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Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Movie List
I stole this from Emiline220, who stole it from Jenn. I'm thinking about stealing their book list thing too, even though it's just from ivillage and it has "The Mists of Avalon" on it. ;-) I can't seem to find a more authoritative one that goes beyond the 20th century but doesn't include a bunch of foreign stuff.
1. CITIZEN KANE (1941)
Um, I've seen most of this. But I really wasn't paying attention. It was my grandfather's favorite movie because he used to work for William Randolph Hearst (kept his aviary, of all things). So when I was in a spate of Grandpa-reminiscence I tried to watch it -- key word being "tried". I kept wondering what the hype had all been about. Which shows what an uncultured individual I am.
2. CASABLANCA(1942)
Yes, I have seen this. I liked it pretty well, not so much as a romantic love story, because it's really not that. It was like watching Schindler's List and wondering at exactly what point the hero's motive changed from mercenary to humanitarian.
3. THE GODFATHER (1972)
I've seen this several times. First as a teenager, and I didn't like watching it because it felt creepy to feel sympathetic toward the Mafia. Then I watched it as an adult and wondered how it could have made me feel sympathetic toward them at all -- I guess I hadn't learned the concept of the antihero yet at 15.
4. GONE WITH THE WIND (1939)
Seen it a few times. I like it pretty well but I think its huge popularity was based on factors that are a bit dated now. It was the biggest deal in movies at the time, based on a then-current bestseller. It's still a great story, but not the be-all and end-all, if you ask me.
5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
Never seen it.
6. THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
Of course I've seen this one, several times. It's another one that was great for its time -- although it is a prime example of how little filmmakers cared about faithful adaptation at that time. Baum's stories are hardly reflected here at all.
7. THE GRADUATE (1967)
I've seen it twice -- in high school because of the Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack, and as an adult on Turner Classics. It was... very interesting. Especially seeing the woman I thought of as Gram from Homecoming playing a jealous seductress.
8. ON THE WATERFRONT (1954)
Never seen it.
9. SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993)
We own this. We watch it once every couple of years. We actually watched it in the theater on our honeymoon, how's that for a mood setter? But it is probably the most important movie I've ever seen. Everyone over the age of 13 or so should watch it.
10. SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)
Seen it, loved it. :) Did you know that all the songs were just kind of thrown in there? None of them were written with this story in mind.
11. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
One of my very favorites. I love it, love it, love it. And I own it.
12. SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950)
Never seen it.
13. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957)
T and I watched this not long ago. I liked it. I surprise myself with my ability to enjoy war movies. This is the same person (well, not really) who committed an act of peacable protest by putting my head on my desk with my eyes closed when we watched Glory and Patton during history class. Oh yes, I was deep.
14. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)
Never seen it, don't particularly want to.
15. STAR WARS (1977)
Not only did I watch this when I was little, but my son is as obsessed with it as my brother (and my husband) were as children. I've probably watched it half a dozen times in the last two months; we borrow it from the library over and over. T and I watched The Empire Strikes Back in our hotel room the second morning of our honeymoon. (weren't we the romantic ones! but hey, we were TIRED!). The hotel offered free video rentals but everything else they had was lame.
16. ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)
Never seen it.
17. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
I've seen it a few times. I like it.
18. PSYCHO (1960)
Never seen it.
19. CHINATOWN (1974)
Never seen it.
20. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975)
Never seen it. Did you know that Ken Kesey (who wrote the book) refused to watch this movie? So I figure I definitely should at least read the book before I watch it, and I haven't gotten around to it yet.
21. THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)
I've seen this a lot of times. It was one of my other grandfather's favorites. When I was in high school, my socialist self was in love with Steinbeck. My copy of this is shamelessly highlit all over -- every single reference that a "deep" 16-year-old would find important. Gag. My brother-in-law borrowed my copy years ago, and I keep meaning to buy him one and take mine back so that I can keep the incriminating evidence under close supervision. :)
22. 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
I have started to watch this several times. Someday I'll finish it.
23. THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)
Never watched it.
24. RAGING BULL (1980)
Never watched it.
25. E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)
I watched this in the theater when I was 7 or so. I haven't seen it in years, though.
26. DR. STRANGELOVE (1964)
I've never seen it. T loves it though, so eventually we will have to rent it.
27. BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
Never seen it.
28. APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
Never seen it.
29. MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
I've watched this. I liked it. I am a big Jimmy Stewart fan.
30. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE (1948)
Never seen it.
31. ANNIE HALL (1977)
You know, I read a clip from an interview with Woody Allen, where he was talking to Europeans about how Americans don't like him; they wonder what the fuss is all about. That's me! me! right there. I watched this on TCM because it's one of those "important" movies and I hated it.
32. THE GODFATHER PART II (1974)
I think I watched this once years ago, but I don't remember much from it.
33. HIGH NOON (1952)
Um, this is an Eastwood one, right? That means I've seen it, but I don't remember anything specific about it.
34. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962)
I LOVE THIS MOVIE. Oh wow. Love love love it. Here is my IMDB review of it.
35. IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
I saw this once. I really liked it! Did you know that Bugs Bunny gnawing a carrot was based on a scene from this movie? And that almost nobody ate raw carrots till this movie came out? (I love the IMDB).
36. MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
I saw the beginning of this on Turner Classics but never finished it. It didn't look appealing.
37. THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (1946)
This is the first one on this list that I have never even heard of.
38. DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)
And here's the second one.
39. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)
I watched this once when I was maybe junior high age. It didn't capture my attention. I'll probably have to watch it again sometime, maybe after I read the book.
40. NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
I adore Cary Grant, and I really liked this movie as well. Interesting twists in it.
41. WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
I own this. It's one of my favorites. The weird thing is that the guy who plays Tony (I know his name but it's not coming to me right now) looks JUST like the guy who used to be the pastor of our church. So much like him that I can't get it out of my head watching the movie that it is him. Kind of distracting.
42. REAR WINDOW (1954)
Another one I own. This was the first Hitchcock movie I'd ever seen and it was an excellent introduction. I recorded it off cable. Grace Kelly's clothes are just amazing in it, and all the actors do a really good job. (IMDB-gleaned trivia tidbit: all the sound in this movie is internal --in other words it's all happening in the movie, not superimposed over it for effect. It's neat to watch it and pay attention to that.)
43. KING KONG (1933)
Never seen it. I've only ever seen clips from it.
44. THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)
Never seen it.
45. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (1951)
Never seen it.
46. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971)
Never seen it.
47. TAXI DRIVER (1976)
Never seen it.
48. JAWS (1975)
I watched this a long time ago on HBO, as in, when I was a little girl. Scared me to death, I think it was my first horror movie. Or maybe it was Jaws 3 I saw. Who knows.
49. SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)
I've seen this. I did a biographical report on Walt Disney when I was in ninth grade and it's very interesting for me to watch his movies, especially the early ones, after learning a lot about him.
50. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)
Never seen it.
51. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)
I read the play first. Then I saw the movie. It was well-made and all, it just deals with an aspect of life with which I am fully unfamiliar. The whole high society thing kind of leaves me cold. But like I said, a well-made movie nonetheless.
52. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1953)
Never seen it, and I really want to.
53. AMADEUS (1984)
Another of my favorites. I gush about this movie endlessly to my husband after we've watched it. I'll spare you that and just show you my IMDB review of it.
54. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
I watched this once, in ninth grade, after I think we read the book in class. It was also during my war-protest days but I at least had sense to realize that it was an anti-war story. Doesn't mean I watched the movie though. I did not "do" battle at the time. I was too pure. And angst-y. And altogether too teenaged.
55. THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
We own this on DVD AND video (it's a great one for putting both on at once and switching back and forth to see how much DVD kicks butt over VHS). Sappy or not, we love it.
56. M*A*S*H (1970)
I watched the TV show when it was on when I was little (and I might add that it all flew directly over my head. I was so puzzled, among other things, about why the guy dressed in women's clothes. Dad told me it was because he was trying to prove he was crazy so he could get out of the Army. ahem. :), but never saw the movie.
57. THE THIRD MAN (1949)
And the third one I've never heard of. :)
58. FANTASIA (1940)
Another one of my kids' favorites, although we don't own it. I have the 3-DVD anthology on my Christmas list. We LOVE the whole idea of Fantasia, and my kids "play Fantasia" whenever we listen to classical music -- they tell me "what it is saying." Needless to say this totally breaks my heart. waah.
59. REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)
Never saw it, and keep meaning to.
60. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
I've seen it a couple of times. It's funny.
61. VERTIGO (1958)
My second Hitchcock. I love it. So creepy and hard to figure out the first time! Trivia: they had to use computers to superimpose the tower on that mission because it doesn't have one. I've been there plenty of times. It's much more interesting to go there having seen the movie, and vice versa.
62. TOOTSIE (1982)
This is a great movie. Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman worked so well together, and Teri Garr, and Jessica Lange too. This was another one that I saw when I was younger and didn't really "get". I really enjoy it as an adult though.
63. STAGECOACH (1939)
Never seen it.
64. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977)
I think I saw part of this once, when I was little, but I have very little memory of it.
65. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
Great, great movie. T hates it, but I don't. So creepy.
66. NETWORK (1976)
Never heard of it.
67. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)
This is such a well-made movie. People in film-making school should have to take a class in it. Except Frank Sinatra, he's kind of what NOT to do. But overall, WOW. Here's my IMDB review for it.
68. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
I watched part of this on Turner Classics but didn't get to finish it. I'll have to give it another shot some day; it looked pretty good.
69. SHANE (1953)
I read the book in elementary school but I've never seen the movie.
70. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
Never seen it.
71. FORREST GUMP (1994)
Watched it on video when it was pretty new; I thought it was OK but I wasn't as impressed as everyone else seemed to be.
72. BEN-HUR (1959)
My daughter loves this movie. She's 3!! She wants to watch the chariot race over and over. And it is a pretty good movie. I think this is the only thing I've seen Charlton Heston in.
73.WUTHERING HEIGHTS(1939)
I've never seen it. I had a hard time seeing colors after reading the book, though; it was so dark and depressing. I love Jane Eyre but Charlotte should have taught Emily a thing or two. This book was like a soap opera set in Gothic/Victorian language. Anyway, I digress, I've never seen the movie.
74. THE GOLD RUSH (1925)
Never heard of it.
75. DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990)
I saw it once. I didn't really pay attention. Poor Kevin Costner, he was the hottest thing going for a while and now nobody will look at him.
76. CITY LIGHTS (1931)
Never seen it.
77. AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973)
T and I watched this, and liked it. He is a car buff. For me, the most fun part was racking my brain trying to figure out who the actors were -- "I KNOW THAT GUY! WHO IS THAT?" I could hardly wait for the credits to roll before I ran to the IMDB to find out.
78. ROCKY (1976)
I think I saw this one. But it may have been Rocky III. Come to think of it, yes, it was, because that was the one with Mr. T. So I've never actually seen the original.
79. THE DEER HUNTER (1978)
Never seen it.
80. THE WILD BUNCH (1969)
Never seen it.
81. MODERN TIMES (1936)
Never seen it.
82. GIANT (1956)
Never seen it.
83. PLATOON (1986)
Never seen it, don't want to.
84. FARGO (1996)
Never seen it. When it was new I didn't want to but now that that hype has died down I think it sounds interesting and maybe I'll rent it.
85. DUCK SOUP (1933)
Never seen it.
86. MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
I saw part of it on cable once but never got to finish it. I keep meaning to, though.
87. FRANKENSTEIN (1931)
Never seen it. Never read the book either.
88. EASY RIDER (1969)
Never seen it.
89. PATTON (1970)
See above re: Bridge on the River Kwai.
90. THE JAZZ SINGER (1927)
Never seen it.
