The BBC believes that out of the following 100 classics, most people will only have read an average of six. Bold the ones you've read, italicize those you've dabbled with (read a portion/watched a film rendition/read an abridged version).

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry ( Read more... )

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The Pagan Picnic Committee would like to extend our thanks to all who
made Picnic 2007 the biggest and most successful picnic so far. Over
3000 people attended Picnic last year and enjoyed the workshops,
rituals, music, vendors, and all the sights and sounds of this one of
a kind free two day festival.

Now it is time to look ahead to Pagan Picnic 2008 ( Read more... )

 
Gainfull employment........I has it.  : )

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I am proud to announce that I start next Tuesday at St. Louis Sports Medicine in Kirkwood as the Insurance Precertification Specialist.   I will sit on hold all day for $11.00 an hour.  Which is less then what I hoped for...but thats ok.  It's a full time day job that only ( Read more... )

Most of you have probably seen this  since this is local news.  But for any that have not...I would not want you to miss out on the funny that is "Cookie Torture"

James heard about this at gaming and came home and shared this with me.  I then told my friend Mike about it...who had already heard.  He said the battle cry at his work for the last ( Read more... )

Advanced Global Personality Test Results

Extraversion||||||||||36%Stability||||||||||||43%Orderliness||||||||||||||60%Accommodation||||||||||||||||70%Interdependence||||||||||36%Intellectual||||||||||||50%Mystical||||||||||||||56%Artistic||||||||||||||56%Religious||||||||||||50%Hedonism||||||||||||||56%Materialism||||||||||36%Narcissism||||||30% ( Read more... )

 
Well....after my furious blog earlier at least this is a little happier news I got today.

I have suspected Conner has Dyslexia in addition to his ADHD for years.  Ever since Kindergarten.  We have tried for the last three years to get the school to get him testing for a learning disability......and I was finally told today that they would do it ( Read more... )

....actually I feel like I don't know whether to break things or cry.   And really all I want to do is go back to sleep.

A couple of months ago I went for an MRI for my shoulder that grits and grinds and pops and makes horrible sounds and hurts me all the time.  I made an appointment with my regular Dr...she sent me for the MRI.  At no point did ( Read more... )

Sunday night my in-laws house burned down.  This is the second time this has happened to them....the first time James was in high school.  They lost pretty much everything.  Some of their clothes were salvagable...thats it.  It was a modular home and insurance works different on those and depriciates so they will only get 17 thousand in insurance ( Read more... )

.....not major....I'll be fine...don't everybody call the looney police.  I just need to vent for a minute here.

Because life is just hard.  Yeah I know...cry me river.  Exactly.  Thats why I'm saying.  I know I'm being a whiney baby....I know this.

So almost every day of the last two weeks I have had somewhere I had to be for either a job ( Read more... )