154 posts tagged “reflection”
Highlight the things you have 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 (been to EuroDisney and Disney World, but never Disneyland)
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 (or both.)
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 (indoors)
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 (charcoal)
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
100. Read an entire book in one day
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I posted this at my summer vacation blog and don't feel like
re-writing. I have a backlog of books to blog most of which are sitting
on the front seat of my car. First, yes, of course, I read Harry Potter this weekend. I got home from my weekend around three yesterday afternoon. I said hello to the parents, picked up my copy of the book from my bed where they had put it for me, grabbed a blanket, bowl of popcorn, huge mug of Bengal Spice and hunkered down in the family room until dinner. I heart J.K. Rowling. She did a wonderful job with the last book, the finale, the end. I couldn't have told you what I wanted from the book before I read it, but this was everything it should have been. Loose ends were tied up, I got closure and I fall down on my knees in gratitude that one of the few spoilers I read was wrong. I am going to read all seven straight through now, just because I can. No waiting for the next one to be published, no holding back because I don't want to know what's going to befall our intrepid heroes. Just as an aside, I can draw a lot of parallels between Harry Potter and my other favorite fantasy series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I've seen written that Harry is the courage, Ron is the heart and Hermione is the brains; much like Buffy was the courage, Xander was the heart and Willow was the brains. Having to sacrifice yourself willingly was a theme in Buffy as well as Harry Potter and the idea of love being stronger than death is apparent in both series. SECOND, I am on librarything. It's a book cataloging site and now they're offering pre-release books for members to review. AND I GOT ONE!!!! They've sent me a copy of the Guardians by Ana Castillo. I can't wait!!! Except I'm crap at writing reviews. Just look at my book blog. I don't review, I spew my thoughts without editing (though some reflection is done beforehand) and I don't even doublecheck for typos and mistakes. | |
| Originally posted July 23, 2007 | |
YAY! Tomorrow when the war began by Marsden is the first in a series!!!
I read the second one and have the third at home, but I'm not sure if
I'll read it. I have a bunch of other ones to read as well. And this
weekend is...
But, I was ecstatic to find that there were a bunch of books about
Ellie and her friends. Even if I don't read them, it's nice to know
they're there.
Originally posted July 18, 2007
I joined 43 Things today and one of the things (I think I only have
five so far) is to be able to sew clothes. I already quilt, but there
is a certain amount of forgiveness in quilting that there isn't in
clothesmaking.
Working in a gorgeous, mostly well-stocked library, I decided to pick
up some sewing books. The first one I chose is Sewing Projects in an
Afternoon. It says that it's by Susan Mickey, but almost all the
projects in it are by Jennifer Jacob and Cindy Lou Who (of all people,
I kid you not!) and others.
Anyway, the directions are horrible. They say beginner level on most of
them which says to me you might know which end of the needle to grab.
It's hard to follow them from one step to another and the illustrations
are not much help.
What a disappointment!!!
Originally posted July 17, 2007
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I'm not usually frightened by ghost stories and even though I read this
one all the way to its resolution, it still creeped me out. I do
frighten easily. I suppose it's because I have a hard time holding on
to rational thought. Anyways, nasty little boy start playing mindgames with his neighbors by crawling through the ventilation shafts in his apartment building. Old man at the end of his life, yadda, yadda, yadda. Think they become friends? Anyways, there is a ghost in there and it was scary. Only for daylight hours. I don't think I've read Melvin Burgess before. His other books don't really pique my interest, but this one was good. What? You want to know the title? Oh, sure, The Ghost Behind the Wall. Pretty much sums it up! | |
| Originally posted July 16, 2007 | |
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I have seen the tv show on MtV, maybe? I find it obscene. This book
written by two women Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman was nice and
fluffy with some incredibly humiliating moments that truly a girl
should never have to go through, especially when the Carrie moment was
meant for someone else. Fluff, fluff, fluff but still better than Evanovich (outside of Stephanie Plum) and Cabot. | |
| Originally posted July 14, 2007 | |
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Thinking about this book still makes me tear up. It was published back
in 88 and is about two high schoolers. The girl wants to be an actress
and the boy wants to be a musical star. Their mothers went to high
school together and they were born on the same day and have been best
friends ever since. Boy gets killed by a drunk driver, girl falls apart. Great story, laugh out loud funny in some parts. I cried. Not as much as I would have if I wasn't at work, but yes, of course, there was a class in the library. | |
| Originally posted July 14, 2007 | |
A fairly unsympathetic protagonist turns out to be a pretty cool chick by the end. BernadETTE is on the debate team and because of her test score ends up on the school team for a trivia contest, think It's Academic for Michigan, but somebody cheated to get her school into the contest. Was it the principal? Her sexy, British, porsche driving English teacher? Or perhaps the school librarian? Or is it just all in her head? Along the way, she actually makes some friends, nearly loses one and has to determine what really is the right thing to do in a very grey area.
It's a pretty funny (ha-ha) book, too. There's one line that really
cracked me up, but now I can't remember it. A little flirty romance,
too, that's cute. I'd recommend it to anyone. Teen People called it a
"light breezy read", but while it's not heavy lifting, there's a little
more substance to it than say Meg Cabot...
Originally posted July 10, 2007
I always forget that this word means Miracles. I just think of the movie the Milagros Bean Fields War (which I never actually saw). Quite a few (all right, two off the top of my head) of the books that I've read this past weekend deal with adolescents figuring out their place in their family mostly because they do not biologically belong to both parents.
This story, Finding Miracles, by Julia Alvarez is a lovely story about
a family finding its place and the the main character figuring out her
whole self, in terms of her, her family and the country of her birth. I
cried.
Originally posted July 8, 2007
Gordon Korman wrote his first book when he was in middle school. (I can't remember if I've already blogged about him or not) It was very funny. I have enjoyed most of his books since then. His series' on everest (or some high peak), deserted island and kidnapped/arrested parents are a little too fluffy, but not as fluffy as some of the other crap out there. He's just a couple of years (scratch that, just looked him up on wikipedia), eleven years older than me, and I've never met him. But, when I heard that he got married, I was crushed. ;)
Anyways, Born to Rock is great. Kid's father isn't quite who he thinks
it is. Another good book for the principled criteria of the learner
profile. Quite a few funny scenes and just a good family/love story.
Originally posted July 8, 2007
