to do well. i want to keep my GPA at a 4.0 i will be very upset if it does not stay that way. But i need to get good grades to get into the OT program that i really want to get into.</span></span>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-40889089300800004962012-02-05T03:21:00.000-06:002012-02-05T03:21:51.516-06:00Ex-husband = NUTCASE?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: inherit;" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #741b47; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7CrH8IJk6FVurtPDo1-SldB8RwLtT8wnBI8uBgBWXhy7XurGEwkvDAwOKmJnH90PTY3uVfdqUR41jnZGMajiNCs3ZAZrzGiBFUwnbS8QnPaNgoeIVC2DI_jyx5KmxNgL-wzgIqkKZBHU/s1600/njun797l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7CrH8IJk6FVurtPDo1-SldB8RwLtT8wnBI8uBgBWXhy7XurGEwkvDAwOKmJnH90PTY3uVfdqUR41jnZGMajiNCs3ZAZrzGiBFUwnbS8QnPaNgoeIVC2DI_jyx5KmxNgL-wzgIqkKZBHU/s320/njun797l.jpg" width="260" /></a></span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~~ i am just sick of Son's father, my EX-husband. </span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ i was relaxing at home and trying to fight this horrible cold that i have when i get a phone call from my ex's new fiance saying that i need to come and get Son from his visitation NOW because my ex is flipping his lid over stupid crap and that Son is not safe. Now knowing my ex i do not doubt this for a minute and through on sandals as i do not want to waste a second looking for socks in my drawer and run out of the house with my cell, keys and purse. i do not even grab a coat and as i have said i am fighting a really bad cold. </span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ i as i am driving an hour out to my ex's home i talk to a good friend of mine and have them look up the number for the police department out there and text it to me. i try to call my ex's fiance and get no answer on her cell phone. This worries me as i do not know what is going on and what Son may have seen or be seeing or anything like that. i call the number my friend sent me and when someone finally answers the phone all i get is that is the wrong number and that i need to call 911. Well i figured i was not going to waste the time of the police until i knew what was going on and if i needed them. So, i try again to call my ex's fiance and still got no answer. By this time i am now in front of my ex's house. i call there and my ex answers all calm and relaxed. i asked to talk to Son and he put son on the phone. Son told me there were no problems that dad and fiance were fighting and that he had gone outside so that he did not have to deal with but that he wanted to stay at dad's. i asked Son to come outside so that i could see him and he did and was fine and happy so there was nothing that i could. i then talked to my ex on the phone and my ex told me that his fiance was in jail for contempt of court for a failure to appear warrant. .... Okay. </span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ my ex is now telling me all kinds of stuff that i am not going to repeat on here but that i am not truly sure that i believe. But he was laughing about it all. Now that really worries me because when my ex acts like that i know there is something that he is trying to hide. i do not know what he is trying to hide and i am not sure i ever will or if i even want to as long as Son is safe.</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ Now that his fiance is in jail for only the gods know how long my ex is going to act like i am his best friend again and be calling me all the time. i am going to hear lies and stories about everything that is going on in his life and if i do not answer my phone there will be nasty voice mails about how i am not letting him talk to his son and so on. If i tell him i can not talk because i am at school or doing homework it will not matter he will keep calling trying to get me to talk to him. Oh and heaven for bid if i even mention a plan with a friend of mine male or female there will be hell to pay. </span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> ~~~~ He NEEDS to get it through his head that i am NOT his best friend and i do NOT want to know all the lies about his life. i do NOT care who he thinks he can impress with his lies i know better. He can NOT impress me with his name dropping and games. i know him better than that i and i know who he really does know and does not know and how they truly do not know him. i know his name dropping game and am not impressed by it. </span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ i just want him to LEAVE me ALONE. i left him and wanted the divorce and fought for three years to get it. my family does not want anything to do with him no matter what he wants to believe. my family is not going to convince me to get back with him they CAN NOT STAND him any better than i can. my friends are not going to convince me to get back with him no matter how much he harasses them. Not to mention i will NEVER allow myself to even think about getting back with him. i do not need or deserve the abuse from him that i know i would get. He does not know how to treat anyone and only thinks about himself</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~~~~ Okay enough with the ranting about all of this. i will not let him make me into the nutcase.</span></span>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-48847076375606012132012-01-17T20:47:00.006-06:002012-02-04T10:03:07.313-06:00So Busy.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdQpoN0yzqYUV-P0c_jH3ljOlisH1rQFlHelQ7PObNF7vKmfEV5OgoAT0bL18RzyCeonpB7nPV9ndC-yfF13lSK-A1SFs6qN1w8gvIkbWpZkE-SGsxaF34kYJrDhrSQpK3y0UictZhR0/s1600/busy_mom_poster-rc22ae923ef7848dc93d923b0de69878b_wkf_400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfdQpoN0yzqYUV-P0c_jH3ljOlisH1rQFlHelQ7PObNF7vKmfEV5OgoAT0bL18RzyCeonpB7nPV9ndC-yfF13lSK-A1SFs6qN1w8gvIkbWpZkE-SGsxaF34kYJrDhrSQpK3y0UictZhR0/s320/busy_mom_poster-rc22ae923ef7848dc93d923b0de69878b_wkf_400.