Versatile Blogger Award

The Rules:
1. Thank the person who sent it to you and link back to them.
2. Tell your readers seven things about you that they probably don’t know yet.
3. Then pass the award on to other blogs you enjoy.

The lovely Kate at Two Little Cabbages at Cie. gave me the award...I love her blog and all her creativity...Thanks Kate!

the 7 things...I'm trying to think of 7 things I've not already told you...

1. I met my hubby when we were 12 and he sent another young man to the front of the bus to ask me to sit on the back of the bus with him...I declined...
2. I'm a dog person more than a cat person...although I like cats just fine...I've never invited one to live with us...wait...that's not true we picked up a very sick little stray kitty on Christmas Eve the first year we were married...took him home...even named him Fabian...and tried to nurse him...but sadly he died before morning...wrapped in a warm blanket under the Christmas tree...I'd almost forgotten that...
3. Star Trek was my favorite show when I was little...and we (especially Scout) love watching the reruns...the Man and Scout are always amazed that I remember them all...Yep...every single one...and I don't mind spoiling the ending for them either...don't they all end the same way anyway...but oddly I've never considered myself a Trekkie...and I've never dressed as one of the characters...must remedy that soon...who should I be...Lt. Uhura...or Yeoman Janice Rand...It'd be fun to weave my hair like that and spray it blond...or maybe the crazy green alien woman...funny...
4. When I was little at one point I used to say that I wanted to grow up to be a Nun...I remember my aunt telling me that good little Southern Baptists could not grow up to be nuns...we'll see...I was married in the Presbyterian Church and now I'm Lutheran...and they have convents...so...
5. I love to camp out...you may already know that about me though...HA!...and I've slept under the stars with no tent a few times...once on a horseback riding trip...I slept on the ground with my horse right beside me...I remember that I didn't sleep much as Penny kept moving and snorting in the night...and another time...my friend Sherrie and I were having a sleepover at my house and just on the spur of the moment in the middle of the night we took the blankets off the bed out into the yard and slept there...funny what we thought was fun...now I like to have at least a foam pad...and preferably an air mattress...and a sleeping bag is nice too...Sherrie died last year...there's something very sad about your high school friends passing away...
6. I'm quite the multi-tasker sometimes...although I love to be present in the moment and really focus on one thing...I also love to accomplish more than one thing at a time...if it can be done without detriment to the individual components...one example...I read...watch tv and knit all at the same time...it must be a simple pattern though...and I watch the tv while I sort of mindlessly knit...and then during the commercials I read a book that's open on my lap...still knitting of course...
7. ...and along those same lines...I have no problem watching a movie in short increments...I can watch 10 minutes if that's all the time I have and then come back later (sometimes days later) and watch another 10-20 minutes...I think this is because I'm a very visual person and I rarely forget anything that I've seen and visually processed...this drives the Man crazy and he won't watch a movie at all unless he can sit down and watch the entire 2 hours at once...I rarely have 2 hours to do that...so we don't watch a lot of movies together...

...so there you have it...7 things that I don't think I've said before...

The Awards:

My sweet sister at the World of Karen
Kim at Kim's Knitting Korner
Tracey at Clover
and Angela at PeachCoglo

I'm an 'Honest Scrapper'

Mirella at Be My Playground gave me a blog award:


so Thank You Mirella!

the rules
1. Thank the person who nominated you and link back to that blog post.
2. Tell ten honest things about yourself and make them interesting, even if you have to dig deep!
3. Pass the award on to ten bloggers you feel embody the spirit of Honest Scrap, and whose blog you find brilliant in design and/or concept.

Ten Things - well I don't know how interesting they are but here goes:

1. When I was little I wanted to be a vet when I grew up - but when I grew up I became a teacher - I worked with a vet enough to see all of the pain involved and decided that I probably couldn't handle that...
2. I took piano lessons first from my Mom (I still have the certificates she signed) then from a local preacher's wife and finally from a 'proper instructor' above the local "House of Music" - and what amazes me when I look back at all of my sheet music and workbooks is how difficult that stuff was - I couldn't play any of it now without a lot of practice - I think I'll stick to hymns...
3. I'm too sentimental - I just sorted through last years cards - Christmas/birthday/notes etc. I put Scout's in his scrapbook - mine in my journal (it has pockets for nick-nack mementos) - the Christmas ones go in with the Christmas bins - but I haven't decided what to do with the Man's - for now they're in my journal too - I guess he's not sentimental...
4. I want to take a pottery class - I think I need another hobby...
5. I want to take a stained glass class - ditto #4...
6. Y'all already know that I love to cook - and you probably know that I love bread - I'm thinking of working my way through the Bread Baker's Apprentice one recipe at a time and making a vegan version of each...
7. I have a wart on my right hand - I'm treating it with Vitamin E - I'll let you know if it works...
8. The only magazine I read is National Geographic - Thanks Mom!
9. I was baptized in a river - people up here think that's incredibly odd - so I love to tell them about it...
10. I have always had a dog - My dogs were:
Red
Brownie and Pepper - 2 Daschunds
Mitzi
Snooper (Mitzi's son)
Fritz Von Gretchen - another Daschund
Champagne - I got Champagne when I was 17 and she lived 17 1/2 years
Duke - a Black Lab
Doobie - another Black Lab
and now Jack - of course - he's 'technically' Scout's dog...


