To satisfy my own curiosity, this is going to be a continual list of books I have read for one year. Starting December 13, 2007, and projected to end on December 12, 2008, each book I have completed will be placed this list.

1. The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower by Stephen King. Completed Monday December 10, 2007.
2. Sherwood by Parke Godwin. Started Tuesday, December 11, 2007. Completed Monday December 24, 2007.
3. 1066: The Year of the Conquest by David Howarth. Started Tuesday, December 25, 2007. Completed Wednesday January 2 2008.
4. Hood by Stephen Lawhead. Started Thursday, January 3, 2008. Completed Thursday, January 10, 2008.
5. Scarlet by Stephen Lawhead. Started Friday, January 11, 2008. Completed Thursday, January 17, 2008.
6. Great Harry by Carolly Erickson. Started Thursday, January 17, 2008. Completed Monday, February 4, 2008.
7. The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillippa Gregory. Started Tuesday, February 5, 2008. Completed Wednesday, February 13, 2008.
8. Under The Black Flag by David Cordingly. Started Wednesday, February 13, 2008. Completed Friday, February 29, 2008.
9. Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig. Started Thursday, February 28, 2008. Completed Tuesday, March 4, 2008.
10. Finding the Walls of Troy by Susan Heuck Allen. Started Friday, February 29, 2008.
11. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling. Started Tuesday, March 4, 2008. Completed Thursday, March 6, 2008.
12. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling. Started Thursday, March 6, 2008. Completed Monday, March 10, 2008.
13. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Started Tuesday, March 11, 2008. Completed Monday, March 31, 2008.
14. Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley. Started Tuesday, April 01, 2008. Completed Tuesday, April 15, 2008.
15. The Boleyn Inheritance by Phillipa Gregory. Started Wednesday, April 16, 2008. Completed Monday, April 28, 2008.
16. Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher. Started Monday, April 28, 2008. Completed Saturday, May 10, 2008.
17. Convergence: Book One of the Blending by Sharon Green. Started Monday, May 12, 2008. Completed Tuesday, May 20, 2008.
18. Competitions: Book Two of the Blending by Sharon Green. Started Wednesday, May 21, 2008. Completed Saturday, May 31, 2008.
19. Challenges: Book Three of the Blending by Sharon Green. Started Sunday, June 1, 2008. Completed Sunday, June 15, 2008.
20. Betrayals: Book Four of the Blending by Sharon Green. Started Monday, June 15, 2008. Completed Wednesday, June 25, 2008.
I'm really starting to suck at keeping track of the books. Dates starting from around book #15 are mostly guesses. Sigh.
21. Prophecy: Book Five of the Blending by Sharon Green. Started Wednesday, June 25, 2008. Completed Friday, July 4, 2008.
22. Intrigues: Book One of The Blending Enthroned by Sharon Green. Started Friday, July 4, 2008.
23. Deceptions: Book Two of The Blending Enthroned by Sharon Green.
24. Destiny: Book Three of The Blending Enthroned by Sharon Green.
25. The Queen's Fool by Phillipa Gregory.
26. The Virgin's Lover by Phillipa Gregory.
27. Katherine Howard by Joanna Denny.
28. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
29. The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory.
30. The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
31. The Conqueror by Georgette Heyer.
32. The Duchess by Amanda Foreman. Started Sunday Oct 12, 2008. Completed Satruday, Nov 01, 2008.
33. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling. Started Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008. Completed Sunday, Oct 26, 2008.
34. Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coehlo. Started Sunday, Nov 02, 2008. Completed Wednesday, Nov 05, 2008.
35. Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb. Started Wednesday, Nov 05, 2008.
36. Mad Ship by Robin Hobb.
37. Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb.
38. Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb.
39. Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb. Completed Sunday, Dec 14, 2008.
40. Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb. Started Monday, Dec 15, 2008.
41. Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb. Completed Tuesday, Jan 13, 2009.
42. Golden Fool by Robin Hobb. Started Wednesday, Jan 14, 2009. Completed Saturday, Jan 24, 2009.
43. Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb. Started Sunday, Jan 25, 2009. Completed Sunday, Feb 01, 2009.
44. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Started Sunday, Feb 01, 2009. Completed Tuesday, Feb 03, 2009.
45. Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques. Started Tuesday, Feb 03, 2009. Completed Saturday, Feb 08, 2009.
46. The Angel's Command by Brian Jaqcues. Started Saturday, Feb 08, 2009.
47. Voyage of Slaves by Brian Jacques. Completed Friday, Feb 20, 2009.
48. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. Started Saturday, Feb 21, 2009.

