Last night I started reading Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. This was Oprah's book club book last summer. I'm a little slow on the pick-up. If you go here, there is a full text copy on line. We can read it together! If you're interested, let me know, I'll try to figure out a way for us to discuss it.
There are a lot of other "classic" books available at the same site (Classic Bookshelf) if Anna Karenina doesn't interest you. It's a really cool site. It opens the book in Java, and you can pick your font color, size, background color, etc., and they will email you a bookmark to where you left off so you don't have to search for where you are every time you have to take a break.
I'm also taking suggestions for the next book I should read after this one, if you have any ideas
Have a nice day!
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
The book I just started
The book I just finished
I just finished reading The Cider House Rules by John Irving. It was amazing. It's about adoption and abortion and life. The character development is really good. You really get to know the characters. I haven't seen the movie, but if you've seen the movie, I still recommend that you read the book. I'm sure that there's a lot more detail and character development in the book than the movie. The main character, Homer Wells is very easy to fall in love with. He's an orphan who has trouble getting adopted. He's a very noble, heroic character, though he does have his flaws. Candy is also a great character. She's got a lot of flaws, but you can't help but like her. Also, if you're on the fence about you feel about abortion, I would recommend that you read this book. It may help shed some light on the issue for you.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
I had a 4 day weekend...
...and I accomplished absolutely nothing. That's an accomplishment in itself.
I came across these at Snozzberries, and couldn't just do myself.
Amanda -- [adjective]: Tastes like fried chicken 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com |
karissa -- [noun]: A person who falls into an outhouse and dies 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com |
sean -- [adjective]: Like in nature to a kangaroo 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com |
brion -- [adjective]: Pretentiously academian 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com |
Leslie -- [adjective]: Extremely flatulent 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com |
Hey, Pooter, that means farty.
I learned something interesting today. Apparently, I'm intimidating. To men. That I work with. This is not a goal I set out to achieve. It all started when one of the girls I work with (jokingly) said that if I got promoted to her boss, she'd rather go on welfare than work under me. (Really it was funny at the time.) So, from that the conversation turned to am I intimidating. I asked the guys that walked past if I was intimidating. They said yes, then skittered away as quickly as they could.
I don't see myself as an intimidating person. I think I'm really nice a majority of the time. And, I've toned it down a LOT. It's not like when I was cutting hair, and thought I was queen of the beauty shop. That's because I knew all there was to know about running the beauty shop, and I knew I was the best at it. (Hairdresser Amanda is kind of cocky about her mad skills.) Here, I understand that I don't know everything about everything, and try to fly under the radar as much as possible. I guess it's not working.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Oprah's web cam warning to parents
Parents, if your child has a web cam, you need to be aware of what could happen to them. This could be your kid. It COULD happen to you, and if you believe it won't, it WILL. Child porn is huge on the web. The availability of it is unbelievable, as is the way the pedophile predators seduce children into participating.
Remember back in November when I had jury duty? I haven't really discussed it, here or with the people in my daily life, because it was a very disheartening experience for me. I was assigned to a jury in a child pornography case. There were 100 counts, 88 photos and 12 videos of explicit child pornography that we as jurors had to view and review to reach a decision. We found the man guilty and sent him to prison, not for as long as I wanted to, but still, for a long time. The abhorrent images of these children performing hardcore sex acts with other children, and with adults, still haunt me. I'm not trying to scare you, I just want to make everyone aware of the dangers so the proper precautions can be taken to prevent your children from being victimized in the same manor.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
I took a personality test
Let me know how accurate you think it is.
| Advanced Global Personality Test Results
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personality tests by similarminds.com
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Valentine's Day
I was going to write a post about the origins of Valentine's Day, but I started doing some research and got bored with it, so I'm just going to write a post about how SUPER LAME Valentine's Day is.
Valentine's Day is super lame. The end.
Monday, February 13, 2006
I had a yucky week
I had a really bad week last week. I was cranky and mean, and I hated EVERYTHING! I had a fabulous weekend, though, and I'm feeling much better now. On Friday I went to my Grandma's house and stayed the night. It was great. There's no feeling like saying the night at Grandma's house. When I stay there, I try not to be a burdon, but she loves nurturing people! 5 times she asked me what I wanted for breakfast. And 5 times I told her I don't eat breakfast. Especially not at 10 in the morning. After I get to work at 2 I usually grab a bag of chips and a DP from the vending machine, but never anything breakfasty. Sean yelled at me, he was like, "Dumbass! Grandma will make you french toast!" Yeah, I know.
Leslie came over with Mason and Paige. They're so cute, and rotten! Some people came over to look at the puppies. They had a little boy with them that was probably 7 or 8. Mason, 3, walked right up to him and head butted him. Insane!
For lunch Grandma got us KFC. I think baby Paige ate more than the rest of us did. All of her chicken that she ate was the skin, in one bite. She chowed down on some mashed potatoes though.
I ended up selling the last 3 puppies to a little pet store in Bartlesville. It seemed like a good pet store that really cared about it's animals.
Saturday night we went out for Karissa's birthday. It was off the hook. I was sober most of the night, which is not a role I usually play, but after new year's, I'm a little scared to drink again. I did learn that I don't have to be drunk to act like Drunk Amanda though. I'm pretty sure all of Karissa's friends who had a camera with them that night have a picture of my cleavage.
Monday, February 06, 2006
The Wonders of Television
Hi, my name is Amanda, and I'm addicted to television. I love my TV, everything about it is awesome. I have a DVR, so I can pause live TV, rewind, record, all that stuff. This last week has been a wonderful week for television. Let's get started.
ER - James Woods(not my favorite actor) guest starred as a patient/professor suffering from ALS. It was a very poignant episode; it made me cry.
Survivor: Panama-Exile Island - A new season of Survivor has begun. This season they started with 4 tribes: younger guys, younger girls, older guys & older girls. Every week one of the Survivors is sent to "Exile Island" where they have to spend a couple of days all alone on the scary island. There is a hidden immunity idol on the island though, and whoever finds it can use it at any time. I play a fantasy Survivor game, and 2 of my team members are on the younger girl tribe, so I want them to do well, other than that, I don't care. The older women lost the first immunity challenge, and had to vote out the first member. They voted out Tina, probably the biggest mistake they could have made. Tina was kind of nutty, but she was really strong, and contributed more than her share at camp. The 3 remaining members are going to have to work a lot harder now that she's gone.
Superbowl XL - I recorded it because I had to work until 8 o'clock last night. I fast forwarded through the game, and watched the commercials. The highlight for me was the Leonard Nemoy Aleve commercial. It was really cute. I also liked the Sprint/Nextel commercial where the guys couch caught on fire, and he had a song for that too. I tried to watch the half-time show, but, Stones fans forgive me, The Stones are really old and twitchy. I wasn't impressed at all.
Oprah - Susan Saint James and her husband Dick Ebersol talked about losing their youngest son in a plane crash. It was very sad, but their other son Charlie was super hot.
Tonight: Skating with Celebrities, The King of Queens, & How I Met Your Mother
This weekend was the last weekend of my Government class. I went Friday, got 100/110 on my test, and didn't go to the last class on Saturday. I'm still pretty sure I pulled out an A.
Friday my aunt Terri went to the hospital. They thought she was having a heart attack. It must not have been that serious, because they sent her home already. I do know that they are going to perform some more tests, though.
I think that's all for now. Have a nice day.
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
I went shopping!
Shh, don't tell my mom, or my boss, or the IRS, or anyone else I owe money. I'm giddy right now. I love shopping. I'm a power shopper. I go in, get what I want, and am out of the store in less than 20 minutes. Today I got a $99 jacket on sale for $35, a $45 pair of jeans for $12, and a $45 blouse for $12. That's almost $200 worth of close for only $60! I also got 2 new pairs of shoes. They weren't on sale, but I got such a good deal on the clothes that I had to reward myself with shoes. I got a pair of really cute black loafers and a pair of white canvas mules. I don't think anything could darken my mood today.
Hope y'all are having a great day too!
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
My new bangs
I've been having a lot of problems with my bangs lately. They've been parting, even though I put a lot of effort into making them not part, so I decided I wanted to do something different with them. I decided this right before I watched a weeks worth of Days of Our Lives, DooL for you hardcore fans. I was watching, and everyone on there had such pretty bangs that hung just right, and parted where they were supposed to, and didn't part when they weren't supposed to, just pretty perfect bangs. Kate and Marlena in particular. The only problem I had with their bangs was that they hung in their eyes. That's easy to fix, I'd just cut mine a little shorter than theirs. After 3 hours of DooL, I got out my scissors, went to the bathroom mirror, and voila, I now have soap opera bangs. They're beautiful! I love my soap opera bangs. I want to thank the lovely people at DooL for great bang inspiration. They rock!
And now, on a totally unrelated note, I went to lunch with my friend Sarah today, and dripped soy sauce on my shirt. Sarah has ADD, she's super exciting to hang out with. She told me when Sharon drops her lunch on her shirt, she puts her (magnetic) name tag over the spot. I've had my name tag centered directly between my boobies* since I got back from lunch.
For those of you lurkers(Dad, Leslie)who don't post comments, since I changed the template I got a new comments host, so you're not required to have a blogger account to comment any more, so if you really love me, you'll start commenting. Cause, you know, as a blogger, my self-worth totally revolves around how many comments I get. *wink, wink* Why do you hate me?***
*Blogger's** spell checker didn't recognize boobs as a word, but it did boobies, so I changed it to boobies.
**It also doesn't recognize Blogger's or blog as words even though it's a frickin' blog host. How crazy is that?
***Leslie, I threw that in special just for you, so comment about it already!
