hanalia

01:06 pm

Halloween morning... er afternoon now. Favorite day of the year and I wake up sick. Arms, back, shoulders and other miscellaneous muscles are aching. Also had a really sore throat and didn't want to talk this morning, but had to cuz they kids aren't going to get up for school if I don't jabber at them. :P Now my head is pounding and I'm more stiff and sore. I took a nice soak in a hot bath, however it did nothing to releive the sore spots. And now to add to that I have a temp of 101.6. Joy.

I guess I just have to power through it cuz it's trick or treat tonight and we're heading for Salem in a couple hours. Give my cell a ring if you want to hang out. I'll suffer through to see you guys ;)

Current Mood: crappy

05:46 pm

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you are, have ever been, or will ever be, in a heterosexual marriage and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

11:37 pm

Samantha drew me a picture today. :D

Current Mood: cheerful

09:00 pm

Saw this link on a friend's lj and just HAD to repost. Any Christians wondering what will happen to their pets if the Rapture were to happen tomorrow?

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/ksc/725674463.html

08:39 pm

Was going through my old entries and stumbled on this. Three years later... here we are.

http://hanalia.livejournal.com/2005/05/05/

09:11 pm

And while I'm posting pictures... Some select favorites from the cruise.



My Public Shoebox

You might just want to follow the link to enlarge this player, because for some reason when i post it here it is all skewing off to the upper right corner.

08:19 pm

From my Rocky Horror days. The imfamous duct tape dress. Who knew that 7 years later I would still be on their homepage?

Current Mood: nostalgic

10:45 pm

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you started but did not finish.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them work together to make our own queer cannon.



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 (I think maybe not some of the histories... maybe when classes end?)
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 (I kind of hate 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 - 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' 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 (unfortunately)
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 (I should read more of his stuff - I love "the bridge")
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 (and I don't plan to. Sorry, that thing is damned long.)



Wow, with my love of reading I really had expected this list to be a bit more filled in. There are also some books that I expected to see on this list that just aren't there either. Many of them (like anything by Jane Austen) are on my must read list. I think i should hit the library some time soon.

08:08 am

An example of some of the questions a 6 yo pagan girl can come up with.

"Mommy, why did the Earth Mother put posion ivy on the Earth?"

Now of course, I have no idea of what the purpose of posion ivy is, so I had to come up with a fast answer that somehow involved ants, but it sounded reasonable... :P

Current Mood: amused

06:39 pm - M Look-alike Meter

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities - Collage - Morph

06:33 pm - Look-alike Meter

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Free genealogy - Lost relatives

08:19 am

Well, Sam was able to go to school today. Her fever is gone, though she still complains of pain in her tummy. Hopefully that will lessen in the next couple of days. Poor kid.

11:37 pm

Sammy had a little tummy ache before dinner and I figured she was just hungry. I gave them dinner, she didn't want to eat and she had a low temp. Only 99.4 so I didn't bother with the tylenol just yet. She didn't eat much and she just wanted to lay in my bed and watch Barbie movies. She couldn't get comfy and her tummy just kept hurting.

I checked her temp around 7:30-8 pm and her temp was up to 100.4 Figured it was time for tylenol. I gave it to her and rechecked the temp 10 minutes later to see if it had kicked in yet. Her temp was 101.4. Within ten minutes she had spiked a whole degree. I nearly freaked out. She told me again that her head and tummy hurt. So I pressed a bit around her tummy to figure out where exactly she hurt. The only area where she said Yes that hurts was the right side below the belly button.

So I called the doctor thinking it could be her appendix, which for her age is really rare, but I wanted to make sure. The doctor is sure it's the stomach flu, but to keep and eye on her throughout the night to make sure the pain doesn't increase because that's a real cause for concern, meaning it could be her appendix. But now a couple hours later I'm pretty sure he's right and it's the flu. Her temp is back down to the 99's and even though her tummy still hurts, Sam says it doesn't hurt any more of less than before.

I'll be up all night keeping an eye on her. Poor kid has to miss the cook out tomorrow and a couple days of school at least. :(

06:16 pm

Wow. Coolest and most geeky thing I have seen for a while!



It is almost better than this...

05:14 pm

We have a garden!!! When I went out to get Samantha from her van today I noticed a sign that said "GARDEN READY! Pick your spot before they're gone!" So I grabbed the girls, a measuring tape, a string, and a flower pot and we seached the grounds. after walking all over we finally found the garden plot. I didn't even know we had a garden area here! :D We were only the second ones to stake a claim so we picked a nice spot with a good amount of sun. The plot is 10 x 10 and we plan to plant lettuce, carrots, garlic, tomatoes, peas, beans, peppers, strawberries and blueberries. Hopefully we have some room for flowers. The girls are really really excited. Now we just have to get some money to but seeds... but it will all balance off from the fun we'll have planting and the money we'll save on veggies this summer!

Current Mood: cheerful

09:11 am

Well, after 2 blocks of stuggling with my school work and just barely making the grade I am back on top. I have a 100% in both my classes this time around! I'm getting my assignments done early and I'm already finished with my final project paper for one class. No sweating it out while I'm on the cruise a week before class ends! :P My GPA is currently at 2.96 which people have told me is not bad, but I want it to be at least a 3.5. An A in these classes should really help that. My next block should be easy as well. Research Writing (basically a repeat class for me under a different name, but they won't let me have the PLC's for it. Grrrrr.) and Diversity in the Classroom. Should be easy stuff. :D

Current Mood: cheerful

02:42 am

After a marathon week of writing I have just finished editing and posting my final project papers in my 2 classes. 4500 words of pure hell and lack of sleep. I finished and posted within 20 minutes of the deadline. Talk about cutting it close. Should not have taken Teusday off, lol. And Thursday. So the 2000 word history paper was written in 30 hours, research included... I think it turned out to be a quality paper and I'm proud of the points and comparisons I raised. When run though the plagiarism checker I got a 1% after excluding my quotes and citations. The average match percentage is 5% so I think I did damn good in that area. My teaching as a profession paper ended up being filled with run on sentences so that took considerable editing. But again, I believe I have earned an A on both papers.

Now I am rewarded with two full weeks of blissful laziness because I don't start my new classes until the 31st. Then I get to work my ass off to get ahead on my work because we'll be gone fore two weeks on our CRUISE!!! I am going to sleep all fucking day tomorrow if Barry lets me get away with it. He works hard and therefore sleeps whenever he wants or needs too. I have worked hard cleaning house today and all week on my schoolwork. I think I deserve one day, right? Well, I have to do massive amounts of laundry that was neglected in favor of my academics this week... So I guess I get to sleep on Teusday? Nope. Job hunting. Ah hell. Barry has the day off on Thursday. I'm claiming it right now. That's My Day. bleh.

Current Mood: exhausted

04:07 pm

EVERYONE PLEASE SPREAD THIS AS FAR AS YOU CAN PLEASE!!!

Current Mood: enraged

07:57 pm

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Most Serene Highness Lady Danielle the Ceaseless of Happy Bottomshire Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: His Excellency Barry the Inexorable of Waldenshire under Throcket Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Most Serene Highness Lady Samantha the Naive of Mellow under Trollness Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Her Grace Lady Gabriella the Capricious of Durdle Door Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Current Mood: amused

04:26 pm

OMG!!!!!! This is hilarious and soooo true in every way.

So you want to have a baby? Take this educational parenting course!


Lesson 1

1. Go to the grocery store.
2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.
3. Go home.
4. Pick up the paper.
5. Read it for the last time.

( Cut for the health of your F-list )

stole it from a friends journal.

Current Mood: amused