Confessional Box

can i just tell you how much i love this movie…:

i’ve watched it three times now and it is impossible not to shed tears, at multiple scenes.

and fyi, i’m still sick. any sympathy would be greatly appreciated.

so i guess my body was really trying to tell me something. it was hinting at the fact that i was going to be a painful sweaty flu of a mess.

i spent my thanksgiving huddled in a fever too achy to move around my teeny tiny apartment. i think this is the second flu i’ve had in a year…not cool.

went to the doctors today. got a shot on the butt. lots of meds/water/rest. i wish i was near my mom so i could have some homemade chicken soup.

today my students performed the following acts of childhood:

• 13 kids caughed on me
• 6 sneezed in my direction
• 1 for sure picked his nose and ate it. i watched him.

i think i’m coming down with something. my voice is a couple of octaves lower than usual…and while i don’t mind a good barry white in the morning, it is annoying at three in the afternoon.

i think this would really make me feel better:

its like rachel said,”you never were shy about asking for what you want, huh?”

i’m glad t is blogging again. i totally judged her, now its your turn.

This is pretty simple. From the list below:
-Bold the ones you’ve read
-Italicize the ones you want to read
-leave the ones you aren’t interested in as they are.

1.The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) - the first 15 minutes of the movie scare the crap out of me
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) –you’ve read one, you’ve read ‘em all
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) – if the book could make me cry as much as the movie, I’d buy two copies of it
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) – I read shopaholic & sister. My life would’ve been fine without it.
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible – in the lifelong process
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) – own it and frightened of the size
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) tried it before but it was so intense
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens) – my all time favorite.
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 (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) – really good.
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) - thanks to jael i’m loving this one
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) – in the process of. Lovin’ it.
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)

any sugesstions are welcome. big ups to matthew for recommending ‘the curious incident of the dog in the night-time’.

when i was home at the beginning of the year, my best friend convinced me to be an extra with her in a movie being filmed in chicago (and lets be honest, not that much time or energy was needed for me to give in.) it was a new experience, tons of fun, and exhausting working from 9pm-6am. but it was only a few nights and we knew the bragging rights would be worth it.

alas, it’s out! fred claus. paulina swears she saw herself. i tried checking out a bootlegged copy that was so fuzzy i couldn’t even make out santa. i think you should watch it and look for me
claim to fame: during the first take of a scene where we entered into the nordstrom shopping center on michigan avenue, i was crammed in a revolving door with vince vaughan. i think he touched my butt.

i think i understand my blogging pattern. i write when i’m happy, all is well and full of adventures. however, if i’m not blogging regularly, that’s a good sign somethings wrong. and it is. even though i have the best story about this girl with a boogah on her pants, i just can’t do it…

i’m feeling overwhelmed but praying a lot. i know god is with me through this rough patch. i believe it is a crucible and that i’m growing and becoming refined. but it is not fun. it is growing up and becoming closer to god.

oooohhhh dear. anybody have a crafty plan to sneak my boyfriend into the country? how about through mexico? can anyone arrange an over the boarder exchange?

international relationships are fun and a lot of work. beware! congratulations nadine & vaughan on making it

p.s. there’s still fun to be had. i mean i’m not sitting in my apartment crying. it just takes more effort to seek out and enjoy the good times. oooohhhh dear.