urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama tumbling dice tumbling dice 2009-09-25T02:21:23Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:514832 2009-09-25T02:21:23Z 2009-09-25T02:21:23Z The Scottish play has taken over my life. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:513394 2009-09-15T21:31:44Z 2009-09-15T21:31:44Z "There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work - all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be." JAY-Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:511692 2009-08-25T21:38:09Z 2009-08-25T21:38:09Z Don't let somebody become a priority in your life when you are just an option in theirs. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:492904 2009-05-17T13:19:23Z 2009-05-17T13:19:23Z It does not look like the house elf is going to show up to clean my bathroom. Off I go, then. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:489049 2009-04-18T16:47:33Z 2009-04-18T16:47:33Z My first full weekend day in the garden.<br /><br />*squee* urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:486046 2009-03-20T21:51:26Z 2009-03-20T21:51:26Z What better way to celebrate the first day of Spring than with a party for eleven 7/8-year olds? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:482819 2009-02-13T00:35:06Z 2009-02-13T00:35:06Z Eleven years ago today, I birthed my eldest.<br /><br />Happy birthday, Stinks! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:478409 2009-01-20T18:00:19Z 2009-01-20T18:00:19Z Joe the plumber . . . meet Barack the President.<br /><br />Woo hoo!!!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:474919 2009-01-05T11:24:45Z 2009-01-05T11:24:45Z But really, I have to go to work today???? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:473261 2008-12-24T22:01:38Z 2008-12-24T22:01:38Z Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate. Hope Santa treats each of you very, very well. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:467684 2008-11-16T13:56:42Z 2008-11-16T13:56:42Z When doing your Christmas cards this year, take one card and send it to this<br />address. If we pass this on and everyone sends one card, think of how many?<br />cards these wonderful special people who have sacrificed so much would get.<br /><br />When you are making out your Christmas card list this year, please include<br />the following:<br /><br />A Recovering American Soldier<br />c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center<br />6900 Georgia Avenue,NW<br />Washington,D.C. 20307-5001<br /><br />If you approve, please pass it on. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:465497 2008-10-30T13:21:19Z 2008-10-30T13:21:19Z A friend forwarded this to me and I think it's worth posting:<br /><br /><br />PBS has an online poll posted asking if Sarah Palin is<br /><br />qualified. Apparently the right wing knew about this<br /><br />in advance and are flooding the voting with YES votes.<br /><br /> <br /><br />The poll will be reported on PBS and picked up by<br /><br />mainstream media. It can influence undecided voters<br /><br />in swing states.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Please do two things -- takes 20 seconds.<br /><br /> <br /><br />1) Click on link and vote yourself.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Here's the link:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html">http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html</a>&lt;http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html&gt;<br /><br /> <br /><br />2) Then send this to every single Obama-Biden voter<br /><br />you know, and urge them to vote and pass it on.<br /><br /> <br /><br />The last thing we need is PBS saying their viewers<br /><br />think Sarah Palin is qualified. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:462785 2008-10-01T22:31:19Z 2008-10-01T22:31:19Z Last night, curling up on my bed in my dark room, Lillian curled up with me, we fell asleep watching the rain storm come hurtling in. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:459264 2008-09-14T18:57:00Z 2008-09-14T18:57:00Z Sometimes the best thing to ease anxiety is just to get started on what you don't really want to do. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:445952 2008-06-20T22:54:28Z 2008-06-20T22:54:28Z If you haven't read Eat, Pray, Love . . . you really should. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:437596 2008-04-23T22:37:51Z 2008-04-23T22:37:51Z Today at the stoplight, a woman separating her lashes with a safety pin urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:429547 2008-02-12T01:10:13Z 2008-02-12T01:10:13Z <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tblBorderAll"> <tr><td><img src="http://quizfarm.com//images/1123560015300px-FDR0216.jpg"></td></tr> <tr><td><br><a href="http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=9022N" target="_blank">What's Your Political Philosophy?</a><br><font face="Arial" size="1">created with <a href="http://quizfarm.com" target="_blank">QuizFarm.com</a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>You scored as <b>Old School Democrat</b><p>Old school Democrats emphasize economic justice and opportunity. The Democratic ideal is best summarized by the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.