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The first two books that have literally been like crack to my veins this week. Thank god for my house cleaner otherwise NOTHING would get done around my house.

If  you like vampires and werewolves and love stories, Stephanie Meyer's Twilight saga should no doubt be the next 4 books you read.

I'm almost done with New Moon and I am planning to spend my lunch hour across the street at the bookstore.

Eleven people are sitting at a conference table. Four of them listening intently to the leader. Six of them are double fisting gum into their drooling mouths. The eleventh, sitting in between the gum smackers, is me. The massacre to my ears begins.

Just another thing list to remind me of how many un-checked lists I have.

 

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own weblog / journal so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. 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 - Phillip 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 William 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 Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Farenheit 454 - Ray Bradbury
21. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (someone really wants to know how you feel about this one.) 
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 (I read them all, Voyage, Silver Chair, Horse and His Boy, Magician's Nephew and The Last Battle) 
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 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 Attwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. The Crucible - Arthur Miller
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 Giver - Lois Lowry
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' 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 Ranson
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. The Odyssey - Homer 
83. The Colour Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishigury
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

 

Wheel of fortune card

You are The Wheel of Fortune

Good fortune and happiness but sometimes a species of
intoxication with success

The Wheel of Fortune is all about big things, luck, change, fortune. Almost always good fortune. You are lucky in all things that you do and happy with the things that come to you. Be careful that success does not go to your head however. Sometimes luck can change.

What Tarot Card are You?
http://www.flarn.com/~warlock/tarot">Take the Test to Find Out.

 

Lucky huh? Hmm. I suppose I was lucky that I didn't rear-end that Lexus any harder on Tuesday.

 

So there I am, entering the underground ramp to my parking garage. I was running late to work so I entered the ramp just before 8AM and this is prime car-crammage time for all the idiot brokers in our building. I happened to be in the heard right behind a lexus and while we began to slowly roll our tired arses down the ramp I made a ridiculous mistake, that I will now blame on my very own vanity, I checked out my gorgeous face in the mirror.

 *CLINK-CLANK!* 

"Damn."

I was also lucky the driver didn't punch my lights out when he got out of his car. He looked like the kind that didn't care if I was man, woman or mule.

Caption of the day!

 

"My Penis and I often enjoy a good game of hide and seek."

I met this guy at the Dog And Pony Pub back in Maine a couple months ago and we joked about posting this picture online. So here it is!

 

 

 

Dear Christina,

I have found the perfect gift for you. Last week your palms developed nasty blisters from pulling that starter cable as aerobically as you did, all the while the mower sat there snickering at you with grass boogers leaking from it's nose.

Anyway, I hope you like it! Tell Shaun he's welcome.

 

Your Dear Friend,

Aimee

 

P.S.

I heard shooting lawn mowers with your shot gun can land you in the clink.

I got this piece of art today from an amazing local artist in the Phoenix Metropolitan area. The artist goes by the name of Haylee the Magnificent. I'm not sure if you have heard of her before but you can read about her here and here and yeah she is the bee's knees.