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="color: #741b47;"> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> ~~~~ i have been so busy with school and everything. my GPA has been maintained at a 4.0 and i am very proud of that. i worked very very hard for that GPA. This semester i am taking Anatomy & Physiology I, College Algebra, and Beginning Statistics. It may seem like an easier load than last semester but believe me it is not. i will be very busy memorizing all the parts, pieces, and bits of the human body as well as tons of formulas for Statistics. Do not get me wrong i love learning and love school i am by no means complaining just commenting on what i will be doing this semester as well as all the things i need and have to do around the apartment for Son and i. </span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ In the time that i have not written on here i been stung by a bee twice more and both of those landed me in the ER for allergic reactions. If i did not mention it on here before i was stung in June on the Left hand while driving. Then in October i was stung again this time on the left wrist and that landed me in the ER because it was getting hard for me to breathe and i was getting dizzy and all that fun stuff. Then again in December. Yes December. i was stung on my left cheek while driving. The hornet was on the collar of my coat and i turn my cheek into it when i was checking to see if any cars were coming. Son ended up missing a day of school because he got to go in the ambulance with me to ER as i was on my way to take him to school. i missed by Biology final and had to ask the hospital to call my school for me and let them know that i would not be able to come in and take the final that day as i was in the ER getting treatments for an allergic reaction to being stung. i did take my final the next day and got an A on it. (Woooo Hooo) i was so worried that i would not because i was still groggy from the allergy medications i had to take as well as the steroids they put me on. </span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ On the crafting front i am working on several projects, cross stitch pictures for several friends and family members, crocheting a blanket for myself as well as fingerless gloves, hats and scarves for a very dear friend of mine who is going through radiation for breast cancer. i am also working on some baby blankets for friends and a blanket for Son as well. With school starting again today i will not have as much time for my crafting because of homework and studying as well as housework that i will have to get done. Son is getting to be more independent and wants his time to himself more so my spending so many hours doing the things i need to do will not upset as much. i do want to get back into photography again and am thinking about taking a photography class at school as an elective as well. </span></div>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-8415024793826339342011-09-27T08:56:00.001-05:002012-02-04T10:03:31.502-06:00Study, Eat Study, Go to School, Study, ......<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipGMHQBSthG0v462d8505w4CPnq4WEUHIfLuED5KnU9-Mrx8dUq82Y8Abn96fxWpB9tPJnaE6zTxZh1up-NWMXEO_F1hmefwBt2itXhlKDD8dNkg8jhiUu8ARkFqPcq-K_nh4Je2Lk43k/s1600/index.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipGMHQBSthG0v462d8505w4CPnq4WEUHIfLuED5KnU9-Mrx8dUq82Y8Abn96fxWpB9tPJnaE6zTxZh1up-NWMXEO_F1hmefwBt2itXhlKDD8dNkg8jhiUu8ARkFqPcq-K_nh4Je2Lk43k/s1600/index.jpg" /></a></div> <span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> ~~~~ i have been in school for a little while now and i am taking a full course load and loving it but i am finding that it takes a lot time to get everything done. Just doing my homework is a full time job in and of itself. Not to mention taking care of the apartment. FLYlady would not be happy with me i have fallen so far off the FLYwagon that i can not even see it any more. </span><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ Between Biology, Psychology, Sociology, and Math i spend more time with my nose in a text book then i do in a book i want to read for pleasure. Son does help out a little around the apartment but not that much and he is so sick of me doing homework because it means we are not going for our walks when the weather is nice. It seems that every time i am able to go for a walk it is raining here and we can not walk in the rain because neither one of us can afford to get sick. </span></div><div style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ i get up between 6:00 and 6:30 in the morning and study until 7:00 when i have to get Son up for school. Then he and i both get ready for the day and i drive him to school by 7:30. i get back home pack up my school bags and head to school myself where i get there a little early and study before my classes start. At 2:15 in the afternoon i pick Son up from school and we head straight home where we take maybe a 20 minute break before it is homework time. Around 5:30 or 6:00 i take a break and if the weather is nice i go sit outside with a group of ladies from the apartment complex and Son runs around outside with his friends. Then around 7:00 it is time to start dinner and i study while that is cooking. Then it is a break to eat dinner and back to studying. Son gets into his before bed routine of a shower and everything and then lays down in his room to watch netflix and fall asleep around 10:00 and i study until around 2:00 to start it all over again the next day.</span></div><div style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">~~~~ And now i have wasted enough time on here and need to get back to my studying. </span></div>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-11327376410116140202011-07-30T11:03:00.001-05:002012-02-04T10:03:59.795-06:00i Got my Grades<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwvfaZXW-iV0njUeLhyu9lqaM9iFytWJ8P6Zf_ZqL8DeRYd4Iakk1i5NZLmESg2AFSmWyUXN_F-yL0OjBPDL_jbJbkNAtD41nUtbZs8LsCTbKi3ncW79WJOkF5moThgROSqWi2OF5Xw5s/s1600/reportcard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwvfaZXW-iV0njUeLhyu9lqaM9iFytWJ8P6Zf_ZqL8DeRYd4Iakk1i5NZLmESg2AFSmWyUXN_F-yL0OjBPDL_jbJbkNAtD41nUtbZs8LsCTbKi3ncW79WJOkF5moThgROSqWi2OF5Xw5s/s200/reportcard.