3/29/2006

 

Playlist meme thingie

Borrowed from Tiny Little Librarian...

Step 1: Get your play list together, put it on random, and play.
Step 2: Write down the first line (or close to it) from the first 20 songs that play.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from. No search engines, please.
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly

So, leave a comment if you know any of the answers! I used the 2nd line for #s 5, 8 and 11 since the title was in the first line.

1. When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light you see Sue got it, Stand By Me

2. So no one told you life was gonna be this way Friends theme, Sue again!

3. I remember looking up to look up to him, I remember most the time he wasn't there

4. I woke up early with a pounding in my head, I'd been out the night before with all my friends

5. Is to save every day til eternity passes away just to spend them with you

6. My child arrived just the other day, he came in the world the usual way Cats in the Cradle - Sue's on a roll!

7. I'm a little boy with glasses, the one they call a geek

8. I'm headin' down the Atlanta highway lookin' for a love getaway Love Shack - Sue again, but this one was easy! :)

9. It’s been a long, long time, yeah Since I got you on my mind.

10. Hey little guy, I can't believe you answered the phone

11. None of this, gun in this, brotha runnin this, Buffalo soldier, look it's like I told ya Concordian got Wild Wild West

12. I gave you my young and my tender years, what more do you want from me

13. You are so beautiful to me (well DUH, this is a dead giveaway, but there's not exactly a lot of lyrics in the song!!!)

14. Got an old dog, he don't like me much

15. I was standing in the grocery store line, the one they marked express

16. When there's boulders up ahead and you're miles and miles from your nice warm bed You've Got a Friend in Me - Sue rocks!

17. I got sent home from school one day with a shiner on my eye

18. I was walking home from school on a cold winter day, took a shortcut through the woods and I lost my way

19. And I never thought I'd feel this way

20. In the middle of the night I go walking in my sleep River of Dreams - Sue and I clearly have similar musical tastes! :)

8:49 PM

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3/28/2006

 

Book meme

Meme instructions : Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you'veread, italicize the ones you might read, cross out the ones you won't, underline the ones on your book shelf, and place parentheses around the ones you've never even heard of.

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
(His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J.R. R. Tolkein
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Neuromancer - William Gibson
(Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson)
(The Secret History - Donna Tartt)
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis
(Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides)
(Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell)
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkein
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
(Atonement - Ian McEwan)
(The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zagon)
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert

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The joys of parenthood

Well, naturally Emma got the stomach virus. So now I'm only 3 up on her in the illness department. Currently we both have colds and she is cutting her 2-year molars, so it's been a fun week. HA! But a couple weekends ago we did have fun - we took Emma to the beach for the first time. She loved digging in the sand and stomping in the puddles, and once she got used to it she had fun in the pool too. We're looking forward to going back when it's warmer so she can play in the ocean.

Preparations are now underway for Emma's 1st AND 2nd birthday bash this Saturday. (We figured that since we missed her first one, we're celebrating both this time!) Lots of friends and family will be there and we are praying for a nice day and that she and I will be well by then!!!

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3/09/2006

 

We're Number 1!!!!!!!!!!

So Thursday we headed out to Pigeon Forge to the workshop formerly known as Spring Fling in Gatlinburg, only 2 hours behind schedule which is an improvement over last year! Of course all of our luggage was in a different vehicle which didn't get there for 2 more hours but hey, who needs all that stuff when the fun dance is going on? Well the first thing I did after putting my shoes on and stepping out on the dance floor was to fall and bust my butt. What a start to the weekend!

Friday we took it kinda easy since we were doing our first-ever competition that night. Ginger and I went to several seminars about competing (hey, nothing like last-minute advice that it's too late to follow, huh?) But we got lots of ideas on how to improve our dance (this one is Gold Rush, it's a Ginger-written one) for future competitions and also ideas for using Devil as a competition dance. We did learn a few dances during the day and did our turn babysitting Nicole who had come down with a stomach virus. Oddly enough, I was never nervous. We were the very last group to compete, since we were the oldest age division (30-39, which needless to say is an average age since our dancers ranged from 13 to 68!) Well the picture tells the rest - 1st place in our division! We didn't make the top 5 overall which I personally think we should have, but just wail til next time.

Saturday we learned several more great dances (here's a hint - expect to see cavewoman dresses in this year's recital) and babysat Sarah, who now had the virus. Saturday night was the big show...which we were invited to be in for next year! Sa-weet! Sunday we drug our tired butts home to begin the recovery...

...which of course for me was lengthened considerably by, you guessed it, the stomach virus. And an ear infection as well, since we all know I can't just catch one disease at a time. I am now 4 up on Emma for the winter. I am more or less back to normal this evening I think. So, on to a nice weekend of ACC basketball, and next week...we'll start planning for the next competition!

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