Danielle

Or, at least it should be. Apparently, school can take up much creativity and desire to write - who knew?

I managed the Spring Quarter with better grades than I anticipated. Still, it definitely was one of the worst ones I'd ever had, mostly due to outside influences. I quit the serving job, due to several conflicts of interest and quiet personally, mayhem. Of course, now was definitely not the time to not have a job since no one can find one, but the stress was ultimately not worth it. My body is still recovering from all the stress and crap I put it through.

Lost my health insurance along with it. I have all my basic necessities on campus, and I qualify for different state programs, but any emergency will be the end of any hope for healthy fiances. I'm hoping to find something that will be cheap and emergency, only. Hope hope hope!

I finished the first summer session without doing as well as I anticipated. Missed a week of class thanks to my ailments (thanks gastroesophageal reflux disease!) and when the course is only six weeks long, it had a bad impact. I could have dropped it, but man, that's just another class behind.

Brother-in-law and nephew we're in town. Man, he was just awesome. I wish I had more time to spend with him, and unfortunately they're moving to Tampa. Boo Air Force.

Started my second session yesterday, and boy is it going to be a doozy. Two four hour long class + hour long break + hour long fitness program = too many hours on campus. However, I really need that fitness group (yay for free!) and I enjoyed it, so, I guess I'll trudge along. I have to admit, that I'm very sad that my Race and Racism class is preached by a professor that rambles, makes no connections in notes, and then looks at us like "C'mon, figure it out for yourself." Boo. I was really looking forward to that class!

On the upside, aside from the new moeny situation we're in, my stress level is much, much better. Still need a job, but this time to do other things has really been needed. Our little house is in a dire need for summer cleaning, and I can finally devot some time to it.

I've also been happily involved in watching America's favorite past time! 




 

Tonight forced me to break my streak of no coffee. Yay for all nighters on papers. My whole system is very disagreeable with the whole thing, however I am awake to know that! I'll probably have to have more in the morning after my no sleep so I can pay attention in class. I feel like I'm going to turn into that crazy lady from Meet the Robinsons with the billion coffee patches, and just having random spasms that make me slap people. 

Days until the quarter is over:  19

 We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

~MLK Jr.

I spend too much time doing these things.

You Are a Jaguar

You have a knack for reforming, balancing, and even healing people. You see the good in everyone, and you help bad people learn to be better. Even though you connect to people, you can't help but feel separate from everyone else. You often feel like you are on the outside looking in, even with your closest family members and friends.

Stole this from several others. Why not?

You Are the Navel Chakra

You are confident and assertive. You have the self esteem to stand up for yourself and what you believe in. You are persuasive and intuitive. You are good at leading a group, even if its members don't get along. You are inspiring. You understand when people need encouragement or nurturing, and you're able to give it to them. You have a lot of will and are very determined. You are able to see tasks through, and you have the courage to aim high.

 So, I finally found the time to go and see a couple of movies. I'm pretty sure my lack of enthusiam is due to my encredibly busy nature and the fact that a flippin' movie is between 8.50-11.00 bucks to go see. Ugh!

I was super excited to go see Coraline. I checked out the website back in the beginning of February  and really enjoyed it. I like Tim Burtonesque movies, and so I finally dragged the husband to go see it, and wow! I scared me to pieces! Granted, I know I'm a big baby and find nearly everything scary, but this was intense! I was freakin' out over clay (it was a good thing we were the only two people in the entire theatre). Now that a few days have past, I still think it was a decent movie (not as good as real Tim Burton) but I'm surprised that kids went to see that, yeesh.

So, for my punishment, the hubby dragged me to a midnight showing of Watchmen. I am not a night person by any stretch of the imagination, so I don't usually like these midnight showings, but I know sometimes this is the only time Jacob can spend time with his friends, so I will tag along and pass out as soon as we get in the car to go home. The biggest bummer about this time though, was that I had class in the morning, which meant leaving the house at 8:00. This is no problem for me most of the time, but when you don't get home until 3:30 well... it makes for a crappy day. Anyway! I also had never read the comic (graphic novel, whatever) so Jacob didn't want to explain it to me, so that after the movie, we could compare why we thought it was a good/not-so-good movie (dorks, I know). I actually thought it was rather interesting. Too graphic for my taste (lots of bad language, blood, and sex - what sells every other movie) but I was surprised that there are deep and serious philosophical problems in the storyline. For that, I will give it a thumbs-up.

Still am having a hard time writing, but I hope that some new ideas will get the juices flowing. In the meantime, a friend of mine just found out that she having a baby boy, so my crochet needle is out again and I'm trying to see if any creativity exists there.

They are currently at war.

I've been switching medications for the past few months to try and find a combination that doesn't affect my digestive system to no avail. It's very frustrating and it makes it difficult to not complain all the time. I'm grateful that my managers (it helps that it's my husband and close friends) and bosses are understanding about my heath's current sensitivity. 

I only wish it didn't have any effect on my sleep patterns.

On a different note, the weather has been pretty awesome. We haven't had this much rain consistently in a long time. I even experienced hail for a good ten minutes. Only in Cali can you have hail and sunshine at the same time. However, our little space heater is hiccuping, and this place is freezing without it! XD

 Pornography Time Statistics

Every second - $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography
Every second - 28,258 Internet users are viewing pornography
Every second - 372 Internet users are typing adult search terms into search engines
Every 39 minutes - A new pornographic video is being created in the United States.

$13.33 billion per year, the pornographic industry is larger than the US revenues of the top technology companies combined: Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix, and EarthLink.

Internet Pornography Statistics

Pornographic websites - .42 million (12% of total websites)
89% of all said websites are made in the US


The Porn Industry asks for 5 BILLION in federal aide. "The government's handing out money to the auto industry," Francis, producer of "Girls Gone Wild" video series, said to CNN. "Why shouldn't it hand some to an industry the nation could not live without?"

"People are too depressed to be sexually active," Flynt said in a news release. "This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such, but they cannot do without sex."




....... This is probably the best news about our crappy economy so far.

 There's this thing going around Facebook, and I just had to give in. It's 25 random, unknown facts of me.

1. I am the shortest person on both sides of my family and now my in-laws. This has never ceased to be the butt-end of several jokes, but I'm over it now. This also goes along with looking several years younger than I really am. When I used to work in the Jr. High group at Pomona First Baptist as a worship intern, on two separate occasions the youth pastor almost came up to me, thinking I was a new student. Last year while traveling with Jacob someone asked me if I was flying alone and if I was over the age of 16. The best man and pastor at our wedding, Steve, makes numerous jokes about me finally being able to go to prom one day. I've just learned to embrace this and in 30 years will laugh when I look young when everyone else wants to as well.

2. I hate cars. I hate being in them and I definitely hate driving them. This isn't due to motion sickness or anything, but I'm pretty sure that it's due to the several car accidents I've been in, two of them where I had to leave via ambulance. I also think that this is contributed to me conditioning myself to sleep in a car. I'm tired nearly instantaneously and absolutely must sleep. It could be a 10 minute car ride and I'm out like a light. It's rather embarrassing, and I feel sorry for Jacob when he wants companionship and I am unconscious. I rarely can help it when I'm with people I barely know, so I apologize ahead of time.

3. People fascinate me. I love trying to figure out the mind, human emotions, and our reactions to the world around us. I'm definitely going into the right field.

4. I have grown a very big heart for injustices locally, nationally, and globally. I believe that all humans have the same right to quality of life. Furthermore, I believe God created everyone equally, despite race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, etc. When we (definitely those who call themselves Christians) don't love our neighbors, we are deciding that some image-bearers of God are better than others, when this is not how God created us. This absolutely sickens me.

5. I have been involved in some form of music for at least 13 years. This year has been the first year in those 13 that I have had to set my flute aside and focus on my studies, and it is breaking my heart. While I pick it up when I can, it is definitely not the same, and I have pledged myself to pick up again after completing my BA. I'll have to figure out my MA later. But, I at least still have worship, and I have to say that playing the flute cannot compare to the feeling I have singing and playing guitar. I can have the crappiest day ever, and playing and worshiping at home can make me feel back to rights again. I just cannot understand how I can bare my soul this way, but I absolutely love it.

6. I am completely, 100% against war and violence of any kind. There is always another way, sometimes it just takes a lot more effort.

7. I am really blessed to have the friends that I do. Some go back as far as 4th grade, but those few I have kept through jr. high and high school are some of the best supporters I have.

8. I love books. When I was a kid with raging ADHD, reading was the only thing that could keep my focused attention for an extended period of time. Again, I think I have conditioned myself to now not pay attention to absolutely anything other than my book when I read. I get completely engrossed in the story, which leads to my next point.

9. I daydream. A lot. I think my imagination has waited 20 years before fully blossoming. I can completely zone out about what's going on around me and make up stories and characters. I thought that writing them would help my creativity (which I do, I post stories on a website) but I think it's only made the problem worse. I only think more about what I can do next. I think it's just the way my ADHD has manifested into everyday scenarios.