Consider yourself tagged I'd love for you to play along!

Virtual Age

Mom and Karen were doing this Virtual Age Test - and it was a lot of fun - apparently I do act my (Virtual) age (14.5) Hahahaha...

Premio Meme Award

Liss at A Memory Forever gave me the Premio Meme Award - Thanks so much Liss - Your meme was great. The rules are list 7 facts about myself and pass it on to 7 people. That's pretty simple...

7 Things
1. I met my husband when we were 12 in Junior High and he sent another little boy to the front of the bus to ask me to sit at the back of the bus with him - I declined...

2. I have an extremely low tolerance for alcohol - generally I fall asleep at the second glass of wine...

3. I learned to knit when I was 8 - my sister and I found an old black trunk that belonged to our Great Grandmother - inside were some quilt scraps and a pair of bakelite knitting needles (size 5 - I still have them) and some thin twisted navy and white crochet thread - and a book with instructions (I still have that too) - I insisted on learning to knit but couldn't quite manage it from the pictures so my Mom (who was taught to knit by a visiting missionary) and my Nanny (whom I never saw knit - she did crochet 'though) taught me to knit - and I've been hooked ever since...

4. My favorite movie of all time is probably Groundhog Day - I watch it every year (much to the Man's dismay) - it's so hopeful - I'd love it if we all just figured it out and got it right...

5. I have strange calouses on both my hands between my index finger and my middle finger - because I always stretch the index finger back over my hand - I don't know why I do this...

6. I'm a multi-tasker - I do things like knit and read at the same time or even open a book on the counter and read while I knead the bread...

7. Once for a psychology class - we tried to go an entire day without saying the words 'I' or 'me' - it was extremely difficult...

That was fun! Now let's pass this on:

Katie

Amanda

Rachel

Maria Rose

Elizabeth

Elissa

and Maya

Unfortunately, Teresa

This was so much fun - I saw this on Elizabeth's blog at Bits of Sunshine/

Here are her instructions:

here's a silly meme to try
go to google.com
type in
Unfortunately, (your name)
read what comes up
laugh
be thankful that you aren't so unfortunate as your namesakes

Here are a few of mine:

Unfortunately, Teresa did not learn her lesson about vacuums and stairs from this mistake and a couple of other vacuums have nearly suffered the Cyclone's ...

Unfortunately, Teresa has developed an aversion to the ...

Unfortunately, Teresa House is unable to accept every person who is referred. Each case is evaluated carefully and priority is given to those people who do ...

unfortunately, teresa, your sources were incorrect but thats ok.....we already played the house of blues and it was really cool....we actually play ...

Unfortunately, Teresa was caught this time. However, as she is a "Teacher's Pet", she got away with it. Now, a new stash of files was found. ...

Teresa offered technology courses to assist employees with these needs. Unfortunately, Teresa no longer offers these courses, as ...

Unfortunately, Teresa's fears deter her from acting upon her freedom and she runs off to find her family. In an attempt to flee the environment of the ...

Unfortunately Teresa could no longer find the time for the band, the main reason being that her fashion design studies became more time ...

The Big Read Meme

The Big Read is an National Endowment for the Arts program designed to encourage community reading initiatives and of their top 100 books, they estimate the average adult has read only six.) I've read 54 of them...

*Look at the list and bold those we have read.
*Italicize those we intend to read.
*Underline the books we LOVE - can you tell I love love love Dickens...

Share this list in your blog, too, if you like.

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 in French
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 - in French
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 in 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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Ronald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo in French

The 1930's Housewife

This was funny - it seems I'd have been an incredible 1930's Housewife...

102 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Superior Take the test!

