07.31.07
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 11:39 pm by Meg
but we leave tomorrow morning for Montana, so I’m very short of time.
Boy did well at Nationals, but not enough to get additional scholarship money. He’s happy because he made it to the second day and he had fun.
So much other junk, but it’s 11:30 and I still need to pack.
I’ll leave with just a note that I’m doing a book review post (or actually I’ve asked Girl to do it). She gets $20 for Amazon for reading the book and telling you what she thought about it. I’m not going to do this often, but I thought it might be fun to try one.
Watch for it!!
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07.29.07
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 6:38 am by Meg
I’m on my sister’s, P, extremely sloooooow computer, so I’m afraid that I’m not going to put any links in this post.
After a very nice dinner with Contemplator on Thursday, we got to P’s house on Thursday evening.
The last two days (and today) has been Magic, Magic, Magic. And the reason for the title is that Boy has made it to day 2! By the skin of his teeth, but he’s still going.
Friday was registration and a chance to play in some side events to play test his deck. He came out of it feeling pretty good. I met up with some another parent I know from home whose boys were all playing this weekend.
Saturday started early because we had to be in Baltimore before 9 AM. P’s house is 90 mins. out, but it was that or pay nearly $400 a night to stay in touristville.
Anyway, Saturday was 9 rooms and he needed to win 5 to continue. He made it, barely. So, we go into today. And I’m up before 6 AM to get him into Baltimore again.
About 300 kids started yesterday morning. About 120 are continuing into today. And only 64 will go home with additional scholarship money.
More importantly, he’s having a ball. He got a chance to talk to Garfield (the founder of the game) and to have him sign some stuff. And last night we stayed long enough for both him and Girl to be oversized cards in a funky fun game that Garfield and someone (I didn’t catch his name, but he’s one of the top professional players, and yeah, there are some people that make a 6 figure income playing this little game) else. They had fun and if any of the pictures come out, I’ll post them when we get home.
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07.25.07
Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 1:33 am by Meg
It’s hard to believe that it’s the end of July already. Where is the summer going?
Here in Indiana we’re getting ready to start legs 2 and 3 of our summer travel plans.
Thursday we are leaving for my sister’s, P, place in Maryland. (Finally get to see the baby minature horses!!). It’s a short visit with her, but we are using her home as a base as I take Boy into Baltimore. He made the Magic Nationals again and it’s playoff time. While he plays on Saturday, Girl and I are going to play tourists and explore as much as we can on foot. The Convention Center is right near the water, so I’m hoping we can find lots to do. Anyone local have a suggestion?
We’ll be home from that late on Monday. and after a quick day to do laundry and catch up, we’ll be heading out again.
West this time. The kids and I will be driving up to my other sister’s, L, place in Montana. It will keep us on the road forever (with only one driver), but we’re planning on some sight seeing stops to break things up.
When we head out on Thursday, I’m going to be trying to watch the odometer closely. My van is nearly at 100,000 miles and I want to watch it hit it. Does anyone else remember when they topped out at 99,999 and 100,000 miles meant it was rolling over? I missed it on my last car. Totally spaced. I’ll probably do it again this time. I tend to get in a zone on long drives.
I had planned on some posts about next year (we finally have some plans) and about the 10 foot deep money pit that’s in my back yard. But I ended up spending the evening answering questions from a newbie tonight and I’m not going to write much more at this time of the morning.
So, I’ll close with some good news. While I’m still upset with Collegeboard that Boy will have to take the AP statistics exam over again because they lost his test (and all the others from the local high school where he took it), we did get his AP geography score today. He pulled a 5 (the best possible). Needless to say, he’s a happy pup. Mom’s feeling pretty darn good as well.
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Posted in Meme, Books at 1:20 am by Meg
Well, you know I’m a sucker for book lists -
Kris has this up.
Look at the list of (100) books below.
Bold the ones you’ve read.
Italicize the ones you want to read.
Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
Movies don’t count.
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25 .Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie(Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41.The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible - depends on what you mean by it. I’ve read the Tanakh
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davies)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
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