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ i have not posted in a long time because i have been so busy with school. i took two classes this summer to get started towards my degree. i want to get my PhD in Occupational Physical Therapy and have just started my basics. i took a math class and an English Comp class and just got my grades for both classes. i got A's in both. i am so happy. 16 week classes in 8 weeks 200+ math problems every week and a 3 page essay every other week plus Son to take care of. i have just been really busy. </span></div><div style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ Now i get to try get my apartment cleaned back up and looking decent. Son really did not help much with that and has been at his dad's since July 15th and will not be back until Aug 15th.. It will not take me too long to do i just have to get up and do it before i head to OH for a week with my family. i leave Aug 2 and will be back Aug 10th. i really can not wait to go i am going to be getting together with a lot of my old friends and visiting with them as well as my family. It is going to be a lot of fun. </span></div><div style="color: #a64d79; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">~~~~ i will get back in just enough time to get Son and i ready for school in the fall. i will be taking 4 classes and that makes me a full time student. Math 108, Biology, Intro to Psych, all at the school and Intro to Soc as an online class. Plus i will be helping Son with his school homework and taking care of him and everything here. i do not think i will have much time for a social life so i guess it is a good thing that my friends all understand that i love them dearly i am just going to be very busy making a better life for Son and myself. i am even encouraging one of my neighbors to go to school and get a degree to help herself and her kids. i told her i would help her study and understand everything that i could. i had a study group this summer for the people in class but only two of them came and i was able to get one of them an A in math and the other i do not know what her final grade was yet but she was having a hard time with the speed. Not the speed of the class but the speed we had to do each problem with so that we got them all done in the time we had to take the test. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">~~~~ i am getting a new laptop when i go out to OH as well. One of my brothers is getting it for me as a Christmas / Birthday gift. This laptop is dieing and i do not want to risk using it and having it crash with my online class. i just have to get my new one set up to my network when i get back and i have no idea how to do that. i will have to have my brother or my friend who always works on my computers walk me through it all. It should not be to hard i hope but we will see. i do not do computer stuff well. i love doing crafts and working with pictures but when it come to setting up a computer i have no clue what to do. But that is just me. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;">~~~~ i am so happy though i finally got an old friend of mine from OH back in my life i lost contact with him 12 years ago when he and i went down to Texas and we have started talking again. We talk almost every day about just about everything and are getting to know each other again. i am really hoping to be able to see him when i go out to OH. i have missed him so much and it is so nice to know that he is doing good in life. He is back in OH and has two kids and a good job and is going to school as well. i am so proud of him. With everything that has happened in his life he is getting it all together and going to school something he swore that he would never do. He made a couple of promises back when we were in OH before we went to Texas and he has kept them too. That really touched me when he told me that. i must admit i have always loved him. i am not in love with him but i have always loved him and he has always meant the world to me and it is great to be hearing his voice again. i really hope i can see him while i am out in OH but we will have to see what happens.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">~~~~ i know i am jumping all around in this trying to get it all out as fast as i can so that i can go work on my apartment and that is what i am going to go do now. There is a lot more that i want to say but i do not want to get into the stuff that has me upset and am happy and feeling great today and i want to stay that way</span></span>. </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiBXPJyTU0upZwp_STVgAMhx-r8N9IYQoLlDad_jKkOWbhYsknKeC-RYCjYrLT-TcCIUfzzLvO6RlIfJ_rNzpuYtTMmLmw8PWfAtxji4xbFPEoTXz8QBCfzPZjoitbfVuWyCNEmeidJPA/s1600/sig+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiBXPJyTU0upZwp_STVgAMhx-r8N9IYQoLlDad_jKkOWbhYsknKeC-RYCjYrLT-TcCIUfzzLvO6RlIfJ_rNzpuYtTMmLmw8PWfAtxji4xbFPEoTXz8QBCfzPZjoitbfVuWyCNEmeidJPA/s200/sig+2.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-32346509229175993312011-03-17T07:46:00.003-05:002011-03-17T07:47:27.791-05:00Missing Girl Found<div style="color: red;"><span data-jsid="text">Thanks you to everyone who has been supportive of her family and keeping Jessica and her family in your prayers. Its such a relief to know that right now she is with the Embassy and we know where she is.</span></div>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-38534634418616928422011-03-16T16:35:00.000-05:002011-03-16T16:35:41.407-05:00Missing Girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLD87ciDP0YngCli39pv6O5wdKEy1lvNH3ugAuziTfcoZ-IaMNjQSdtiXgWjChJeYzAeqO0TNbINKx6K1PFhIv62_9TEFLoSX7PE5dMqhcsWFq7humcyniy6Vj6gkIDB-tKFZUg52UQs8/s1600/196590_1910983619319_1383747810_2188198_1424807_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLD87ciDP0YngCli39pv6O5wdKEy1lvNH3ugAuziTfcoZ-IaMNjQSdtiXgWjChJeYzAeqO0TNbINKx6K1PFhIv62_9TEFLoSX7PE5dMqhcsWFq7humcyniy6Vj6gkIDB-tKFZUg52UQs8/s1600/196590_1910983619319_1383747810_2188198_1424807_n.jpg" /></a></div><span style="color: red;">This girl is a friend of my ex step-daughter's and she has been missing for over 24 hours. She was last seen at the Orsay museum in Paris, France and was staying at the Mistal Hotel with a group. She is 21 years old and her name is Jessica Metcalf.</span>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-47565766543849410522011-02-28T13:22:00.001-06:002012-02-04T10:04:40.201-06:00my New Phone Is Smarter Than me<div style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyXnxBhbb00LnttwNP1Cpa6I7NurK9yk8aoGvwthweXFjpmKFuJPNgGV2irWhUUNxePxuVNKpXSOk9ehBg-d_T1lfO_DOuwHsKzil-LkNx7HvEPwtF7o-PpNTJXEKDwBd4IBITxX-Mk00/s1600/LG-mobile-ls670-optimus-s-purple-large.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyXnxBhbb00LnttwNP1Cpa6I7NurK9yk8aoGvwthweXFjpmKFuJPNgGV2irWhUUNxePxuVNKpXSOk9ehBg-d_T1lfO_DOuwHsKzil-LkNx7HvEPwtF7o-PpNTJXEKDwBd4IBITxX-Mk00/s200/LG-mobile-ls670-optimus-s-purple-large.png" width="135" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">~~~~ i got a new phone today. my old one was really messing up and driving me nuts so i got a new one and i like it, i think. i have not had it very long, as in only about an hour. But it is smarter than i am and that is not a good thing so i need to sit down and learn it. That will take time but i will get it. i swear that i will. </span></div><div style="color: #76a5af; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #76a5af; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ i even drove and got it all by myself and that is a huge thing for me. Driving is not my favorite thing to do but i am making myself do it as often as i can with short trips to start and then i will go farther and farther until i am just fine driving but that will take a long time to get to.</span></div><div style="color: #76a5af; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #76a5af; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">~~~~ So anyway. This new phone is a smart phone that is completely touch. i got the purple one but it also comes in black. It is the LG Optimus S. i looked at it on Sunday but had to think about it and see what i really wanted. This one does more then i wanted but, also does everything that i wanted it to. So now i have to enter all my numbers and alarms again but i will get it done.</span></div>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-83949274776004372562011-02-23T15:00:00.000-06:002011-02-23T15:00:02.450-06:00A Cup of Tea and Some Good Yarn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUu5266Nw2qciQM2pd_7bW8BIH3854H71RxzMJrfh9p4-Ss8omrFKZXJzMDgVvKnC9qZdSdiCLVvXksTX2yaDdpRMKIahV3xYZp1eShovGjsuMyXNaRX9Bkb3qpi7iwghCh8NT-x7xCfI/s1600/tea-and-yarn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUu5266Nw2qciQM2pd_7bW8BIH3854H71RxzMJrfh9p4-Ss8omrFKZXJzMDgVvKnC9qZdSdiCLVvXksTX2yaDdpRMKIahV3xYZp1eShovGjsuMyXNaRX9Bkb3qpi7iwghCh8NT-x7xCfI/s200/tea-and-yarn.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ Lately i have been looking for a good yarn store and so far i have found only one yarn store near me and it is in the next state over well North. Now yes i do not live to far from the state line but still i would like to have one closer to home. It is only a 15 minute drive and i know i sound silly but i would really like one that i could walk to. There are so many open store fronts in the next town south of me (if i went the next town north i will be in the other state) and i would love to see a yarn and tea shop open up in one of them. But i just do not think it will happen in this economy or this era either. Yes, i know knitting was the new hot thing for a while with all the stars but i am not sure how many people around here actually picked up and are still doing it. </span></div><div style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ You always read about these Stitch N' Bitch groups that go to the local coffee house to meet and i do not even know of one of those in my town. i have asked around. The coffee house we have well in the next town over but it is there but the Stitch N' Bitch i have not found anyone that knows of one. Now i could try and start one and i may do that. It is just that you read all these wonderful books about yarn shops that groups of people getting together and sharing their lives. (i personally have five different authors on my shelves with stories like this and more in my wish list) At times i think i would love to open a tea and yarn shop,yes there would be coffee too, in town but i do not know how well it would work and really do not know much about that side of running a store. i have managed stores before but never had to do all the ordering and book keeping and all of that. i am sure if i asked my boss who has had a couple of stores before he could help me but like i said i am not sure it would take off and work and i can not right now put money that i do not really have into something like that. </span></div><div style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~~~~ Maybe this is a dream that i will just have to keep for the future and try when things are better around here. Right now i need to think about what is best for Son and i. Right now i am getting ready to go to school for Occupational Therapy. Maybe after i save up money from doing that for a while i can look into opening one of these yarn shops and see how it goes. </span></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ i have had it for a little while now and Son and i use it on the couch to cover up with and keep warm. It reminds us of my dad and makes it so that Son can feel he is still close. i have wanted to post pictures of this beautiful blanket for a long time but was worried some in my family were not ready to see it yet and now i hope they are because i am finally posting the pics. </span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ i love this blanket and these wonderful ladies so much and think that this group is such a great idea that i am not helping to make the blankets with more then just sending in squares. i am the US coordinator for making the blankets. This means that i get squares sent to me and i sew them into blankets and send the blankets to those whom the group has voted on as the recipient for the blanket for that month. Right now i am doing one every other month and trying to build up my stash of squares so that i can get the blankets done quicker and squares from more people. </span></div><div style="color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><span style="color: #d9d2e9; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~~~~ If you have come across this blog and like the idea and would love to help please click on the link above and join us. Or just leave me a comment and i can get you the information to send the squares to me or to the other person who is making the blankets and she is in England. We welcome squares from everyone, and from everywhere. They can be of any type of yarn, any color and any style between 5 x 5 or 6 x 6 inches.</span></span>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-23004018051687299532011-01-17T09:30:00.000-06:002011-01-17T09:30:44.913-06:00UGH The Flu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6T0sICR3L2Lv3fYIBDC8M3ihRYdcOxR9WtmoafEQn90gUYkfGLEPi0hW7EGmGX3jHvtlOPQeF_ykVj8CtxHUjkgiOUeXXTvoLW2DWsWR5qDnhJX-mKbGrJDChll5eYrooWab2Mh4myr4/s1600/thermomater.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6T0sICR3L2Lv3fYIBDC8M3ihRYdcOxR9WtmoafEQn90gUYkfGLEPi0hW7EGmGX3jHvtlOPQeF_ykVj8CtxHUjkgiOUeXXTvoLW2DWsWR5qDnhJX-mKbGrJDChll5eYrooWab2Mh4myr4/s200/thermomater.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ i have been sick for over a week now and am finally starting to feel better. Now i have all kinds of things to catch up on. Like a weeks worth of dishes in the kitchen. i was so sick i did not want to get up off the couch at all and it took all the energy that i had to shower and get dressed. So today is going to have to be a catch up day and take is slowly day. Son has a doctor's appointment this evening and then we will have to go to Target to get is Rx filled (Concerta 36mg) for his ADHD. </span></div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ i am trying to recycle some yarn from an old sweater of mine that was wearing thin in places and had a couple of holes and a few snags. i am not sure how well this will work but i figured that i would try and see what can be done with it. i have also entered all my knitting needles and crochet hooks on my Ravelry. Now i have an idea of what i have and what i still need to get. i also organized my sewing box that i keep them all in so that it will be easier to find everything in it. i just did this stuff this morning when i was looking for my seam ripper and could not find it. Turns out it was in my actual sewing box instead of the one i use for all my crocheting and knitting stuff. i think i am going to pick up another one to keep in with my yarn stuff. This way i will always know where one is and have one at hand. </span></div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ On top of all of that the hot water pipes to one of the un-rented apartments froze and burst sometime last night and we have NO hot water at all and the basement is FLOODED. The neighbor kids came knocking on my door asking what to do and who to call. This is after other neighbor kids borrowed a cup of sugar and some coffee filters also this morning. It is nice to know that they all know they can turn to me when something is wrong or needed. Now that there is no hot water for a while i called my ex and asked him to have Son take a shower there before he comes here. (Not that i think it will happen) </span></div><div style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ i am going to go back to working on calendars and schedules so that i can go back to read Emma on my Kindle. i do so love my Kindle. i was telling a friend of mine, that i have known since i was little and just started talking to again (KW), about it and she downloaded the app for her phone and going to get the Kindle for PC as well so that she can take them with her to the hospital when she goes in for her back surgery and can read the books that she wants that way. </span></div><div style="color: #45818e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><span style="color: #45818e; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~~~~ KW and i have known each other since we were about 10 or so. She and her mom used to live in the duplex above my cousins. We stopped talking for a while over something stupid and then reconnected around September on Facebook. Turns out she knows an ex-boyfriend of mine and several people i went to school with. She now lives in TN and we got to see each other when we were in OH for Christmas. We all got together at AP's apartment. We all had a great time when we got together too and read my Tarot cards for the three of us. Then just talked of things we have been through and mutual friends for all of us. i hope to see them all again soon but do not know when that will happen.</span></span><br />
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<li style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> * Get back to FLYing</span></li>
<li style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">* Work on my jealousy issues</span></li>
<li style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">* Go to school</span></li>
<li style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">* Work on my poetry</span></li>
<li style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">* Get my driver's license</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #93c47d;">* Give someone the space they need</span></span></li>
</ul><span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~~~~ These are not in any particular order. They are just the order that they came to me. i need to work on several things that will make me a better person for me and help me to move on in my life. i have been through a lot and am trying to be the person i am meant to be rather then the person that my depression has turned me into lately. i am getting better but i still have a long way to go. (To the one that knows most about what i am talking about, "thank You, for helping me see things through the other's eyes.") </span></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ i can not wait to go through the millions of books online and see what ones i really want and what i can get. As i have said i have been wanting one of these for years and i finally have it.</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ i also got a new printer/scanner/copier for Christmas from my oldest brother (2 years younger), and am getting a new laptop from my middle brother (7 years younger), and excellent baking pans from my youngest brother (10 years younger). my mom also got me a ton of yarn for Christmas but i could not bring it all back home with me so it is coming with mom when she comes to visit in a few months. Not enough room in my brother's car because he drove out to IL to pick up Son and me and drove us home too. </span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ It was really nice being in OH. Son got to spend a lot time with his oldest uncle and i got to spend time with AP and my family. Do not get me wrong i love where i live and i do not want to move but it would be nice to be closer to my family and see them more. Once i am driving and am making more money working i will be able to go to OH more often to see my family. That will be nice.</span></div><br />
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</div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ i was worried but figured that i could talk to my brother K about getting out there that weekend so that Son and i could visit with him if he was out of the hospital. i had not called my brother yet because of my headache and i thought he was in the hospital visiting Dad. i was going to tell Son that Juedo (Arabic for Grandfather) was in the hospital but was going to be okay when we went for driving lessons with Roommate. </span></div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ It turned out we did not go for driving lessons that day and it was a good thing that we did not. Right after i got off the phone with Roommate talking about why we were not going for driving lessons my mom called me in tears. This was about 5:30pm my time and told me that Dad did not make it. He had died about an hour ago in his sleep. From that time on i did everything i could to get Son and i ready to get out to OH. Packing our bags and calling the school leaving a message that Son would be absent for at least a week and why. Calling my ex and telling him that Son and i were going out to OH for my dad's funeral and everything. Letting my friends know what was going on and talking to my brother about how we were getting out to OH. </span></div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ We ended up flying from O'Hare to Cleveland and my brother met us there and took us to our parents house. We spent the week out there dealing with all of that and spreading his ashes. Now i will not say where or how we spread the ashes but that we did it. </span></div><div style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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~~~~ After the test Roommate took us to Dunkin' Doughnuts to get some treats. Son got a HUGE blueberry muffin, Roommate got an extra large blueberry coffee with sugar and cream, and he got a pumpkin coffee with sugar and cream as well as a pumpkin doughnut because they were out of pumpkin muffins. Then we went to some abandon roads in town that turned out not to be so abandoned that day. i drove on them for about half an hour and tried to back up and everything. i need a lot my practice. i did not do to badly but i did not do to great either.</span></div><div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: orange; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ Hopefully we can go driving again today and Son will be better behaved this time. He kept making comments from the backseat and it did not help me any. By the time we got home, Roommate drove us because i am not ready for the main roads yet, i was shaking like a leaf in a hurricane. Roommate was very sweet and helped me calm down a little and cracked my lower back for me because it was tight and hurting. Then gave me two hugs before he left to head home so that he could get ready for his bowling league thing he had last night. (i wonder how he did.)<br />
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~~~~ i hate driving but i know that i have to learn so i am working on it and in time i know i will not be as scared as i am now. i do not think i will every truly love it but then i could be wrong i am trying to keep an open mind about it. But as long as i do it once in a while and am comfortable doing it with Son in the car i will know i can do it when i have to. Right now i am not comfortable enough to even drive on the main roads here but i did get up to 40mph and that is a huge thing for me because at first i could not stand going that speed i was too scared. One thing at a time and i will get there. i am just so glad that Roommate is so calm and patient with me. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUvQv_KKtsywZGPOeaT-AzbsagFZCBAmJaDm6sTyqCMaMpAmWDGhorZqw74GC5W49ARlIUvKvKNQCHRUsoE6AlP20j7qBSVBS-kxguoqDk0X-VC7jV4JnpUDbfx2BcJnZn6rbGSTNAyFI/s1600/sig+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUvQv_KKtsywZGPOeaT-AzbsagFZCBAmJaDm6sTyqCMaMpAmWDGhorZqw74GC5W49ARlIUvKvKNQCHRUsoE6AlP20j7qBSVBS-kxguoqDk0X-VC7jV4JnpUDbfx2BcJnZn6rbGSTNAyFI/s200/sig+2.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-72800148603945861982010-09-12T00:28:00.000-05:002010-09-12T00:28:45.680-05:00Giving It To A Higher Power<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1pMhkGXs7CJ44APr8sE4CNwD6zyskDTboM6r8J7-pK9klvzJtttvzfhzbVRbi_Nl5I07tpB1uOLrtr0_LU5UJCXJjaBbisRAPc9cX8KLqQkRbwQHHWjCPWIO5_jRAp1o1JqUay5R4gM/s1600/sage_abalone_shella.