10. Disney really makes my world go round. If it's Disney, I love it.

11. I religiously watch 30 Rock, Pushing Daises, Heroes, and The Office.

12. The concept of voluntary poverty and living simply to give freely is something that Jacob and I what to apply to our lives. It's a little hard now when poverty isn't so voluntary, but one day we will get there.

13. I have had wonderful traveling opportunities in my life. I have visited most of the UK for several weeks, built homes in Mexico, seen Niagra Falls, and have performed in The Kennedy Center in DC as well as The Disney Concert Hall in LA. I definitely plan to take advantage of any more traveling opportunities that roll my way.

14. I have about 7 different friends whose families would claim me as their own in a heartbeat. Growing up with the particularly difficult home that I had, I attached to my friends families fervently. My best friend Kate's family really is my own. They have blessed me with several wonderful opportunities, and I am eternally grateful for them.

15. I absolutely adore my husband. He really is the cheese to my macaroni. We are so similar in our thought patterns and interests that I know that no one will ever understand me better. I have no regrets about starting our lives together early and taking on the hardships with still being in school. I would rather cling to him and God in our difficult times than to miss the growing experience.

16. I have Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease. It makes eating interesting.

17. I hardly ever cry. I went with my mother-in-law to this large ladies gathering at her church where we watched the movie "Christmas Shoes." It's based off of this sad song about a mother getting cancer and wanting these dancing shoes that the son strives to buy. There were tissues everywhere, and I'm pretty certain I was the only one not crying in the room. Jacob cries more than I do. Nicki says I have a "black heart" (teasingly, of course.)

18. I've broken at least eight bones, just from being stupid and clumsy. My elbow, wrist, both of my feet, and several toes and fingers just didn't hold up very well. I'm hoping I got all of that crazy activeness out of me.

19. My husband and I are about the most forgetful people I know. It doesn't make a good mix.

20. I'm very complicated when it comes to sleeping. Everything has to be just right. No sound ( unless a constant humming of some sort), no light, and no movement. I either sleep on my back or on my stomach, and don't really move. Jacob however, moves a lot and tends to invade my space. I've just had to use the blankets as a barrier, right down the middle. Thus far it seems to have worked.

21. I have a dove tattoo above my left ankle on the inside, and am developing and devising getting more.

22. My personality has changed a lot over the past year or two. I used to be very sarcastic and complain a lot. I have a lot more inner joy now, after being involved at Gracepoint. The feeling I have with my church family is incredible, and I want to share that with everyone I come into contact with. It has really raised my attitude and given me a brighter outlook on humanity.

23. I'm really OCD about how I eat my food. It can't touch each other and 9 times out of time I have to eat them in a certain order, finishing one item before moving on to the next.

24. Music is in my very soul. The collection I have on my iTunes spreads far and wide. I have just about every music type you can think of. I have to admit that my heart lies somewhere in the 80s. My dad brought me up on Bon Jovi, Van Halen, and power ballads. It drives Jacob nuts. I'm pretty sure - no, I know I listen to it way too loud.

25. I've recently have had to cut dairy products from my food list. I've been failing miserably, and am reaching a conclusion that some cheese is just worth getting sick over.

The Rabbit! 

Personality

Occupying the 4th position in the Chinese Zodiac, the Rabbit symbolizes such character traits as creativity, compassion, and sensitivity. Rabbits are friendly, outgoing and prefer the company of others. They also prefer to avoid conflict. In confrontational situations, Rabbits approach calmly and with consideration for the other party. Rabbits believe strongly in friends and family and lacking such bonds can lead to emotional issues.

 

Their serene nature keeps Rabbits from becoming visibly upset. Because they’re serene animals, Rabbits are easily taken advantage of. Their sensitive nature makes them shy away from aggressive or competitive situations. They’re overall conservative and not interested in taking risks.

 

Classy, sophisticated, expressive, well-mannered and stylish, those born under the Sign of the Rabbit enjoy leaning about cultural issues and learning about people from other countries. Rabbits are most comfortable being home, and their homes are always neat and organized. Home is also where Rabbits prefer to entertain. Rabbits are conservative in their decorating tastes.

 

Rabbits should work at building more self-confidence and self-worth so they can feel more secure. The desire for remaining in safe, comfortable environments keeps Rabbits from taking risks which sometimes causes them to miss out on good opportunities. 

Health

Even though Rabbits don’t usually get visibly upset or stressed, they do tend to keep these feelings inside. When they don’t express these feelings, such feeling can cause Rabbits to become ill. Rabbits could benefit from more everyday activity which would reduce their stress levels and better their health.
 

Career

Rabbits are articulate and good communicators which is why friends and acquaintances seek out their advice. It’s also why Rabbits make excellent diplomats and politicians. Other good careers for Rabbits include: writer, publisher, actor, fashion designer, therapist, doctor, administrator, public relations, and teacher.
 

