Monday, February 23, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
How many have you read?
Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading. (Let's just say everything I haven't read is *ed) :)
4) Tally your total.Then, post your total read at the bottom.
1. [ ] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien (Trent read)
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [X+ ] Harry Potter series JK Rowling (Trent read)
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [X] The Bible (Trent read)
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 (Trent read)
12. [ ] Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [ ] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare (Trent said he has read quite a few but not all)
15. [ ] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [X] The Hobbit JRR Tolken (Trent read)
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 (Trent read)
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame (Trent read)
31. [x] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [X] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis(SOME OF THE BOOKS BUT NOT ALL) (Trent read all)
34. [] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [X] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis (Trent read)
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [ ] Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [X] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne (Trent read)
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell (Trent read)
42. [X] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown (Trent read)
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. [X] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [ ] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert (Trent read)
53. [ ] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen (Trent read)
55. [ ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [ ] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x] 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. [x+] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas (Trent read)
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 (Trent read)
71. [ ] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens (Trent read)
72. [X] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [X] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett (Trent read)
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 (Trent read)
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. [X] Charlotte's Web EB White (Trent read)
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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(Trent read)
99. [] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(Trent read)
100. [] Les Miserables Victor Hugo
I have read 18. I was interested in how many Trent has read so I put it after. He has read 23.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading. (Let's just say everything I haven't read is *ed) :)
4) Tally your total.Then, post your total read at the bottom.
1. [ ] Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
2. [] The Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien (Trent read)
3. [x] Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
4. [X+ ] Harry Potter series JK Rowling (Trent read)
5. [x] To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
6. [X] The Bible (Trent read)
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 (Trent read)
12. [ ] Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
13. [ ] Catch 22 Joseph Heller
14. [ ] Complete Works of Shakespeare (Trent said he has read quite a few but not all)
15. [ ] Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
16. [X] The Hobbit JRR Tolken (Trent read)
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 (Trent read)
30. [x] The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame (Trent read)
31. [x] Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
32. [] David Copperfield Charles Dickens
33. [X] Chronicles of Narnia CS Lewis(SOME OF THE BOOKS BUT NOT ALL) (Trent read all)
34. [] Emma Jane Austen
35. [] Persuasion Jane Austen
36. [X] The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe CS Lewis (Trent read)
37. [ ] The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
38. [ ] Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis De Bernieres
39. [] Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
40. [X] Winnie the Pooh AA Milne (Trent read)
41. [x] Animal Farm George Orwell (Trent read)
42. [X] The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown (Trent read)
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. [X] Lord of the Flies William Golding
50. [ ] Atonement Ian McEwan
51. [ ] Life of Pi Yann Martel
52. [ ] Dune Frank Herbert (Trent read)
53. [ ] Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons
54. [] Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen (Trent read)
55. [ ] A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
56. [ ] The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. [] A Tale Of Two Cities Charles Dickens
58. [x] 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. [x+] Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas (Trent read)
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 (Trent read)
71. [ ] Oliver Twist Charles Dickens (Trent read)
72. [X] Dracula Bram Stoker
73. [X] The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett (Trent read)
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 (Trent read)
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. [X] Charlotte's Web EB White (Trent read)
88. [ ] The Five People You Meet In Heaven Mitch Alborn
89. [] Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. [ ] The Faraway Tree Collection Enid Blyton
91. [ ] Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92. [x] The Little Prince Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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(Trent read)
99. [] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(Trent read)
100. [] Les Miserables Victor Hugo
I have read 18. I was interested in how many Trent has read so I put it after. He has read 23.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Valentine Goodies!
Raspberry Sandwich Hearts
Ingredients:
Dough:
2 cups all-purpose flour, plus additional for work surface
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
¾ cup confectioners (powdered) sugar, plus additional for dusting
1½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
½ teaspoon pure almond extract
Filling:
½ cup seedless raspberry jam
Directions:
Dough:
In a medium bowl, sift flour and salt together. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine butter and confectioner sugar; beat together until mixture is smooth. Add vanilla extract and almond extract; stir until blended. Add flour mixture; stir to mix.
Press dough into a ball, cover and refrigerate until well chilled, at least 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Baking sheets may be ungreased, or lined with parchment paper.
On a lightly floured surface, and using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll the dough to a 1/4 inch thickness. Cut dough into hearts or other desired shapes using a 2½ inch cookie cutter that has been dipped in flour (to help prevent dough from sticking to the cutter.)
Using a 1 inch heart shaped cookie cutter that has been dipped in flour, cut out the center of half of the 2½ inch cookies. Re-roll the scraps, or bake the 1 inch heart shapes separately.
Bake:
Place cutout dough 2 inches apart on baking sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until cookies are set and the edges are very lightly browned. Remove cookies from baking sheets and cool on wire racks.
Filling and Assembly:
Leaving a ¼ inch border uncovered, spread about 1 teaspoon of the raspberry jam over each cookie without the middle cutout.
Using a fine-mesh sieve, dust the tops of the cookies that have the middle cutout with confectioners sugar. Place the cutout cookies on top of the jam-covered cookies.
Makes about 2 dozen cookie sandwiches
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
I *heart* faces~ Kids
Come on over to I *heart* faces for some more silly faces
I *heart* faces ~ Adult
Come on over to I *heart* faces to see some more silly faces.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Husband Tag
what's your husbands name? Trent
how long have you been married? 12 years in April
how long did you date? 3 and 1/2 years to the day.
how old is he? Just turned 33
who eats more sweets? Me
who is a better singer? He is by far and away. He doesn't sing much but he has a beautiful deep voice.
who is smarter? He is. He is always amazing me with bits of info on things I didn't know he know anything about.
who does the laundry? I do but he is always willing to help if I need it. And there are times he will surprise me by doing a load or two.
who pays the bills? I pay the bill after he we gets his check from work. :)
who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do
who mows the lawn? No one. We don't have one. But he would if we did.
who cooks dinner? Normally we work on it together.
who drives? I do most of the driving. I like to drive.
who is the first to say they are wrong? He is. Even when it wasn't his fault.
who kissed who first? I kissed him first
who asked who out first? I asked him to the homecoming dance. (our first date)
who wears the pants? We both wears pants. ;) But I am the bossy one. :D
how long have you been married? 12 years in April
how long did you date? 3 and 1/2 years to the day.
how old is he? Just turned 33
who eats more sweets? Me
who is a better singer? He is by far and away. He doesn't sing much but he has a beautiful deep voice.
who is smarter? He is. He is always amazing me with bits of info on things I didn't know he know anything about.
who does the laundry? I do but he is always willing to help if I need it. And there are times he will surprise me by doing a load or two.
who pays the bills? I pay the bill after he we gets his check from work. :)
who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do
who mows the lawn? No one. We don't have one. But he would if we did.
who cooks dinner? Normally we work on it together.
who drives? I do most of the driving. I like to drive.
who is the first to say they are wrong? He is. Even when it wasn't his fault.
who kissed who first? I kissed him first
who asked who out first? I asked him to the homecoming dance. (our first date)
who wears the pants? We both wears pants. ;) But I am the bossy one. :D
Sunday, February 1, 2009
I *heart* faces! ~kids
Go have a look at I *heart* faces to see more great pictures!
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