Life's Short, Talk Fast.

Stole from kat :)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte-I own it so I guess I should intend to read it, but oh well
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 Traveller'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  (why is this one listed separtely but not the rest?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (even if it's a bit inaccurate)
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
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
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 

1. Go to www.careercruising.com.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top ten results

1. Cartoonist/Comic Illustrator
2. Animator
3. Artist
4. Illustrator
5. Director of Photogrphy
6. Website Designer
7. Graphic Designer
8. Special effects technician
9. Costume Designer
10. Computer Animator

Woo Hoo!  I got a bonus at work today.  $400...sweet.

Our anniversary was this weekend and although we weren't planning to do a lot of stuff it ended up turning out that way.  The Richmond Braves were in town for the weekend to play the Tides so David and I decided to go out to the ballpark and catch the game.  We bought a program and ended up winning one of the lucky number prizes ( a bunch of restuarant gift certificates), which was funny because we won with the number on page 52 right after I said "I don't know why I keep looking these up, its not like we're going to win."    52 is one of those numbers that just keeps showing up everywhere for us.

I thawed out the top layer of the wedding cake and must say I was scard to eat it as I've always heard that they taste nasty after being thawed. Suprisingly it was really good.  You couldn't even tell that it had been frozen.   My freezing method apparently worked really well  (I wonder if it being a pound cake had anything to do with it?).   So I was glad that the cake was good, and we still have some leftover to eat on for the next day or two.

The 3rd Pirates of the Caribbean movie also came out this weekend, so of course I had to go see it.  It was really good.   I liked it better than the 2nd and almost as much as the first.    David thought the 3rd one was the best.  This one has a lot of action and is more....piratey, I guess.  I wasn't sure at first if I liked the ending (it wasn't what I was expecting), but later decided that I did.  If you go see it make sure you stay till after the credits since this movie has the little clip at the end like the other two did.

What will I do without my Tuesday night fix?  

After the season finale Gilmore Girls will be kaput.  I can't say I didn't see it, coming, but I was holding out hope for at least half of an 8th season.  There is just to much to cram into two episodes to make a satisfying ending.

Stole this from Kat :)

Seattle

You are smart, laid back, and liberal. You are Seattle, Washington.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on intellectual You scored higher than 99% on laid back You scored higher than 99% on liberal

Link: The ~~~ What U.S. City Are You ~~~ Test written by SilentKoala on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

I was browsing the KHS alumni website and found a posting for our 10 year reunion (that makes me feel old..lol).  I'm not sure yet if I'm going to go.  Its $75 a person which I guess isn't too bad, but its still a lot of money especially not knowing if there will be anyone there I care to talk to.    I've got a few months to decide if I want to go or not.

"With those who don't give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize.  I do not resent them.  I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace.  But while the game is on, I can't think of anything to say to them."  ~Art Hill


Yes, I am a baseball junkie.  I love opening day, the freshly cut grass, clean white uniforms.  Everything is possible and no goal is out of reach.  

Its even better when the Braves win (great way to start the season).

I made pot roast for dinner today.  I'm not even a big fan of pot roast, and I've never made it before, but I just decided to try it out.  
I feel very domestic.....