Thou shalt not is soon forgotten

Book thing from Shiloh

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:56:48 GMT

Honestly, I'd like to read almost all of these books, and it's hard to differentiate between enjoying a book a lot, and loving it...

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) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ, or not, as you see fit.
(Don't forget to remove the comments in brackets)

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 - Anonymous
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 - 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
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 (Also AUGH-worthy.)
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

Whoo! 25/100

Chile Brownies

Fri, 02 May 2008 21:39:24 GMT

Hello all,
I need to bake chile brownies for my lit class (long story) and I can't seem to find any good recipes. Does anyone have one, or know where to find a yummy one?
Thanks so much!

AHHH

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:48:42 GMT

I just got home from mexico, and can finally write about Harry Potter!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well. I don't know whether I liked it or not yet. I haven't had time to re-read yet because everyone on my trip was reading my book once I finished.
I knew Snape was good, and in love with Lily an' stuff. And I love him. And I sobbed when he died, and then there was the whole thing where "Snape might just have closed the door." I also couldn't believe Jo killed off Hedwig in like Chapter four. What the heck? You're not supposed to start crying in chapter four!
And Dudley's sweet. And who the heck was the person who "got magic later in life?" Ariana?
Speaking of her, I LOVED DUMBLEDORE'S LIFESTORY! And I still love him even though he's not so cool anymore. I also called the whole Barman-Aberforth thing.
Yay for Albus Severus Potter! And I just about died when Harry tells him about Slytherin and stuff. And when he saves Malfoy. And the Silver Doe, and Snape's "Always," and Dumbledore's "I sometimes think we sort too soon," and 'Tunia's letter to Dumbledore. Oh! And I died when George's ear came off. Yes. I cried at that part. But then I quadruple dies when Fred died. That's not fair! Twins can't have things like that happen!
And I want Hermione's beaded bag.
And that part where all three of them wanted a different one of the Hallows kicked butt. And I definitely teared up when the locket was all "I ship H/Hr!"
NEVILLE IS MY BOYFRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is SO unfair that Teddy has to grow up without Remus and Tonks.
I LOVE PERCY!
When Ron came back I cried. I accidentally saw his name on the next page as I was reading, and i had to close the book and dance.
Luna rocks.
I loved the conversation with Dumbledore, and SNAPE'S MEMORIES OMFG I KNEW HE WAS GOOOOOOOD!
YAY for Canon!
YAY for JKR writing an encyclopedia!
YAY for Harry Potter!

Anyway, all that put aside, I cried so hard when it was over. I was on the airplane to Mexico, and I seriously didn't stop sobbing (loudly) for an hour after I finished, just because it was over. People on the plane were staring, and this girl kept on asking Betsy if I was ok. I think I was actually a bit of a spectacle because I kept trying to breathe without blowing snot everywhere, and the result was more gasping, and more hiding my face in my book. I still can't believe I'll never read another first word of a Harry Potter book for the first time.
Who else has read it? What did you think?
Also, my trip to Mexico was It was a mission trip, and we were in Guadalajara, Mexico. A bunch of the same kids we saw last year came back, whcih was really great. God is my favorite, and it was so cool to be with people who loved him and who would let me love him.
We would wake up, go take a cockroach-infested shower (if there wasn't a line), have a delicious breakfast, do some work (mostly painting), and then come back for free time. Then in the evening we had prayer time. There was a sermon thing sometimes, or a testimony (one girl had been healed of Chronic Epilepsy), then worship, then an altar call.
It was a lot like last year- lots of people praying in tongues, or using other gifts. But last year, it was a lot more about us praying for them, whereas this year it was more mutual. We also didn't have a translator this year, which made it harder, but much more fun and more community/relationship building.
It was good for me too-though at first I didn't think so. It was good for things God said while I was there, and things other people said, and things that were prayed over me. He was really working on us all. Actually, he kept it up till the very, very end. At the airport on the way home, everyone went to go to the bathroom and shopping an' stuff, so they left their bags with me because I was too...well, sad...to do anything. Father Tom waited too, and I guess he saw me trying not to cry becasue he kept saying things like "Oh. You're sad! You're gonna cry!" which of course made it worse. But anyway, eventually I was like "Gah stoppit! I hate saying goodbye" and then cried a bit. So he said that he thoguht it was a good thing, and that I have a tender heart, paired with a great deal of passion. He said that when he prays for me, God points out those things to him. This made me cry a bit, but it was amazing how much He kept ministering to me even as we left.
But it was uber hard to say bye again. I actually had a very cheerful goodbye with Christina this year, because I didn't know she was leaving for good. but at the airport it was awful. I love them all soooo much.
Anyway, it was a wonderful trip. :)

HP survey!

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:30:42 GMT

Put the books in order from favorite to least favorite: 5, 6, 3, 1, 2, 4
How many times have you read the series: A billion. Or around ten.
Favorite chapter from your favorite book: In The Hog’s Head
5 Favorite Characters: Luna, Ron, Dumbledore, Neville, Hermione
3 Least Favorite Characters: Umbridge, Bellatrix, Fudge
Favorite member of the Trio: Hermione
5 favorite quotes: “He’s dot alone!”, “It is our choices Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.", “What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and happy?”, “Books! And cleverness! There are more important things -- friendship and bravery.”, “I am not worried, Harry. I am with you.”
3 Favorite magical creatures: Centaurs, Giants, Boggarts
Favorite family: Weasley
Favorite villain: Draco Malfoy
Favorite death Eater: Bellatrix
Favorite non-Hogwarts magical building: St. Mungo’s
Favorite Diagon Alley location: Ollivanders or Flourish and Blott’s
3 Favorite Spells: Lumos, Protego, Expelliarmus
3 Favorite Potions: Amortentia, Polyjuice, Veritaserum
Favorite Unforgivable Curse: Avada Kedavra
Favorite Department of Mysteries Room: Time
Biggest surprise: Snape killing Dumbledore
Biggest letdown: Lav Lav
Favorite kind of transportation: Broomstick
Favorite Weasley: Ron
Favorite Order member: Tonks, or Dumbledore or Remus. ☺
Favorite pet: Hedwig
One character you'd bring back to life: Dumbledore
Favorite Harry moment: When he expecto patronums away the dementors from Dudley
Favorite Ron moment: When he sacrifices himself in chess in the first book
Favorite Hermione moment: When she tells Harry they’re “in this together”
Favorite Ginny moment: Her reaction when Harry breaks up with her
Favorite Neville moment: All of them?
Favorite Luna moment: When she commentates the quidditch match
Favorite Snape moment: His conversation/battle with Harry on the grounds after he kills Dumbledore
Favorite Dumbledore moment: When he drinks the potion in the cave tog et the horcrux. Or the conversation he has with Harry in OotP
Favorite Voldemort moment: The whole creature thing inside of Harry in the Ministry
Favorite Sirius moment: When he’s explaining about the Black family tree
Favorite Weasley family moment: Before leaving for the World Cup
Favorite Draco moment: When he hexes Harry and then leaves him on the train
Moment that will always make you cry: Harry/Dumbledore conversation in book 5, Sirius and Dumbledore’s deaths, Dumbledore’s funeral
Favorite Hogwarts room: Common room
Favorite class: Transfiguration, or Lupin’s DADA
Favorite teacher: McGonagall
Favorite DADA teacher: Lockhart. Lol. But really Lupin.
Least favorite teacher: Umbridge
Favorite non-human Hogwarts resident: Peeves
Favorite Hogsmeade location: The Three Broomsticks
Favorite Triwizard Champion: Cedric
Favorite Triwizard Task: The maze
Which character you'd ask to the Yule Ball: Ron
Which character you'd like to use a love potion on: Harry
Which character you'd like to use Veritaserum on: Snape
How long have you been a HP fan: Five years, though only three years obsessively
Favorite wizard rock band: Harry and the Potters
Number of midnight releases have you attended: Two
Favorite HP website: HP Lexicon
Favorite podcast: Mugglecast
Favorite fanartist: The Cicierga’s!
Most ridiculous Potter theory you've heard: Umbridge is Neville’s mother
Favorite LJ HP community: read_hp, or hp_theories Yay!
Character you're most like: Probably a mix of Hermione and Luna
House you think you'd be sorted into: Ravenclaw
Your patronus would be a: Owl
Your boggart would be: A kidnapper
To you, Amortentia would smell like: Pie, laundry detergent and old books
You'd use Felix Felicis to: Pass an exam
What job would you most like to try: auror
Which would you rather see - a sequel or a prequel: Prequel
Put the movies in order from favorite to least favorite: 5, 3, 4, 1, 2
Actor most like the book character: LUNA!
Actor least like the book character: Hermione. Ew
Favorite movie set: Gryffindor common room
3 Favorite lines from movies: "Sorry professor, I must not tells lies", "Nice one James!", “Why couldn’t it have been follow the butterflies?”
Favorite movie scene: In 5, the trioness immeditaly following the kiss
Favorite scene in the movies not included in the books: Hermione coming to say bye to Harry before the first task in 4
Scene you were most disappointed didn't make it into the movie: The scene where the Order picks up Harry, and are waiting for the signal

EITHER/OR

Floo powder or broom: Broom
Bernie Bott's Every Flavor Beans or Chocolate Frogs: Frogs
Death Eaters or Dumbledore's Army: DA
Fred or George: George
CAPSLOCK HARRY or Emo!Harry: CAPSLOCK!!!!!!!!
The Ministry of Magic or Gringotts: Ministry
Sirius or Lupin: Lupin
Occlumency or Legilimency: Legilimency
Animagus or Metamorphagus: Metamorphagus
Mermish or Parselmouth: Parselmouth
Draco or Lucius: Draco
Peter Pettigrew or Mundungus Fletcher: Dung
Whomping Willow or Flying Ford Anglia: Flying Ford Anglia
Invisibility cloak or Pensieve: Pensieve
Grimmauld Place or The Burrow: The Burrow!
Werewolf or Inferi: Werewolf
Herbology or Care of Magical Creatures: Herbology
Professor Binns or Professor Umbridge: Binns
Yule Ball or Quidditch Championship: Yule Ball
Peeves or Nearly Headless Nick: Peeves
Hippogriff or Thestrals: Thestrals
Durmstrang or Beaubaxtons: Beaubaxtons
S.P.E.W or the Inquisitorial Squad: Spew!
Three Broomsticks The Leaky Cauldron: Three Broomsticks

Lol

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:55:22 GMT

Lol. Movie Dumbledore is lame.

I couldn't help myself

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:34:43 GMT

I just had to do it. So here are my three favorite Harry Potter theories.

The infamous Snape loves Lily theory. Do I even have to go into it?

The "Harry is a Horcrux" theory, but with the added touch of dementors. This way, harry won't have to die in the end. A dementor will simply suck the piece of Voldemort contaminated soul from his body. Or perhaps not so simply. But yes. Why else would Jo have introduced creatures who could perform such a task?

It's much too complicated to say briefly, but in short, Florean Fortescue is the anscestor of Headmaster Fortescue (one of the portraits in Dumbledore's office), and, more importantly, the Heir of Gryffindor.
...And also Luna Lovegood might be the Heir of Ravenclaw. Which might be stretching it. Anyway, Here's the long, convincing story, with actual evidence.

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:21:49 GMT

My voice is on the internet! Yay!

Go here, and click on "Nicole" (that's me).

It took forever to record, but there's stuff all over the website. Whoot, my voice is an advertisement. :(

!!!!!!

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:06:10 GMT

SQUEAL!

Harry Potter...

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:03:02 GMT

I know this will get me about ten million youranerd looks, but I just realized something while re-reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban.
At the Christmas feast, Trelawney comes in and has this fuss over the fact that there are 12 people at the table, and she makes 13. She says that the first to rise at a table of 13 will be the first to die. But what she doesn't know is that Scabbers is there as well, which means that the first to rise, excluding Trelawney, will be the first to die- and Dumbledore stands up when Trelawney enters. Whoot. Crazy forshadowing.

Yay for Harry Potter!

Good Morning and Alleluia!

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:04:50 GMT

Alleluia, the Lord is risen!
The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia!

Happy Easter everyone!

Old thing

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:46:00 GMT

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.

"And you, each of you, were with him."

More snow.

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:58:29 GMT

Advanced Global Personality Test Results

Extraversion	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Stability	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	46%
Orderliness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	76%
Accommodation	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Interdependence	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	63%
Intellectual	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Mystical	\|\|\|\|\|\|	23%
Artistic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	63%
Religious	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	90%
Hedonism	\|\|	10%
Materialism	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Narcissism	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Adventurousness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Work ethic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Self absorbed	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Conflict seeking	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Need to dominate	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%

Romantic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%
Avoidant	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	63%
Anti-authority	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Wealth	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	36%
Dependency	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Change averse	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%
Cautiousness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Individuality	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%
Sexuality	\|\|\|\|\|\|	23%
Peter pan complex	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Physical security	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%
Physical Fitness	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	50%
Histrionic	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	70%
Paranoia	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Vanity	\|\|\|\|\|\|	30%
Hypersensitivity	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	56%
Female cliche	\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|	43%

Take Free Advanced Global Personality Test
personality tests by similarminds.com

I am a cuddler: Yes
I am a morning person: If I've slept enough
I am an only child: No
I am Catholic: No
I am currently in my pajamas: Yes I am
I am currently pregnant: No I am not
I am okay at styling other people's hair: No
I am married: Nope
I am addicted to my myspace: No
I am online 24/7, even as an away message: No- never on IM, sometimes on LJ
I bite my nails: Yes...
I can be paranoid at times: True
I currently have a crush on someone: Not really
I currently regret something that I have done: Yes
I enjoy country music: I do enjoy that stuff
I enjoy jazz music: and that stuff too
I enjoy smoothies: Mmm
I enjoy talking on the phone: Eww
I have a car: Not my own
I have a cell phone: No. :)
I have/had a hard time paying attention at school: No
I have a hidden talent: Er...I don't thinks so.
I have a lot to learn: True
I have a pet: Siriusly. lol
I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal: Yeah
I have all my grandparents: Yes
I have at least one brother: Yes, two, actually
I have been to another country: Yes I have!
I have been told that I am smart: Yes
I have been told that I have an unusual sense of humor: Hmmm
I have broken a bone: Never
I have Caller I.D. on my phone: No
I have bathed someone: Yes...babysitting
I have changed a diaper: True
I have changed a lot over the past year: I guess so
I have done something illegal: Yes
I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color: No...
I have had major/minor surgery: No
I have had the cops called on me: Never have I ever
I have kissed someone I knew I shouldn't: No kisses.
I have mood swings: Yes. Yes I do.
I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life: No, I do
I have rejected someone before: Yes
I have seen The Lord of the Rings trilogy: True
I have seen the television show The O.C.: Never
I have watched Sex and the City: Never times two
I like Shakespeare: I do
I love to cook: I do love to cook
I love Michael Jackson: I do not love that guy
I love sleeping: zzzzzz
I love to play computer games: Eh
I love to shop: Not really
I miss someone right now: Yes, a lot
I own 100 CDs or more: Not so much
I own and use a library card: Yes- a lot
I practice a religion that is not considered mainstream: No
I read books for pleasure in my spare time: And in my not spare time- time that is reserved for procrastinating...
I sleep a lot during the day: Not really
I strongly dislike math: No, I kind of enjoy it
I was born in a country other than the US: No.
I watch soap operas on a regular basis: No
I will try almost anything once: No
I work at a job that I enjoy: Yes!
I would classify myself as ghetto: No...
I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free: Never
I am currently wearing socks: True
I am tired: True
I love to paint/draw/sketch/sculpt: I love to paint, I like to draw and sketch and I enjoy sculpting a little.

Ahhhhhhhh!

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:48:05 GMT

Once apon a time there was a girl who wanted to marry Johnny Depp
So she emailed him asking "Will you marry me?"
He replied and said "Yes. Meet me at the CVS down the street."

So she DID.

