Why is it that men don't think women can have complete thoughts with out their "manly" input? I have never considered myself extremely smart, but I do believe that I am smarter than the average bear. I have worked in retail my entire adult life, I know how to set things up so it looks nice and people buy it. Just because you are a graphic designer doesn't mean you are better at making displays.than I am. Its my job!

And I'm done!

I think I have a roommate!... Not quite sure how it happened... Lauren (a girl from work) has just broken up with her boyfriend and wants to move out and I want to move out of my place. Her friends parents are renting a 2br house for $800 a month which is actually perfect. The only wrinkle is I don't really know lauren all that well... We have worked together for about a month now and I have to say, besides Jess (kisses!!) She is the one person I want to work with. She is an actress and a singer and we hit it off right away, probably because she is the only other adult female that works here... I think I like being spontaneous!

I've had an apostrophe, lightning has stuck my brain... No one needs to talk me out of ANYTHING!! They just need to realize that I am too chicken-shit to do it in the first place so no amount of "I wouldn't"s or "you are just going to embarrass yourself"s are going to make a difference. The DS situation made perfect sense in my head... I mean come on, feelings that have been around for YEARS need to be let out.. right? So I told a couple of people and one person in particular made me feel like a serial killer for thinking such a thing. This person was the closest thing i had to a best friend since Jen moved away last year and now i just don't know. Maybe I was looking for someone to just say "YAY! go for it you deserve some happiness in your life..." with out looking too deep. Is that sad? I know it was never going to go anywhere, but for once in my life i actually wanted to try and to have some help. Now the moment has passed and there will never be another one like it. As I look back on that lovely night of drinking and vomit (the two who read this AND were actually there, missed it completely.. and the vomit was not mine) i wouldn't have done it anyways. I'm a hopeless romantic and watch way too many movies. I want it to happen to me, not for me to make it happen. I complain too much... NEXT SUBJECT!!

THE THEATRE

The best things to happen are kinda crap. When Ahn left the theatre suddenly, I was put in a rather nasty position. I didn't want the GM job when Josh left, what made them think I wanted it 2 months later? Never the less, it was thrown in my lap. The funny thing is that it could have been SOOOOOOOOOO much worse. The same day the Ahn left, Dan came in and I told him what had happened. He took a second, cursed a few times and then was quite. A short while later he said he was going to leave too... which would have left me as the only manager of the theatre the week of Christmas. I told him ok, and then went outside to release some feelings... alright, I screamed my head off and then cried. I was outside for about 20 minutes and then came back in and told him to go if he really wanted to. Turns out (as you might have guessed) he didn't leave. I don't know what his motives were for staying but I really don't care. Summer hit and Chris returned. He talked to me on the phone before he came home and said that he wasn't going to be returning to school after the summer. PERFECT! Some one I YAY! The worst things for the theatre... Joel and Jaime. blech... The only reason we promoted Joel is because he had training on the projectors and seniority. BAD IDEA!!! The very little power he had went right to his head. He started treating the (best ever) employees like crap and making really bad choices when it came to the customers. Then it got even worse. The first time Jaime left, I flat out told Josh that if he hired Jaime again, i would quit. I meant it!! This time, i was out voted and I am quite sure that the theatre could not have taken the lost of another GM so quickly. We needed her to fill the opener spot that Joel worked. I don't want to get into details, they make me sick. She knows (she has too) that no one liked her... at all... ever. Whatever! I don't have to see her ever again. yay for me. (side note: they both have new jobs, what kind of crap is that?)

EVERYTHING ELSE

Is it sad that my life this last year is divided into only 2 categories?

Sara at church moved away just as I was starting to like her after getting over terrible jealousy. I did get her job though, which isn't much but it is sure alot of fun.
Moved into a new place after living with mold and neighbors who were on a first name basis with the cops that came so often. No more mold and a land lady that likes to talk and sings opera at 2 o'clock in the morning... hmm, sometimes i miss the crack head.. at least he leaves me alone.
No best friend here in Sarasota, she moved to Coral Springs which is a terrible drive from here. 3 hours... too long. Way fun when she comes to visit though.

There is something I'm missing... what is it... oh yeah... LOST MY JOB!! i forgot. The theatre is closed for good, and I am waiting for people to call me back about applications. I hate waiting.

I'm still alive and i still have my family. My mom still loves me and both my sisters tolerate my presence when I am in town (love you guys!). I have a handsome nephew and three beautiful nieces. Two brother-in-law that take care of my sisters. I have a roof over my head and friends here in town that will feed me if i ever run out of food. I have it good no matter what is written above.

Happy New Years.. I'll make this one better than the last one... maybe even find a boyfriend, all by myself.


(btw: sorry for any grammatical errors in this post.. i was going fast and not checking my work)

So, I have aps. into about 5 different places, and the only one who has gotten back to me so far is Wachovia telling me no. I do like the sound of working at a bank so I put an ap. at BOA as well for a teller position. I hate this. I truly hate this with a passion. It is the waiting that is getting to me. I have so many things that I don't want to do ever again (ie retail in a mall), that my choices are very limited. That might be what is holding me back too... Never thought about that. Hmmm.

