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I'm totally and hopelessly in love with Duke Special :) I finally bought one of his cd's after listening mp3's over and over and then having my computer nearly die on me. It was the best purchase ever. And he sings in his actual accent and it's lovely :D On a different note i hate when people disappear from my life :(
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So last year i went to the dentist because i thought i had cracked a tooth, turns out it wasn't cracked it was just a tiny bit of calcium build up...grand right? NO, they did x-rays and it turns out have a pinpoint cavity, my first in 26 1/2 years. I get it filled and thought that was the end of it. But it wasn't. Since then it's given me problems off and on, which for me is rare because i've never ever had any tooth problems. Finally last week my mom talked me into making an appointment for her dentist to check it out. I didn't want to because i don't have any form of insurance and thought it was silly to go get it checked out when i can't afford to fix it if something was wrong. Went in this morning and the dental assistant couldn't find anything so they take an x-ray and call the dentist in. Dentist does a hot test and said i need a root canal :( It's $2,000...how crazy is that! This country is out of hand, seriously. At least i can go get my prescriptions for $4 lol.
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It should be a right, but right now it's a privilege I cannot afford. Anyone who says it should be a privilege probably already has it has probably not had to worry about it constantly like some of us do. |
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Okay so this is really odd but last week I was at a Walmart in Sandusky and on my way in i was looking at the vending machines and found one called Santos. It has all these saints in there and Pope John Paul II. So yeah i had $1 in change on me and got the Pope and Our Lady of Guadalupe. I'm not even catholic and i love these things lol. I want more but it sucks because i'll probably never go back to that walmart :( So if anyone out there goes to a store and sees these things and feels like humoring me lol, i'll reimburse ya if you'd be so kind to get a couple for me :) 
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Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-) 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 Hitch Hiker'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 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 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 Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir 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's 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 Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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Okay so i have a new obsession. Ya know how you sometimes get sucked into tv shows and if there is a marathon of them on you'll just sit there and watch every one? Well yeah i did that the other night with the show Man vs. Wild. I think i'm addicted to it and now watch it every time it's on lol. Last night i stayed up until 3am watching it, hey it's not like i can sleep anyway. It's educational anyway hehe :D I've even learned how to use my watch as a compass and that i can eat different sorts of moss and drink my own pee LOL. It's not likely that any of those will ever happen, but hey i know things now. Plus the host Bear Grylls, yeah i kinda think i have a crush on him. I'm at my uncle's house sitting, boring as usual and their internet connection is kinda slow. Somehow i hurt my ankle on that ghost tour, i think it was at Squire's castle, and today i'm having loads of trouble walking :( It sucks because i don't have insurance so it'll cost me an arm and a leg to get it looked at. Might just wrap it up and stay off it for a day. So the time changed and i'm sad because it's 5pm and it's nearly pitch black outside. I went to the mall with Katelyn last night and they already have all their christmas stuff up and they are playing christmas music in the stores. I love christmas, but this is too much too soon! Plus Cormac is supposed to be coming here for christmas and new year's but he hasn't booked his ticket yet and the price keeps going up. I don't think he'll be able to afford it and that just makes me feel blah and not want to celebrate. Still nothing on the student work visa, i'm getting rather upset about that whole thing again. I wish it was easier!
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So I get home from class yesterday about 11:30am and I knew right away something was wrong. My brother's work stuff was on the washer, but he wasn't there. I knew he went to work that morning because we left about the same time. I walk in and my mom says don't take your shoes off we've got to go. They rushed my grandfather to the hospital about an hour or so earlier because he was having chest pains. So i started crying right away. You have to understand that previous to this my grandpa has had 4 heart attacks, a triple bypass, and two stents put in his arteries. There really isn't much of his heart left, maybe about 1/4 that works okay, so I was so scared that this would be a bad one. Got to Fairview in record time. I'm kinda pissed because my mom didn't call me while i was in class and tell me to come home, but she didn't want me doing 90mph all the way home. The nurse said it didn't look like it was a heart attack, but they were doing more tests and blood work every hour. Well yeah some of the tests came back abnormal so they sent him to the cath lab immediately. We waited and waited and waited and wow what do you know, no one ever came to talk to us or tell us what was going on. After two hours of waiting we grabbed someone and asked. They brought us to another room and made us wait another 30 minutes then they tell us he's been out of the cath lab for an hour and in a room....WTF?? The doc didn't even come out to talk to us. Anyway they had to put a stent in one of his arteries because it was 95% blocked, a result of scar tissue. Now his heart rate is really low so they want to talk to him about putting a fibulator(sp?) in his chest incase this happens again or his heart rate gets too low, it was only 40 last night and they had to wake him. My poor grandmother is in bits and i feel so bad for her. I think he's gonna be okay, he's already talking about going back to work lol. We'll have to see how things go i guess.
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We put my dog down today. It was so sad coming home to no barks from Buddy and that wagging tail. I've been crying off and on all day. We also had my mom's cat put down, so it's a double blow. Our other cat seems sort of lost with no other animals in the house. Why do I get so attached??