Steve and I bought a PS3 a week ago Thursday. This has not been good for my class/home/school work. I haven't done a whole lot. I also haven't gone to bartending school for a while. Both bad things. But the damn game we got for it is soooo much fun!!!!!! Little Big Planet.

Ok. That's really all I have to say. I should really get on the ball and do the rest of my homework, but what I'm gonna do is play that stupidly fun game, finish my beer, and then go to bed.

And get up in the morning and play the game some more.. I mean, do my homework. I have to write 5 more lesson plans and make a test. And actually, I think I have some reading also. Ugh. So tired of classes. I really need classes to be during the week, not every other weekend. It kills me. I'm such a procrastinator!

Happy Birthday to me! So far, awesome!

Sunday night--- birthday dinner with the family--- and a few presents! My brandnew pink!! camera, and some moneys! Love some moneys! And camera! Finally I have my own!!!

Monday--- went to the zoo (free zoo) and looked at a baby monkey and a baby giraffe and then had some pizza and went to play trivia and had some yummy drinks!! (Maybe a few too many..?)

And Tuesday is finally my birthday and we'll see what is in store!! I already got a birthday cuppy-cake that Steve made himself... :)

Ok, so I'm trying out Google calendars.. I want to use it! Only cause it's a new fun thing to play with mostly..

But! I want to have my classes in different colors. I want to click on one of the classes and see the details I've entered on it, not go to the entire edit entry page. I want to have a tiny little calendar on my desktop but I don't see any way to do any of those things. Hmmph.

My car didn't start yesterday. Which was fine, since I don't have class on Thursdays, yay! But unfortunately, my mum had called me at 8:30 asking me to drive my sister around because her car was not starting (apparently a bad fuel line or somesuch). So I get up and shower and dress and grab my laundry cause if I can do laundry at home, I'm gonna. Drag it all down to my car... turn the key.... and it almost turns over but doesn't. And continues to tease me until I decide that it just isn't going to cooperate. Now, since my sister's car was apparently doing the exact same thing, I was worried that it was the same issue. I was pretty sure that my truck was just too cold to move, and that ended up being the problem. Make a long story short, my mum picked me up yesterday, I did my laundry and then took my mum's car home so I could get to school today. Of course, when I got home, I tried my truck again and it started.

Today.. its -21 out, and I knew there was no way that my truck would start. I tried anyway. It didn't. So lucky that I had my mum's car so I could get to class. Not that I really wanted to go, but I did. And I got a really close parking spot, yay!

Hopefully today will be the end of so-cold-the-truck-won't-start weather, so I can drive around like normal for the next few days.

So for a while now, I've been pretty sure that the hotel we booked for our reception was screwing with us. We went in..I dunno, early October to sign the papers to reserve the date for the reception. I was pretty psyched. We didn't get any paperwork, but G. (the sales/event coordinator) was going to send me the paperwork in the mail. I never go anything. I don't know why I didn't ask for it when we were there. Actually, I do. G. had a bad case of the flu, and I didn't want to either catch it or keep her from going home. So I didn't dawdle too much at the hotel.

I sent her a couple of e-mails since then to find out about the paperwork- and when she was going to take the deposit-cause I gave her my debit card number. Thankfully, there have been NO suspicious charges on the card--so I'm not too worried about that (although, because I transferred money that was never taken out it still got spent). But I never ever got any responses, and I was getting upset.

On Monday, I got an email from the hotel. From a new sales/event coordinator. I don't know what happened to G. but apparently she quit/left/died? and there is a new person in her place. I have no idea what to do now. I guess I don't have the hotel reserved and now I really don't want to have the reception at that hotel anymore. It wasn't ever my top choice, but it was a pretty good deal and was including a lot of stuff in the deposit/rental--floor length table linens, nice chairs, cake!, reasonable food prices, unlimited entree options... a lot of good deals.

