stuff i want to read over christmas break

These are in Order

-I never had the time to finish it, so I'm going to reread it!
Hot Russian adultery at it's best

-I bought this because of that recomendation from JK Rowling and it has a cool first line:
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink"
The narrator is a seventeen year old girl, living with her family in a castle, who wants to become a writer.
-Apparently this is really artsy fartsy, and critics say it reshapped American Literature. whatever, we will see.

I mean if you know me, I love The Catcher in the Rye. I mean I probably will name my kid Holden. And I have heard people say that this is even better. That's hard to consider but we will see!

Breaking Dawn- Book Review

Well. I purchased the book at 12:01 am on Friday and finished it at 4 pm on Sunday. Despite that, I was a little disappointed. The first book was a delicious guilty pleasure. The next two were enjoyable for sure. This one seemed a little cheap. I felt the same way about the last Harry Potter, but at least JK Rowling had some B list character's dying. I mean Hedwig, Mad Eye, one of the twins... all that was sad. Mrs. Weasley called Ms. Lestrang a bitch. Big fight scene. Everything was memorable. LITERALLY nothing too exciting happened in Breaking Dawn. Bella became a vampire like we all knew she would, she had sex with Edward, AND manages to get a baby out of it, which no one knew was possible. Even Jacob imprinted and Bella wont have to worry about not being able to be his friend anymore. A little cheesy if you ask me. Nothing was left out of order, and everyone got their happy ending. There was a huge battle that wasn't even fought, and the only character that died was one that I don't even remember from the previous three. All in all... I still read it in three days. I still enjoyed reading it... but I'm going to have to give it a B-. It just left a bad taste in my mouth as a wrap up to a series.

final remark: worth the read, but don't have super high hopes.

Previously on Lost

So, to keep everyone fresh on lost, even when the season is over, every Thursday I want to blog about Lost. If you are like me, you probably have noticed several biblical references in the show. These parallels are what interests me the most in the show. The following is taken from lostpedia.com:

Biblical References in regards to Jacob
-Jacob is a great-great-grandfather of Aaron (elder brother of Moses)
-Jacob married Rachel, who was apparently barren, but later amazingly gave birth to Joseph and Benjamin .She died whilst giving birth to Benjamin
-Another name for Tribulation is "The Time of Jacob's Trouble" Jeremiah 30:5-7
The tribe of Benjamin's women and children were all killed, and the remaining members of the tribe could not longer proliferate. The historical solution they came up with was to kill the men from another sub-tribe and take their women and children. Women are unable to carry to term on the Island, and the Others have been taking women and children from Oceanic Flight 815.

American Idol

Girl Winner:


Boy Winner:



I think Kyle should have made it to 24:



But i am most upset that Josiah didnt make it

Les Miserables

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

1984

"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."

The Tempest

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

The Catcher in the Rye

I keep picturing these little kids playing some game in this big field or rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean, except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways. So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them. And in this moment, I swear we were infinite.

Christmas Continued.

i need help!! my family is so hard to shop for. they either have everything they want or they dont like anything.

ok a few interests are:
-golf
-cooking
-flowers
-baseball
-scrap booking
-animals

these are all adults. ugh. i hate shopping for my family. i think they hate everything i get them.

Christmas Wish List

I never blog. Im sorry. I also never ask for anything that i actually do want for christmas, so Im making a list. Im sick of people wasting their money on me lol. If you insist on buying me stuff, buy me this stuff:

From American Apparel
$38- cranberry


From American Apparel
In mauve/army $28



From Delias
$52


From Delias
$24.50



From Target
$100


From Target
$59



From Target
$60



Thats all for now! haha

Good Causes

Inspired by previous blogs by Emily and Cameron... here are a bunch of cute t-shirts that donate the proceeds from the shirts to charities!

INVISIBLE CHILDREN

Proceeds will benefit the children of Uganda that are being forced to fight in war. Visit the store and support the cause.

To Write Love on Her Arms

Proceeds go to fighting depression. Goal for 2007 is to contribute $100k to the treatment, recovery and support of young people facing depression, addiction, suicide and self-injury. Help them by buying a cute shirt from their store!

PROJECT EDIN
FEED THE MODELS-SAVE THE WORLD

100% of proceeds raised from T-Shirt sales will support EDIN’s innovative eating disorder prevention programs. Visit the store!

XXXchurch

This organization helps people deal with their addiction to pornography, and also tries to help people in the porn industry. STORE

HOUSE

Cool! The cast of House encourages you to purchase a shirt-All proceeds from these T-shirt sales will go to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness.) Get one at the store!

In Case you want a Good Cry

At work today we talked about super sad scenes from movies and shows... here's a few


Crash




One Tree Hill



The OC



The Family Stone




Er- SOOOO long ago, when Carter and Lucy are dating and she dies

Jim and Pam

Jaye sent me this
its very sad

This weeks postsecret

how do we feel about the mini movie?



i think i like the old way better

i need you to love it like i do

Hairspray ( awful recording but YAY)





Favorite part of Newsies




LOVE Rent!

aw lamb

taken from perez hilton.

A lamb was born in New Zealand this past week that was so severely deformed that it was set to be put to sleep for it own good, a local newspaper reported.

The poor little creature came out with SEVEN legs - an extra set of front legs and three back legs.

The seven-legged lamb lamb was also hermaphrodite, and was missing a part of its bowel so was unable to pass feces.

It was this latter problem, rather than the fact it had seven legs, that meant the poor little lamb had to be euthanized.

“It’s quite a happy bright wee lamb, he’s just slowly going downhill really,” said a veterinarian that treated the animal. “To keep it alive is probably inhumane really.”

Sweet dreams little guy!

loves it

upon my arival, i either learn to swim or drown.
As i struggle for air, i see only water, and i reach for anything as a cry for help.
I feel my body growing weak, slipping away
It occurs to me, that my cries are worthless
Acknowleding death,I feel my body growing weak, slipping away,
and i begin to sing praises to the one
as I sink to my salty grave, I drown


Let it be a sweet sweet sound

have you heard about the cat..

that predicts death?
i kid you not.

Anna Karenina, Part I

Part One is only about 1/7th of the book, which is divided into 4 parts.
Anna Karenina does not appear until over half way through Part One.

So far, Dolly is married to this man that has an affair with their children's governess. She finds it hard to forgive him, but when her husband brings his sister, Anna, to the house, the women talk about life and love, ect. and the couple eventually makes up. Dolly's younger sister, Kitty, is about at the age where Russian women get married, and since she is so pretty she's getting a lot of attention from several men. She loves a man named Vronsky, and he sees her as a close friend but not as a wife. A man named Levin, who is Dolly's husband's childhood friend, is in love with Kitty and proposes to her, but she turns him down in hopes that Vronsky will propose to her.

Anna and Kitty meet, and Kitty is fascinated by her, and becomes close with her very quickly. Near the end of Anna's stay, there is a ball, to which the whole town goes. Vronsky and Anna hit it off, and Kitty realizes that Vronsky is already in love with Anna, and Anna has feelings for him as well (though she is trying to supress them, since she has a husband and child at home).

Ashamed of how she hurt Kitty, Anna leaves the next day to go home to her estate. Vronsky follows her onto the train to the city he lives in (Petersburg, I think..) hoping that he will run into her and have the chance to be with her.

More later. I havent been reading as diligently as i would like.