91. MY FAIR LADY (1964)
We own this. It is a family favorite. I wish they'd have let Audrey Hepburn do her own singing though. The clips I've heard of her sound better than Rex Harrison did, speaking his songs, and the dubbing sounds a bit fake. Marni Nixon did a great job, though; it's beyond me why she didn't have more up-front roles.
92. A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)
Never seen it.
93. THE APARTMENT (1960)
Never seen it.
94. GOODFELLAS (1990)
Never seen it.
95. PULP FICTION (1994)
Never seen it and don't particularly want to.
96. THE SEARCHERS (1956)
Never seen it.
97. BRINGING UP BABY (1938)
I'm torn about whether I want to see this or not. I might.
98. UNFORGIVEN (1992)
We watched this when it was new. My dad and brother were disapppointed in Clint having gone a bit soft. If they'd only known that Bridges of Madison County was coming, they'd have counted their blessings...
99. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (1967)
Never seen it.
100. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942)
Never seen it.
OK, now my fingers are totally, totally worn out from typing. They actually feel bruised. Ouchy.
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Monday, September 08, 2003
100+ Things About me
100+ THINGS ABOUT ME
1. I was born on Christmas in 1974.
2. I lived in 7 or so houses my first 4 years of life, then in 6 more houses in the next 24 years.
3. I was born in the same small town where I live now.
4. I lived in Taft and Maricopa, CA for a few months when I was around 2 years of age.
5. Other than that I have never lived anywhere but this small town.
6. My brother taught me to read when I was 3 years old.
7. By the time I was in kindergarten I was reading at a 3rd grade level.
8. I also had a really bad cold when I started kindergarten.
9. Kids on the bus, including high schoolers, called me "Green Slime" and the nickname stuck for that whole year on the bus.
10. Socially my elementary school years absolutely sucked.
11. When I was in 6th grade the class bully put dog biscuits in my lunch bag when we were eating indoors (because, you see, I was a dog, ie, a very ugly person).
12. Even the teacher laughed, although she tried to hide it.
13. I did not laugh. I did try very hard not to cry in front of everyone.
14. I was pretty homely but I didn't deserve the treatment I got.
15. Being smart didn't help.
16. In sixth grade I won the California State Spelling Championship.
17. Greg Evans, who draws the comic strip "Luann", was there as the guest speaker at the banquet.
18. As the winner, I got to ask him to draw me a poster of one of his characters. I chose Puddles the dog.
19. I still have that poster somewhere.
20. When I got back to school they held a special assembly for me, and then the principal sent me around to all the classrooms to tell the other kids about my experience and to have them see if they could stump me with words to spell.
21. I spelled "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and "antidisestablishmentarianism" in every single classroom.
22. That little "parade around the spelling champion" bit didn't help my popularity at all. (thanks, Mr. Principal).
23. In eighth grade I met the girl who would become my best friend for the next five years.
24. We had a lot, a whole lot, of fun together.
25. It was the first time I had ever been part of a group of friends.
26. My best friend lived with her aunt and uncle. Her mother lived in LA. At Christmastime during my junior year (her sophomore year) her aunt and uncle didn't want her to live with them anymore. So my parents and I asked her to move in with us, and she did.
27. It was a really great experience, even though we had little fights like sisters do. (not that I would know since I don't have a sister).
28. A year later she wanted to live with her mom again so we moved her back down to LA.
29. I went down to visit her three times that spring and summer. These were some of my first trips on my own without my parents.
30. I have never seen her since that summer.
31. We spoke on the phone twice during the first five years and that was all.
32. Then, after ten years of being apart, I tracked her down and called her this last spring.
33. We are very good friends again. (yay!)
34. Halfway through my senior year in high school I became a born-again Christian.
35. I got married the March after I graduated from high school, to a man who had been my archenemy and then my best friend before we fell hopelessly in love.
36. Nine and a half years later we are still hopelessly in love. In fact, much more in love than we were when we started out.
37. And we are still best friends.
38. We did not have sex with each other until our wedding night.
39. When we had been married two years, our son was born.
40. I had had a dream during my pregnancy about having a blue-eyed blond-haired girl. I thought the girl aspect was much more likely to come true than the blue eyes and the blond hair. However, my brown/brown husband and my brown/brown self produced a stunningly gorgeous blue/blond son.
41. When our son was 20 months old, we had a daughter.
42. She had a very severe and rare congenital heart defect.
43. She was supposed to have surgery to correct it when she was three months old. But she died when she was two months and one week old.
44. Our son does not remember her. :(
45. But we do.
46. When our son was 3 1/2, we had another daughter.
47. This little girl was and is perfectly healthy, praise God.
48. I knew before I had children that I wanted to homeschool them. My husband agreed wholeheartedly.
49. Originally our reasons were pretty much solely religious in nature.
50. Now, however, that is only a small part of the reason we homeschool. It's still very important to us, but so are a lot of other reasons.
51. I am 5' 8 1/2" tall.
52. I am trying to lose 44 lb. So far I have lost 15 pounds.
53. I have been stuck at 15 lb. so long that I have lost track of the days.
54. When I got married I weighed 155 lb and wore a size 10/11.
55. My lowest adult weight (just before my senior year of high school) was 142. At that weight I wore a size 9, or 8 in tight jeans ;-).
56. I was getting really uncomfortable in my 14s when I decided to lose weight.
57. I have brown hair that goes to my waist.
58. It is really thin and fine, though.
59. My favorite of my physical features is my eyes.
60. The list of my least favorite of my physical features would be pretty long. At the top, though, are probably my nose, my lips, my skin, and my legs, where I have just discovered a gazillion spider veins.
61. Spider veins, and I'm only 28 years old. Life is totally not fair.
62. My parents, brother, and I lived with my grandma for 5 years while I was growing up.
63. I did not get along AT ALL with my grandmother while I lived with her.
64. Now, however, we get along totally fine and enjoy each other's company.
65. I still have two grandmothers living.
66. My two grandpas and my step-grandma (who was "Grandma" to me and had raised my dad from babyhood) died within 5 years when I was in junior high and high school.
67. My parents have been married to each other for 32 years.
68. I adore my parents. I would choose them as friends even if we were not related.
69. My husband also gets along wonderfully with them.
70. I have a brother who is 2 1/2 years older than me.
71. When we were little it seemed like we fought all the time, but looking back, almost all I remember are fun times with him.
72. When I was 9 1/2 years old I spent my life savings (just over $200) on a small horse. She was a Welsh pony with leopard Appaloosa coloring. I named her Spot. My brother thought this was a stupid name. In fact, pretty much everyone except me thought it was a stupid name.
73. My brother also had a horse. His had been given to him by our grandpa when he was born (family tradition). We rode our horses all over creation until he got a job and got all interested in the girl he ended up marrying. In the summer we would get on our horses in the early morning and ride around the very rural valley we lived in until dinner time.
74. We just had to put Spot down a year ago because she was totally blind and stopped eating.
75. I am almost literally addicted to Diet Coke.
79. I love romantic comedies. My favorite right now is Return To Me
80. I am also a sucker for surveys. Filling in blanks and answering questions just gives me a little thrill.
81. I love doing people's taxes. I am considering taking night classes to become a CPA so that I can get paid for it.
82. I also think about becoming a librarian or a lactation consultant, but I wouldn't do that until the kids were done being homeschooled (in other words, grown).
83. Before I had kids, I had a job as an in-home child-care provider for a local family. I loved that job. I loved the kids. Now they are all teenagers.
84. I love to read. I like reading even better than being on the computer. :)
85. I like classic literature best. In fact I used to only read classics. Then in 2000 I really branched out a lot and now I like a lot of different authors.
86. I am on 19 email lists. I manage them via a stunning array of email filters and folders.
87. I got a job from one of them. It's for an author I like. The author actually runs the list. One day she posted that she needed someone to take over maintaining her webpage. I used to do web design professionally. So I wrote to her and got the job. It is only a few hours a month but it is a lot of fun.