<br><br></p> <table width="50%"><tr><td><p><font face="Arial" size="1">Old School Democrat</font></p></td><td> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="80" bgcolor="#dddddd"><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face="Arial" size="1">80%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face="Arial" size="1">New Democrat</font></p></td><td> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="80" bgcolor="#dddddd"><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face="Arial" size="1">80%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face="Arial" size="1">Green</font></p></td><td> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="75" bgcolor="#dddddd"><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face="Arial" size="1">75%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face="Arial" size="1">Libertarian</font></p></td><td> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="45" bgcolor="#dddddd"><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face="Arial" size="1">45%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face="Arial" size="1">Foreign Policy Hawk</font></p></td><td> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="0" bgcolor="#dddddd"><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face="Arial" size="1">0%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face="Arial" size="1">Socially Conservative Republican</font></p></td><td> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="0" bgcolor="#dddddd"><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face="Arial" size="1">0%</font></td></tr><tr><td><p><font face="Arial" size="1">Pro Business Republican</font></p></td><td> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="0" bgcolor="#dddddd"><tr><td></td></tr></table></td><td><font face="Arial" size="1">0%</font></td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> <img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border="0" width="0" height="0" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/CIMP/JnB*PTEyMDI3Nzg2MDY4ODMmcD*2OTA4MSZkPSZuPWxpdmVqb3VybmFs.jpg" /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:424304 2007-12-31T20:45:03Z 2007-12-31T20:46:30Z Privilege Meme<br />Bold the ones that are true for you.<br /><br />The list is based on an exercise developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. The exercise developers ask that if you participate in this blog game, you acknowledge their copyright.<br /><br />If you post this in your blog, please leave a comment on this post. To participate in this blog game, copy and paste the above list into your blog, and bold the items that are true for you. If you don't have a blog, feel free to post your responses in the comments.<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br /><b>Father went to college<br />Father finished college (and graduate school)<br />Mother went to college<br />Mother finished college (and graduate school)<br />Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor <br />Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers<br />Had more than 50 books in your childhood home</b><br />Had more than 500 books in your childhood home<br /><b>Were read children's books by a parent<br />Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18<br />Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18<br />The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively</b><br />Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18<br /><b>Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs</b><br />Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs<br />Went to a private high school<br />Went to summer camp<br /><b>Had a private tutor before you turned 18<br />Family vacations involved staying at hotels (I'm bolding this one because we had a vacation home. I think that is about the same as staying at hotels.)<br />Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18</b><br />Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them<br />There was original art in your house when you were a child<br />Had a phone in your room before you turned 18<br /><b>You and your family lived in a single family house<br />Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home<br />You had your own room as a child </b><br />Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course<br />Had your own TV in your room in High School<br /><b>Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College</b> (with my own money that I earned)<br /><b>Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16</b><br />Went on a cruise with your family<br />Went on more than one cruise with your family<br /><b>Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up<br />You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family</b><br /><br />And now for my daughters...<br /><br /><b>Father went to college<br />Father finished college (MA, MBA)<br />Mother went to college <br />Mother finished college (MFA)<br />Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor <br />Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers<br />Had more than 50 books in your childhood home<br />Had more than 500 books in your childhood home <br />Were read children's books by a parent<br />Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18<br />Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18<br />The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively<br />Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 18<br />Your parents (or a trust) paid for the majority of your college costs <br />Your parents (or a trust) paid for all of your college costs</b><br />Went to a private high school<br />Went to summer camp<br />Had a private tutor before you turned 18<br />Family vacations involved staying at hotels - we only take one vacation a year. to the beach. We stay in a house.<br />Your clothing was all bought new before you turned 18 We get hand me downs from people with children older than ours. We also buy a lot new, especially for the older girl. <br />Your parents bought you a car that was not a hand-me-down from them NOT BUYING MY KIDS A CAR<br /><b>There was original art in your house when you were a child<br />Had a phone in your room before you turned 18 They'll have cell phones I am sure. That counts.<br />You and your family lived in a single family house<br />Your parent(s) owned their own house or apartment before you left home<br />You had your own room as a child<br />Participated in an SAT/ACT prep course</b><br />Had your own TV in your room in High School No freaking way thats gonna happen<br /><b>Owned a mutual fund or IRA in High School or College My kids have mutual funds now</b><br />Flew anywhere on a commercial airline before you turned 16 Don't know if they will or not.<br />Went on a cruise with your family This will never happen as their mother is notorious for getting sea sick.