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  1. I did NOT do this one, but this was my inspiration for making them. :D
  2. I'm rejoining after dropping off the face of the earth in the holiday craziness. I can't multiquote!!! Robin, the list looks good! I might not follow along exactly, but it's good to see some of my favorite authors on there. I love audiobooks in the car. It helps me concentrate. This is a recent development for me as I never saw the appeal until I had to start driving a lot. :) Currently reading: I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett. Week 52 – Wrap UP! How many books did I read? 60 and Did I meet my personal goal? Yes, I actually dropped my goal down after I got into some very big books, and then I surpassed my original goal. Rereads: 5 Most thrilling, oh my goodness, I want to read it again, unputdownable book: Anna Dressed in Blood or A Hat Full of Sky Top 5 favorite stories: Deathless by Valente, Words of Radiance by Sanderson, The Way of Kings by Sanderson, Neverwhere by Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Gaiman, The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Rothfuss, Wee Free Men by Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky by Pratchett. Ok, that's more than five, but I purposefully didn't include rereads. :) Least favorite book(s): Gone Girl by Flynn. This one left me actually angry at reading it and was the first book to make me not want to read for awhile. Biggest waste of my time: One Second After by Forstchen or Fifty Shades of Grey by James. Most disturbing: Gone Girl. I'm kind of mad that I have to write that title out so many times on this list when I'd rather concentrate on the books worth reading to me. ;) Also-The Winter People. This left me with nightmares and insomnia. Most anticipated but totally and completely let me down book: Gone Girl by Flynn New author discovery (to me): Jim Butcher, Catherine Valente, Michael J. Sullivan, Scott Lynch, Rysa Walker What countries did I explore: USA, Discworld, Canada, New Beijing, France, Russia, Wales, England, Around the World with WWZ, Middle Earth, Temerant, Camorr, Roshar. What centuries did I explore: Early US History to Reconstruction, fantasy times, modern, dystopian futures, Reconstruction South including WWI-II. Favorite Place to visit: Discworld Favorite character: Nac Mac Feegles :) Least favorite character: All of them in Gone Girl. Favorite story: This is unfair. If I really had to pick (and I would protest), it would maybe possibly be The Slow Regard of Silent Things. Favorite quote(s): I couldn't pick just one. My Tiffany Aching books were thoroughly bookmarked for writing down quotes. “The secret is not to dream," she whispered. "The secret is to wake up. Waking up is harder. I have woken up and I am real. I know where I come from and I know where I'm going. You cannot fool me any more. Or touch me. Or anything that is mine.†― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30) “It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.†― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30) “I'll never be like this again . . . I'll never again feel as tall as the sky and as old as the hills and as strong as the sea. I've been given something for a while, and the price of it is that I have to give it back. And the reward is giving it back, too. No human could live like this. You could spend a day looking at a flower to see how wonderful it is, and that wouldn't get the milking done. No wonder we dream our way through our lives. To be awake, and see it all as it really is...no one could stand that for long.†― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30) “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.†― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32) “Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between. This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws! In my human mouth I have the pointy teeth of a wolf and the chisel teeth of a rabbit and the grinding teeth of a cow! Our blood is as salty as the sea we used to live in! When we're frightened, the hair on our skin stands up, just like it did when we had fur. We are history! Everything we've ever been on the way to becoming us, we still are. [...] I'm made up of the memories of my parents and my grandparents, all my ancestors. They're in the way I look, in the colour of my hair. And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think.†― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32) "She wasn’t crying, which is not the same as, well, not crying. People walked around not crying all the time and didn’t think about it at all. But now, she did. She thought: I’m not crying." Wee Free Men "Why should he be spared?''Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared." Deathless “I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.†― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless “Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.†― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30) “To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.†― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things “I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.†― Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things One book that touched me – made me laugh, cry, sing or dance: Maniac Magee Am I ready to do it again: Yes! Goals for 2015: 52 books, and hopefully I'll hit more than that. I'd like to read a lot more about Discworld, finish a large stack of half-read books, some anatomy books for a program I'm in, and read a bunch of sequels I'm anxiously awaiting. I'm still going for more fluff this year until life gets less hectic. Books read in 2014: Fool Moon by Jim Butcher Grave Peril by Jim Butcher Death Masks by Jim Butcher Blood Rites by Jim Butcher Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (reread) French Kids Eat Everything by Karen le Billon Dead Beat by Jim Butcher Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher Teaching Children Compassionately by Marshall Rosenberg Stardust (re-read) by Neil Gaiman The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman A History of US: The New Nation A History of US: War, Terrible War A History of US: Liberty for All? Elantris by Brandon Sanderson Across Five Aprils Fifty Shades of Grey The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch Crown Conspiracy by Michael J. Sullivan Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett Avempartha by Michael J. Sullivan Nyphron Rising by Michael J. Sullivan Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Coraline by Neil Gaiman Emerald Storm by Michael J. Sullivan The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Fellowship of the Ring (re-read) Timebound by Rysa Walker Time's Echo by Rysa Walker The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan One Second After by Forstchen The Two Towers by Tolkien (reread) Alas, Babylon by Frank Steelheart by Sanderson Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Taylor Maniac Magee by Spinelli Asylum by Roux Gone Girl by Flynn World War Z by Brooks (reread) Make Good Art by Gaiman Hollow City by Riggs The Rithmatist by Sanderson Anna Dressed in Blood by Blake The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Rothfuss The Winter People by McMahon Rascal by North Deathless by Valente Flotsam & Jetsam by Ryan Girl of Nightmares by Blake The Wee Free Men by Pratchett The Family Under the Bridge by Carson A Hat Full of Sky by Pratchett Wintersmith by Pratchett Cinder by Meyer A Tale Dark and Grimm by Gidwitz A History of US: Reconstructing America Began but didn't finish: American Gods by Gaiman (reread) The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland...by Valente Return of the King by Tolkien Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Warbreaker by Sanderson The Eyes of the Dragon by King The Mysterious Benedict Society A History of US: An Age of Extremes All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Fulghum (reread)
  3. Interview went well. BUT the job needed to begin 6 months earlier than expected which would have left us a week to sell a house and move our large family cross-country without giving his current job notice. So we had to pass and I'm really upset about it. :(
  4. I'm starting a ceramics class next week. No idea what to make-it's pretty free form. I was thinking some sheep yarn holders. I have two cowls and some chicken sweaters (yup) to make for a friend. Some AG sweaters are on my needles. As is a slouchy hat I'll finish someday. I have some peg people that need finished, a belly cast that needs painted, and a quilt that needs bound and which reminded me how much I suck at sewing.
  5. You should give it a go! I'm on the two year path. At this cost, I better stick with it. :)
  6. They don't smear, but yes they bleed through thinner paper about as much as my other bright pens.
  7. I prefer my Sharpie pens and Pigma Microns. :)
  8. Absolutely. That's some fodder for my insomnia ridden brain tonight. :) I have a feeling we would be a LOT more unschooly and anarchist. Feeding my inner teen, you'd say. ;)
  9. Whole30 CAN be vegetarian. http://whole30.com/2014/09/vegetarian-whole30/ http://whole30.com/downloads/whole30-veg-shopping-list.pdf
  10. Yup. Information is a big issue for me. ADHD and hyperfocusing means I can get lost for weeks obsessing over the perfect curricula. Sadly, it's one reason I tend to avoid some of the more curriculum themed posts on here.
  11. I think my mom was too lazy or poor for the rubber pants. Most pics of me I'm just in the prefold or flat. :) My brothers were disposable diapers. My last three kids wore prefolds and wool pants 90% of the time. I strangely miss it!
  12. What washi tape did you order? I'm on the look out for some cute animal/forest type stuff.
  13. There's one for teens, too. I couldn't find it online for some reason, but I own it.
  14. For the older kids, Real Food Nutrition is great. Partly it would depend on your own nutrition beliefs. There are many schools of thought. I also study Nutrition and Physical Degeneration and Nina Planck's Real Food with older kids. I also have many of the Restorative Exercise and MobilityWOD videos and books to teach my kids biomechanics, self-care, etc.
  15. Helping my teen with her French and using my old college French texts. :) I was thinking of trying Duolingo, too, for the pronunciation.
  16. I enrolled in a local ceramics class. I also signed up to begin certification as a Restorative Exercise Specialist. On my own, I will be learning Swedish, Norwegian, Viking Languages, and refreshing my French.
  17. I could cry. Everything. As usual. The past four months or so have been complete and total chaos.
  18. I made myself a leather Midori-type cover and a few blank booklets, so I'm loving all these ideas!
  19. A cup from me to me that I had the kids pretend was from them :D Kid: A handmade ornament $.50 (one of the kids LOL) Dh: Two Walking Dead Compendiums My Mom: A Verismo Skyrim A Dammit doll iphone projector My Mom went a wee bit nuts this year. I only knew I was getting the mug! MIL and GMILs: a pair of socks, a to-go mug, some candy, and some money.
  20. I've had the Royal for a decade and it hasn't failed me yet even with kids playing on it!
  21. Mine isn't very accurate, either. It counted one walk I know I've clocked with maps, fitbit, and phone as ~1.2 miles as .5 miles several times. And apparently walking for 7 hours straight? That was 1/2 mile. My patoot. I'm not very impressed.
  22. Yes. And if you are near a Barnes & Noble, some have rare signed copies in the shelves. Check it out if you're a fan!
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