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I don't have any money right now or I would buy this, so you guys are lucky I am sharing :)
I have to save my money for this summer.
Go take a peek!

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Boo

Climbing out from under my rock to say hi, and I am still alive. Not in a blogging mood as of late, but soon my friends, soon.

Books, Books, Books

So over on Swirly Thoughts, there was this great and wonderful meme all about books which she got here. I was looking through the list and decided I wanted to do it. If nothing else, it will give me a bunch of new books I need to read.

So here goes, just put an X next to the ones you have read.

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 - X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - X
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 -X
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 Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald- X
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck -X (really, how could I not living here?)
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll - X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame - X
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis - X
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - X
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne - X
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 -X
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert-X
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 Zifon
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 - X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck - X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold - X
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-X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville-X
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens-X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett - X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens-X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker - X
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White - X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery -X In English and French!
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 X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl - X
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

So how many is that? Let me count...only 29. Well then looks like I have a lot of reading to do :) Maybe that will be a new item on the side bar, last year I listed the books I had read, this year I will try and read all these. Yes, I like that, I just have to finish the Twilight saga first. I see what everyone was all crazy about, I am halfway through Breaking Dawn, and I started Twilight 11 days ago. Crazy right?

So I have an etsy shop, did you know? There are only about 5 things in it right now. Every time I think about making things and putting them in it, I get all stressed out and anxious. Does anyone else's etsy shop do that to them? It is supposed to be fun...

Unfortunately...

So this is fun, I borrowed (or stole) the whole idea for this blog post from Bittycakes.
You can read the rules there, and also read my comments which will be an exact duplication of what you are about to read, so maybe not.

Just Google the phrase "Unfortunately, __________" Your name goes in the blank, and you read the funny things that show up.

Examples:

“Unfortunately, Crystal is a convoluted mess with no finesse
whatsoever.”

“Unfortunately Crystal didn’t actually agree to anything that leads to
murder or does it.”

“Unfortunately, Crystal hates freestyle, and therefore hates most of the
youth.”

"Unfortunately Crystal can break if mishandled during shipping. Thankfully,
this doesn’t happen too often."

"Unfortunately, Crystal suffers the worst."

"Unfortunately Crystal has devastated many lives in Boston."

"Unfortunately Crystal has developed the reputation as a place where
anything goes."

Nuh-uh! Anything does not go in Crystal!

Well, no new crafting to report, the only sewing I have been doing is patches on Cub Scout uniforms. Not only am I the Den Leader, I am also the official patch sewer-onner. Is that a real title 'cause it should be.

Thank God for spellcheck!

Impromptu Parties

Those are my favorite kind. We had an impromptu Oscar party tonight. It was so much fun. My friend was over with her kids. The kids were upstairs playing, we were chatting, reading magazines and cooking all at the same time. Then I realized the Oscars had started so I put those on. She jokingly asked if it was an Oscar party. Yes! Go get champagne I told her, but being the smart cookie that she is was already on the phone calling her hubby to have him bring the bottle they had at home. While she was calling on her cell phone, I got a call on my house phone (I say that like I have another phone, no I am one of the few who does not have a cell phone). Anyway, I got a call from our other friend who asked if I was watching. Of course I am going to invite her over, but she snuck out without the kids. So there we were having drinks, chatting it up and watching the Oscars. What a great way to end an already great weekend!

I did not take any pictures of our party, but I did take one from yesterday. GO SHARKS!!!!

Great game, great fights, lots of excitement in the third period. So much fun! Hope everyone else had a great weekend too!

Words of Wisdom

From my 8 year old, overheard while he and his friend we trying oh so hard to not play on the treadmill (its against the rules).

"Don't ever skateboard on a treadmill unless your middle name is Stupid"

I'm Failing

Or flailing, either way I have not succeeded in posting three times a week. But here is another one, and it actually has crafts!

My wee one (who is not so wee anymore) had a friend sleepover the other night. They decided sewing was a fun thing to do, so we made them pajama pants.

The only problem with that was, the friends little sister now wants to have a sleepover too. I think she just wants some pants, so I have to find some girly fabric and make her a pair too.

We also did another fun thing this weekend. We went to a migration festival and even though it was stormy and rainy, we went to the beach. Well, during a break in the rain.

Natural Bridges is down to its last bridge. Still pretty and a fun place for boys to run and run. And for mine to drop his sweatshirt in the water.

Kids Swap

What a great idea. A swap for kids artist trading cards. My son is very excited, especially since he knows he is going to get mail. Go check it out on Erin's blog.

That was all for tonight. I figure even if it is small, a post is a post, right?

By the way, we did not win at the derby, but our car sure looked spiffy! And we had lots of fun so that is all that matters.

Did I show you what happened to me again this year? No? Well, since post are more fun with pictures, here you go. What we do for our boys.

Yup, I got pied again. They sold lots of popcorn, so I had to do it. Yay for the boys, they look forward to this every year!

Plugging

Hi everyone! Look! twice in one week, I may meet my goal, or challenge, or whatever it was I gave myself. I don't have much to say other than I am tired, busy planning the pinewood derby for my sons Cub Scout Pack. But check out my, er, I mean his car.

Sweet! Anyway, that is not what I am plugging, but it is the only crafty thing I have done this week.

What I am plugging is for my pops, I think its cool, and thought I would share. He has this cool new collaboration he has started. He makes big metal flowers and a friend of his puts lights in them. They are so pretty at night, but also look pretty during the day. So go check them out.

Crackbook

So I have given myself over to crackbook, yeah, if you are a fellow addict, you understand. I don't read a lot of my normal blogs, don't even write my own (obviously). But I have had other reasons for not writing my blog, a few big issues a few small ones. But I think I am back, in my groove. Today I got some good news and it swung everything around, at least for now.

But that is all, a little bit to make me write. I am going to challenge my self, to post something, anything at least three times a week until my birthday. That's March, so I should have posted 18 times by my birthday, which looking over the last few months might be a challenge.

Wish me luck!

'Nuff Said