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2013-01-01T16:54:08Z

Wintersmith (Tiffany Aching #3) by Terry Pratchett

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Newness

2012-12-12T21:29:12Z

Right before we left for our trip, my washing machine broke. I mean really broke. So when we got back last week, we went shopping for a new set. They were delivered on Sunday and I've been doing laundry since then. Today I finished. I was so bummed about running out of laundry to do that I decided to wash my rugs (bathroom and kitchen) haha! This new set really does a good job so far! *knock on wood*

Also, we got new phones. Yes, we've finally joined the 21st century and got smart phones. We honestly don't really need that kind of functionality, but whatever. Our previous, semi-stupid phones, were fine though. I do miss the slide-out keyboard, but our service provider doesn't support any phones with slide-out keyboards at all! Even though they are coming out with good ones too!

We settled on getting identical phones so if there's any learning curve we can help each other out. Last time we got new phones we each picked differently and regretted that decision since neither could help the other. We got Motorola Atrix HD phones. This model seems to do everything we need and runs on Android which we prefer. (We won't have any apple products in the house unless it's juice or sauce! HAHA!)

At first I was a bit freaked out because LEARNING A NEW PHONE OMG! But after the first day I was really fine. It's basically just like my Nexus 7 only smaller and with a phone. It does go through the battery a lot faster than my old one though. Still, I think it's worth it.

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Christmas is Early

2012-11-19T17:27:45Z

It seems like Christmas is being pushed so much earlier than usual. I know it gets earlier all the time, but I was seeing TV ads before Halloween. That's never happened before. I'd see stuff in stores, but not on TV. Blah. By the time Christmas actually gets here, I'll be sick of it.

The Mister hates decorating for the holidays. We decided to compromise by getting a 4 foot tree. For some reason, I kind of want a white tree. I never used to like them, I always wanted a realistic tree, but I saw a white tree and it looked so pretty to me. Anyway I want to display all my Star Trek ornaments, so we have to have SOMETHING.

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mirhanda @ 2012-11-11T22:43:00

2012-11-12T04:47:27Z

You know how the right is screaming about how it was only minorities who voted for Obama? Yeah, right. It turns out that most of the votes Obama got were from white people.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=384769591597742&set=pb.134176153323755.-2207520000.1352695409&type=3&theater

So suck it, GOP, you don't own the white vote either!

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mirhanda @ 2012-11-08T23:19:00

2012-11-09T05:19:52Z

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Time for the Right Wing to Leave the Bubble

2012-11-09T05:02:52Z

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Sweet Milk Sorbet

2012-11-02T15:25:01Z

I ran across this recipe and I want to try it so badly, but I can't have this on my diet :( Maybe one of my friends can try making it? Here's the link: http://pastrychefonline.com/2009/02/12/sweet-milk-sorbet/

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Spider

2012-11-01T02:58:20Z

Y'all my spider is a girl. She has an egg sac. You'd think that would make her hungrier but she is completely ignoring the cricket in there.

At least now I know why she was so grumpy the night I caught her. I imagine her back hurt and she had to pee and her feet were killing her.

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Looks like the Friends "Feed" is Coming

2012-10-31T20:47:44Z

Ok, so I'm catching up on the comments in the lj_releases thread when I came across this post:

http://lj-releases.livejournal.com/79480.html?thread=10004856#t10004856

"Thank you for your inquiry.

There is no way to turn off the message regarding the beta version of the Friends page/feed. It will remain visible to all users during the beta period, after which point the new Friends page will become the only version available.

So there you go. LJ definitely wants to drive me away.

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Dreamwidth

2012-10-31T17:57:14Z

If any of you want to add me on Dreamwidth, my journal there (which I'm actually crossposting to LJ from) is http://mirhanda.dreamwidth.org/

It's my understanding that DW doesn't require a code anymore.

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Books You've Read

2012-05-26T16:53:24Z

Stolen from violet_eyes

CROSS OFF WHAT YOU’VE READ (AVERAGE READ IS SIX)

~~The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien~~
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
~~Harry Potter series - JK Rowling~~
~~To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee~~
~~The Bible - Council of Nicea~~
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
~~Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell~~
~~His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman~~
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
~~Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy~~
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
~~The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien~~
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
~~Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell~~
~~The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald~~
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
~~The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams~~
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
~~Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll~~
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
~~Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis~~
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
~~Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne~~
~~Animal Farm - George Orwell~~
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
~~A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving~~
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
~~The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood~~
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
~~Brave New World - Aldous Huxley~~
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
~~The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold~~
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
~~Dracula - Bram Stoker~~
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
~~Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson~~
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
~~A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens~~
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
~~Charlotte’s Web - EB White~~
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
~~Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad~~
~~The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery~~
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
~~Les Miserables - Victor Hugo~~

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Pants

2012-05-26T16:31:34Z

I was able to get into my pants yesterday, the ones I haven't been able to wear for months! WOOT!

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mirhanda @ 2011-07-27T13:50:00

2011-07-27T18:52:08Z

I wish I could find some busy groups over here. I miss the bustling groups I read on LJ. I know there's not as many people over here (yet) but aren't there any groups over here that have a lot of posting members?

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Smoking

2011-04-04T18:30:09Z

It's been seven weeks since I quit smoking. I was going to post this to my Live Journal, but LJ is still down.

Last week I was with my daughter while she was smoking and it didn't bother me. I was afraid that it would make me really really want to smoke, but it didn't. I did enjoy the fragrance of her cigarettes, but didn't particularly want one of my own. I feel like that is great progress!

The best news is that she said that my quitting and sticking to it makes her want to quit as well. I sure hope she does before she does too much damage to her health and skin. I always point out that smoking gives you wrinkles and stains your teeth. She has such lovely skin and teeth that I hope that makes an impact. Also since she likes to sing and sings in the choir, I point out how I can't really hold a long note anymore because I run out of breath from smoking all those years.

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Zippy

2010-09-17T01:00:46Z

I'm just diddling around here on DW, and I must say I'm impressed with the speediness! I guess I didn't realize how slow LJ can be. This is nice!

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Hello

2010-09-17T00:30:45Z

Finally got a DW account. If everyone bails from LJ, I'll be using this one more often.

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