25andteething

ramblings on life, love and the Boston Red Sox - not necessarily in that order...

24 January 2006

7 things...

I read this on a couple different blogs, and I decided I needed to make my lists as well.

Seven Things to Do Before I Die:

Live overseas for a year.
Have something published.
Kiss the blarney stone.
Sail .
Buy the bar a round of drinks.
Attend induction ceremonies at Cooperstown.
Run with the bulls.

Seven Things I Can't Do:

Befriend a midget.
Cheer for Texas Tech.
Quit hating the Yankees.
Eating raw oysters.
Go to Detroit.
Deal with stupid people, people with lisps, people who don't read, ultra-religious people, people who smell, pretty much all people, I guess.
Talk to someone with a lisp without getting annoyed.

Seven Things That Attracted Me To Blogging:

Free storage space.
Opportunity to write a/b what I please.
Somewhat anonymous.
I like to write.
There were quite a few I liked.
I hadn't accomplished anything else on my list of things to do, so I decided to work on it.
Blogging was talked a/b as the big new thing.

Seven Things I Say Most Often:

Jackass.
Fabulous.
Applicable.
Sure, I'll have another one.
I'm freezing.
I'll be right up.
Seriously...

Seven Books That I Love:

Atlas Shrugged
The Great Gatsby
Harriet the Spy
Win It For...
Bridget Jones' Diary
Diamonds for Lori & Me
A Severe Mercy

Seven Movies I Watch Again and Again:

Good Will Hunting
Pieces of April
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Serendipity
Stealing Home
Faith Rewarded
Beautiful Girls

Seven Favorite TV Shows:

Sports Night
Ed
Beverly Hills 90210
Gilmore Girls
Veronica Mars
My So-Called Life
Eight is Enough

Seven Favorite Songs:

Pencil Thin Mustache - Jimmy Buffett
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Little Red Corvette - Prince
I Have a Good Day - Paul Thorn
My Life - Billy Joel
Kiss Off - Violent Femmes
A Case of You - Joni Mitchell

17 January 2006

52 books to read this year

x Alice in Wonderland
x Walden
x Tropic of Cancer
x Oliver Twist
x Dorian Gray
The Histories
x Brave New World
The Jungle
x Bang the Drum Slowly
X Sons & Lovers
The Leopard
x The Prince
x Pride & Prejudice
The Idiot
X Age of Innocence
x Anna Karenina
x Emma
x Great Expectations
Vanity Fair
x Great Gatsby
x Horatio Alger
x Canterbury Tales
x Bell Jar
x Catcher in the Rye
x A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
x Wuthering Heights
x My Antonia
A Wrinkle in Time
Phantom Tollbooth
x Jane Eyre
x Mrs. Dalloway
x Diary of a Young Girl
Bleak House
World According to Garp
To Kill a Mockingbird
x House of Mirth
Gone with the Wind
In Cold Blood
x Second Sex
Middlemarch
Tale of 2 Cities
x Huck Finn
x Tom Sawyer
x Charlotte’s Web
1984
x Animal Farm
Of Mice & Men
x Feminine Mystique
The Dialogues
Bridge to Terebithia
A Christmas Carol
Main Street