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Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
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8:56 pm - Stupid thoughts
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For some reason, I have stupid ass songs going through my head. I.E.: "The Lama" song, "Banana Phone" "Song That Never Ends". Kill me?
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| Sunday, October 11th, 2009
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12:58 pm - Recipe Section
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I've decided to do a recipe section :) Hopefully I can keep it up much like I've been doing with my "Krishna Recommends Book section" I'm going to add recipes and if you want to, just add them in the comments.
Recipes to be added later today.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
2.5 Cups Flour
1/2 cup butter (Land O Lakes in the BLUE box)
1/2 cup shortening
1 cup packed brown sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1 12oz package of semi-sweet chocolate chips.
beat butter and shortening together. Add brown sugar, and sugar. Mix until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla; beat well. Add flour and mix well. fold in chocolate chips. bake at 375 for 6-8 minutes, or until golden brown, on ungreased cookie sheet. Makes about 72 cookies.
Butterscotch Blondies
1 1/2 sticks of butter (LoL in Blue box)
3/4 cups packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
10 oz package of butterscotch chips.*
Heat oven to 350 and grease 13x9x2 glass baking pan. Beat butter, brown sugar and sugar until creamy. Add eggs and beat well. Add flour and blend well. Stir in butterscotch and spread into prepared pan. Cook 25-35 minutes until top is golden brown and knife comes out clean. Cool and cut into squares.
*Optional: chopped nuts, chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, M&Ms
Scottish Shortbread Cookies
* 2 cups butter
* 1 cup packed brown sugar
* 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
2. Cream butter and brown sugar. Add 3 to 3 3/4 cups flour. Mix well.
3. Sprinkle board with the remaining flour. Knead for 5 minutes, adding
enough flour to make a soft dough. Roll to 1/2 inch thickness. Cut into
3x1 inch strips. Prick with fork and place on ungreased baking sheets.
4. Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for 20 to 25 minutes.
current mood:  happy
current music: Lily Allen "Alfie"
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| Friday, July 3rd, 2009
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10:16 pm - Books
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So, I'm thinking about starting an 'interactive' list of books, authors, etc. for everybody. Y'know: science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, kids lit, etc. I'm going to try to start on it tomorrow. I'm still working on this list and I've got to link all the authors with a working link to each website if he/she has one. So far, here's the list
Adult Fantasy
Piers Anthony “Incarnations of Immortality” series, “Mode” Series, “DoOon” Series
Simon R Green “Nightside” ”Secret Histories”
Jim Butcher “Harry Dresden Files” “Codex Alera”
Michael Ende “NeverEnding Story” “MoMo”
Terry Pratchett “Discworld”
Terry Brooks “Shannara”
Neil Gaiman “American Gods” “Good Omens” “Neverwhere” “Fragile Things” “Stardust”
J R R Tolkien “LOTR”
William Goldman “The Princess Bride”
R A Salvatore “Drizzt”
Margaret Weiss & Tracy Hickman “Dragonlance Series”
Orson Scott Card “Alvin Maker Saga”
A Lee Martinez “Frank’s All Fright Diner” “Too Many Curses” “Jailbait Zombies”
Laura Ann Gilman “Retrievers”
Terry Goodkind “Sword of Truth”
Robert Jordan “Wheel of Time”
Douglas Adams “Hitchhiker’s Guide” (Also falls into Sci Fi)
Laurell K Hamilton "Anita Blake" and "Merry Gentry" series
Cheri Scotch
Gregory Maguire "Wicked" "Son of a Witch" "Mirror Mirror"
Adult Supernatural
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Charlaine Harris
Kim Harrison
Laurell K Hamilton
Christine Feehan
Rachel Caine
Maryjanice Davidson
JR Ward
Adult Science Fiction
Ray Bradbury “Fahrenheit 451” “The Illustrated Man” “Something Wicked This Way Comes” “The Martian Chronicles”
William Gibson “Neuromancer” “Pattern Recognition”
Phillip K Dick
Isaac Asimov
Max Barry “Jennifer Government”, “Company” “Syrup”
Pat Frank “Alas Babylon”
Orson Scott Card ‘Ender’s Saga”
Simon R Green “Deathstalker”
Cory Doctorow "Little Brother"
Teen Fantasy
Neil Gaiman “Coraline” “The Graveyard Book”
Ellen Schreiber “Vampire Kisses”
Darren Shan “Cirque du Freak”
L J Smith “Vampire Diaries”
Elizabeth Kay “Back to the Divide”
Katherine Bell “Amaranth”
Cressida Cowell
P C Cast & Kristin Cast “House of the Night” Series
Lloyd Alexander “Prydain” “Time Cat”
Michael Ende “NeverEnding Story” “MoMo”
Astrid Lindgren "Pippy Longstocking"
Gregory Maguire "Leaping Beauty" "Five Alien Elves"
Teen Science Fiction
James Patterson “Maximum Ride”
William Sleator “The Beasties”
Maryjanice Davidson “Jennifer Scales”
current mood:  tired
current music: REM "It's The End of the World"
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| Monday, May 25th, 2009
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9:13 am - Vacation
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I've been surfing the web trying to find the "perfect" spot for our next vacation. So, the places I found are a room in a Bavarian Castle and a place 5 minutes from the Rhine River. Looking at the places, they're nice. I've told Cliff that I can pay for the trip if he'll save the 'spending' money and help out with the bills. This trip is VERY important to me. This is the first trip that we've been on that I'm planning and that I really want to go on. Last time we went to Italy and it was so-so. I wanted to go to Greece but got vetoed. This time, I'm planning this trip from start to finish. Cliff has no say-so in what/where we're going. So first off we're going to stay in the Rhine with day trips to Cologne so I can get my Hard Rock stuff and just traipse around the German countryside. Then after a week, it's off to the Bavarian Castle with day trips to Munich, Berlin (SABS!) and other places. I've gotta get my Hard Rock stuff. Hmm I collect Smurf figurines and they're made in Germany. I'm hoping that maybe we can tour the factory that makes them. I know that may be a little much to ask right now but hey. I can hope right?
So we'll be in Germany for about 3 weeks. Not enough time to really do anything, but enough time to get a taste. Cliff and I try to go to Europe every 2 years to a different country. So far, it's worked out rather nicely and we're enjoying it. I think that my work doesn't like the fact that I'm going to Europe but they can suck it.
current mood: amused
current music: Belle & Sebastian "Like Dylan in the Movies"
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| Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
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9:01 pm - I heart my class
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I'm adoring this class that I'm taking right now. I've only had to buy 3 books and I'm super happy. The books I get to read: "Surviving the Applewhites", "Sounder" Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth George Speare, E.L. Koingsburg, Lloyd Alexander, "The Cat Ate My Pajamas", "The Watchman", "Hatchet", "Gambit", Choose Your Own Adventure, "Janitor's Son" and some others. Can you believe that I'm getting credit to read? I'm going to attempt to read "MOMO" in German for this one.
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| Saturday, May 9th, 2009
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7:23 pm - Reading Lists
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I was in a local book store this afternoon and they've already got the summer reading lists out. Here were some of the books/authors that were on the summer reading list:
Terry Pratchett
Fahrenheit 451
1984
Animal Farm
The Bell Jar
The Ender's Game
Ernest Hemingway
Tuesdays with Morrie
Lolita
To Kill a Mockingbird
John Steinbeck
1776
Hitchhiker's Guide
These are just a few that are on the reading lists. I'm VERY surprised/shocked by some of the required books. These books have been on the banned book lists for so damn long that I'd honestly thought that most people had forgotten them. I called Cliff in the middle of the store to share my shock. His take is that most teachers are our generation and they're making kids read what THEY like. I've read all these books. They're fantastic books and kids SHOULD read them. It just amazes me that we're getting away with having kids read these books now.
What happens if some kid reads "1984" and thinks that Big Brother is getting to big now? What happens with a kid reads Fahrenheit 451 and realizes that it's bad to ban reading books. Oh good golly gee willikers Mr. Wilson. What do we do then? Eh gads. What DO we do when a student/child gets an idea in his/her head that he/she needs to THINK and not be a sheep. Where are we going to be then? *please read the sarcasm that is intended for this section. Please*
I think it's wonderful that these are on the summer reading lists. It's bloody fantastic. Maybe now we're going to start re-evaluating the banned books and the lists and take some of them off. Here's a couple of lists for banned books/authors:
http://www.banned-books.com/bblist.html
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/frequentlychallengedbooks.cfm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_books
Any thoughts?
current mood: weird
current music: Belle & Sebastian "If You're Feeling Sinister"
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| Thursday, April 30th, 2009
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7:20 pm - Soooooo..
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So, this is the only place that I have that none of my friends and/or family really know about. This is the last place I have where I can vent freely and not have someone tell me that I shouldn't vent, blah blah blah. Got the point? I get the mail this afternoon and I look through it. I see a letter addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Bob Smith. WTF? I'm NOT Mrs. Bob Smith. I retained my identity after we got married. I tacked on HIS name as a courtesy to HIM. This pissed me off. Like severely pissed me off. Every female in his family to get married has taken the husband's name. I call bullshit. I didn't and I resent being addressed as Mrs. Bob Smith. Fuck me. Anyway, it's in invitation to his cousin's kids 1st birthday. What the absolute hell. I'm not going. I hate his redneck, white-trash family. I see them and I'm reminded of what I DON'T want to become. I'm 29. I've got all my own teeth thank you very much. I've only had my wisdom teeth pulled. I haven't lost most of mine due to bad dental hygiene. He better not make me go to that damn birthday party. I'm going to be PISSED if he does. Seriously PISSED. Srsly.
