They remind me of my grandmother. I miss her so!
"A mind once stretched by a new idea can never regain its original dimensions." ~Oliver Wendall Holmes
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Monday, February 16, 2015
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Number 24: Throughly clean and detail my truck interior
I cleaned it myself at the beginning of summer, then I hired some JH kids to do it back in November. The truck has been cleaned and detailed twice this year, but it is, of course, still dirty. Such is life!
Number 4: Update my resume
I learned that it's hard to write an updated resume when you dont know what job you're applying for or where you are going to live. I also have a whole portfolio to update. I updated what I could, but was not really feeling it since I am so far out from actually applying for a new job.
Finish the rip rugs
I started this rug back in November as a Christmas gift for my friend Sadie. It quickly became a tedious project and I abandoned it. So I've had this box full of strips of cloth hanging around my bedroom for months. Today, I got sick of looking at it and decided to finish it once and for all. Ta-da!
Friday, February 06, 2015
Write a letter of resignation
Wow! That was the most difficult letter I've ever written. I dont know if I should feel daunted or excited that this was the first thing I crossed off my new birthday list. Maybe both?
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
35 things to do before I turn 36
This year I'm gaining some inspiration from my friend, Erin, who started a birthday list last year. Her list includes a long list of things to accomplish with the goal of hitting a certain number of them, rather than writing a certain number of goals and trying to accomplish them all. So, there are 70 items on this list and my goal is the accomplish 35 of them before I turn 36. The first nine are rollovers from last years list.
Volunteer for Librivox
Complete 12 sections in my Bible study workbook
Publish my book
Yoga class/yoga in the park
Day hike
Goskiing/sledding/play in snow
Read When Kids Cant Read
Sew myself a wearable garment
Read 5 more book off this list or this list
Finish the rip rugs
Play Zelda
Read Game of Thrones
Harvest, preserve, and eat wild mushrooms
Make butter or cheese
Try 3 new spices
Quilt
Play frisbee golf in Anchorage or Indiana
Host a multiple course dinner party
Kentucky Derby party
Make soap with Erin
Get Baptized
Advent calendar Christmas boxes
Attend a movie at the new Bethel theatre
Attend a service at the Russian Orthodox Church
Make colored ice balls for winter
Ride roller coasters at Great America
Write a letter of resignation
Take a class
Visit the Indiana Sand Dunes
Run a 5K
Have my truck waxed and detailed
Hang out with Avery
Start a new tradition
Get under 175 pounds
Go roller skating
Find a new church home
Join a bible study group
Find a farmers market/organic farm
Community garden
Fourth of July with Kassia
Read the paper
Set up a real live Christmas tree
Go to a haunted house
Read Mitchner's Poland
Recycle
Bikini wax
Segway tour
Adler Planetarium
Sleep under the redwoods
Drive the coast highway
Float in the Great Salt Lake
Visit Crater Lake
Eye exam
Check my credit report
Pay off my house or sell it
Alphabet picture gifts
Bake a rhubarb pie from scratch
Fast for three days
Make a time capsule
Write thank you notes just because
Get past 20 push ups
River tour in Chicago
Hang a prism
Go to a horse race
Tour a brewery
Make a Bethel appreciation list
Make a 2014 photo album
Transfer my info to a new address book
Move out of my storage unit
Get ObamaCare
Volunteer for Librivox
Complete 12 sections in my Bible study workbook
Publish my book
Yoga class/yoga in the park
Go
Read When Kids Cant Read
Sew myself a wearable garment
Read 5 more book off this list or this list
Play Zelda
Make butter or cheese
Quilt
Host a multiple course dinner party
Advent calendar Christmas boxes
Attend a service at the Russian Orthodox Church
Make colored ice balls for winter
Take a class
Run a 5K
Get under 175 pounds
Go roller skating
Find a new church home
Join a bible study group
Community garden
Read Mitchner's Poland
Segway tour
Adler Planetarium
Float in the Great Salt Lake
Alphabet picture gifts
Make a time capsule
Write thank you notes just because
Get past 20 push ups
River tour in Chicago
Go to a horse race
Tour a brewery
Make a 2014 photo album
Get ObamaCare
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Modern Library and Readers Lists
- ULYSSES
- by James Joyce
- THE GREAT GATSBYby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANby James Joyce
- LOLITAby Vladimir Nabokov
- BRAVE NEW WORLDby Aldous Huxley
- THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner
- CATCH-22by Joseph Heller
- DARKNESS AT NOONby Arthur Koestler
- SONS AND LOVERSby D.H. Lawrence
- THE GRAPES OF WRATHby John Steinbeck
- UNDER THE VOLCANOby Malcolm Lowry
- THE WAY OF ALL FLESHby Samuel Butler
- 1984by George Orwell
- I, CLAUDIUSby Robert Graves
- TO THE LIGHTHOUSEby Virginia Woolf
- AN AMERICAN TRAGEDYby Theodore Dreiser
- THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTERby Carson McCullers
- SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVEby Kurt Vonnegut
- INVISIBLE MANby Ralph Ellison
- NATIVE SONby Richard Wright
- HENDERSON THE RAIN KINGby Saul Bellow
- APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRAby John O’Hara
- U.S.A.(trilogy)by John Dos Passos
- WINESBURG, OHIOby Sherwood Anderson
- A PASSAGE TO INDIAby E.M. Forster
- THE WINGS OF THE DOVEby Henry James
- THE AMBASSADORSby Henry James
- TENDER IS THE NIGHTby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGYby James T. Farrell
- THE GOOD SOLDIERby Ford Madox Ford
- ANIMAL FARMby George Orwell
- THE GOLDEN BOWLby Henry James
- SISTER CARRIEby Theodore Dreiser
- A HANDFUL OF DUSTby Evelyn Waugh
- AS I LAY DYINGby William Faulkner
- ALL THE KING’S MENby Robert Penn Warren
- THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REYby Thornton Wilder
- HOWARDS ENDby E.M. Forster
- GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINby James Baldwin
- THE HEART OF THE MATTERby Graham Greene
- LORD OF THE FLIESby William Golding
- DELIVERANCEby James Dickey
- A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series)by Anthony Powell
- POINT COUNTER POINTby Aldous Huxley
- THE SUN ALSO RISESby Ernest Hemingway
- THE SECRET AGENTby Joseph Conrad
- NOSTROMOby Joseph Conrad
- THE RAINBOWby D.H. Lawrence
- WOMEN IN LOVEby D.H. Lawrence
- TROPIC OF CANCERby Henry Miller
- THE NAKED AND THE DEADby Norman Mailer
- PORTNOY’S COMPLAINTby Philip Roth
- PALE FIREby Vladimir Nabokov
- LIGHT IN AUGUSTby William Faulkner
- ON THE ROADby Jack Kerouac
- THE MALTESE FALCONby Dashiell Hammett
- PARADE’S ENDby Ford Madox Ford
- THE AGE OF INNOCENCEby Edith Wharton
- ZULEIKA DOBSONby Max Beerbohm
- THE MOVIEGOERby Walker Percy
- DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOPby Willa Cather
- FROM HERE TO ETERNITYby James Jones
- THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLESby John Cheever
- THE CATCHER IN THE RYEby J.D. Salinger
- A CLOCKWORK ORANGEby Anthony Burgess
- OF HUMAN BONDAGEby W. Somerset Maugham
- HEART OF DARKNESSby Joseph Conrad
- MAIN STREETby Sinclair Lewis
- THE HOUSE OF MIRTHby Edith Wharton
- THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTETby Lawrence Durell
- A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICAby Richard Hughes
- A HOUSE FOR MR BISWASby V.S. Naipaul
- THE DAY OF THE LOCUSTby Nathanael West
- A FAREWELL TO ARMSby Ernest Hemingway
- SCOOPby Evelyn Waugh
- THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIEby Muriel Spark
- FINNEGANS WAKEby James Joyce
- KIMby Rudyard Kipling
- A ROOM WITH A VIEWby E.M. Forster
- BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDby Evelyn Waugh
- THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCHby Saul Bellow
- ANGLE OF REPOSEby Wallace Stegner
- A BEND IN THE RIVERby V.S. Naipaul
- THE DEATH OF THE HEARTby Elizabeth Bowen
- LORD JIMby Joseph Conrad
- RAGTIMEby E.L. Doctorow
- THE OLD WIVES’ TALEby Arnold Bennett
- THE CALL OF THE WILDby Jack London
- LOVINGby Henry Green
- MIDNIGHT’S CHILDRENby Salman Rushdie
- TOBACCO ROADby Erskine Caldwell
- IRONWEEDby William Kennedy
- THE MAGUSby John Fowles
- WIDE SARGASSO SEAby Jean Rhys
- UNDER THE NETby Iris Murdoch
- SOPHIE’S CHOICEby William Styron
- THE SHELTERING SKYby Paul Bowles
- THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICEby James M. Cain
- THE GINGER MANby J.P. Donleavy
- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONSby Booth Tarkington
- ATLAS SHRUGGEDby Ayn Rand
- THE FOUNTAINHEADby Ayn Rand
- BATTLEFIELD EARTHby L. Ron Hubbard
- THE LORD OF THE RINGSby J.R.R. Tolkien
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRDby Harper Lee
- 1984by George Orwell
- ANTHEMby Ayn Rand
- WE THE LIVINGby Ayn Rand
- MISSION EARTHby L. Ron Hubbard
- FEARby L. Ron Hubbard
- ULYSSESby James Joyce
- CATCH-22by Joseph Heller
- THE GREAT GATSBYby F. Scott Fitzgerald
- DUNEby Frank Herbert
- THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESSby Robert Heinlein
- STRANGER IN A STRANGE LANDby Robert Heinlein
- A TOWN LIKE ALICEby Nevil Shute
- BRAVE NEW WORLDby Aldous Huxley
- THE CATCHER IN THE RYEby J.D. Salinger
- ANIMAL FARMby George Orwell
- GRAVITY’S RAINBOWby Thomas Pynchon
- THE GRAPES OF WRATHby John Steinbeck
- SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVEby Kurt Vonnegut
- GONE WITH THE WINDby Margaret Mitchell
- LORD OF THE FLIESby William Golding
- SHANEby Jack Schaefer
- TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOMby Nevil Shute
- A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANYby John Irving
- THE STANDby Stephen King
- THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMANby John Fowles
- BELOVEDby Toni Morrison
- THE WORM OUROBOROSby E.R. Eddison
- THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner
- LOLITAby Vladimir Nabokov
- MOONHEARTby Charles de Lint
- ABSALOM, ABSALOM!by William Faulkner
- OF HUMAN BONDAGEby W. Somerset Maugham
- WISE BLOODby Flannery O’Connor
- UNDER THE VOLCANOby Malcolm Lowry
- FIFTH BUSINESSby Robertson Davies
- SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYINGby Charles de Lint
- ON THE ROADby Jack Kerouac
- HEART OF DARKNESSby Joseph Conrad
- YARROWby Charles de Lint
- AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESSby H.P. Lovecraft
- ONE LONELY NIGHTby Mickey Spillane
- MEMORY AND DREAMby Charles de Lint
- TO THE LIGHTHOUSEby Virginia Woolf
- THE MOVIEGOERby Walker Percy
- TRADERby Charles de Lint
- THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXYby Douglas Adams
- THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTERby Carson McCullers
- THE HANDMAID’S TALEby Margaret Atwood
- BLOOD MERIDIANby Cormac McCarthy
- A CLOCKWORK ORANGEby Anthony Burgess
- ON THE BEACHby Nevil Shute
- A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANby James Joyce
- GREENMANTLEby Charles de Lint
- ENDER’S GAMEby Orson Scott Card
- THE LITTLE COUNTRYby Charles de Lint
- THE RECOGNITIONSby William Gaddis
- STARSHIP TROOPERSby Robert Heinlein
- THE SUN ALSO RISESby Ernest Hemingway
- THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARPby John Irving
- SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMESby Ray Bradbury
- THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEby Shirley Jackson
- AS I LAY DYINGby William Faulkner
- TROPIC OF CANCERby Henry Miller
- INVISIBLE MANby Ralph Ellison
- THE WOOD WIFEby Terri Windling
- THE MAGUSby John Fowles
- THE DOOR INTO SUMMERby Robert Heinlein
- ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCEby Robert Pirsig
- I, CLAUDIUSby Robert Graves
- THE CALL OF THE WILDby Jack London
- AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDSby Flann O’Brien
- FARENHEIT 451by Ray Bradbury
- ARROWSMITHby Sinclair Lewis
- WATERSHIP DOWNby Richard Adams
- NAKED LUNCHby William S. Burroughs
- THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBERby Tom Clancy
- GUILTY PLEASURESby Laurell K. Hamilton
- THE PUPPET MASTERSby Robert Heinlein
- ITby Stephen King
- V.by Thomas Pynchon
- DOUBLE STARby Robert Heinlein
- CITIZEN OF THE GALAXYby Robert Heinlein
- BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDby Evelyn Waugh
- LIGHT IN AUGUSTby William Faulkner
- ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NESTby Ken Kesey
- A FAREWELL TO ARMSby Ernest Hemingway
- THE SHELTERING SKYby Paul Bowles
- SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTIONby Ken Kesey
- MY ANTONIAby Willa Cather
- MULENGROby Charles de Lint
- SUTTREEby Cormac McCarthy
- MYTHAGO WOODby Robert Holdstock
- ILLUSIONSby Richard Bach
- THE CUNNING MANby Robertson Davies
- THE SATANIC VERSESby Salman Rushdie
Number 3: Read 5 more books off this list
I've been reading off this BBC 100 best books list since 2010. Hard to believe I only have read 39, some of them only in part. I think I will continue to read occasionally off this list, but I'm also ready to move on to some more modern reading lists. So many books to read and so little time. Here are the 5 I read this year...
Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
The Great Gatsby- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Woman in White- Wilky Collins
Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austin
Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
The Great Gatsby- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Woman in White- Wilky Collins
Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austin
Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)