I just don't want to go back there and have them screw me over again.

Quite frankly, I don't even want to plan this wedding. I could care less about having a reception. I just want something simple, and pretty and low-key.

Las Vegas would be awesome. Simple, low-key, easy. Unfortunately, Steve doesn't really want to do that.

I'm pissed. Sad.. frustrated. Wedding planning is supposed to be fun and exciting.

When I first started imagining the wedding, it was just very white and clean, with lots of floweres and outdoors and on a sunny day. I always saw it in my parents backyard. I really want to go back to that. I would like to have just people I'm close to there. I don't want 150 guests!!!! I want like, 30. Maybe 40. I know this is Steve's wedding too, but we don't agree on the guest list, or when I explain what I want I feel like I"m being pushy. And bridezilla.

I just need somebody to plan for me. I'm so tired of trying to do this wedding planning. And it doesn't help that for the last 3 months life at "home" sucked. It was mostly because of that asshole roommate we had. And now, that we are finally in our own place, I don't want to think about wedding planning because it is just stressful.

This sucks.

Today's Horoscope:

You might look around your house today and think of some new and exciting ways you could spruce it up a little, dear Taurus. Perhaps some new paint, wallpaper, carpet, or even some small art object could make a big difference, and you'll want to try it. A romantic partner could spend a lot of time working on this with you, and this might well bring you closer together. Have fun!

What I did all day today:
Unpacked boxes with Steve in our new apartment!!!

Hilarious horoscope that was actually on for once. Crazy.

OH MY GOD! WHOO HOOO FOR OBAMA!!!
I've been very quiet on this front. Mostly because I've been leaning toward Obama since the beginning but I never really wanted to say anything yay or nay. Not sure why.

But I'm much more nervous about the Minnesota Senate polls. As of 10:40 pm, the polls are tied at 42% for Coleman and Franken. I just don't know. I really don't want Franken. I really don't. I'm not really excited for Coleman either, but I think he is much better than Franken. I kinda wish I had gone with Barkley. Even though that would have been a complete shut-out.

I'm just really nervous. I think Franken would be awful. Coleman at least, is proven in that role and takes things seriously. But it's fucking tied. I believe there are 4 or 5 districts left to get in.

Arrrggh.

Here's hopin for Coleman, frankly. I know, crossing party lines and whatnot, but I think Franken would be awful. Along the lines of Ventura awful.

Lately I've been thinking about people I used to be friends with. Mostly about how friendship with them shaped me and affected how I dealt/deal with people. How my relationships with my current friends could be better.
I've wanted to contact former friends for a long time. I'm not sure if its to find out how they are, and to see where they are at in thier life, and compare with myself-- and this is the bad part-- to either gloat or to see if they are "ahead" of me in where I feel I should be in "life-changing events". Its really awful I know.
I'm pretty sure this stems from me wanting to feel as though I am succeeding in life, and to affirm that I am a good, responsible, able, successful person.
It stems from me not having met goals that I feel I should have achieved by this point in my life. I know that it's dumb but I can't help it. I suppose I can help it. I need to change my mindset.
I need to start thinking that I have accomplished a lot.
I have a Bachelor's Degree in Archaeology.
I'm going to school for a Master's Degree in Education.
I have a wonderful, loving, funny fiance, whom I love very much.
I have a job.
I have a place to live.
I have a family that loves me.
I am capable of doing many great things in life.

Ugh. Enough positive stuff. I was thinking that I was going to just say that I spy on former friends (that I can find online) and gloat. Well, I do. And I realize that it's kinda stupid and childish but in a small way it makes me feel good. But now, I just want to contact them and say hey, congrats! You got engaged. Or Congrats, you had a baby! or whatever. But then I'm a little afraid that they would say screw you back. I dunno.

I'll probably just post this and continue on with not contacting them, because then I remember why I'm not friends with them anymore. Because I turn into something I don't want to be. Well, something worse than the crabby bitch I can be. LOL.

I'm tired of trying to figure out where to have this damn wedding. Although, I think I may have found the place. It's a pub. A British-style pub but it looks great! One problem is that it can accommodate up to maybe 100 people... I have to get more information of course. And I think we are going to go check it out this week on vacation!

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