Fire Rabbits – Years 1927 and 1987

Fire adds spark to the Rabbit’s personality and all that Fire Rabbits do. Fire compels Rabbits to seek new adventures. Prone to tantrums, Fire Rabbits prefer to avoid conflict.


I'm actually surprised that this isn't too far off of the mark. Always an interesting thing to learn.

 

 

 After all the trail and error, I've finally finished backing up my laptop. Now I just have to restore it. So if I disappear for a while.. that means I've managed to fail miserably :).

 I have decided that there is nothing more exhausting then having five classes within one day with only ten minutes between each class and one 50 lunch break. I come back home absolutely frazzled and my brain fried. On the good note, I'm very thrilled to be at my new university. The opportunities for research and internships isn't too bad, and I'm hoping to have enough credits to hop into the honors program by the fall. This campus comes with natural disasters of wind - oh yes, the winds of doom. Thanks to the lovely Santa Ana winds, I walk around like a retard during big gusts and hold on to my steering wheel for dear life when driving. Not to mention that my hair is too short to be of any use in a ponytail, so it looks like I've been traveling in a jet with no screen anytime I walk into a building :). Somehow the awkward things happen to me.

To keep myself from going crazy (thinking about the usefulness of qualitative and quantitative measurements.. sounds fun, right?) I've taken the time to really explore the campus with any given moment. And it absolutely cracks me up that the Behavioral and Social Science building strongly resembles a cruise ship. This will be home for the next two years, if not more.



I will have to take a picture from the other side to show said resemblance. 

And to make a fun note of my week (insert sarcasm here) I will be spending my Saturday to back up my life from my laptop so I can restore it. After that, I have plans to enjoy a weekend with much needed writing, and possibily making someone RP with me :).

 Okay, so I love to sing to songs in the car. I sing loud and proud, mostly to keep my ears used to catching harmonies. And quiet frankly, I really enjoy it. I usually get bored with radio stations or genres really quickly, and switch them around often or to my mood of choice. Lately, my choice falls in the rock category. Classic, alternative, whatever. Rock is rock is rock.

This genre isn't necessarily new, but my taste used to be very specific. Now that I'm listening to a radio station, I get all kinds of artists, and I usually enjoy them. So, most of the time I have no idea who the artist is. I just sing away at the lyrics I can catch. Now, usually it's easy to get the name of the song, because 95% of the time, it's repeated over and over again.

So a few days ago, I'm waiting for my husband to pick me up at home so we can go meet with some friends. I've got him hooked on said radio station, so when I get in I instantly recognize the song. It is one that I have particularly enjoyed. So when the chorus comes, I sing along, "Whoa whoa, you set me on fire." And at the end, I tell him, "I really like that song."

He looked at me like I had said the most profound thing ever, "You like that song?"

Confused, my answer was only slightly hesitant, "Yes, I like the song." Even though the verses were slightly sensual, it's taking about how someone can set a soul on fire in a good way, so... yay song.

Now he looks like he might keel over. "You like what it means? Danielle, what is the name of the song?"

"Umm... You Set Me on Fire?"

He starts laughing, like laughter that fills up the whole car, "Baby, the song is Your Sex is on Fire."

".... No it's not."

"Oh yeah, it is." His laughter is uncontrollable at this point.

.........

Artist need to learn to enunciate their words.

Needless to say, I'm a little bit leery of this song now.

I hate technology, particularly any laptop that is in my possession.

So, the hubby has this MMORPG that he has played for years. While we were dating, he would play on and off so that way he would spend more time with me than the game (why are games so addicting? Staying on track). So we when we got married, we decided it would be better to not play because 1) we should spend free time together (which is why we have no cable) and 2) I refuse to pay a monthly fee. $15 doesn't seem a lot, but it could be better spent elsewhere.

Anyway, so for xmas the SO got the new expansion and game cards, so now it's up and running again. Only this time the agreement is that I have to play too, so that way we could enjoy it together. I've never played MMOs, because I'm not much of a gamer, and they never hold my interest long enough. RPGs in general usually have such long quests and missions that I'm easily bored and want to do something else. But I have to admit that so far this game has taken my interest. I could see how he could spend hours at a time playing (which oddly enough, I do just the same with RP, no?). Only, I have a hard time playing without him being around, because everything seems to be so complicated that I always need help. Which is another reason why I don't play such games - rules are irritating.

Anyway, we'll see how this goes. We only have four months before the game cards are out and no more game until probably his birthday, which is in June.
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This trip has been absolutely nuts!

