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Name: Amelia
Gender: Female
Interests: Society for Creative Anachronism; tablet weaving; reading fantasy; snakes; musicals; singing; movies
Occupation: engineer
Industry: aerospace
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7/2/2006
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| So it has been a year. I realize I haven't posted in a while but oh well. In the past year we have bought a house, gone to Jamaica, gotten Inara (puppy), put in new windows and both taken belts from two great peers. For those of you who have helped us through this first year, Thank you! HUGS! | | |
| The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read (as in the book is bought and sitting on my shelf).
3) Underline the books you LOVE. Two were taken out of the list because they were repetitive. (In case you were wondering, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis was removed because it is included in The Chronicles of Narnia, and Hamlet by William Shakespeare was removed because it is included in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.) 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 Traveler'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 Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (I think "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" should count here)
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker ( I think "Frankenstein" should count here)
72.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte's Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I copied this from Ayla. | | |
| So Rick finally did it. He convinced me to play World of Warcraft. So now I have a Blood Elf Warlock and a Troll Hunter. And that is all I am going to say. | | |
| So Rick and I were marginally impulsive last night and bought ourselves new computers. He has been without one for over a year now and mine was dying (not bad, lasted 6 years). It will be very nice to have separate computers again! Update on Galon (my cousin that was in the wreck), he is doing very well. He is home and eating whatever feels good. He doesn't like eating much because "it feels funny". The house is still here. Not much new with it. Fence is fixed and Foxy loves it. We have lots of projects planned and will get to all of them eventually I am sure. Had some great weekends with friends this last season. Enjoyed being part of the crown list for the first time. Looking forward more than I can say to Jamaica. We leave on the 11th of May! See everyone sooner or later. Events to look for us at: Springfaire, Warlord, and Castellan. | | |
| So I guess there are a few things to mention. Rick and I bought a house in Azle, Texas. It is 1800 sq ft with a 500 sq ft shop on a half acre lot that backs up to a park. Foxy is enjoying the yard somewhat, we need to fix the gate before we can let her out there not on the lunge line. We are working slowly on painting and fixing up the few problems we need to address this year (some plumbing issues and general clean up). It was sooooo nice unpacking from Gulf into the shop and not having random SCA stuff strewn everywhere. Gulf was different this year. Some really good stuff and some not so good stuff. Happiness with Damon (Wookie) being made a Centurian and general yay it is war stuff. Some family not happy stuff but not directly affecting me stuff once war was over so just a lot of prayers. This week was going along fine (if unproductive) until Friday. My Aunt Jan called asking me to go to Denison to be with my cousin, Chas, and her 7 mon. old baby until Jan could get there from Oklahoma because Chas was just in a wreck with the baby and her 7 year old son Galon. So after some craziness, here is the result. Chas and the baby are fine. Chas has some seatbelt and airbag bruising but that is all physically. Galon is not alright. He was life flighted to Children's Medical Hospital in Dallas and had surgury Friday night. Basically he had a gastric bypass done due to an intestinal rupture. The surgury Friday and the follow up one on Saturday went well and he should be out of ICU Monday. The biggest risk now is infection. He was taken off the ventilator and sedatives this morning and was very happy to watch Sponge Bob. It will be a long long recovery but the odds for a full recovery look good. Please keep him in your prayers. A moment for happy stuff again, I am getting help from Druinne to get us some new clothes (yay fitted apron!). Weaving is going good. I don't have any SCA projects on a timeline. I need to make a belt for Asoph and am down to just needing to get the material ordered for it. Hope everyone is happy and healthy! | | |
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