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Favorite Photo Friday!!! October 3, 2008
This picture was taken last year when we were in Mexico! I have it in a frame in our living room. I can’t wait to go back we leave in 7 days!!!!
Sorry for the lack of posts lately LIFE has been a little CRAZY!!!
Favorite Photo Friday September 29, 2008
I know its not friday but I couldn’t get this picture to scan any clearer so I decided to heck with it!!! This is a picture of Mike and I before we got married. Its one of my favorite pictures of us, we were such babies!!! Every Friday I am going to post a picture that I have in a frame in my house so stay tuned!!! LOL!!!
3-5 business days September 5, 2008
I just got an email saying I should expect my I-171 in 3-5 business days! That makes me feel better at least I know its coming right? So I guess I am back to stalking my mail lady!
books September 5, 2008
bPride 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 Hitch Hiker’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 Pweauaion- Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe- CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoris 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 Meany – 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
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 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
The Average American has only read 6 of these books how about you? I am surprised at how many of these books I haven’t read… any suggestions on which ones I should read next? I am a total book whore, I read everything and any thing. Example is I have read a lot of Lois Lamar books and then this summer I have read all the gossip girl books ( Please don’t judge me too hard) I have also read almost all of the Jane Austin books. I read almost everything I can get my hands on except sci fi I am not a fan at all!!!
Punk’d August 29, 2008
Do you ever have one of those days where everything that happens is so awful you feel like you must be on a episode of Punk’d??? Today was my day! I was already having a bad day when Mike called me to inform me that the lady from CIS called to tell him that unfortunately the mail room had held on to our papers because there wasn’t a check in there! She asked him if he had sent a copy of the original check (which we did it took hours to get) she then informed him that she still had yet to receive our papers so she wouldn’t be able to get to them until Tuesday since she was out of the office on Friday and Monday is a holiday. Why Me??? I am trying so hard to be positive but I am so so so upset! So of course I instantly started crying and it wasn’t a pretty cry either. Thankfully I have these
Yes I am so crazy I bought a pair of sunglasses because they have a bulldog on them! It was my one and only splurge of the summer and today it came in handy! Hopefully I get my I-171 on Wednesday!!!
Losing August 28, 2008
We are going to go to Rocky Point in October. When we went last year My mom and I decided to see who could lose the most weight, we both lost 10 pounds we tied. This year we decided to do it again and a couple more people decided to join in so for the next 6 and a half weeks I will be working out and dieting.
I resent all of our paperwork in so hopefully our I-171 will arrive any day! It was so difficult to deal with the bank to get a copy of our money order we sent and when it was cashed it took 2 days.
I got my Vans on… August 18, 2008
A totally normal conversation between me and Tana…
Me- Tana I have to go to the Van store to get a gift certificate do you want to go?
T- Yeah, my friend works there and they are having a party tomorrow. They are going to have a graffiti artist who will decorate the shoes people buy.
M- Really I wonder if he does princesses?
T- What? Oh that sounds so hardcore, I am sure he graffiti’s princesses all the time!
M- What? Princesses could be hardcore, your don’t even know!
T- Oh yeah I am sure…
The next morning I call her
M- I am ready to go. Come pick me up, Mike took my car so I can’t drive.
T- I don’t have a car right now either…
M- Umm maybe dad will take us and drop us off?
T- Yeah lets take it back to junior high days!
I guess Tana was too embarrassed to have dad drop us off at the mall because she found a car to drive us in. We went to the party and got 30% off coupons, so of course I had to get something for the baby! And no I didn’t ask the artist if he could do princesses I got these instead!
They are so cute!!!
Lost August 14, 2008
Well I finally heard back from CIS and our paper work is lost… They can’t find it! So I am going to have to resubmit the paperwork and wait some more for my I-171H. This sucks why does everything always have to go wrong.
I am done August 4, 2008
I am done being depressed I can’t control our Adoption and I think that is the part that bugs me the most. I have no control over when our I-171H comes, I have no control over when we get our referral, and I can’t control over when we get to travel to pick our baby up. Sometimes I let that get to me. I do realize there is a baby at the end of this, our baby. I know once she is in our arms the painfully 5 years it took to become parents will all be forgotten.
Thanks for all the kind words and suggestions… I needed that!
Did anyone watch Oprah last Thursday? I hardly ever watch O but I am glad I did they had families on the show that had adopted from Liberia. It all started with one family who chose to adopt 2 choir boys from an orphanage, then one by one people around them started to adopt. It was an amazing story. You should try to watch it. I hope some day some one will be inspired by our journey to adopt. My sister Tana always tells me imitation is the best flattery, I think she only says that though because I hate when she buys the same clothes as me.
Mike told me he had a feeling this was going to be a good week! Hopefully that means our I-171H is on its way to us!!!