88. I breastfed my children for a total of 3 1/2 years. My son for a year, and my daughter for 2 1/2 years. One of my biggest gripes about the way my middle daughter's situation was handled was that we were told by people (mostly NICU nurses for whom I suspect it would have been inconvenient for us to really try) that she couldn't nurse. By the time we found out she could, my milk was almost dried up and it never caught up. She developed an oral aversion from being tube fed. Some of my most precious memories with her are of the few times I nursed her.
89. I am a staunch breastfeeding advocate. Which is part of the reason I think about becoming a lactation consultant "when I grow up".
90. I love winter weather. Even when it's here and everyone else who was complaining about the summer heat has started to complain about the winter cold, I still love it. I count the weeks until we can have fires in the woodstove and wear sweaters.
91. I applied at four or five colleges when I was in high school, and I got accepted at all of them.
92. My dream college was the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. I got accepted there, and auditioned and was accepted into their Conservatory of Music. But we just did not have the money or the financial aid to send me there. I was very mad at God for a few days, until the man who would later become my husband (unbeknownst to either of us) pointed out that God had something even better planned for me, if he was saying "no" to that. Little did we know...!
93. I decided to start out at a community college and see where God led me from there.
94. Then I got the child care job and wanted to do that instead, and save up money.
95. Then I got engaged and married, and we wanted to have kids pretty much right away. There is always time to go to college.
96. I have never regretted that decision for a minute.
97. I loved taking tests in school. I took the SAT a second time just for fun. I scored in the 99+ percentile both times. But I only ranked twenty-fourth in my class of 105, because my study skills totally sucked and I only wound up with a 3.75 GPA.
98. I played the cornet in 5th, 6th, and 7th grades, until I learned the flute which I played throughout high school and still sometimes play. I also play the piano, but I haven't done much of any instrument since high school.
99. We are planning to buy our first house next year. We have been renting in the same place since we got married.
100. My favorite candy bar is Cadbury Roast Almond. YUM.
101. I have never been in a car accident or had a ticket, in 12 years of driving. Well, except the time when I was 17 that I tried to stop too fast and tapped into a guardrail. But there was no damage.
102. I have never done drugs, at all.
103. In high school I got drunk twice. Once on a stupid blind date, and once on my front porch. Both times it was because I was really thirsty and beer was all that was convenient to drink. It only took one beer each time. Since then, except for champagne on my first wedding anniversary, I've not had a drop of alcohol. It's not exactly because I think it's wrong; I just don't need to do it to have fun, and I'm afraid of losing my inhibitions and looking silly. Someday maybe at a fancy dinner when I don't have to drive anywhere, I'll have a nice drink. who knows.
104. I had two longish-term boyfriends in high school. One was a nice guy, if a bit geeky, but we were just way too immature for a relationship as heavy as ours was, and not really compatible either. The other was, well, a jerk, in a typical testosterone-overloaded juvenile male kind of way.
105. I have a tendency to rely more on people's affection than they do on mine.
106. One of my favorite things about my husband is that this isn't the case with him.
107. I plan to bring my children up with a totally different view of teenage relationships than I had, or than most people have.
108. I adore my husband's arms. Just looking at his wrists... mmm. I have always had a thing for arms.
109. In our household we do not watch television. Really. We have a TV, but it only serves as a monitor for the DVD player and the VCR -- no cable or antenna is attached to it. We like it this way. Occasionally I miss a few things (like kids' shows and documentaries) but we never miss them enough to allow the rest of that glurge into our house.
110. This list was originally just going to have 100 things but I kept thinking of more things.
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Sunday, September 07, 2003
most embarrassing moment
Today's Diarist.net spark is the following:
What's the first thing you remember? Or rather, what is the oldest memory you have?
