Goal for 2009: 50 Books

Current Book: Interview with a Vampire (Anne Rice)
Next Choice: The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice)

Books Read:
01. Twilight (Stephenie Meyer)
02. The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)
03. City of Glass--Graphic Novel (Paul Auster)
04. The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
05. Maus: A Survivor's Tale I: My Father Bleeds History (Art Spiegelman)
06. The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
07. Maus: A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began (Art Spiegelman)
08. Every Soul a Star (Wendy Mass)
09. For One More Day (Mitch Albom)
10. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
11. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times (James Finn Garner)
12. A Walk to Remember (Nicholas Sparks)
13. Message in a Bottle (Nicholas Sparks)

( PERSONAL views within )

( 30 day-meme )

I don't really have a favorite song anymore just because I've just been listening to things from other people like Jonathon and Lalynn. Three songs I've been listening to a lot lately have been:

1) Lost (Michael Buble) - Cause you are not alone; I am there with you. We'll got lost together.
2) Everything (Michael Buble) - Whatever comes our way, we'll see it through. And you know that's what our love can do.
3) Photograph (Nickelback) - It's hard to say it, time to say it: Goodbye, goodbye.

Hmmm...looks terribly sentimental, don't I? Still, if I really had to choose a favorite song, it'd have to be Dance With My Father by the amazing Luther Vandross. Simply because I am a sentimentalist and no matter what I do, I still can't truly let him go.



No private stories because this will be linked to from a public journal - my new attempt at thoughtful blogging, Contemporary Maria Clara.

I have exactly a week before it's my birthday, which means that there are only 85 days left in the year. I have so many things to do and I've seriously been reconsidering renewing my paid subscription because I don't use my LJ as often as I should anymore. Thus, I have officially two weeks to decide whether I want to keep it or not since I bought it as a belated birthday present to myself last year. Added to that the fact that I am dirt poor. :|

Nevertheless, it is time to make my list of things to accomplish before the year is over!

( TEN THINGS I'D LIKE TO ACCOMPLISH BEFORE 2010 )

He is my new political idol. Furrealz. Move over Dick Cheney, Rahm-bo's got my attention now.

(lame.)

In other other news, however, I would like to inform my entire F-list and more that I am still alive. I know I haven't been around lately and several of you have informed me that you thought I had disappeared off the face of the Earth. No, still here (you're not getting off that easily). I am settled into my new room and my new apartment and, so far, I haven't killed Oliver so we're looking at smooth sailing for a while at least.

( keep on moving. )

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

invalidreality assigned me the letter '4'. (I know, she isn't very smart.XD)

1. 4 A.M. Forever - Lostprophets
2. 4 Minutes - Madonna
3. 4 in the Morning - Gwen Stefani
4. 4 A.M. - Our Lady Peace
5. 4 Seasons of Loneliness - Boyz II Men

HAH. TAKE THAT, LALYNN.

20/1001
[But I thought I was well-read.D:]

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: Bold the books you've read; italicize the ones you have and/or intend to read in the near future.

( 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die )

It looks like a cool list to try and get through.

The male anglerfish latches on to a female near her stomach area. He fuses his mouth to her body and proceeds to atrophy into a pair of gonads. During ovulating season, the gonads ejects sperm into the female. To stay alive, the male anglerfish feeds off what the female eats. Gives a whole new meaning to the word leech.

Also, flatworms engage in penis-fencing. Since flatworms are hermaphrodites, come mating season, they engage in a battle and the first to get pierced is actually turned into the female for the season. Battle of the sexes, anyone?

Put your iTunes music player on shuffle/random and answer each question with the song that plays.

Your wedding song: It's a Miracle (Barry Manilow)
[OMG.XD]
Your boyfriend/girlfriend song: All I Ask of You (OST POTO)
[Aww, sweeet.]
The Song That best describes your life: Constant Change (Jose Mari Chan)
[How true.]
The Song describes your first kiss: Bring Me To Life (Evanescence)
[WTF?]
The Song That will be played at your funeral: Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Remember the Titans
[That's an awesome funeral song. Srsly.]
The Song That Best Describes your Childhood: Back Here (BBMak)
[That's...sad.]
The Song You Listen to When You're Mad: The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix)
[Old school, of course.]
When You're Sad: Leaving on a Jet Plane (OST Armageddon)
[That is sad.:(]
When Your Happy: Teenagers (MCR)
[Okay, it's starting to get weird.XD]
When Your Excited: Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper)
When Your Stressed: Dance, Dance (Fall Out Boy)
[Definitely!]
The Song you listen to when your in love with someone: Your Song (Ewan McGregor)
[Awww!]
The First Day Of School: So In Love (Jose Mari Chan)
The Last Day Of School: Honey, Honey (ABBA)
Fight Song: How Did You Know? (Gary Valenciano)
[Err....?]
Before The Big Game: It Ends Tonight (All-American Rejects)
[Hee.]
When You See Your Crush: Killing Me Softly (The Carpenters)
[Hahahahahaha.]
Song That Describes Your School: Forever (Vertical Horizon)
[Oh no. Please no.]
Song that Describes Your Town: Dirty Little Secret (All-American Rejects)
[Lols. Awesome.XD]
Song That Describes how you feel when your sick: She Will Be Loved (Maroon 5)
[Aww! And you guys did make me feel that way when I was sick a few days ago. *grouphug*]
The Song That Goes Through Your Head When Your Getting A Haircut: The Ghost of You (MCR)
Song That Describes Your Favorite Teacher: The Prayer (Josh Groban/Charlotte Church)
[Indeed. Favorite but I need a prayer to pass class.XD]
The Song That You Air Guitar To: Hanging By A Moment (Lifehouse)
[Sure.]
The Song You Dance To: Mrs. Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel)
[XD]
The Song You Mosh To: Iris (Goo Goo Dolls)
The Song That Describes Your First date: Bed of Roses (Jon Bon Jovi)
[XDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!]
Song You Think of When You wake up: View from Heaven (Yellowcard)
[That's...oddly depressing.:(]
Song You Think of Before You Go To Sleep: Emotion (Destiny's Child)

That was an amusing waste of 20 minutes.XD

Step 1: Put your iTunes player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 32 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from. Try for as many as you know.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!

( You have stolen my heart.;) )