New School Year
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
30 No-Trash Challenge
Inspired from this blog I have decided to go completely trash free for the month of September. My dear old (she's not old, I've just known her since we were 14!) friend Jessica (HI!) did the month of August on the blog, and it has intrigued me ever since she showed it to me. I have been trying to reduce my waste for quite some time now, but geez, this will be tough-ESPECIALLY with two kids!! Well, I start tomorrow, so wish me luck!
Friday, August 15, 2008
100 Books
Promptly stolen from my dear friend, Whit.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
56, Over half! Not so bad! Apparently, most adults have only read SIX.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
56, Over half! Not so bad! Apparently, most adults have only read SIX.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Slacker...
- Yoga every morning
- Become Vegetarian again-for good
- try to blog every day
- Be more organized and mindful
- Patience, patience, patience!
- Teach the girls German
- Finish my doula certification
Monday, April 7, 2008
Uh, yeah, I have issues....
...not really, but I have always had a problem keeping with something I've started. Everything. I have half finished projects EVERYWHERE!!! But, I digress....
The real reason I'm here is that I've been thinking a lot lately about my life as I approach the big 3-0. I was talking to a good friend of mine about it (she recently hit the milestone herself) and she told me that she sat down one day and tried to write out everything she's done (more or less) in the last 10 years. It seems like your 20's fly by, but when you actually think about everything you've accomplished (or, let's face it, fucked up) then you realize how busy you really have been! So, here I go-this will be a WIP for a few days....
20~I have been pregnant for about 2 months when I turned 20-still haven't told my parents. Went on a road trip with Scott for a few weeks while processing the whole thing. We finally tell everyone and he moves into my apt. with me on Hollywood St. in Converse Heights. I get a job at Snelling Personnel Services as the receptionist/office organizer/AR/AP person. Life kinda sucked as Scott was abusive and a violent alcoholic. I left him many times. Maddie was born December 18th at 4:54 am!
21~Life continued to suck due to Scott and my developing PPD. I had no contact with friends and barely any with family. Late in the summer we moved up to PA with his family. It lasted about 3-4 weeks. I finally had enough and packed Maddie up, rented a car, and drove 13 hours straight at 4 am to come home. Moved in my parents who were in the middle of a divorce! Fun stuff!! I lived with my mom and brothers for a month(?) until Dana and I found a house to move into. Oh, I also got a job at the Sandwich Factory. I met Shelley who became Maddie's care provider while I worked. I met some of my best friends to date at the Sandwich Factory-Amarylis (who I've technically known since elementary school), Sydney, Keesha, and Nancy. Maddie turns 1!!!
22~Still working at the SF...I loved that job! Right downtown, met TONS of people. Finally started dating again. Let's see, Shannon from Rockers, Tim from EMS, Casey C., then Jason-who incidentally, I had a major crush on in middle school! We had a great time together, but he was in the middle of a divorce, and it just was bad timing. He's now married with two kids! I guess it went from Halloween through the beginning of the next year....I become manager of the SF around the same time. Oh, Dana moved out, Elaine moved in, then she moved out, then I moved back to Converse Heights.
23~tough year....I got mugged in the parking lot before work-oh, went from the SF to Jack's (owned by the same people). Started seeing J.F., but that was not a good idea. He was a junkie, and I had a kid, plus he was in the middle of his own relationship crap (I am not a good picker!) but he was sweet and hot, so there. Then, I dated David for a while, got laid off of Jack's and started working at Rocker's and Venus Pie. I stopped seeing David because he didn't want any more of a relationship than just casual. Let me intervene and say I was only intimate with 2 of these guys!!! I quit Rocker's after a week because I just could not handle two jobs. 9/11/01. Dated John Gallant for a while-he was such a sweet heart, but too young for me. Then Bender. I was so in love with him, but he ended up being a scum bag. We had been friends for years (met at the SF-shocker!) we split up a while later-he liked to go on tour with Widespread Panic and met several chickies along the way. Not a good time for me. This was around New Year's. We tried to stay friends, but I despised looking at him after that. Moved to Inman. Started hanging out with Zach a bit, I really liked him a lot-we are still great friends, but, as with most guys I was attracted to, didn't want someone with kids. Whatever. I met Tim through him, actually. They played in several bands together.
24~Tim and Kat broke up. He started showing an interest in me. I held back for a while, though the whole summer, I would go up to the Nu-Way for lunch to see him (he worked there)after school-oh yeah, I started school again! We started dating and got pregnant right away (I swear, I was on BC, but it just damn doesn't work with me!!). We moved in together, but didn't know I was pregnant. I was taking the Seasonale only 4 periods a year stuff. Woohoo for being pregnant for 3 months without knowing it!! Virginia was born via emergency c-section January 27th at 8:04 pm-she was quite early. Had to stay for a few days, but she was fine.
25~Started school (again!). Lucky me, in between summer semester and fall semester, I had appendicitis! July 25th-also the day I quit smoking. Started working at school for the cooperative program for the SC School for the Deaf and Blind. I helped visually impaired students with their classes.
26~more school, started working back at the SF! Yay!
27~Start interning at the Upstate Workforce Investment Board. Finish school. Move from the WIB to the Onestop Career Center. In Feb. Tim and I split up. I lose my job in March. Move out of the house and into my friend Shelley's house. Get a job at Earthfare in Greenville. I love this job. I'm newly single, working with a bunch of cool NEW people that don't know Tim. Spartanburg was too Tim-oriented. Everyone knows everyone.
28~Tim and I start talking again-being friendly. We go see X-Men together. We spend the summer figuring out what went wrong, and what to do to fix things. Six months from the time we split up, we got back together. I find our current house out in the country and we move in. I'm starting to realize that while I LOVE working at Earthfare, it's just waay to long of a drive. I get a job less than 5 miles from the house at a little coffee shop.
29~still working at the coffee shop. Tim gets promoted at work and we have to put Virginia in Daycare. We can't afford it. I quit the coffee shop and work at the Broken Teapot for my friend Sydney-who I met while working at the Sandwich Factory. I work there starting just Friday and Saturday nights, but now it's spread to Thursday-Saturday. I started babsitting this year too, but I'm pretty burned out with it right now, so I am sticking to just the Teapot. BUT, I may be working for Americorps after the summer. They pay a living stipend, pay almost $5000 towards Student loans or towards more education plus $300/child for childcare a month. I would be working with a non-profit org. helping them with grant writing, volunteer recruitment, fund raising, program development, etc. Very exciting!!
The real reason I'm here is that I've been thinking a lot lately about my life as I approach the big 3-0. I was talking to a good friend of mine about it (she recently hit the milestone herself) and she told me that she sat down one day and tried to write out everything she's done (more or less) in the last 10 years. It seems like your 20's fly by, but when you actually think about everything you've accomplished (or, let's face it, fucked up) then you realize how busy you really have been! So, here I go-this will be a WIP for a few days....
20~I have been pregnant for about 2 months when I turned 20-still haven't told my parents. Went on a road trip with Scott for a few weeks while processing the whole thing. We finally tell everyone and he moves into my apt. with me on Hollywood St. in Converse Heights. I get a job at Snelling Personnel Services as the receptionist/office organizer/AR/AP person. Life kinda sucked as Scott was abusive and a violent alcoholic. I left him many times. Maddie was born December 18th at 4:54 am!
21~Life continued to suck due to Scott and my developing PPD. I had no contact with friends and barely any with family. Late in the summer we moved up to PA with his family. It lasted about 3-4 weeks. I finally had enough and packed Maddie up, rented a car, and drove 13 hours straight at 4 am to come home. Moved in my parents who were in the middle of a divorce! Fun stuff!! I lived with my mom and brothers for a month(?) until Dana and I found a house to move into. Oh, I also got a job at the Sandwich Factory. I met Shelley who became Maddie's care provider while I worked. I met some of my best friends to date at the Sandwich Factory-Amarylis (who I've technically known since elementary school), Sydney, Keesha, and Nancy. Maddie turns 1!!!
22~Still working at the SF...I loved that job! Right downtown, met TONS of people. Finally started dating again. Let's see, Shannon from Rockers, Tim from EMS, Casey C., then Jason-who incidentally, I had a major crush on in middle school! We had a great time together, but he was in the middle of a divorce, and it just was bad timing. He's now married with two kids! I guess it went from Halloween through the beginning of the next year....I become manager of the SF around the same time. Oh, Dana moved out, Elaine moved in, then she moved out, then I moved back to Converse Heights.
23~tough year....I got mugged in the parking lot before work-oh, went from the SF to Jack's (owned by the same people). Started seeing J.F., but that was not a good idea. He was a junkie, and I had a kid, plus he was in the middle of his own relationship crap (I am not a good picker!) but he was sweet and hot, so there. Then, I dated David for a while, got laid off of Jack's and started working at Rocker's and Venus Pie. I stopped seeing David because he didn't want any more of a relationship than just casual. Let me intervene and say I was only intimate with 2 of these guys!!! I quit Rocker's after a week because I just could not handle two jobs. 9/11/01. Dated John Gallant for a while-he was such a sweet heart, but too young for me. Then Bender. I was so in love with him, but he ended up being a scum bag. We had been friends for years (met at the SF-shocker!) we split up a while later-he liked to go on tour with Widespread Panic and met several chickies along the way. Not a good time for me. This was around New Year's. We tried to stay friends, but I despised looking at him after that. Moved to Inman. Started hanging out with Zach a bit, I really liked him a lot-we are still great friends, but, as with most guys I was attracted to, didn't want someone with kids. Whatever. I met Tim through him, actually. They played in several bands together.
24~Tim and Kat broke up. He started showing an interest in me. I held back for a while, though the whole summer, I would go up to the Nu-Way for lunch to see him (he worked there)after school-oh yeah, I started school again! We started dating and got pregnant right away (I swear, I was on BC, but it just damn doesn't work with me!!). We moved in together, but didn't know I was pregnant. I was taking the Seasonale only 4 periods a year stuff. Woohoo for being pregnant for 3 months without knowing it!! Virginia was born via emergency c-section January 27th at 8:04 pm-she was quite early. Had to stay for a few days, but she was fine.
25~Started school (again!). Lucky me, in between summer semester and fall semester, I had appendicitis! July 25th-also the day I quit smoking. Started working at school for the cooperative program for the SC School for the Deaf and Blind. I helped visually impaired students with their classes.
26~more school, started working back at the SF! Yay!
27~Start interning at the Upstate Workforce Investment Board. Finish school. Move from the WIB to the Onestop Career Center. In Feb. Tim and I split up. I lose my job in March. Move out of the house and into my friend Shelley's house. Get a job at Earthfare in Greenville. I love this job. I'm newly single, working with a bunch of cool NEW people that don't know Tim. Spartanburg was too Tim-oriented. Everyone knows everyone.
28~Tim and I start talking again-being friendly. We go see X-Men together. We spend the summer figuring out what went wrong, and what to do to fix things. Six months from the time we split up, we got back together. I find our current house out in the country and we move in. I'm starting to realize that while I LOVE working at Earthfare, it's just waay to long of a drive. I get a job less than 5 miles from the house at a little coffee shop.
29~still working at the coffee shop. Tim gets promoted at work and we have to put Virginia in Daycare. We can't afford it. I quit the coffee shop and work at the Broken Teapot for my friend Sydney-who I met while working at the Sandwich Factory. I work there starting just Friday and Saturday nights, but now it's spread to Thursday-Saturday. I started babsitting this year too, but I'm pretty burned out with it right now, so I am sticking to just the Teapot. BUT, I may be working for Americorps after the summer. They pay a living stipend, pay almost $5000 towards Student loans or towards more education plus $300/child for childcare a month. I would be working with a non-profit org. helping them with grant writing, volunteer recruitment, fund raising, program development, etc. Very exciting!!
Friday, February 15, 2008
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