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR1pMhkGXs7CJ44APr8sE4CNwD6zyskDTboM6r8J7-pK9klvzJtttvzfhzbVRbi_Nl5I07tpB1uOLrtr0_LU5UJCXJjaBbisRAPc9cX8KLqQkRbwQHHWjCPWIO5_jRAp1o1JqUay5R4gM/s200/sage_abalone_shella.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">~~~~ i have been trying to tell someone how i truly feel about them for a very long time. And that i am very sorry that i ever hurt them. They are having a hard time receiving my message because of the pain and the fear of getting hurt again if they open up their heart. So i have decided to send my message for them into the Universe and when the time is right they will cross the energy of the message and feel it in there heart that i am being honest with my words. i am going to write down everything i want to say to them in a letter and then on the full moon, September 23 at 4:18AM, i am going to burn this letter with some sage and release it into the Universe. Then what is meant be will be, and what is meant to happen will happen in its own time. i am giving it up to the Goddess in all her glory, power, wisdom, and love to decide what is right and when.</span></div><div style="color: #b4a7d6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span> </div><div style="color: #b4a7d6;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">~~~~ i have been hurting myself and them for far to long with this and it is time i stop and let the higher powers show me the correct way to deal with it. It is time i let myself heal and forgive myself so that they can heal and forgive me as well. Only then can we move on with our lives in the way that is meant to be, whatever that may be. i do love this person dearly and have for a long time. i feel absolutely horrible that i hurt them the way i did and that i did it without knowing that i was doing it. They have been there for me and helped me through many things that have happened lately in my life and i am eternally grateful to have them in my life. i do not know what i would have done or would do without their help, love, and support. </span></span></div><div style="color: #b4a7d6;"><br />
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So i have picked up my crocheting with more determination lately. Between everything with my dad and stuff with a couple of my dear friends and then everything that is or is not going on between Roommate and i. Lets just say i have my plate full and need to spend some time on me. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">~~~~ my "me time" finds my crochet hook going in one project after another. i am finishing a baby blanket for a baby that was just recently born so that i can get it sent out to OH to the mother for her. i am also making squares for a Ravelry group as i said in my last post. This group puts the squares that are donated from all over the world together to make a blanket for someone who needs it in some way. Plus i am making a drawstring pouch as a gift for someone to say thank you for caring even though we do not really know each other very well.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">~~~~ i have found that i am even crocheting while i am making calls for work. If i am on hold or waiting for the phone to be answered my hook is flying through one of my projects. i also found a pattern to crochet a flogger with and without beads. Now i just need to get the right type of yarn for it and then i will be making at least 4 of them maybe more depending on who wants them. i know i am making one with and one without beads for me then i just need to find someone to use it. i know who i want to do that but only time will tell if that is every going to happen. Though things look like they may be heading that way in the future. i just need to give them time and space for both of us to heal and deal with what is going on in our lives.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">~~~~ i am also going to be taking the written test soon so that i can get my learners permit for driving and that has me worried. i am very scared of driving because of accidents that have happened to me in the past... ie. getting hit by the car while walking. But i need to learn to drive and be more independent for both myself and Son. Roommate is willing to teach me to drive and has been driving me where i need to go for years and it will be nice to be able to do it on my own when i have to. i am doing well at learning to live on my own. There are still somethings that i need help with but most it i am doing for myself. </span></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI7szoAJIZElWRl1KDJYv-9doINfqKwjOrDal6s1TVXFldovhWAvXtNhysMzvzuFIWXqoScJwzgA8LiY4-Gv-1ueg8wHbRriS0tmyi_zmNYeiXaQxP_2fFGnqGysMnS5V2HauZxNSqKjM/s1600/Sig+1.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 50px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI7szoAJIZElWRl1KDJYv-9doINfqKwjOrDal6s1TVXFldovhWAvXtNhysMzvzuFIWXqoScJwzgA8LiY4-Gv-1ueg8wHbRriS0tmyi_zmNYeiXaQxP_2fFGnqGysMnS5V2HauZxNSqKjM/s200/Sig+1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514221785423173554" border="0" /></a>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-31987078042291530032010-08-25T15:29:00.006-05:002010-09-04T17:55:06.714-05:00Wind Chimes & Cancer<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLKsr3yXBJdMhs-1Pm8Cu3nJHL79SdKuTZU3kSt_KYyZnxYB5kRoNRIyuxytTNkRHCWa6SfbNkIIHSA5SZ018Qp4KDvsWlhlyFzmrRrMBqjP7qPz_H3P7VzCqtOTBah0uOUFbeasd1RCA/s1600/WindchimesBaxterMulticolorF.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLKsr3yXBJdMhs-1Pm8Cu3nJHL79SdKuTZU3kSt_KYyZnxYB5kRoNRIyuxytTNkRHCWa6SfbNkIIHSA5SZ018Qp4KDvsWlhlyFzmrRrMBqjP7qPz_H3P7VzCqtOTBah0uOUFbeasd1RCA/s200/WindchimesBaxterMulticolorF.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509460291567649378" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family: arial;">~~~~ i love wind chimes of kinds. i have them hanging in every room of my home and outside my back door. They way they sound and the wonderful designs they come in are just absolutely beautiful.