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So on my way to college this morning the weather wasn't the best and let's face it people don't know how to drive. I was waiting at a stop light when all of a sudden...bang! This dude behind me slams into the rear end of my car. I freaked a bit and screamed because I didn't know what was happening. I'm okay, except for a bit of a sore neck and back. The car seems fine but i haven't fully checked it out yet, i'll have Bill look at it. I was shaking when I got to my french class...I was thinking about going home but we had a test and I couldn't miss it. I'm so glad it wasn't anything worse, i'm lucky. In other news, it's FREEZING!!!!!!!!! I nearly turned into an ice cube today walking from college to my car. And it's snowing, oh boy. I want out of Ohio!
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I'm off to Ireland :o) Wooohooo!!!! Take care everyone and i'll try and update when I can.
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I think we might have to get my dog put to sleep. He can't walk properly on his own. His back leg goes out and he just drags his ass along. I thought it would get better by this morning but i had to help him outside in the snow and he pretty much fell down the two steps because he's far to heavy for me to lift :o( he just sat/laid there in the snow because he couldn't squat to take a shit. I can't stop crying. I gave him some buffered asprin like the doc said before and it's not helping that much. We don't have the money to get x-rays and the like done. Oh i don't wanna have to put him to sleep but there is no way we can carry him outside and around the house. Crying and having a horrible sore throat and congestion isn't a good idea...
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Cormac's friend Chris just made a pretty cool video for one of his songs, one of my favorites of his. You all should check it out: http://www.bebo.com/FlashBox.jsp?FlashV and also check out his myspace: http://www.myspace.com/wilsoncj I really think college radio here would like him :o) One month til I leave for Ireland!!!!
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Bono is really hot with his short hair, makes me wanna rub his head lol. I really like this song. When I first head U2 were working with Green Day I was a little skeptical, but I really like it and the video is good.
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Hey everyone :o) I've got an extra ticket for the Damien Dempsey concert this tuesday at the Beachland tavern. It's gonna be an amazing show, it'll be something you'll be glad you did with your tuesday. Seeing Damo is an amazing experience. He's Irish and he's hot lol. If anyone is interested let me know, i'm giving the ticket away because it was rather cheap. It was so odd to only pay $10 to see him when I paid nearly $70 to See him in Dublin.
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I just found out that Damien Dempsey is going to playing in Cleveland in october!!!!!!! And better yet it's at the Beachland in the Tavern part which is basically the size of a good living room. I'm so going and i'm gonna be right up front...maybe profess my love and propose marriage and lots of Irish babies :o) lmao. So you all should come with me and help me carry out my plan hehehe. |
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Funny....
Yeah that's right Chuck fucking Norris hahaha |
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Well i'm all packed and ready. Just have to put make up on and get my money in order. Last night I was so freaked out about the trip, the plane ride and such. But now i've calmed down and i'm ready to leave. I'm not sure when I will update again because i'm not sure if Cormac's sister has internet access at her house. If not i'm sure i'll find a net cafe somewheres. I was so pissed at my mp3 player, it's shit, I need an ipod!!!! Well have a good weekend everyone :)
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I feel really depressed all of a sudden and I just wanna go to bed and stay there for the rest of the week... blah!
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This past weekend was loads of fun...little sleep, but lots of fun. I needed fun...eventhough I called a pussy for not wanting to get a tattoo right then hehe. We called Cormac at about 4:30am and he thinks we're all on crack or something. Sara thanks SO much for that shirt, it's my favorite now :o) I can't wait for college to be over for the summer. I have one paper left and then 3 finals next week. Still have to go talk to an advisor about summer classes. I'll only take summer classes if they tell me I will be able to graduate in December, or at least be done with school. I almost fell asleep a million times in my lectures today and I kept daydreaming...odd. Think i'm gonna take a nap now...
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So every should see Josh Ritter when he comes to your town. I'm a new convert hehe. Cormac told me about him a while back and I got a good bit of his music. So last night he was playing at the Beachland Ballroom and I ventured out there alone...I could have waited for you Katelyn as I got there and the opening band still had 4 songs left then they had to set up for Josh. It was a great concert and usually I wouldn't have had much fun because I was alone, but I just got into the music. It was funny at one point because he played a song or two off his new album and I was one of the handful of people that new the lyrics. It was awesome. I was really depressed before I went but as soon as he walked on stage I got a huge smile on my face. This man never stops smiling, it's infectious hehe. I love my Cormy SO much for sending me a Josh song nearly a year ago :o) I took a video but it's not that great as the dude in front of me started getting in my way. If I have time I will upload it to youtube or something. After the concert some people gathered to get their stuff signed and talk with him. I was amazed by the time he spent with each person. He finally got to me and sais Hi! hugged me and asked how life was. I told him thanks so very much for tonight because I needed it and he hugged me again and kissed me lol. We talked for quite a bit. I told him how Cormac introduced me to his music and sent me the new cd early...plus how actually he interviewed him a while back in Dublin. He remember Cormac! Well in a way you sorta can't forget him ;o) I told him how he didn't play my favorite song but it was okay because he lpayed two of my others. Said he will play my fav next time for me :o) I told him about Cormac's cd and such and he told me to say hi to him and good luck. He then hugged and kissed me again and I said thanks. I felt bad for taking up so much of his time(others took more) but he seemed like he didn't wanna stop talking. He's a great example of being in the music business, being big(well he is in Ireland)and yet still being human and down to earth. Josh seems truly and genuinely interested about his fans and that is great! I can't wait to see him again...should have scheduled my Ireland trip so I could see him again hehe. http://www.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/A
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