There was a man in the shadows. "Hello?" she said
"Hello" said the man in the shadows
IT WAS JOHNNY DEPP

"lets get all kinds of married now!" said the girl
"OK" said Johnny

AND JOHNNY DEPP KILLED HER WITH HIS WONKA CANE.

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IF YOU DO NOT REPOST THIS WITHIN 5 MINUTES ON EVERY ONLINE BLOG YOU OWN, JOHNNY DEPP WILL COME AND KILL YOU.

I'M NOT SURE IF YOU WANT TO BE SAVED OR NOT. MEETING JOHNNY DEPP WOULD BE KIND OF COOL.

Harry Potter and the...

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:42:55 GMT

If you want to find the title to book 7 for yourself on JKR's site, then do not look under this:
...Deathly Hallows! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!!!
YAY! I'm so excited! This has got to be the best Christmas present ever! YAY!!!!
Maybe this means the book will be out soon?! YAY

I am so happy.

Snow day!

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:40:53 GMT

Yay! Snow day! I love the snow, and I love Christmas, and I love not having school. So today has been wonderful. I woke up (for the second time, after my dad had told me school was canceled) and thought it was all a dream, so you can imagine my surprise when the clock read 10:00. But I didn't waste a minute after that, and have accomplished many things today. For instance, I looked at my knitting, and decided not to knit, I looked at my bag, and decided not to study, and I consumed many a cup of tea and hot chocolate. I also got very cold, and very wet, and read Harry Potter out loud to my friend Lauren. And I watched a Russel Crowe film, so I am very, very happy.
I'm hoping we don't have school tomorrow either, but I know I have to edit my movie, or it won't get entered into the scholastic festival. But it's snowing, so what do I care for worries? Anyway, we also don't have a car, so we're quite literally snowed in. Yay. This is the absolute best thing ever.

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:32:59 GMT

Do a Google image search, and pick your favourite from the first results page only.

1) The age you will be on your next birthday.

2) Your favorite color.

3) Your middle name.

4) A bad habit of yours.

5) Your favorite fruit or vegetble.

6) Your favorite animal.

7) The town you live in.

8) The name of a pet.

9) Your best friend's nickname.

10) Your first name.

11) Your last name.

12) The one you love.

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:19:16 GMT

create your own visited country map
or check our Venice travel guide

Whoot!

Sweetly broken

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:55:27 GMT

Hello everyone. I just thought I'd say that I'm back from Mexico. The Holy Spirit is the most amazing thing ever. And Happy Birthday Ginny.

Zingela baba

Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:29:11 GMT

Well, the wedding on Saturday went wonderfully, and we got to stay for the second wedding, where they got "extra married". There were several jokes like this ("So Joel, where are you getting married tomorrow?) which I'm sure my uncle did not appreciate. Along with being my favorite uncle, he's a Russian Orthodox priest (which means he hasn't shaved or cut his hair for ages, and he wears a black robe, among other things.) and it was mostly for him that they had the second wedding, in addition to the Methodist wedding. It was absolutely fascinating to be there for both. The Methodist wedding was quite a lot like my church (which is Episcopalian) only even less like the Catholic church. But the Russian Orthodox was something different altogether. The church was very small, and beautifully decorated. There were "icons" all over, which are paintings of the saints, as far as I could tell. I asked my uncle about them (I always get this fear of idol worshiping whenever I see them) and he said they're his "friends" and it's like each one is a window into heaven, so that each of these saints are there with us. The way he explained it made it all very comfortable and believable. They don't pray to them at all, so that banished all thoughts of idolatry. We stood the entire time, but I didn't much mind (though after hearing that it had been an hour long, my feet started to ache). He sang through the entire thing, and I have to admit I enjoyed it. I really, really, really love the Episcopal church, and I should probably research more about it, pray more about it, and talk more to my uncle, and my church's priest before I make any decisions, but I'm thinking about becoming Russian Orthodox.... It would be a HUGE change, though, so I don't really know yet.

