So many! Reading, gardening, hiking, camping, homesteading, natural family living, music, environmental issues, parenting, adoption, homeschooling
Music
My favorite band of all time:
Movies
Viewed in 2008:
Lost in Translation (EXCELLENT)
Sex and the City
Family Guy: Blue Harvest
W.
War, Inc.
Puccini for Beginners
High Fidelity
Becoming Jane
Conversations with Other Women (LOVED it!)
Outsourced
The Jane Austen Book Club
Juno
The Other Bolyn Girl
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Amelie
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Girl with a Pearl Earing
Charlotte's Web
About Schmidt
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (FABULOUS!!!)
The Corporation
Marie Antionette
Spanglish
Dangerous Beauty
Kramer vs. Kramer
Mallrats
Sahara
Little Children
Cold Mountain
The Future of Food
Clerks
Bridge to Terebithia
Juno
William Shakespear's Romeo + Juliet
Garden State
Because of Winn Dixie
Love Actually
Ocean's Thirteen
The Wedding Singer
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Blades of Glory
10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
Reality Bites
The Thornbirds
The Simpsons Movie
The Count of Monte Cristo
Stardust
Syrianna
Television
Gilmore Girls, The Office, Northern Exposure, The Red Green Show, Posh Nosh, Pushing Daisies, Men in Trees, The Good Life/Good Neighbors, Sex and the City, Weeds
Books
Read in 2008:
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (yes, again. I'm such a sucker for this book)
The World Before Her by Deborah Weisgall
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
The Misadventures of Justin Hearnfeld by Dan Elish
No Plot? No Problem!: a Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Rescue from Domestic Perfection by Dan Ho
The Complete Walker IV by Colin Fletcher and Chip Rawlins
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Untamed by Helen Kirkman
The Men I Didn't Marry by Janice Kaplan and Lynn Schnurnberger
The Book of Eleanor: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine by Pamela Kaufman
Pompeii: a novel by Robert Harris
Innocence by Kathleen Tessaro
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure
Bridget Jones the Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding
Lost by Gregory Maguire
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
In Praise of Tomatoes: Tasty Recipes, Garden Secrets, Legends & Lore by Ronni Lundy
Lord John and the Hand of Devils by Diana Gabaldon
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade by Diana Gabaldon
Lord John and the Private Matter by Diana Gabaldon
Socks by Beverly Cleary
Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix (audiobook) by J.K Rowling
A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
Ben and Me (audiobook) by
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
1776 (audiobook) by David McCullough
Survival of the Prettiest: the science of beauty by Nancy Etcoff
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Natural Goat Care by Pat Coleby
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
Everything I Want to Do is illegal: War Stores from the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Austenland by Shannon Hale
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Cattle: An Informal Social History by Laurie Carlson
The No-work Garden by Bob Flowerdew
Beeing: Life, Motherhood, and 180,000 Honeybees by Rosanne Thomas
My Fine Feathered Friend by William Grimes
Other People's Children by Joanna Trollope
Extravagance by Gary Krist
50 Hikes in Minnesota by Gwen Ruff & Ben Woit
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
The Ivy Chronicles by Karen Quinn
The Art of Happiness (audiobook) by The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoeniz by J.K. Rowling
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (translated by Edith Grossman)
Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Little House in the Big Woods (audiobook) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Old Yeller (audiobook) by Fred Gipson
The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
Because of Winn-Dixie (audiobook) by Kate DiCamillo
Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them by Mark Jerome Walters
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (audiobook) by J.K. Rowling
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
A whole bunch of decorating books
The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro
Zipporah, wife of Moses by Marek Halter
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire<
The Future Homemakers of America
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Guide to the Superior Hiking Trail
Art of Mehandi- Teach Yourself Mehandi by Shalaka
Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals by Rachael Ray
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver- reading it again, it's one of my all-time favorite books.
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe- I'll admit that I gave up about halfway through the book. I rarely give up on books, but it just wasn't holding my interest the way I thought it would.
Lost in the Garden by Philip Beard
brokeback mountain by e. annie proulx
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden by William Alexander
Living with Chickens: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Backyard Flock by Jay Rossier
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD
Graduated: 1997
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: B.S. Psychology
Minor: Chemistry
Clubs: Pride of the Dakotas
1995 to 1998
Rosemount Sr.
Rosemount, MN
Graduated: 1995
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Band, color guard, speech, debate, student congress
1991 to 1995
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We spent the day at Cabellas. Went to Pizza Plus for supper and then went home and played Wii. Nothing too exciting. Are you still up for visitors tomorrow?
Hey girlie, we're counting down the days till we're 32 (you a few more than me!)!! Celebrate for me too, K? I'm sure dh won't do anything for me. So, when you're having your party party a little extra for me :P
Hi! Thanks for the "warning" on your blog. I thought it was also kind of funny, I think it was the first time I was mentioned on someone's blog. =) How's your toe doing???
You're not the only one who loves 90s music! KENDRA is always begging me to turn on the "90s" on XM! She was just starting to "bake" in '99 and wasn't ready till July of 2000! LOL! Luckily I like 90s music too ;)
