Welcome to the Asylum.
I spent the afternoon sleeping off a migraine. At least that’s what it feels like. I’m feeling better now because I threw back a couple of Tylenol PM – (them’s some great ‘merican drugs – can’t get them here. As I’m down to my last two I’m thankful that Chicken is coming over in July… she can stock me up with more.)
Last night and this evening have been spent messing with the style-sheet. Only marginally different than the previous incarnation … a retro background, new fonts etc. Nice and easy. You may notice I’ve gone from image links for my blogroll to text. As I use Bloglines to read all my fav blogs and I keep that much more up to date than I was the image links this is much easier. If you don’t see your blog up there and you want me to add it, leave a comment and I’ll check you out!!
There’ll be a few additions and substractions as I decide what I really want …
In other news, I’m about to end week 1 of 365 days, a flickr project wherein I take a picture of myself every day for a year. It’s been an interesting exercise, even this early in the piece, particularly as it makes me have to think creatively at least once every day. This is a v good thing considering I spend my life living the technical… You can find the set here… or watch daily in the flickr badge over there on the right.
Ooh, and speaking of technical… I’m about to cross a big personal/professional divide – I’ll post pictures when I have the goods… v exciting…
A Bandwagon Post
I’m all kinds of keen to get down to the library now… lots to catch up on
Books in bold are ones I’ve read.
Any in bold with an asterisk (*)before them are ones I’ve tried to read but failed so far.
Books in italics are ones already on my to-read list before today.
Books in normal print are ones I’m not interested in (perhaps some of you can convince me one of these is a must-read!)
1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She's Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones' Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timoth Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard's First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97.White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
Houston, We May Have a Problem
VB man came back with more gifts today – this time a kilo of Danes coffee (nice) – and as he doesn’t own a coffee plunger I somehow ended up with him in my house on my sofa (still not sure how that happened), with me making him coffee while wearing my jammies. Happily I was not sporting the little red number but instead, the candy pink cats and my old lady sweater (less awkward, I’m sure you’ll agree).
I’m thinking that I’m a bit too nice to waifs and strays.
He was loaded. Man, I feel for the guy, he’d spent the day at work sporting a new haircut and his colleagues were giving him grief so I think he’d downed a few of his precious long necks to make himself feel better. I didn’t feel threatened or anxious with him there but as he relaxed he started swearing up a blue streak (when he could keep a grip on his train of thought)… and while honestly, I can drop the f-bomb in dire emergencies when it appears in every other phrase it’s a bit much for me.
All and all, while I’m not feeling too uncomfortable with him at the moment I am worried about the increasing frequency of his little visits… What to do girls and boys??
Houston We May Have a Problem
VB man came back with more gifts today – this time a kilo of Danes coffee (nice) – and as he doesn’t own a coffee plunger I somehow ended up with him in my house on my sofa (still not sure how that happened), with me making him coffee while wearing my jammies. Happily I was not sporting the little red number but instead, the candy pink cats and my old lady sweater (less awkward, I’m sure you’ll agree).
I’m thinking that I’m a bit too nice to waifs and strays.
He was loaded. Man, I feel for the guy, he’d spent the day at work sporting a new haircut and his colleagues were giving him grief so I think he’d downed a few of his precious long necks to make himself feel better. I didn’t feel threatened or anxious with him there but as he relaxed he started swearing up a blue streak (when he could keep a grip on his train of thought)… and while honestly, I can drop the f-bomb in dire emergencies when it appears in every other phrase it’s a bit much for me.
All and all, while I’m not feeling too uncomfortable with him at the moment I am worried about the increasing frequency of his little visits… What to do girls and boys??