Well, done ranting now... Back to work!

I'm actually going to be able to go home for Thanksgiving AND Christmas!! YAY!! Well, the only reason for christmas is that the theatre is going to be closed but hey, it means we don't have to fight with the employees about the schedule.
Thanksgiving: I know that plynn78</lj>  is going to be in NC visiting her hubbies mom so that rules her out for sister of the year.... :P.... But  alynn0903</lj>  is going to be in town and since she is the only sister in town for me to choose from, she gets the prize.  That is if she has talked to her hubby yet about if and when they are coming to our mom's house..... I realize now that the only people who read this are those two people and two people from work (hello Jess and Katie!)... oh well.  i do have to work thanksgiving but only in the morning until 2 and then I will be coming over with PIE!! 

Now christmas already looks like it will be the same thing minus the whole working   thing.  Joy, the other cantor at church, is going to be out of town for the last Sunday in Advent as well as Christmas.  Which means I get to sing at EVERY christmas eve and Christmas day mass... WOOHOO!!  So yeah, Ill have to be at church to sing at the last mass and then I am coming home...

Well, I will write some more tom... Later

I haven't posted in awhile, so i thought I would seeing that I have a connection for the first time since i bought this DAMN computer...

i have finally gotten to that point where everything is going really fast and you don't know how to slow things down. My really close friend Jenny-Cuh is getting married to a really great guy that is 20 years older than her... no, I'm not kidding. Even with the HUGE age difference between them, i still find myself getting really jealous. This "girl" that is 5 years younger than me is getting married and I haven't had a boyfriend in a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time. Am I just slow? I know i don't put my self out there (which in my opinion is the stupidest phrase EVER), but I don't want to hunt, I want to be found. Just out of the blue! He hears me sing and can't help himself and has to come up to me after church and says "Hi, you are the one I have been waiting for! I am 26 (could be anywhere between that and 35), I don't live at home, I have a steady job that pays well, and I love my mother (but not too much)!" Yes, I know that is never gonna happen but i'm afraid that if I turn around to quick i will be the 60 year old Crazy spinster aunt that nobody wants to talk to. Oh well... I'm done now... I know it will happen some day, just not today.

Now that i have depressed everyone, I am going to stop and go to bed, wake up tom. and go to church and see if my guy is there.

Maybe my small group of friends (2 of which are my sisters) can help me out.  I bought a laptop on Saturday.  It's everything I wanted AND it was on sale for a great price.  I take it home, take it out of the box, set it up and everything works great.  Just to try out the WiFi card I connected to a neighbor's network and got online.  I was so excited I didn't know what to do, so I got off line.  Later that night I went to get back on a different network (the I was on before wasn't there anymore), and I couldn't.  I didn't change any settings or anything so I figured that network wasn't going to work for me.  I tried everyday since to get on other networks, and no go.  I even went to a WiFi hotspot in Chick-fil-a today and I couldn't get on.  Is it something that I did to it?  Does it not like me anymore? Help! 

Bold those you've read. Italicize those you want to read (or those you've been meaning to get to...). Underline those you own. Add one!

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2.Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnights Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (not the unabridged version, the shorter easier one)
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. Georges Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett , Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick OBrian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon except in the US, It’s called Outlander
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophies World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winter's Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winters Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn 
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen Gods Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setters Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magic's Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magic's Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magic's Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lions Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous (YE OLDE ENGLISH-E)
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christs Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, URI Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L’Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moors Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large, J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for Bed, David Baddiel
351. Barrayar, Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning, Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun, Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric, Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg, Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard, Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Childhoods End, Arthur C. Clarke
368. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
369. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
370. The God Boy, Ian Cross
371. The Beekeepers Apprentice, Laurie R. King
372. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
373. Misery, Stephen King
374. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
375. Hood, Emma Donoghue
376. The Land of Spices, Kate O’Brien
377. The Diary of Anne Frank
378. Regeneration, Pat Barker
379. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
380. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
381. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
382. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
383. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
384. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
385. A Severed Wasp, Madeleine LEngle
386. Here Be Dragons, Sharon Kay Penman
387. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales), translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest
388. The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown
389. Desire of the Everlasting Hills, Thomas Cahill
390. The Cloister Walk, Kathleen Norris
391. The Things We Carried, Tim O’Brien
392. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
393. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
394. Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card
395. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
396. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
397. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
398. A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L’Engle
399. Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
400. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
401. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
402. The Bridge, Iain Banks
403. How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
404. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
405. A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
406. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
407. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
408. I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
409. The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
410. The Shining, Stephen King
411. The Alien Chronicles, Deborah Chester
412. Redwall, Brian Jacques
413. Mossflower, Brian Jacques
414. The Iliad, Homer
415. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
416. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
417. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
418. The Odyessy, Homer
419. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller (reading it..)
420. The Gunseller, Hugh Laurie
421. HALO: Fall of Reach, Eric Nylund
422. HALO: The Flood, William C. Dietz
423. HALO: First Strike, Eric Nylund
424. Mutineer's Moon, David Weber
425. The Armageddon Inheritance, David Weber
426. The Hiers of Empire, David Weber
427. The God Eaters, Jesse Hajicek
428. The Lottery, Shirley Jackson
429. Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
430. The Killer Angels, Micheal Shaara
431. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams
432. Of Saints and Shadows, Christpher Golden
433. Angel Souls and Devil Hearts, Christopher Golden
434. Of Masques and Martyrs, Christopher Golden
435. The Gathering Dark, Christopher Golden
436. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
437. The Masterharper of Pern, Anne McCaffrey 
438. Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner

