The rain is gushing down. There is just a sheet of rain going across all of the windows. Whoa.
The power is flickering and if I was smart, I’d be turning off the computers. But I’m not smart, so they are still on. Ok, that was close, I’m shutting it down. Skittles is so scared she just ran under a chair in the bedroom. So much for taking the trash out.
It’s good to know that not even an old phone with a bell in it can wake my husband at 4:30 in the morning. My mom just called. First thing I thought of was something has happened to someone. Well, that was sort of true. No one is seriously injured… but I don’t know much more than that. /sigh Luckily I was awake, otherwise I’d have freaked out when I heard the phone.
My sinuses are completely out of wack. There are moments when I feel like the only way to feel better is to cut out part of my head. Obviously that isn’t an option, but man oh man have I felt horrible. It’s the fickle weather as usual. It’s not a sinus infection, but rather dryness. Running the A/C is making things really bad.
I really need to try and get some sleep. No really, I do. I really need to try. If only I hadn’t drank about 6 liters of water in the past three hours.
My husband is on the phone with some of his EQ buddies. There is a party (a party party) and they are passing the phone around talking to him. Kids are so silly. The problem with this is that my hearing is super sensitive right now and I can hear him and the folks on the other side, from one end of the house to the other. I’m so tired right now, but I can’t sleep.
I have to get up in about six or seven hours. /sigh
I’m watching the very end of a Junkyard Wars episode. One of the boats has a name called “Binky II” and it just won. How cute.
Josh is away at his friends doing car stuff and all. I’m here cleaning and figuring out stuff. Tomorrow is a busy day. We are heading up to Ryder Corner (nestled close to Sunapee). There are going to be quite a few people there visiting. I have a bunch of food to take up for lunches and stuff. It should be fun. I’m charging up all of my batteries for my digital camera. I think I’ll have about five hours of life between them all. That should be enough!
Ooh, Josh just called, he’s on his way home. Dinner should be done by then.
The A/C is killing my sinuses. It’s pulling all of the humidity out of here and I feel like I’m going to die. The pain was so bad that I ended up getting about four hours of sleep last night and can’t seem to nap any. How insane is that? I can’t nap!! Mommy
I still get that feeling of anticipation and excitement when I hear the mailman or delivery man ring the buzzer. “Something for me? I wonder who it’s from. I’m not expecting anything. I wonder what it is.” Why all of this now? I got that feeling the other day. My friend sent me a package. I think I like smiling.
Growing up I always wanted to be the one to check the mail. I always hoped that something came for me. In college I anxiously checked my mail to see if my mom or sister-in-law had sent something. A little letter (drawing) from my niece, pictures, a stash of werthers candy, and the always popular quarters for laundry. Once I got a bag of Combos that were immediately torn open and finished within ten minutes (thanks Ron). Surprises were always welcome and very much appreciated.
I get packages every once in a while. I still send some out myself. It’s always nice to make someone smile, especially when they least expect it.
My mom has always been consistent with post cards. Always sending one when I least expect it. I think I have them all. My three year old niece has begun to take up this hobby. She has been sending Josh and I little pictures on post cards and letters she has written. It makes me smile. Yes, I know it now. I like to smile.
I’m writing this from downstairs in the laundry room. I’m so excited that it actually worked. I feel like a dork, but damnit I’m excited that the signal actually made it through the floor!! Excitement!
I can hear Josh watching Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back in the other room. I think he might be watching the deleted scenes and stuff since it sounds like he’s in a much later part of the movie. Silly Josh.
Gary, you’re the best! Just yesterday I was thinking about how you sit and wait for the mailman, hoping he has something for you. Only now that I am older I sit and wait, but hope that it’s not all bills. Today the mailman had something for me. Not bills, but a box. Gary sent me stuff. I absolutely love getting stuff in the mail. It’s just fun that way. I’ve already had to hide some of the stuff from Skittles because she wants to play with them. Silly kitty.
After over a month of searching, I finally found the correct battery for the cordless phone. I found it nestled in the back of the display at OfficeMax. Go figure. I was a little disappointed that they didn’t carry any accessories for my Clie other than the memory sticks and even those they didn’t have anything over 32mb. /sigh
Long list ahead:
From The top 100 books of all time
I’ve only crossed off ones that I have read and still remember a large part, if not all of the story.
* denotes books I know that I still own
Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart
*Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
*Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice
Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot
Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions
Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights
*Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger
Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales
Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo
*Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy
Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations
Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch
Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man
Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea
William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust
Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls
Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum
Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.
Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
*Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll’s House
The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).
James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses
Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia
Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala
Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek
DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers
Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People
Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems
Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook
Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking
Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC). Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi
Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain
Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick
Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays. Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History
Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved
Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji
Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita
Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).
George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984
*Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses
Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet
Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales
Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past
Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo
Jalal ad-din Rumi, Iran, (1207-1273), Mathnawi
Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight’s Children
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard
Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North
Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness
*William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
*Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King
Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black
Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno
*Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver’s Travels
Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories
Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).
*Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana
*Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid
Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass
Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian