What Have You Read?

Stolen straight from The Dragon Mage.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. Well let’s see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you love.

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
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 (this IS part of the Chronicles of Narnia which is listed above at #33)
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

Are You To Chicken For Techno?

A Long Day of Swimming

Still Trying To Move

Well, after a ton of debate and deliberation, we turned down the studio we looked at the other day.  It was a great place, but I just couldn't in good conscience rent a place for that was to small for the three of us and give no one their own area when I could get a place for $25 more a month that was much bigger.  Because the bigger place is in a not so great area, we've decided that we'd go ahead and make plans to only be there for a few months to save money up for either a new apartment and then after 4 months, talk about wether we wanted to leave then, or stick it out for awhile and work our way up to getting money saved up for a house. 

The Boy's step dad has decided to give us his car for free, but we're not sure when that'll go down.  Either way, I'm going to work on finding out when that'll be happening and then we can make plans on when to move into the studio.

We went to good will today and spent $55 on two dining sets, which The Boy found and I love.  We also got a drink set, which is awesome and a nifty little decanter for him, as kind of a gift for graduating his bartending class, which he loves.  He's been sipping on some Magellan Gin for a few weeks now, which is awesome, because it's made with Iris (yes, the flower) and has a beautiful blue color.  When we got home he immediately went and washed his new toy and poured the rest of the Gin into it, and when I saw it in the fridge, I had to get some pix of it. 

He also poured me some absolutely gorgeous shots a few days ago that I had to take pictures of.

If you're wondering, that chess set the shots are sitting on is actually a checkers drinking game.  In the background, you can also see the black candle holder that The Boy's mom bought us.

Litha

I can't believe tomorrow is the summer solstice. I wish I was off so that I could do something tomorrow to celebrate, but since I'm not, I'll celebrate today!!!

Pictures soon to come!

Dedicated to My Baby Sis, Who Had Her 15th Birthday Last Sunday.

Meme Monday: Yes, I am in a Band

Ok, not really, but I'm in love with this meme I saw on Bud's Blog and had to do it! Give it a whirl. I've got to be honest, I love the title, haha.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result as a comment in this post. Also, pass it along in your own journal because it’s more amusing that way.

The Water Bug

Who Gave Her Permission to Grow Up???

 

 

I forget... When did she get permission to start acting like a kid? *Growl*

Meme Monday: My Life in a Mosaic

Stolen from Dawn at Twisted Sister.

The Concept:
This Meme is all about the Mosaic Collage that you are about to build by answering the questions in this meme by using pictures! First what we changed: The meme we stole required the use of programs that you needed to register to use. So it was tied to you downloading two programs (and learning them...) Here we do the same meme, the exact same way, but leave you to your own resources. We also simplified the rules to allow a bit more creative (and speed!). So here we go:

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Google Image Search or same type of search engine for pictures.
2. Using only the first page of results, pick one image. You can't search forever for a certain image.
3. Copy and paste each in any program that you can post the pictures in a mosaic pattern. You can post them 3 X 4 or 4 X 3. We used Microsoft Paint below.

The questions:
1. What is your first name? Jasmine
2. What is your favorite food? Sushi
3. What high school did you go to? San Diego High School 
4. What is your favorite color? Pink and Silver 
5. Who is your celebrity crush? George Clooney (especially in From Dusk Till Dawn.. YUM!) 
6. What is your favorite drink? Lately? Tokyo Teas
7. What is your dream vacation? Stonehenge, for sure  
8. What is your favorite dessert? Cheese Cake
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? Music Teacher 
10. What do you love most in life? My Little Girl 
11. What is one word that describes you? Loving
12. What is your blog name? Which one?

The Things You Find in Nature

When I was younger, I used to spend the night at my Granny Bird and Grandpa Rob's house.  They had a big back yard and grew a lot of fruit and a few vegetables in it.  One of my favorite things to do with my grandpa was watching Fern Gully.  I loved that movie to death. Heck, I still love it and watch it every once in a while.  I remember one day watching it with Grandpa Rob and then going out into the garden.  For some reason, that particular evening something just seemed different. The fruit I had picked off the trees tasted sweeter, everything just seemed more amazing.  After that evening, I began looking at that garden differently.  That was the beginning of my journey into paganism.

Women are From...

When I was younger, I thought the phrase Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus was just about the differences between men and women and how we seem to be alien to the other sex.  As I got more into the deities, I found that the phrase refers to the tendencies of men and women and how they refer to Mars and Venus.  And since today's Deity of the Day is Aphrodite (Venus, to the Romans) I'd do something sweet for my love.

James and I have been working, going to school, saving money, and trying to find a new place, but haven't found one yet. I've been putting him to work with at least a little something everyday while I work, if he doesn't have class, but today after work, I have something special planned. Shhhh! Don't tell.

By the way, mom... FORWARD THE DAMN PHONE ALREADY! 2 Days and counting!

Dedicated to Paw Paw

Mysterious Smoke?

Not so much. I found a recipe for a House Purification Incense and I really want to give it a shot. The problem: To make your own incense, you have to buy the herbs and the charcoal for it... And it's specialized charcoal. *sigh* For anyone who wants to give it a shot, here's the recipe.

1 Part Cedar
1 Part Sandalwood
1 Part Myrrh
Grind together and burn in main rooms of the home when needed.