The first flash of memory I have, I was probably about 19 months old, because I think it was at our town's celebration of the bicentennial. But it could have been at a different kind of patriotic celebration, and hence I could easily have been a different age. At any rate, I remember walking along, being conscious that I had a frilly cover on over my diaper; the stamp mill at our town's historical museum was running, and there were American flags and red, white, and blue swags everywhere. I don't remember anything that happened; I just have that 2-second loop of mental videotape.
My first memories of events start when I was about 3. I remember when we were moving into a house where we lived for a couple of years when I was preschool age; my parents were occupied moving furniture and things into the house, and I was sitting on a little ledge and found a bottle of something on the ground. Either it was hair dye, or I thought it was, and I poured it over my head. It stung my eyes, I cried, and my mom came over and dealt with the situation. That is the first house I have any memories of living in.
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Friday, September 05, 2003
Friday Five
OK, this is a Friday Five that's near and dear to my heart...
1. What housekeeping chore(s) do you hate doing the most?
I hate putting away laundry. I am to the point where I enjoy sorting it and putting it in the washer and dryer, and don't even mind folding it, but somehow it always stays in its piles and takes days to get put away. sigh. I also do not like washing dishes, AT ALL, or dealing with the messy clutter that makes it so hard to do real cleaning like mopping floors, which I actually enjoy.
2. Are there any that you like or don't mind doing?
See above re: mopping floors. I also like making beds. This doesn't mean I make mine every day. But I should. It's such a satisfying chore -- five minutes, max, and you have a lovely tidy bed where there was a mess.
3. Do you have a routine throughout the week or just clean as it's needed?
Ideally, I have a routine. I have really neat check-off charts for myself, and when I follow them everything practically takes care of itself. However, I rarely follow them. Man, that says a lot of negative things about me. *sigh*.
4. Do you have any odd cleaning/housekeeping quirks or rules?
Um, no. Unless you count that I love rearranging furniture. You get most of the fun of moving, with none of the huge hassle.
5. What was the last thing you cleaned?
The last thing I did a very thorough cleaning job on was our living room, last night, while rearranging furniture. :) (see, the hobby is good for something!). I have done a lot of basic tidying and folded a load of laundry today as well. But the dishwasher looks at me disapprovingly every time I walk by. *sigh*
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Friday, August 29, 2003
Friday Five
Here's today's Friday Five...
1. Are you going to school this year?
Not in any conventional manner. I am a homeschooling mom teaching my two children.
2. If yes, where are you going (high school, college, etc.)? If no, when did you graduate?
See above, and I graduated from high school in 1993.
3. What are/were your favorite school subjects?
At the time, I really liked music (band and chorus), drama, physics, chemistry, French, geometry, algebra II, trigonometry, and English. My study skills sucked, however, so my grades did not reflect my enjoyment in all instances.
4. What are/were your least favorite school subjects?
PE. PE, PE, PE. Necessary (I even took a semester of it as an elective when I found I was gaining weight my senior year) but despised. It wasn't the teacher, it was just... everything else about it.
5. Have you ever had a favorite teacher? Why was he/she a favorite?
I had a few. There were some I liked a lot (like my French teacher, and the one who taught geometry and higher science classes, and the English/drama teacher) because they were really, really excellent teachers, who got information across in an interesting and enjoyable manner, without trying to be everyone's best friend (or actually, the popular kids' best friend) like some teachers did. Not that they weren't friendly, but that was not the entire focus of their classes.
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Friday, August 22, 2003
Friday Five
I forgot about the Friday Five. [drumroll please] This is my [fanfare] FIRST FRIDAY FIVE! :)
1. When was the last time you laughed?
Um, the last time I remember was about four hours ago, listening to a radio show with T in the car.
2. Who was the last person you had an argument with?
I do not remember specifically but I'm sure it was T; I'm not really comfortable enough with most people to argue with them...
3. Who was the last person you emailed?
Last personal email I sent was to a high school friend I've recently reunited with online. The last email, period, was to one of my many email discussion groups.
4. When was the last time you bathed?
About three o'clock this afternoon.
5. What was the last thing you ate?
A Subway footlong roast beef sandwich.
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