Monday, December 13, 2010

Christmas!

Hello! ^_^

Christmas is coming! It's almost here! Ohmigoodness, it's almost here! :) I is happeh. I love Christmas. It makes me want to hug people. hehe. Because it makes me happy.

I love snow, the look of it mostly, and I love cookies, and cream spinach, and christmas lights when the house is dark, and wearing socks to keep my feet warm, and dancing to christmas music, and, and, and, ... hehe, I just love it.

But wait. I haven't done any of that stuff. It's like twelve days till christmas and I haven't made a single batch of cookies. And I've only got my shopping done for one person. *shifty eyes* and not to mention I haven't done anything in the snow, I mean like nothing, I like took a walk for like fifteen minutes but that was it.

I need to do all this stuff. So much stuff. I made a most beautiful tea ring yesterday but Really I most get my act together. I've got so many gifts I've got to buy and so many things I have to do and oh me oh my. I want to go sledding to, really really bad. :D

-Kate

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Missing Computer.

Hello, ;)

Blah taxes. Go away.

Yes, I'm very weary of having to think about taxes because to do them we have to find my moms old computer. That computer is the one that we had over at the book store and it has all the records of all the sales we made. It's very important but there's only one problem. It's so very very lost it's ridiculous.

The computer is no were to be found. I think we've pretty much looked everywhere except were it is. It could be in mom's bedroom, the sunroom, the garage, or the basement. All these rooms have been turned upside down but we haven't been able to find it. It's very strange. As if the computer disappeared into very very thin air.

My poor mother has gone quiet distracted trying to think of were she would have put it, her memory is not very good anymore.

So... If everyone could please pray that we would be able to find it and get this tax mess cleared up.

-confused Cait

Monday, December 6, 2010

100 books

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses!



  • 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 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 Berniere

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 (Abridged Version)

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 - E.B. 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

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-ExupĂ©ry

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


Oh, dear me. I was expecting I would have read more. This actually seems to be a seriously bizarre list with several books I've never even heard of. Why would anyone need to read "the five people you meet in heaven" is beyond me. It's silly and confusing and not biblically sound in even the broadest sense of the phrase.


The complete works of Shakespeare? I can't believe anyone would read all those. Didn't he write like hundreds of plays and poetry too?


I will probably have read more of these by the time I graduate because a lot of them are on the list of books I have to read.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

If this were a movie

If this were a movie.... Music would play during the dramatic moments. The weather would reflect my feelings. The plot would be shorter. Nothing would last for years. After all there's only a hour and a half to wrap things up and end the story happily. Because the story would end happily. I know it would.

I wish my life was a movie.


Monday, October 18, 2010

Oh money, money, money.

*sigh*

life was so much simpler when I didn't have any money to spend. Having to figure out how much money you can use and how much you can't is difficult. When I didn't have any money to spend I only had to say "nope, can't afford it." Now I have to deal with whether actually be able to afford it and whether I wanted to spend my hard earned money on that and how I am going to get the money out of the bank.

I need to buy a winter Coat and A Camera and save up for sixty dollar tickets for Les Miserables in April or May next year.

I want to buy a pea coat with my money but they are so expensive. I found one at an overstock site for forty-three dollars and I'm planning on purchasing it next month with all my money and then I'll have no money left and be poor for the rest of that month but I'll have my coat.

And I don't want to spend all my money on a camera but I really really really want one.

Do you see my problem?

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Wicked and, Movies and, concerts and, square dancing, Oh My! (that was really four things so it doesn' work as well if you know where I'm coming from)

*Whew* I just used my entire literary talent on my title. :P Kidding. Yes.

Last Friday I went to see wicked in Madison. That entire experience was amazing beyond compare. Even being subject to experience intense emotions that come from driving on six lane highways and MERGING TRAFFIC!!! Wicked was incredible. The actresses and actors were very talented acting-wise and singing-wise. I was jealous, as I should be. When we sat down and the show began I was so thrilled beyond concentration I thought I'd die. Defying Gravity was the crowning glory of the entire play. It was positively delicious!

The day after that I was off with friends to a Paul Colman Concert and everything was so jolly and friendly. The concert was fun and Someone (I'm not sure who) suggested that we ask Paul Colman impertinent questions and tape his responses. Now we have a hilarious video to show for it.

After that was Sunday. I love Sundays. Every time I think of it I give it mental hugs. Church and then square dancing. Both where grand but square dancing especially. It was the funnest of all of the square dances I've been to sense Barn Dance.

And Yesterday I went over to my friend Lauren's house with Kelsey and Kristen and we watched movies and had too much ice cream and M&M's. The first Movie was Prince of Persia. It was kinda weird and annoying and the guy who was s'pos't to be rugged and handsome and sly was kind'of stupid and very ugly. After that we watched "17Again" Which I liked. It was funny and sweet. Occasionally awkward though. :)

Friday, October 8, 2010

Wicked

Oh, happy day!! Callou Callay!!

I'm going to see wicked tonight in Madison! I'm so excited.

Now I'll be able to connect songs to events in the play. hmm... I don't even know were I'm sitting. I hope it's a good seat, they cost me enough. All the same it's going to be awesome!!

Is this all rather mundane to you? Sorry but I can't think of anything else to talk about.

I'm so Excited!!

Yay!!

:)
 
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