To start, I have to discuss getting to DC. It was by far the worst traveling experience ever. To make a long story boring, our very first flight was canceled. So we waited two hours to get another flight, only to find it delayed for three hours right after being confirmed for the flight. So then we get on a plane to JFK instead of Dallas, and then have ten minutes to make the connecting flight. Which in the end didn't matter, because all flights from American to Regan were canceled. So then we are moved over to United to fly to Dulles (which then required us to find a shuttle for six of us) and then have an hour to go to a different terminal, re-check in, and go through security. When we finally arrive there, the flight was full and we couldn't get on. To give a time perspective, we were at LAX at 5:00 am and finally made it to Dulles and 12:30 am, and in our hotel rooms by 2:30 am. Needless to say, we missed the first night of the conference, and would never get the opportunity to catch up on sleep until we were back in California.

The conference was held in a Hyatt hotel, and it was a great experience. 1,100 people (mostly high school kids) from all over our North American churches come to spend time together every two years. To spare long theological writing, I've chosen two new experiences that have impacted me.

First on the fun note, was the music. The worship band was from Miami and was absolutely amazing.Freddie Colloca led from a keyboard and had everyone on the feet jumping. It's really neat to see a thousand people jumping around and singing. The other artist was named Lost and Found and I was incredibly doubtful upon first sight. First, my husband has their cds, and I'm not going to lie, they sound terrible. Yet everyone has this incredible hype about them. And now I understand why. They are incredibly clever and witty. Just perfect performers. Of course, I still think they can't sing well, and I swear the keyboard player is Popeye, but they were just so awesome to watch. They have this song called "Slide Girl," which was created based on a venue they played at that had a projector on with a girl in blue the entire time. Anyway, they improv taking turns singing about people they had met over the trip, which was hysterical. And throughout the humor, they said some things that made a strong impact. The lead singer, Michael, was doing a sketch about what he would name his kids if he ever had them. "If I ever had a kid, I would say that the kid's name was S-t-e-v-e and pronounced Tim. And every time the kid would start school, the teacher would say, 'Steve?' 'It's Tim.' That's not phonically correct, but there's no rule saying that I can't do that. I know, that would be a terrible thing to do to my daughter." And then he paused, and said this, "And isn't it something, knowing that our names should be spelled S-i-n and instead God sees Righteous, Holy, Worthy?" It certainly made the high schoolers, and several leaders, think.

And in 2010, YouthQuest will be in Downtown Toronto. Canada here we come!

The dogs were not particularly happy with my mother's choices of decorations for Christmas.
I'm rather certain that Cocoa is just pouting in the first one.

 I have learned this year that traveling to four different places while being sick is not the best of times. My friends and family are great, but man, what I really needed was a Christmas nap.

Out of all of my Christmas gifts (which were all awesome, because they're gifts, obviously) my favorite was a game. Now, I don't really play video or PC games often. I usually get frustrated a quarter of the way through, and would rather watch someone else play. But, it seems there is a series of games that just makes my heart sing - Guitar Hero. The only electronical game that I can whomp my husband in. We have Guitar Hero III and now World Tour. I must say though, while I love the singing feature of World Tour, I am a little disappointed at the difficulty level. I was able to jump to expert with little problems and few failures - curse you Beat It! The slide feature? I'm not really sure how I feel about it yet. I haven't tried the tutorial, so I still need time to decide if it's a plus or not. It's not so bad to play without it. Also, the new button for star power seems more difficult that lifting the older guitar, but that's just me.

It seems that the Guitar Hero III songs One and Raining Blood will still remain undefeated until I develop areodynamic fingers.

On the plus side, Guitar Hero urges my cousins the ages of 5 and 2 to pretend to play and dance. Nothing beats dancing kids, seriously.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Countdown to YQ... 2 days

 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.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ and help prove you are well above average :)

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 – God
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 – (Okay, maybe I'm missing a few, but seriously, I have almost read the thing)
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 Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Part of Croniciles of Narnia?)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (But Angels and Demons was so much better!)
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. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. 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. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A SmallIsland - 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
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. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ((I MIGHT finish this before the new year))
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. 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
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I'd have to say, that's not too bad!

So, looking to try new creative outlet out. We'll see how this goes!

Haven't felt up to writing any posts for RDI for a while. I'm pretty sure it's the combination of social events and a stinking cold that keeps me from being well... creative.

Managed to still have two gifts to buy in one day. I will blame this on budget, school, social events and.. yes, once again the cold.

But to help pass the time away, I FINALLY got the last book to the Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind. I'm sure Confessor will keep me from being  too bored.

Days till Youth Quest in Washington D.C.... 4