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">~~~~ i find the sounds of them so very relaxing as they tinkle, chime, ring, and gong from the wind. It matters not the material that they are made from: glass, wood, metal, shell, or any other thing that makes a beautiful sound i want them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">~~~~ i have just recently found out that my dad who is 72 has lung cancer and now they need to do a brain scan before he can start his chemo to see if there is cancer there too. He has been very confused and suffering from exhaustion lately and that could be from cancer in the brain or lack of sleep because he has been so worried. So now we have to see what the scans say before they start the chemo. The results of the scans will dictate what type of chemo he gets and all that fun stuff. On top of all of this i am the one that has to be strong for my family. Anytime anything happens with my family i am the one that everyone turns to. i just do not know if i have the strength deal with all of this when i am still healing from everything that i have been through. i talked to Roommate and he said he will try to be there for me but with everything in his life that is going on he is not sure how strong he will be for me. He needs time to heal too after i hurt him during my three year long divorce. He was always there for me and needs time to deal with his life and to get his strength back. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">~~~~ i do have other friends that i know will be there for me there is AP who has told me that she will take a bus out here to drive Son and i back to OH any time that i want to as long as my car is running. (Though at the moment my car is not running AGAIN. It seems that every time i take my car in to get fixed in some way it comes back with a dead battery. GRRR.) Then i have a very dear friend that i talk to on Face book a lot. i have been talking to him for years and even though he lives in another country i know he will be there for me to talk to when i need to. Plus i just got two of my friends from my divorce back into my life. i am learning to trust them again but i know that they will be there for me if i need them to be.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">~~~~ As i write about my dad's cancer and my friends my wind chimes are tinkling and ringing in the wind. They sound so beautiful and relaxing. And right now i need that. Plus i need to get off the laptop and get started on my laundry it is piling up here and i need to work on crocheting more squares for one of my groups on Ravelry.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdzdor-uSZmD9APmj9r0Co65vhgG-4p3ptJ7f7uDmaMBVI-eakFli0Gs3EVclFRvulchLBSTw0j78VvCvDTZU5PlzdaKylarNmfOm04xdTLDGXWChssMyzGJE7Jv_WbLx4my1-LoZanuk/s1600/Sig+1.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 50px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdzdor-uSZmD9APmj9r0Co65vhgG-4p3ptJ7f7uDmaMBVI-eakFli0Gs3EVclFRvulchLBSTw0j78VvCvDTZU5PlzdaKylarNmfOm04xdTLDGXWChssMyzGJE7Jv_WbLx4my1-LoZanuk/s200/Sig+1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5509460106949178482" border="0" /></a>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8445369036428812697.post-4516233813443719312010-08-12T12:46:00.002-05:002010-08-12T12:49:02.473-05:00Long Time No Post<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVKLaXhDXq3iOtpQ2T44dkz2vgSLpYmdWQIaU5TORKWiY19n5Af0c1_6JLYvWlqxvz5cJeto1RKxpQFxZvz9izMPZlU8LJw9gk2MKHgdLVjOaBMf4aiw2yaeVmC62QGVX6l-6OMQoxYP4/s1600/photogallery_green_alternatives_to_everyday_services_11_full.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVKLaXhDXq3iOtpQ2T44dkz2vgSLpYmdWQIaU5TORKWiY19n5Af0c1_6JLYvWlqxvz5cJeto1RKxpQFxZvz9izMPZlU8LJw9gk2MKHgdLVjOaBMf4aiw2yaeVmC62QGVX6l-6OMQoxYP4/s200/photogallery_green_alternatives_to_everyday_services_11_full.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504581207224573794" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">~~~~ It has been a very long time since i have posted to any of my blogs and i need to start getting back into my routines. my small apartment is still full of boxes, bags, and totes of things that need to be unpacked, sorted, decided on and either tossed, donated, or put away. i just feel so very overw</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">helmed. i need to do what FLYlady says and do things 15 minutes at a time but right now i can not even seem to think about doing that. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">~~~~ i know, i know i just need to stop thinking and start doing and once i start i will be able to finish. i will feel a lot better and be a lot more relaxed once it is done i just have to do </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">it. Oh th</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">e fun. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">~~~~ Son has been at his father's for the last month so he has not had to see or live with any of this mess as everything was slowly brought over here. i do have a lot of things done it just does not feel like it with the last of everything being stacked everywhere.<br /> </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">~~~~ Okay well i had better get off of here and stop procrastinating and start working so that i can have a clean and comfortable home. 15 minutes of working means 15 minutes o</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">f relaxing in a cleaner and more comfortable home. Timer here i come</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsnceYl-SlXnQJaPE8his5SJevSsIoTSHdQgJ7p-XXb5vQNDY_aIy-tW9_OMl9XXoGWEONgcdrYE3ijLtScJpezX994Ttbb4faWEE9TBTbEBORmKdGvc9zJt02ggTyD6QSiEl4sYKNlw/s1600/sig+2.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 70px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXsnceYl-SlXnQJaPE8his5SJevSsIoTSHdQgJ7p-XXb5vQNDY_aIy-tW9_OMl9XXoGWEONgcdrYE3ijLtScJpezX994Ttbb4faWEE9TBTbEBORmKdGvc9zJt02ggTyD6QSiEl4sYKNlw/s200/sig+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5504581741646850146" border="0" /></a>CBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01852810005827314673noreply@blogger.com0