Pure Nerd - I'm 83 % Nerd, 17% Geek, 13% Dork

Hop on over to http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=9935030990046738815 and take the test - you know you want to...

For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd, earning you the title of: Pure Nerd.

The times, they are a-changing. It used to be that being exceptionally smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up all of the traits and tendences associated with the "dork." No-longer. Being smart isn't as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label: Purely Successful.

The Photo Meme

This was fun - I've seen several out there...

1. What is your first name? Teresa
2. What is your favorite food? Mexican
3. What high school did you go to? West High
4. What is your favorite color? Purple
5. Who is your celebrity crush? None
6. Favorite drink? Tea
7. Dream vacation? Denali
8. Favorite dessert? Key Lime Pie
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? Mom
10. What do you love most in life? Family
11. One word to describe you. Happy
12. Your Flickr name. Affectioknit - that last one is sort of hard to see - it's a screen shot since the search engine didn't find any results for 'affectioknit' it suggested affectionate and the picture is of a Mama Baboon with her baby...

Want to play too?
a. Type your answer to each of the questions above into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker - http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php

Back from Vacationland...

We're just back from a wonderful vacation at the lake - I'll post about it soon. We stayed right on the 'beach' and the hotel provided kayaks, canoes, bicycles, and paddle boats. We had a great and restful time - we stayed up late - slept late - had our meals at the hotel restaurant and just played. I knitted, of course, but I can't show it to you yet - it's the test pattern for the Knitters for Knockers - you can read more about it here http://campanulaforthecure.blogspot.com/ and here http://sockit-tome.blogspot.com/. It's a great (and very pretty) pattern and I hope everyone will donate and knit a pair.

While we were gone, I had scheduled a few blog updates and it seems so strange to look at them now - it's like someone else was updating the blog - I guess they don't seem contiguous to me.

And I've been tagged by Rachel at http://www.cornflowerbluestudio.blogspot.com/!

1. Five kind things I do for myself:
Knit - of course
Play the piano
Read
Church
Garden

2. Five kind things I do for friends:
This Blog was actually started as a way to keep in touch with my friends and family
I give them my books after I finish reading them and tell them to pass them on or donate them to the library.
I keep their children when they need to run errands, etc.
I'm Cub Master and a Den Leader and you get to be pretty good friends with the boys and their parents.
I send my friends little home made gifts too.

3. Five kind things I've done for a stranger:
I visit people in Nursing Homes who have no visitors - it doesn't matter if they don't know you - they're thrilled to have a visitor.
I returned a wallet that was left in a shopping cart at Stuff-Mart.
I gave money to a man at an intersection who had a sign that said - please give - anything helps.
I helped a homeless man pick up his money when he dropped his cup of change in a busy intersection.
I picked up a lost little girl at a mall and took her to the information desk so they could find her parents - that was pretty scary and so rewarding to see the panic stricken Mom's face when she found her little girl.

4. Five hobbies I enjoy - Oh no - only 5
Reading
Knitting
Embroidery
Scrapbooking
Cooking

The Literary Meme

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary - In French even...
The Odyssey - I read this for school - but I loved it - I've read parts of it in Greek as well...
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre - first time when I was 9 - I recently re-read it though...
The Tale of Two Cities - I love Dickens - I think I've read nearly everything he wrote...
The Brothers Karamazov - I love Dostoevsky too - I could add a whole list of his books...
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (have it at home, might read it)
War and Peace - Love love love Tolstoy too - this one was a bit long and drawn out - but I loved Anna Karenina...
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad - Loved it - still read parts of it in Greek...
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations - probably my least favorite Dickens novel - it's funny that it's so often required reading for school...
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged - I first read Rand's 'Anthem' and was so intrigued that I read Atlas...
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha - this is on my to-read list
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales - read in 12th grade - I was probably the only one in my class that loved it - I loved Beowulf too - can't wait to see the movie...
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King - from Karen...
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - saw the movie first - then read the book...
Oliver Twist - a lot of Dickens on this list - I love Dickens...
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables - read it in French - I love Hugo too...
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune - I forced myself to read this one - but never got through the rest of the set my brother loaned me - I think I finally gave it back...
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five - I love Vonnegut - even did a post when he died - I have read everything of his I could get my hands on too...
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye - read in 9th grade - didn't get much out of it...
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid - In Latin...
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Banned Book Meme

OK Karen tagged us all with the banned book meme -

These are the top 110 banned books. Bold the ones you've read or partially read.

