100 Books

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
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.
4) Tally your total at the bottom.
(@ are the books Ed has read or partially read = 36!!!)


(X+, @) 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
(X+, @) 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 Faulk
(X, @) 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
(X, @) 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
(X, @) 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
(X+, @) 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
(*) 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
() 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
(X, @) 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
(X, @) 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’s 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 Small Island - Bill Bryson
(X, @) 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
() 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
(X, @) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(*@) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
(*@) 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

WOW... I've only read 10% of these books! I'd better get crackin'!!! And I'm a S-L-O-W reader, too! :o) If you read this, you're tagged :o)

25 Random Things...

1. I was chased by a camel that got loose from "Perry's Wilderness Ranch" during a Blessed Union of Souls concert that was held at an outdoor festival when I was in high school.
2. I just had a parathyroid removed that was the size of a plum! It's supposed to be the size of a grain of rice.
3. I was the baby Jesus as an infant in a real nativity at my church in 1978.
4. I only had 3 wisdom teeth... and NO... that doesn't mean I'm not as wise as all of you! :o)
5. I'm scared of tornadoes, child birth and spiders.
6. I just had a heel spur removed from my left foot. I no longer have my gallbladder, two parathyroids, a ganglion cyst in my left wrist or any of my wisdom teeth.
7. I was born breech... BUTT FIRST... and no "Butt-head" wisecracks... ;o)
8. I love being a member of the "mormon" church!
9. I have a mental illness.
10. I really... I mean REALLY... LOVE to shop... talk about getting a thrill out of finding a good deal!
11. I love being with good friends and family.
12. I wish I had a larger house so I could entertain more often... I love get-togethers!
13. I love playing board games... especially trivia games... (I have a thing for GSN... the Game Show Network!)
14. I LOVE being crafty! I love to scrapbook and create fun things with my hands.
15. I think I would like to be a teacher, a secretary or maybe a carpenter when I grow up. Don't get me wrong... I LOVE being a stay-at-home-mom! :o)
16. I like to get things organized. You wouldn't know it by the chaos in my house! Hey... organization tools cost money there people!!!
17. I love to eat! I love Hawaiian Haystacks, Fettucine Alfredo and Sweet and Sour Chicken. I also LOVE mozzarella sticks! YUMTASTIC!
18. Several people have said that I should be a comedian. I love to make people laugh, but I don't like to be put on the spot and have to perform... ya know? I get stage fright!
19. I would love to visit Norway and see where all my ancestors came from. I enjoy doing my geneaology/Family History.
20. I love Jane Austen. I've been reading her novels and I love all of the movies as well. I'm reading Pride and Prejudice at the moment and I just finished Sense and Sensibility.
21. I can't read music and I don't know how to play any musical instruments although I think I would have liked to play the drums! I have a funky beat... um... yeah.
22. I have the most WONDERFUL husband! I have been blessed beyond what I feel I deserve.
23. I've been a cashier at K-mart, a teacher's associate, a detasseler (of corn), worked in a potato factory, made pizzas at Papa Johns, worked at Hobby Lobby and worked in the paint and stain department of an interior design store, I also sold Party-Lite candles.
24. I designed the logo for my all girl's hockey team jerseys. I love to draw.
25. I love my life, even through the struggles...

The Big 5 Tag

The Big 5 Tag
10 Years Ago: I was getting ready to go off to Ricks College (BYU-Idaho) in Rexburg, Idaho. It was my first move away from home. Very excited and nervous at the same time.

5 Years Ago: Ed and I were celebrating our 3 year anniversary. We had two kids, Ollie and Eden at that time!

5 Months Ago: We were in sunny California visiting Ed's brother, Jared and his family and going to Disneyland for the first time!!! OOOOOh... to be back again. They now have a week old baby girl, Addison!

5 Things on my To Do list today:
1. Buy a summer pool pass and save $10.oo on it if I do it by TODAY.
2. Clean out the van... well... the trash at least!
3. Get out of my PJ's and shower before leaving my house.
4. Find my camera!!!!!! (Thanks, Reggie!)
5. Register Eden for Kindergarten.

5 Snacks I enjoy:
1. Fudgesicles
2. Arctic Rush from DQ (it's like a snowcone in a cup)
3. Funyuns
4. Fresh fruit - especially peaches, nectarines and grapes
5. Snack mixes

5 Things I would do if I were suddenly a billionaire:
1. Pay off our debts (student loans, house, car, credit cards, etc.)
2. Go back to college and get at least my BA
3. Buy houses for all of our parents
4. Tour all of the Disneyland Theme Parks around the world with our kids.
5. Go to Norway

5 of my Bad Habits:
1. Procrastination
2. Forgetfulness
3. Interrupting people
4. Negative Self Talk
5. Taking things personally

5 Places I have lived:
1. With Heavenly Father in the pre-mortal life.
2. In my mother's womb
3. Cedar Falls, Iowa
4. Rexburg, Idaho
5. Waterloo, Iowa

5 Things people may not know about me:
1. I would love to visit Norway to see where my ancestors came from.
2. I've never owned a dog as a pet.
3. I can make myself burp.
4. I've always wanted to work with Chimpanzees for a living.
5. I have a mental disorder (More to come next month...) and I'm actually still fairly 'normal'! :)