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| Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
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8:55 pm - Obama News Conference
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I'm sitting here watching the news conference and lo and behold, someone brings up the abortion issue. *sigh* I honestly thought this was sorted out with Roe vs. Wade. I honestly don't get it. Okay, I'm going to come out and admit it. I'm VERY pro-choice, I'm also very pro-capital punishment. Surprised? I understand if someone doesn't want to have an abortion, but why do these people try to push that belief on everybody else? Does it make sense? Not to me it doesn't. If you don't want an abortion, don't have one. It's as simple as that. If someone else wants to have an abortion, let them. My next question: why is it pro-life people are pro-capital punishment and pro-choice are ANTI-capital punishment? It doesn't make sense.
Did anybody ask about gay marriage? Let gay people get married. They've got every right to be as miserable as us straight married people do. *sigh* If you don't want them to get 'married' in the church, etc., let them have a civil ceremony, be allowed to visit the partner in the hospital, entitlement to benefits, etc. Stop treating gay couples as some sort of sub-class human beings. They're people like everybody else. If we all look hard enough, I'm pretty sure that we know someone who is gay. Is said person evil? Nope. Said person is a human and deserves EVERY FUCKING RIGHT that we all have. Okay, off rant now.
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| Monday, March 16th, 2009
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5:46 pm - Thank god for Prozac
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Thank god someone invented prozac and my doctor saw fit to give it to me. If I wasn't on it, I'd be raving mad right about now. Paper, assessment, lesson plans, etc. I'd go CRAZY!
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| Sunday, March 1st, 2009
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7:15 pm - Why in the hell...
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...did I ever get married?
current mood: pissed off
current music: Kim Carnes "Bette Davis Eyes"
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| Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
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5:06 pm
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Oh god, I don't even want to think about how long it's been since I've been here. I had 3 cavities filled today and a bone cut from my mouth. My mouth HURTS; my TEETH hurt & my body hurts. I swear to god I'm going to an oral surgeon next time something like this has to happen. I slept for a couple of hours after this but don't feel any better.
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| Saturday, December 6th, 2008
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10:41 pm - Some Days
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There are just some days where I really really hate people. Hubs and I had to go to the mall today to pick up a last minute Christmas present. I swear, people get meaner and meaner every year. Thank god we're done shopping. Now, we've just got to brave Wal-Mart tomorrow to get a filter for our vacuum and cleaner for our steam cleaner. Lovely huh?
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| Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
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10:20 am
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So I had my first week back at work last week. I didn't have answer the phones which was great. I can't handle idioti. People are so stupid...stupid stupid stupid stupid ARGH
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| Sunday, September 28th, 2008
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8:12 pm
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Sometimes it's so hard to get out my thoughts on subjects. I talked to my grandmother yesterday and she read me the riot act about us coming up to stay with my parents. I swear that my grandmother is the meanest bitch out there. She jumps to conclusions at the slightest thing. Like I said, she read me the riot act when she didn't know the entire story. She only knew half of what was going on and that info was from four weeks ago. *sigh* I moved away from home to keep away from that kind of stuff. God, there are some days that I hate her so much. She needs to keep her nose out of everybody's business. I talked to my mom tonight and told her what my grandmother did and she didn't care.
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| Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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9:18 pm - Things I don't understand
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There are so many things in life that I don't understand. One of the many things I don't understand is Cliff's mom. I don't get her. I don't understand how a reasonably intelligent woman can be so damn stupid. His cousin got knocked up and is having a baby shower. His mother expects both of us to go to the damn thing. I'm not going. I'm going to work so that I don't have to go. Oi. I honestly don't understand. Why is family so important to people? It's not that important in my family. I mean, we see each other when someone dies. We don't do baby showers, weddings, wedding showers, etc. We don't do it. Hell. The last time I saw some of my relatives was at my grandmother's funeral 11 years ago. I don't understand why it's that damn important. Another thing I don't understand is why she has to consult the Bible on every life decision. Her sister marries someone who isn't white, she has to consult the bible to make sure it's okay for her to accept the marriage and child. Not something I understand at all. I don't get it. Oi
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| Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
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5:35 pm - Rantings
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I have friends whom I love dearly. However, there are a few things that I completely dislike about some of them. I know there are things about me that they hate. Things I hate most about my friends:
A. If you're going to bitch about something, fix it dammit. Don't continue to bitch. Just fix it. You hate your job? Find another one and quit bitching to me about it.
B. Your significant other does something that really irritates you? Talk to him/her about it and compromise. Quit complaining. Do something.
C. Something goes wrong in your day? That's life. It happens. Quit obsessing. Nobody cares. We all say we do, but we really don't care. Seriously. We don't care.
D. You don't have enough money to do things? Sell a kidney. If you're a guy, sell your sperm. Sperm banks are always taking sperm. If you don't have sperm, become a test subject for a pharmaceutical company. They always need test subjects.
E. You're upset because a friend moved away? I understand. I really do and my heart is there with you. However, said friend may have moved for reasons that you can't even begin to imagine. Maybe said friend moved to keep his/her sanity.
F. Mutual friends. Mutual friends are great. However, when one of the friends has a nervous break down, let's not call the friend who lives 7 hrs away to do something. That friend is busy dealing with mutual friend on his/her own. Does not have time to deal with another friend freaking out.
G. When you call a friend and your friend doesn't answer, don't try back in 2 minutes and then email obsessively. That's not kosher. Friend may be busy or just not want to talk. Remember, we're all adults and can't drop what we're doing at a moment's notice.
H. I'm a bitch. We all know that I'm a bitch and that's what we love about me. Don't get pissed when I'm all bitchy.
I. If you're having a crisis, I'll help. When you have a crisis every hour, I'm inclined to stop asking what I can do to help. Your mom bitches at you 50 times a day? Tell her to shut the hell up and quit answering the damn phone.
J. I don't care anymore. I really don't care anymore.
Now that I have that out of my system, I feel strangely relieved. I do. It's almost as if a burden has been lifted off of my shoulders. I can't describe how I feel. Sometimes I forget how therapeutic blogging really is. *sigh* I feel so much better.
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current mood: Strangely relieved
current music: Scissor Sisters "Laura"
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| Friday, August 22nd, 2008
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9:16 pm - Been a LONG time
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It's been a while since I've posted on here. I haven't really had anything to rant and rave about. Life's been pretty good lately. I made an A in my class so I've got a 4.0 in grad school right now. 3 hours down, 48 more to go. Going to bed. Wanted to update a bit. More tomorrow.
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| Saturday, July 26th, 2008
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7:36 pm - I don't know.
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I've started going back to grad school. I honestly hate my class. I feel that I am woefully under-prepared for my classes. I'm not confident in my abilities to pass all classes, etc. I'm not comprehending all that goes on and I'm having a really hard time dealing with the class. I'm not fond of the teacher. I don't like the way the class is conducted. It's a discussion class and no real lectures. I like my lectures. I like my lectures a lot. I've spent today working on one of my projects and I've got to finish it up tomorrow. Then I've really got to start working on my paper. I'm fucked on that paper any way I look at it. I'm going to do my best and that's all I can do. Off to cook supper.
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| Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
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8:43 pm - School
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So I'm taking "Culture in Education" for my first class for my Masters degree. It's hard. Coming from my background, this class is really hard for me. I like living in my little bubble and not having to worry about the culture around me. *sigh* I'm working my ass off. When you come from a school that had 500-600 people (total) and MAYBE 20-30 of them weren't white, you really don't have much of a cultural difference in your school. You just don't have it. Everybody is pretty much middle-class, same religious background, etc. The people in my class are from South Florida, North Florida, Texas, New York and Russia. Everybody else had/has a very diverse classroom or school. It's really had for me to really grasp some of these concepts that we're talking about. I'm having to read the papers/text and have Cliff read them so that I can get a different view on the readings so that I don't look like a complete dork/idiota in the classroom. Oi. I think I'm off to do research on my term paper: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design. Wish me luck.
Me
current mood:  busy
current music: Scissor Sisters "Music is the Victim"
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| Sunday, July 6th, 2008
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7:52 pm - Grad School
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Right now, I feel woefully unprepared for my classes. I've read the articles, I'm doing my best to find a topic for a paper. My college didn't prepare me for a researched based Master's program. West GA is the best program to make future teachers ready for the classroom. What it doesn't do is prepare people to go to another college to earn a higher degree. I'm seriously struggling in my class. I've got to take this class so that I know I can do it. I just don't know what to do. This guy isn't very approachable. He's, elitist I guess? I honestly don't know what to do. I really don't know what to do. 5 more weeks, 10 classes to go. *sigh*
current mood: aggravated
current music: Within Temptation "The Howling"
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