#1 The Bible - of course and I'm still reading it...
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - even read it in French
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - I love Dickens
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - read this one in French too
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne - yep - in French
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire - yep - read it in English and in French
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - did you read the Nat Geo article about her hometown?
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal - read it in French and wrote a Thesis on it...
#36 Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair - that'll make a vegan out of you fer sure...
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys - this one is available online - I downloaded it to my PDA and read a lot of it during boring meetings...
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - this was the book we read for the BIG READ last winter...
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger - read this in 9th grade - Miss McGee's class - not sure how much I got out of it - she was always pretty cutting edge
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck - did I mention that I love Steinbeck too...
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - this one is still on my bookshelf - unread
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl - loved it - read it with the Man-Cub and watched the movie too...
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut - I've read all of Vonnegut's published works - loved them all...
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls WilderI read all of Wilder's books too - I remember I was jealous of PC because she had gotten a boxed set for Christmas in 4th grade...
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin - I should have read this being Presbyterian and all - but I'm sorry to say I have not...
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
63/110 - more than half...

Tagged

Helena at http://sanctimony.net/
tagged me with a meme.

RULES:
A. Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
B. Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.
C. Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
D. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

7 Random Things:

1. I speak French too - I even get to listen to French Radio Canada - as we're just about 1 hour from the border...
2. I have been to France...
3. I have been to Canada...
4. I have not been to Mexico...
5. If I'm sittin' - I'm knittin'...
6. I love snow...
7. I make up words - for no real reason - for example - I'm more likely to call our dog 'Pooka' than 'Jack' (Jack is his real name) - he now answers to both...

I tag...

Karen http://world-of-karen.blogspot.com/
Mom http://hallofflowers.blogspot.com/
Keith http://www.kdab.blogspot.com/
Denise http://www.kdab.blogspot.com/
Vania http://acraftyvegan.blogspot.com/
Torrance http://torranceknits.blogspot.com/
Kala http://vegancraftastic.blogspot.com/

Thanks Helena - nice to meet you.

100th post

Alaina http://idratherbknitting.blogspot.com/ just made her 100th post. Mine was way in the past and I didn't celebrate - but what a fun idea...

She wants to know 3 things...
1. What is your all time favorite knitting book?
2. What finished project are you the most proud of... and... of course, why?
(Pictures worth extra entry)
3. Whose blog do you read daily and why?

1) I don't have a huge collection of knitting books and rely on the web quite a bit - I do have the Treasury and like it - I use it all the time for stitch patterns - I also like an old book "Great Knitting in Vogue" - it came out in the late 80s and they reknit a bunch of old patterns from the 30s-70s - it includes the old photograph so it's fun to see the updates and it has a lot of kid knits.


2) I get terribly attached to anything I've ever knit - but I'm probably most proud of my first socks - simply because I'd been knitting over 30 years when I first tried - who knows why and of course I'm addicted to socks now.


3) My "Favorites" are divided into three folders 1. "knitting sites" - Alaina's blog is there - along with little purl of the orient - needles on fire - Mrs. Pilkington knits - crazy aunt purl and several others - 2. "Vegan Knitters" - - almost all of the Vegan Knitters ring are in there - and 3. "Vegan Sites" which has my favorite vegan cooking blogs - I read a lot of blogs every day.

I have been tagged

I've participated in several meme's - usually just with family and friends though -

I like meme's - it's the word me twice me me and it's also the French word for same -même because everyone answers the same questions.

Sarah from http://soccerchic-knits.blogspot.com/ tagged me so here goes.

THE RULES: Each player of this game starts with the ‘6 weird things about you.’ People who get tagged need to write a blog of their own 6 weird things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave a comment that says ‘you are tagged’ in their comments and tell them to read your blog.”Six weird things about me:

N.B. Of course I don't think any of these things are "weird" - if I did I probably wouldn't do them...

1. I can still touch my nose to my knees with my legs straight – although it seemed easier when I was in Jr. High.
2. I kiss my dogs on the nose – I always have – and probably always will.
3. I also anthropomorphize everything – my car is called Mopal – the one before this one was called Nellie. The Man-Cub named Mopal – some sort of contraction of the color listed on the tag – Moss Opalescent Green, i.e., Mopal – so you can see that I perpetuate the anthopomorphization as well.
4. I dance by myself (fairly often) – and that’s probably a good thing.
5. I also sing by myself (also fairly often) – and that’s definitely a good thing.
6. I always said I would never be a list maker – but I am now.

I'm tagging Karen for now. I'll have to think of who else to tag.