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Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

~William Plomer

Unconscious Mutterings #1

I found this meme on Luna Nina who I found through Live-Love-Read who I found through ThursdayThirteen…

This meme is all about free association:

1. Tumor :: Horrible
2. Bunch :: Grapes
3. Gratitude :: Grandparents
4. Feel alive :: Ocean
5. Connect :: Dial Up
6. Temptation :: Chocolate
7. Brighten :: Saturate
8. Jewelry :: Shiny
9. Tough :: Nails
10. Harmless :: Flowers

Okay that was fun…

Have, want and no thanks – book list

MarillaAnne also posted about this meme from Tip of the Iceberg.

Directions: “Look at the list below: Bold the books you’ve read; Italicize the books you want to read; and leave the formatting alone for the ones you aren’t interested in.”

There are a few on here that I have never heard of but a few that reminded me that I wanted to read them once upon a time.

1. The DaVinci 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) {Plus the other five in the original series}
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) {I did not like this book}
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien) {first school book I couldn’t put down in 7th grade}
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) {sure these other sound good to: plus Little Men, Jo’s Boys, Eight Cousin’s, and Rose in Bloom.}
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) {and the rest of the series}
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) {i cried and cried…}
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) {loved it – i want another one by him}
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) {i started this book but couldn’t get into the first time – since i keep being told how great it is – i’ll have to try again}
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible {i haven’t read the whole thing but i’ve read many parts of it}
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) {i started this book but again couldn’t get into at the time – i’m thinking i should pick it up again}
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 (Audrew Niffenegger) {loved this book! i cried.}
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 Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling 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) {and the others}
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) {i’m pretty sure this is the one i read in school}

Wikipedia Birthday History

MarillaAnne opened the Wikipedia meme to all who wanted to search Wikipedia. Who doesn’t want to do that? Here are the guidelines and below that are my results. You can tag specific people or open it to all your readers.

1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your Birthday Month and day only.
2. List 3 Events that occurred that day.
3. List 2 important Birth days.
4. List 1 Death.
5. List a Holiday or Observance. (if any)
6. Tag 5 other bloggers.

Events – i had no idea so much happened on May 6th:
(there are a lot of war events as well)

1536 – King Henry VIII orders translated Bibles be placed in every church.

1816 – The American Bible Society is founded in New York City.

1861 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union.

1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.

2004 – US TV series Friends ends after 10 seasons

Births:
1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)1915 – Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)

1953 – Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Deaths:
2006 – Lillian Asplund, last American RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)

Holiday & Observances:
Feast days in the Roman Catholic Church

Thursday Thirteen #3

Thirteen Websites I read about or found this week

This post originally was going to be an email and then I realized – why not post for everyone? A majority of these links I found in the magazine Real Simple issue March ‘07. I’ll be quoting and paraphrasing snip-its of their original comments. If you’ve never picked up this mag, I highly recommend it. It covers all the general topics that make up a woman (home, life, health and fashion {but in a helpful here’s what’s in and where to get it and if you’re this body type heres what we recommend} ) On another size note -i have not personally visited or test every single site and or service, use your own judgment.

From RealSimple:
1 – Massachusetts Institute of Technology – www.ocw.mit.edu

MIT offers a far more comprehensive selection of free online courses than other universities. Although to use the online feature you can’t enroll, take classes on campus, or earn degrees.

2 – BBC, FrenchPodClass {and many other languages} – www.bbc.co.uk/languages www.frenchpodclass.com

The BBC offers top-notch online and MP3 lessons in languages familiar and obscure, including French, German, Poruguese, Mandarin, Greek and Urdu. These lessons however are a one size fits all, which fast learners may find sluggish and slow learns may find difficult.

3 – U.S. Small Business Administration – www.sba.gov {click on “Local Resources” for a nearby center & for financial & marketing info}

Learn how to write a business plan, register your company, and deal with the tax details of running a home business at your local Women’s Business Center evening classes (men are welcome, too). Again this is a one size fits all.

4 – Apple Stores -www.apple.com {click on “visit an Apple store”}

Gives excellent classes on business and entertainment software, music programs, and computer basics, all remarkably free of sales pitches. Classes are also offered for Apple hardware, like iPods.

5 – Kid’s Night on Broadway – www.kidsnightonbroadway.com

Once a year (this year it was in late January), children ages 6 to 18 can experience the Great White Way for free with a full-paying adult. There are also Kids’ NIghts for nationally touring shows throughout the year. Of course, tickets go fast.

6 – Skype – www.skype.com

Download and install free Skype software and call other Skype users, computer to computer, at no charge, anywhere in the world. Best used with DSL or cable modem.

7 – PaperBackSwap.com & Title Trader – www.paperbackswap.com www.titletrader.com

List the books that you’d like to get rid of, then wait for someone to request one. Mail the book to the person and you’ll receive a credit to choose your own book. PaperBackSwap is only paper back books but Title Trader is dvds, cds, and vhs.

8 – The Freecycle Network – www.freecycle.org to find a group

The nonprofit community group with an enviromental mission lets users “recycle” unwatned items by posting ads on local online bulletin boards. If you find something you like respond to the ad. You are responsible for taking the stuff home.

9 – Real Simple – www.realsimple.com/weeklyexpenses

This is a free downloadable form to keep track of your spending. I haven’t looked at it yet but it might be helpful.

Sites I found on my own:

10 – Etsy – www.etsy.com

At this website you can find anything handmade! The concept is you have a business of making oh, say, jewelry and you want to sell it – well Etsy lets you have a virtual store! I don’t know the logistics of it but it’s an awesome place to browse. I highly recommend: Rainy Prints for some amazing lino block prints.

11 – Rhonna Designs – http://rhonnadesigns.com/

Inspiration for scrapbooking – paper but more excitingly digital scraping which is what I’m interested in. If nothing else was good about this site I would just love for the web design. You’ll have to go look around for your self. She currently has a weekly challenge/meme going about color. Journal is an interesting link but the other three lead you to different scrapbooking sites or her personal Cafe Press site.

12 – Starbuck’s Make It Your Drink – http://www.mystarbuckstshirt.com

Never mind if you love or hate their coffee. It can not be denied they have a sweet budget and creatives for awesome design and promotion. Now, through the power of the net you see your drink order in great hand writing typography.
Here is mine:

13 – Penelope – www.penelopeillustration.com – www.IllustrationFriday.com

She is a great illustrator and has inspirational work. I enjoy her blog as well. She also created a great weekly creative excersize called Illustration Friday – a topic is posted at the beginning of the week, you illustrate it, post it to your site and link it to hers. The website and little goodies like interviews has really blossomed over the past year, though i’m not sure how long its been going total.

Hope you enjoyed!

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