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I sent this to CO but I don't know if Theo got it or not. So I'm posting it here...
Yes, I have a fish at work, it's a betta. I made a little video to show you how I feed him :-D It's a cell phone vid, so obviously, the quality is lower. Ignore the sound!
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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, and strikeout the books you read but didn't like.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only 6 or less and make them read.
1. Pride 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 Hitchhiker'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. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs 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 Meaney - 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 Huxley59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 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' 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 - Enid Blyton
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 Dahl100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo I did start reading it, but I stopped at the neverending rendition of that battle of Waterloo.
20!! Not bad, huh?
What’s a simple thing you could do to save money, but are unwilling (or unable) to put to practice?
Bring my lunch to work. I hate sammiches!!! I often eat at a cafeteria where they serve soup, a hot meal, dessert and a drink for 6.93$. Can't beat that. And it's a balanced meal.
So I won't bore you with details.
Have a baby tiger instead...
If you know me, you know I hate to cook (used to?). I just can't do it (or couldn't?). I can make pasta, sandwiches and eggs. Mr Laney is the one who cooks.
In the past years however, his cooking has become more and more occasional because he gets home later than me, usually very tired and doesn't feel like cooking. So we ate crap or ordered take out. After maxing the credit cards, paying one of them and watching it fill up again because of our fud habits, I decided I needed to try and make a few meals.
At first, I wanted to take cooking classes, but those are expensive. I asked my mom for a few ideas, but it still didn't help. Recently, I got a genius idea. I was going to watch cooking shows to pick up ideas and how to do things.
Well, guess what? It worked! It's been a couple of weeks now, and I usually report my progress on CuteTalk, but I decided today that I was going to post them here too. There's a lot of cooking blogs out there, but none of them are from a novice cook and also include pictures of cute animals.
Alright, here's the first recipe I tried. One one of the cooking shows, there was one recipe that inspired me. It's this wun.
I decided to change it a bit and I made it a few weeks ago. Mr Laney was in Quebec city, so I had free rein over this, not having him telling me how to do things (so I had to trust myself), and not having to take this tastes into account. When I told him what I did, he was quite proud and wanted me to make it one the next day when he was due back. Um, no, how about next week?
Here's my ingredient list for my Fettuccine in a white wine sauce with spinach and prosciutto.
Salt and black pepper to taste
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
4 cloves garlic, crushed
2 slices of prosciutto (I thought it was barely enough for one, so you might want to add some. If you think prosciutto is too salty, try smoked prosciutto, that's what I did)
2 dried whole bay leaves (that's all there was left)
1 bag of spinach
1/2 cup of white wine (that's all there was left, but you can substitute this with stock)
half of a 375 grams box of spinach fettuccine.
I used whatever I had at home, all I had to buy was the spinach. But I will try it over plain spaghetti next time.
INSTRUCTIONS
1.Set a large pot of water to boil and salt it. Put the oil, garlic, prosciutto, and bay leaves in a large, deep skillet or casserole and
turn the heat to medium. Cook just until the garlic colors, then add the spinach and raise the heat to high. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the spinach starts to cook.
2. Add the stock and continue to cook until the spinach becomes tender. Meanwhile, cook the pasta.
3. When the pasta is tender but not mushy, drain it, reserving some of the cooking water. Toss the spinach and pasta together, adding some of the cooking liquid if necessary to moisten the mixture. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper. Serve.
The bumblebee bat!! SQUEEEEE!!!!
Alright, those aren't kitten-cute, but still! Considering the amount of insects bats eat in one night, I'm thinking of making a bat house for my backyard. I hate mosquitoes!
I had aquatic turtles as a teenager, red-eared ones. The trouble with these is that you have to clean their water very very often, like twice a week often. The last time I had turtles, I was 18-19, and I remember that I had two filters in their aquarium and it wasn't enough. Saying that these things are like pigs wouldn't be right since pigs are supposed to be clean animals. But they were really cute.
I would like to have a turtle again in the future. I always check out the reptiles section. Sometimes, they have small land turtles like these.
By the way, I don't know what the distinction between "turtle" and "tortoise" is supposed to be. There's only one word in French : tortue. So I will use either freely here.
Now, I wouldn't get a sulcata. They're adorable as babies, but can get as big as 150 pounds as adults. DO NOT WANT!! I'm sure there's a breed out there that would remain small. But since I don't feel like looking for that now, I'll just post more sulcata pics since they're so adorabulz.
EDIT : While looking for pictures, I came across this!
http://littlegreen.typepad.com/romansock/2008/01/tortoise-power.html
I think I want to learn how to crochet!!
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Laney said:
ROTFLOL. That's an excellent question. Let's have Theo ponder on it. read more
on This one's for Theo
on I heart toitoiz!!