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Summarize your life in six words- photo/video accompaniment optional.
So...
One Girl Army will overcome. Seriously.
Is Sexual Fantasy sinful? That's the question I'm asking on my WordPress blog. Go thee, and comment!
We fixed the computer, but the new Ubuntu only has the new FireFox, which apparently hates Vox. And thus blogging here is a REAL chore as I can't format posts at all, no bold or italics or EVEN LINKS.
See, I was going to link to shushnow.wordpress.com and tell you all to keep your eyes on it, but, hey, can't format.
Freaking FireFox. I usually love it, just not this week. Anyway, copy and paste that sucker into your navigation bar for me, why don't you?
And I really will catch up with comments and posts at some point, I swear to God. Life is just kicking my butt right now.
Just listening to NPR on the way home from Panera Day and guess what?
They were calling yesterdays primaries a definitive win for Obama, and EVERY SINGLE COMMENTATOR, even the ones who were Clinton supporters, were saying that there is now NO WAY CLINTON CAN WIN, and it's only a matter of time until Obama is set forth as the Democratic Nominee.
Are there angels singing? I think there are. Is McCain shaking in his old man boots a little? I think he is.
Can I get an "ooooh, yeah..."
Oooh, yeah...
I know, I'm a political junkie and too into words and my whole "Obama is like totally the greatest orator in contemporary history and he'll go down in history as an icon of the African American community and this is a great day for America" thing gets old, but...
Oooh, yeah.
I'm a happy girl.
SIDE NOTE: IN has open primaries, and there have been reports of Republicans who went to the Democratic table so they could "vote for Hillary just to stir the pot" mourning the fact that this means they can't vote in their own primaries. Uh... duh.
Stole this from someone who stole it from someone, as these things tend to go. This is the meme:
Below is a list of the 106 books most likely to languish, unread, on the bookshelves of people who only want to seem cultured and well-read. If you want to play along:
bold the titles you've read on your own,
underline the ones you had to read for school,
italicize the ones you started but didn't finish,
bold and italicize the ones you hated,
bold and underline those you'd recommend
strike through those you'd like to/plan to read
A personal note: I didn't bold and underline any, but I'd happily recommend almost any book I've ever read to anyone, even if I DIDN'T like it, because I believe that most literature is worth reading for any number of reasons, not merely for pleasure. Oh, and while I did underline a few books that I read for school, everyone should know that I was homeschooled on a self-taught curriculum for high school which had an extensive reading list, and several of these books I bought to fulfill my "choice" credits. But I probably would have read them anyway. After all, several of these books were read when me and my junior high best friend decided we were going to read a whole bunch of those books that people say are stuffy and only read for English credits (Anna Kerenina, the Iliad, a few others).
I like to read.
Also- I didn't strike through any because I'd like to read a lot more of these books, but the list of books I "plan" to read is getting so extensive it's simply not possible to achieve. So no wishful thinking here.
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
Ulysses
Don Quixote
Moby Dick ? (I'm wondering- shall I count this one if I skipped huge passages but DID finish it?)
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
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 Clockword Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
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
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
A People's History of the United States: 1492-present
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse Five
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
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
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
Some of my plants didn't survive without me. :( Unfortunately I'll have to replant my Italian herbs and mint- but that which did survive is doing MARVELOUSLY. Look, look!
An approving Rabbit? Truly?
I'm doing my first open forum on WordPress. Feel free to go there and explain whether or not you believe homosexuality is a sin and why. Any comments that attack other people will be immediately deleted. I just want a polite, moderated discussion about belief. I feel it's only fair that people be given the right to air their opinions without being reprimanded or attacked.
Especially since on my last few posts I've seen good people whom I like go for each other's jugulars, which is a shame. There's nothing wrong with holding a belief as long as you don't use it to marginalize and belittle others.
So- go to the Open Forum on Homosexuality and comment if you so desire, and trust that if anyone attacks you I WILL delete it. No bleeding, just sharing.
(Note: for those who aren't aware, I have "open comments" on my wordpress blog. You do NOT need to be a member of wordpress, and your email address will be kept viewable only by me.)
No matter how wild and insane the kids are, if I put a plate of steaming spaghetti with meat sauce in front of them, there is instantaneous silence. It's got to be the good stuff, though. Ragu doesn't have this power, only the stuff I make.
So, since I am sometimes asked how I cope with four kids underfoot, I thought I'd share one of my tricks. Grandma's magical meat sauce!
You will need a large sauce pan, a wooden spoon and the following ingredients:
1 pound of hamburger
4 cloves of garlic
2 16 oz cans of tomato puree (or four cups pureed tomatoes, or 7-9 roma tomatoes, minced)
2 tsp basil (fresh- less if dry)
1 tsp each oregano and thyme (fresh- less if dry) (or substitute these spices for a little more than a tablespoon of Italian mixed spices)
a few pinches of onion powder
salt & pepper to taste
This recipe is also really good with all Italian sausage or half and half with the hamburger.
Heat up your pan and cook the meat until it is JUST brown, breaking apart the bigger chunks with your spoon (but you do want it kind of chunky), then drain off the fat. Add in the garlic and spices and cook until fully browned and dry. Pour in the tomatoes, turn down the heat to low and simmer for a half hour.
Serve over pasta of your choice or on bagels (I don't know why the kids like this, but they do) and I promise, you will have silence until it is gone.
And for the record, homosexuality isn't bestiality.
I would blame Toe-Knee but the truth is, I've lately been seeing a very strong reaction and hurt as a result of people's saying that gays being wed will lead to people marrying their pets.