Anyway, the reception was nice too, and I danced with all my uncles and made fun of my Aunt Lynn for wearing her "dancing glasses", and it was all good. My cousin Miri (the groom's sister) brought her boyfriend Rory, who danced with me. He was quite the charmer, and the topic for gossip amongst the aunts and grandma. He's not christian, so he, and the whole thing about my uncle not recognizing that they were married until they had a Russian Orthodox wedding (I don't think it's all that bad, but the rest of my family is very protestant...) were all I heard about while sitting in the HOT car driving to and from St. Louis.

Other than weddings, not much is going on. I'm coming back Thursday, so we haven't got much time to do anything. I saw a used book sale at the mall on Sunday, but couldn't stop because we had to get to the second wedding. :( I was really upset, because I saw some really good looking books, and they were all really old.... Oh well. My cousin Andrew got his ribs flipped over, or something, recently. He was born with one side of his ribcage curved inward, and he's just gotten surgery. (!!!) Not sure how any of it happened, but there you are.

Now that you're all caught up on the happenings in the Moser family, I'm going to go do something. Goodbye, and Happy late Independence Day!

CONSTANT VIGILANCE!

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:06:00 GMT

Well, as I was kindly reminded today, (thanks, by the way. I'd kind of forgotten...) I haven't updated in...six weeks?

Well, mostly because I've been so busy with summery things, and also because nothing much has happened. I'm in Wisconsin at the moment, visiting my favorite cousin, and her brother and parents and fiance. We're going to see my other cousin's wedding in St. Louis on Saturday (98 degrees Fahrenheit, rain and thunderstorms. Lovely.)

I have a new, turquoise addition to my teeth now. BRACES! Horray! They haven't hurt a bit, except for a few cuts on the insides of my cheeks, and I'm totally used to them now.
My dad got his hip replaced about two weeks ago (wow. Time flies) and he's doing fantastic. I hear from my brothers that he's been walking around in white tights (to help with blood circulation) and black crocs. :)

At the end of July, I'm going to Guadalajara, Mexico on a mission trip with a group from my church. The dioces there has completely fallen apart because of this awful bishop who stole money from them. Anyway, we'll be working with the youth there, and it'll be wonderful!

I just saw a really, really, really fantastic movie about global warming. So everyone should see An Inconvenient Truth. PLEASE see it.

I'm on the fourth HP book now (I didn't think I'd get through them this fast. I reckoned on needing the entire year to finish before #7, but I guess I somehow forgot how good they are.) and loving it...though not as much as I'm looking forward to the fifth one.

El quizo

Mon, 15 May 2006 04:43:13 GMT

Take My Quiz
- on -
QuizYourFriends.com!

They will wet themselves with blood

Wed, 10 May 2006 02:16:55 GMT

People should come to the mac store in the cherry creek mall on Tuesday if they want to see some (student created) movies.
The 16th at 7.

(see icon, plus 23 hours and 15 minutes!)

Fri, 05 May 2006 21:23:24 GMT

Everyone should come to the film festival tonight. 7:00 tonight and tomorrow at DSA. Enough said.

And a rose.

(Stolen from Shiloh)

You are a Lavender Rose

You represent love at first sight and enchantment.

Your vibe: intense and intriguing

Falling in love with you is: deep and meaningful

What Color Rose Are You?

OMF(reaking)G(oodness)!!!
1 day, 23 hours and 15 minutes left!
OR
47 hours and 15 minutes left!
OR
2,835 minutes left!
OR
170,100 seconds left!!!!!!
Goodness gracious.

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:37:19 GMT

The state competition for History Day was yesterday, up on the CU campus in Boulder. It was pretty fun. My play (Women of the American Revolution: Silently Taking a Stand) won 3rd place, so we just missed Nationals (only 1st and 2nd go to DC). But we had fun, and walked to Pearl street, and played in a creek. Horray.
Then I went home and watched Les Mis, trying to ignore Michael and Walker's annoying comments about Ruthie Henshall's voice. Gr.

Give me brandy on my breath, and I'll breathe them all to death!

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:14:21 GMT

Ok. I've just started dying of Philip Quast/Javert loveliness. AHHHH! It's killing me. And the constant blinking of Michael Maguire/Enjolras just adds to the loveliness of the Enjolras!vest. Ah. TAC rocks.