Guess all that pregame soccer pays off!

I'm going to be the proud aunt of FIVE children!  Woohoo!  My little brother and his wife are pregnant with their first child!  They're due on July 7th!  

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith - Bundle for Sony PS3 on CLEARANCE!

Way too tired to write something nice - just copy the list and cross out what you've done. 


1. Started your own blog *
2. Slept under the stars *
3. Played in a band *
4. Visited Hawaii *
5. Watched a meteor shower *
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world *
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris *
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch *
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning *
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty *
18. Grown your own vegetables *
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France *
20. Slept on an overnight train *
21. Had a pillow fight *
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort *
25. Held a lamb *
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice *
29. Seen a total eclipse *
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset *
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person *
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors *
35. Seen an Amish community *
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied *
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person *
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David *
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt *
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight *
46. Been transported in an ambulance *
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person *
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris *
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater *
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen *
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies *
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason *
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check *
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy *
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial *
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square *
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London *
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person *
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican *
82. Bought a brand new car *
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper *
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House *
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous *
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one *
94. Had a baby *
95. Seen the Alamo in person *
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone *
99. Been stung by a bee *

Katy Perry - Hot N Cold

"You PMS like a bitch"






LIttle Jackie - The World Should Revolve Around Me

I've had a lot of failed relationships
I don't get involved 'cause I'm not equipped
I believe that the world should revolve around me



Sony BMG blows and won't allow embedding on this one, but here's the link

The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go


And I know this song has been out for a super long but I don't listen to the radio much and so I never really paid too much attention to it until I happened to catch the video on VH1 the other day and I love the song (and the video is pretty f'ing great too).  Of course Universal sucks ass too because they won't let me embed either so here's the link:

Rhianna - Disturbia


Pink - Please Don't Leave Me



And this is my favorite off her new CD

Pink - I Don't Believe You




And here's something that didnt make it onto the new Pink CD but it's funny.  If nothing else you gotta at least check out the 2:00 mark (NSFW - language!):



See we should all be happy
50 cent said we could all lick his lollipop
He's gonna take us to the candy shop

Last night as I was trying to fall asleep the hugeness of what is going to happen today hit me.   As I stood in line this morning at the polling station I almost couldn't hold back the giddiness, knowing that for the first time in my life I was going to actually participate in a historically huge event! 

Today's Highlights:

1.5 boxes of tissues
3 boxes of atomic fireballs
hot wings
cough syrup
runny (fountain) nose
sore nose
coughing

Today's Summary:
can't breath
can't sleep
can't taste
poop on a stick
feel sorry for me

Yeah, I'm a cut and paster:

I figured while I was waiting for my photos (I took another large batch at Hunter Mountain on Monday) to load onto flickr, I would steal a meme from Sharon(who stole it from Carin). I decided to change it up a little bit, because that's the way I roll.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Colorize (RED) the books you love.
4) Cross out (tiltle) the books you have no intention of ever reading
4A) Asterisk (*) the books you were forced to read at school and hated

Sharon's Amendments:
5)Colorize in blue the books you've started to read and haven't finished.
6)Underline books you've read voluntarily (i.e. - not at school) and hated

Deb's Amendments:
7) Colorize in magenta the books that you think you read but you're not entirely certain you read and/or you can't remember if you liked them or not.
8) Colorized in purple the books that you have read over and over and over again

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - couldn't make it past the 40th page of x begat x
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 Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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
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
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
36 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40 Animal Farm - George Orwell
41 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
42 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46 Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49 Atonement - Ian McEwan*
50 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
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
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 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
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 (How do you underline something 50 times?)
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
*****
101 Lady Chatterly's Lover - D.H. Lawrence  (seems like this should be on the list, maybe cause I read it at about the same time I read all the Jane Austen books)
102 Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton *******