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Hey there everyone! I've become involved in Relay for Life, a great charity that goes towards finding a cure for cancer. Unfortunately, nearly everyone has been touched by cancer in one way or another. We are working to raise money to find a cure for this tragic illness.

Please think about donating to this wonderful charity. Even if it's a dollar - 100% of the proceeds go towards cancer research and FINDING A CURE!

Please spread word around and visit my personal webpage to make a donation.

Thank you!!!

Relay for Life - My Page

1. An 8:30am walk around the neighborhood with my pooches.

2. Mickey D's Sweet Tea. Sidebar: I hate McDonald's with the fire of a thousand suns. I haven't eaten there in like 2 years and the last time was just for the sausage biscuit and because I was desperate. But their sweet tea is delicious. And probabaly has about eight gazillion calories.

3. Making two delightful little floral arrangements for my front window.



4. Gym workout with my husband for an hour.

5. Peppering my DK Eyewitness guide for Costa Rica with sticky-note "to-do" lists and post-it tabs. And DK Eyewitness guides - these things are the BEST.

Jaime sent me this and I was highly amused...


10 Reasons why Jacob would make a better boyfriend than Edward

Poor lil' Iowa... I forgot you exist. hehe

Our future child is....




CREEPY!!!

I CANNOT wait!

Today I was cleaning out our guest room and the monstrous mess that was on our desk. I found these two CDs that I burned a few years ago I guess. Anyways, there's been a lot of stress going on and listening to them cheered me up a bit and took me back to like friggin' middle school. :)

Disc 1

Lightning Crashes - Live
Champagne Supernova - Oasis
If You Could Only See - Tonic
Glycerine - Bush
Doll Parts - Hole
Santeria - Sublime
Hemorrage - Fuel
Long December - Counting Crows
Counting Blue Cars - Dishwalla
Linger - Cranberries
Hanging by a Moment - Lifehouse
Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
'Til I Hear it From You - Gin Blossoms
Here's to the Night - Eve 6
What do I Have to Do - Stabbing Westward
Out of My Head - Fastball

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Put an asterisk next to the books you'd rather shove hot pokers in your eyes than read
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Miserables - Victor Hugo

Post and a few pictures on the travel blog: Amor del Viaje

All the pics are here:

Philly

Eastern State Penitentiary

A year ago today, I married my best friend.







Happy Anniversary to us!