I left from home about a hour and a half early to go to the bank and apply for a car loan today. I thought it would take awhile to fill out paper work and sign stuff and things like that... but no. It took about 10 mins... I walked in and they said "Hello, welcome to Wachovia... how can we help you?" and I said I need to speak to someone about a car loan. A man named Jeff poped his head out of his door and said come on in, and he typed my info into the computer. SO EASY!! He also said I would have an answer by the end of the day. Crazy! I applied for $15,000, because that will cover the car and all the tax, tag, and title crap... I hope. The car is only worth between $12,000 and $13,000. So, I let you know how it goes. I hope it goes well, if it does... I might be in a NEW car this week!!

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You scored as Serenity (Firefly) You like to live your own way and don't enjoy when anyone but a friend tries to tell you should do different. Now if only the Reavers would quit trying to skin you. Serenity (Firefly) 75% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 69% Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) 69% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 63% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 63% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 56% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 56% SG-1 (Stargate) 56% Moya (Farscape) 50% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 50% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 38% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 38% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 38%

I don't want to pack, I don't want to move, I don't want to be at work.... I just want to relax and take a deep breath and not worry about "How am I going to get all this packed before Thursday?" or " How is Barry going to get these up the stairs?". I just want o go POOF!! and have it be done. I paid the fee to get out of my lease yesterday, as well as my rent, so i am low on funds AGAIN because of my stupid f-in car!! I want a new car too, but I can't afford that right now. Give me a couple months to save some money for one and you can bet the farm I am going to be buying a new car. I'm donr ranting now.... back to work

As Annie already knows, my car is a piece of crap that sucks the life, and money, out of me. I couldn't get it started yesterday and had to get a tow-truck to take it to the shop. I rode in it... it was weird being up so high! The driver was really nice, a little case of verbal diarrhea, but nice all the same. I get to the shop, and sit there for about 45min. to an hour and David (the owner of the shop and a heck of a guy) came and told me they wouldn't be able to get the part for my car right then...piece of crap... I panicked slightly in my head on how I was going to get home... I didn't want to call a cab, I didn't know the number anyway. I didn't want to try the bus, I might have gotten lost. So here I am, having a panic attack, and David says he can take me home... you know how mom said never take rides from strangers? Well, I called mom and told her that David was taking me home and that I would call her when I got there "just in case"! I got home fine and walked to the 7-11 to get milk so I could make myself some dinner and met one of my neighbors and we walked back home together. I then tried to find someone who would be able to take me to work in the morning... nothin doin... SOOOOOO, back into the yellow book I go. I called the cab company and set up a pick up the next day @ 10:15. Fantastic! I felt all metropolitan!! Woke up, got dressed, and at 10:02 the driver knocks on my door. I go out looking for a yellow cab... you know, like the name of the company I called... and I find a limo waiting for me. I smiled the whole way to work this morning. I RODE IN A LIMO TO WORK!!!! Crazy, I know. The money it cost though would have put gas in my tank for a week... sad, but I rode in a limo to work! David's wife is going to pick me up from work and take me to my car which will be fixed by then... I hope.

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.



1. And that was the second time I got crabs..

2. A Knight's Tale -  It's called a lance. Hello?

3. It's been six weeks since Saddam Hussein was killed by a pack of wild boars and the world is still glad to be rid of him.

4. Lady Hawke - Sir, the truth is, I talk to God all the time, and, no offense, but He never mentioned you.

5. Lady and the Tramp -  Ah, but someday he is meeting someone different. Some delicate, fragile creature who's giving him a wish to shelter and protect.

6. LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring -  I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.

7. Serenity - At last, we can retire and give up this life of crime.

8. Pirates of the Carribean - You can keep doing that forever, the dog is NEVER going to move.

9. Person #1: If I was a guy, I think women would like, line up to go out with me. I'm smart. I have a good sense of humor. I make a great living.
Person #2: I'd fuck you.
Person #1: Thank you, honey. I know you would.

10. Dogma - Any moron with a pack of matches can set a fire. Raining down sulphur is like an endurance trial man. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, outside of soccer.

11. White Christmas - Well how do you like that? Not so much as a "kiss my foot" or "have an apple".

12. Person #1: Are you scared?
Person #2: Not of dying, really It's more that I'm afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I'm supposed to be... to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I'm afraid of what I'll miss.

13. Becoming Jane -  If you wish to practice the art of fiction, to be considered the equal of a masculine author, then your horizons must be... widened.

14. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom -  I'm very little! You cheat very big!

15. Star Wars -  I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did.

A few of them are REALLY easy and most of them, not so much. And seeing that I don't have many friends, you can answer as many as you like. Good Luck!!