Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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2:24 pm - Non-BJD-- Renaissance Faire Photos: Some Costumes, Horses, Critters, Knights, Etc.
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7:34 am - BJD--Renaissance Pleasure Faire Doll Meet
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Sunday May 4 there was a small meetup of folk who wanted to bring dolls to the Renaissance Pleasure Faire--
Elektra (on DoA)'s DoD Elf Duncan with Mousie
( Pictures Here )
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
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4:28 am - Non-BJD--LibraryThing List of Unread Books Meme
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These are the 106 most common unread books on LibraryThing’s collective bookshelves, 2008. (I'm on LibraryThing, but still don't quite understand how books can be marked as unread... still, it's an interesting Meme.) LibraryThing: http://www.librarything.com/
-- Bold the ones you’ve read
-- Underline the ones you read for classes (at least once)
-- Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish
-- *star it* if it’s actually on your bookcase and you haven’t read it
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
*Anna Karenina*
*Crime and Punishment*
Catch-22
*One Hundred Years of Solitude*
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
*The Brothers Karamazov*
*Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies*
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
*Atlas Shrugged*
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
*Love in the Time of Cholera*
Brave New World
*The Fountainhead*
Foucault’s Pendulum
*Middlemarch*
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
*The Satanic Verses*
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Miserables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes: a memoir
*The God of Small Things*
A People’s History of the United States: 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
*Beloved*
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
*Eats, Shoots & Leaves*
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: a novel
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
*Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values*
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
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I read quite a few books in HS English and in College when I was an English Lit. major... I can't really remember all the books I've read, so I could be wrong on some of these...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
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10:20 pm - Non-BJD-- I usually don't pay attention to Birthdays... but people keep reminding me... ;)
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| You are adventurous and aggressive, always looking for something that will make your heart race. You make all your decisions hastily and often get yourself into trouble. |
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Positive Traits: nurturing, domestic, understanding, artistic, generous |
Negative Traits: codependency, resistance to change, stubborn, manipulative, needy |
'What does your Birthdate mean?' at QuizGalaxy.com
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Hmmm... like most of these things, some apply, some don't!
I spent the day happily with my nose in a book...
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15 April Birthdays--
1959, Emma Thompson, actress
1933, Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
1843, Henry James, writer
1889, Thomas Hart Benton, artist
1684, Catherine I, empress of Russia
1452, Leonardo da Vinci, artist
15 April Events--
1983 Tokyo Disneyland opens
1955 Tax Day, US (usually)
1955 Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants in Illinois
1947 Jackie Robinson put on his first Brooklyn Dodgers uniform (number 42) and broke the Major League Baseball "color line"
1912 Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland
1865 President Lincoln shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
1783 Continental Congress ratified preliminary articles of peace ending the Revolutionary War with Great Britain
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
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12:21 am - BJD-- ElfDoll Late Easter/Spring Party --April 5th
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Yet another little party at the Elfdoll store. They had Korean sweets and snacks and soft drinks. And a costume contest with a few of their little guy character dolls as prizes. Not as crowded as previous events--I think because there's a lot of doll and other stuff going on this month...
My piggy---
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
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4:44 am - Non-BJD-- L5R Kotei Tournament up in Calgary and Saskatoon
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
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3:30 am - BJD--We Gots Piggie!!!
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
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4:07 am - CONS-- GenCon... filing for Ch. 11 Bankruptcy... Sued by Lucasfilm...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
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11:30 pm - ART-- A Couple of Legend of the Five Rings Pieces
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I haven't posted art in a while, so why not? I just went to an L5R (Legend of the Five Rings) CCG Tournament this weekend in Irvine, CA to sell some prints and sign some cards, so have art and L5R on my mind... (I'd have BJDs on my mind, only I had to miss this weekend's Meetup, sadly!)
( Art Behind Cut )
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
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2:32 am - BOOKS-- 2007 Highlights
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
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1:24 am - BJD--Elfdoll Store Valentine's Day Party
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
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2:36 am - BJD--New Arrival--a Tinybear Bracken!
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
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11:17 pm - BJD--New Year's Day Meetup!
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
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3:53 pm - BJD--L.A. Dolpa Photos--Sunday Marketplace, etc.
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In the craziness running up to the holiday season, I forgot to post the last bit on the Dolpa--Sunday--with the Marketplace. It's just a brief bit, and if you've checked out my Photobucket dump, nothing new!
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current mood:  anxious
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
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11:24 pm - BJD--Elfdoll Store Christmas Party
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
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1:21 am - BJD--L.A. Dolpa Photos--Customization Contest
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1:15 am - BJD--L.A. Dolpa Photos--One-Offs
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
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11:26 pm - BJD--L.A. Dolpa Photos--Saturday Banquet
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Some of these I've already posted on Den of Angels...
Oh, and for those who replied to my Car-Buying Post: THANKS! I ended up buying the Certified Pre-Owned car. I'm not 100% sure I did the right thing, but then I NEVER am! But I'm relieved I have a car, even though I now need to pay for it!!! (waaaah!!! no new dollies for me!!!) ;__;
On the other hand--good thing I bought one of the Tinybear's Brackens (boy version of Moona) before I knew about my car problems!!! Heheheh. >:-D
( Dolpa intro and Banquet Photos and text... Other photos will posted separately. )
current mood:  drained
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1:08 am - BJDs--Makeup Workshop Report and Photos (L.A. Dolpa)
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I made a post over at DoA with a fairly detailed report of my Makeup Workshop experience, with photos. Sorry if you can't access Den of Angels. (It's free to sign up, though!). I'd cross-post here, but am still too stressed about car worries to do that without a lot of requests!
Volks SD Make-up Workshop (L.A. Dolpa Report)
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
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5:37 pm - Non-BJD--Getting Another Car Blues...
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OK... so I take my car in because the brake pad lights are on. I also note that my low coolant light has come on a few times and I'd had to top the coolant off, which worried me concerning leaks--and worried me more because it might mean engine problems...
Well, aside from needing all new pads and rotors for the brakes, the technician said there was oil in the coolant, which was a Very Bad Sign, as in, he definitely thought there was something wrong with the engine... if I was lucky, it was just the top part--a crack in the cylinder head--which is major... they'd need to go in there and take a look (which already meant spending money on labor, even before repairs or parts).
On the Friday of Thanksgiving Weekend, I get a message on my phone: it's not just the head, it's the engine block that is cracked. It's the worst-case scenario. The car is not worth repairing unless you're really handy with getting and putting in new engines by yourself, basically. And trade-in is pretty much zero. (It's a seven year old car.)
So... I've spent the whole week going to the dealership, checking out new cars, used cars, going over figures... AND I SO SUCK AT THIS KIND OF STUFF... I've got a head-ache now like you wouldn't believe. There's a sort of deal going on a Certified-Pre-Owned 2004 with warranty 'til October '10... or I can spend $10,000 more and get a new with a full four year warranty (parts and labor, too, I think).
I'm beating my head against the desk trying to figure out what to do... I'm leaning towards the Pre-Owned... But my brother-in-law says it's a 3-4 year old car, even with low mileage, and all the parts on it will gradually need replacing and it's not worth it... bleh...
I'm deciding tonight whether to get the Used or keep looking... Meanwhile--really getting NOTHING done and am feeling very stressed and very poor!
If anyone knows about cars--please advise! I have no clue... (Actually, it really is just up to me, I know. Only I know all the factors--or I don't, but then no one is really much more in-the-know. But I have a hard enough time deciding where to go to dinner or deciding to buy this little plastic toy or that little plastic toy, much less buying a car. Crap.)
---Sorry, just need to scream or something--and LJ is kinda good for venting when just yelling in my empty apartment doesn't really give the same satisfaction!!!
current mood:  stressed
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