<br />Went on more than one cruise with your family<br /><b>Your parents took you to museums and art galleries as you grew up</b><br />You were unaware of how much heating bills were for your family We have family meeting every week, and one of the topics is finances. The girls both know how much we spend on things like heating, clothing, and food. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:418563 2007-11-17T20:19:55Z 2007-11-17T20:19:55Z <a href="http://www.lets101.com/quizzes/stars_say" style="border:0px solid blue; "> <img border="0" src="http://www.lets101.com/images/quiz/zodiac_cancer_txt.gif" /></a><p>Lets101 - <a href="http://www.lets101.com">Free Online Dating</a></p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:417105 2007-11-02T01:47:52Z 2007-11-02T01:47:52Z My life, my love should be returning to me shortly after spending the past two days in NYC.<br /><br />*smiles*<br /><br />I can not wait to see him. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:414646 2007-10-05T23:23:56Z 2007-10-05T23:26:44Z These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. I have added a star next to the ones I have taught.<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br /><br /><b>Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell</b> (149) <br />Anna Karenina (132)<br />Crime and punishment (121)<br /><i>Catch-22</i> (117)<br /><b>One hundred years of solitude</b> (115)<br /><b>Wuthering Heights</b> (110)<br />The Silmarillion (105)<br /><b>Life of Pi : a novel (94) <br />The Name of the Rose</b> (91) <br />Don Quixote (91)<br />Moby Dick (86) <br />Ulysses (84) <br /><b>Madame Bovary (83)<br />The Odyssey (84)<br />Pride and Prejudice (84)<br />Jane Eyre (80)<br />A Tale of Two Cities (81)</b><br />The brothers Karamazov (80)<br />Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies (79)<br />War and peace (78)<br />Vanity fair (74)<br /><b>The time traveler's wife (73)<br />The Iliad (74)<br />Emma (73)</b><br />The Blind Assassin (73)<br /><b>The kite runner</b> (71)<br />Mrs. Dalloway (70)<br /><b>Great Expectations (70)<br />American gods</b> (68)<br /><i>A heartbreaking work of staggering genius</i> (67)(a heartbreaking work of staggering boredom)<br /><b>Atlas shrugged (67)<br />Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books (66)<br />Memoirs of a Geisha (66)</b><br />Middlesex (66)<br />Quicksilver (66)<br /><b>Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West (65)<br />The Canterbury tales </b>(64)(in old English. the entire thing)<br />The historian : a novel (63)<br />A portrait of the artist as a young man (63)<br /><b>Love in the time of cholera</b> (62)<br />Brave new world (61)<br />The Fountainhead (61)<br /><b>Foucault's pendulum </b>(61) <br />Middlemarch (61)<br /><b>Frankenstein</b> (60)(I just read this over the summer)<br />The Count of Monte Cristo (60)<br />Dracula (60)<br />A clockwork orange (59)<br />Anansi boys (58)<br /><b>The once and future king (57)<br />The grapes of wrath (58)<br />The poisonwood Bible : a novel (57)<br />1984 (57)<br />Angels & demons (56)<br />The inferno (56)</b><br />The satanic verses (55) <br /><b>Sense and sensibility (55)<br />The picture of Dorian Gray</b>* (55)<br />Mansfield Park (55)<br /><b>One flew over the cuckoo's nest</b> *(54)<br />To the lighthouse (54)<br /><b>Tess of the D'Urbervilles </b>(54)<br />Oliver Twist (54) <br />Gulliver's travels (54)<br /><i>Les misérables</i> (54)I've tried 5 times. Just can't get through it.<br />The corrections (53)<br />The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay (52)<br />The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (52) (I have it on my bedside now)<br />Dune (52)<br /><b>The prince (51)<br />The sound and the fury </b>(51)<br />Angela's ashes : a memoir (51)<br />The god of small things (51)<br />A people's history of the United States : 1492-present (51)<br />Cryptonomicon (50) <br />Neverwhere (50) <br />A confederacy of dunces (50)<br />A short history of nearly everything (50)<br />Dubliners (50)<br /><b>The unbearable lightness of being(49)<br />Beloved (49)<br />Slaughterhouse-five (49)<br />The scarlet letter (49)</b>*<br />Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (48)<br /><b>The mists of Avalon (47)</b><br />Oryx and Crake : a novel (47)<br />Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed (47)<br />Cloud atlas (47)<br />The confusion (46)<br />Lolita (47)<br />Persuasion (46)<br />Northanger abbey (46)<br /><b>The catcher in the rye</b>* (46)<br />On the road (46) <br />The hunchback of Notre Dame (45)<br />Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything (45)<br /><i>Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance : an inquiry into values (45)</i> I tried<br />The Aeneid (45)<br /><b>Watership Down (44)</b><br />Gravity's rainbow (44) <br /><b>The Hobbit (45)</b><br />In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences (44)<br />White teeth (44)<br />Treasure Island (45)<br />David Copperfield (44)<br />The three musketeers (44) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:413020 2007-09-23T23:52:10Z 2007-09-23T23:52:10Z Long, luxurious dinner with new friends.<br /><br />Two new kittens.<br /><br />*smiles* urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:412072 2007-09-13T22:20:20Z 2007-09-13T22:20:20Z The top 10 careers for my interests:<br /><br />1.Special Education Teacher<br />2.Elementary School Teacher<br />3.High School Teacher<br />4.Teacher Assistant<br />5.Early Childhood Educator<br />6.Music Teacher / Instructor<br />7.ESL Teacher<br />8.Foreign Language Instructor<br />9.Special Effects Technician<br />10.Actor<br /> <br /><br />There's a drama teacher in there somewhere . . . urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:410937 2007-08-29T19:29:57Z 2007-08-29T19:29:57Z And Wednesday is essentially over.<br /><br />Where did the week go?<br /><br />Poof!<br /><br />And it's over. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dramama:407131 2007-07-23T00:43:25Z 2007-07-23T00:43:25Z My entire yard is infused with pink. It touches the blossoms on the magnolia trees and spills over to the lawn. I can not see the sunset, even when I go outside, because the trees are so high. But it must be a spectacular one.