Category — listy goodness

After three weeks away with the faeries, I came back to find I’d been tagged in a meme by Pannonica. Who am I to not answer the call?

Here’s the fine print and rules and all that:

• Link to your original tagger and list these rules in your post.
• Share 7 facts about yourself in the post.
• Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names and links to their blogs.
• Let them know they’ve been tagged.

Seven facts about me:

1. I enjoy getting these “all about me” sort of memes. Where else is it so acceptable and even expected to talk about yourself incessantly. I don’t know too many people who truly hate talking about themselves and these let you rattle on and on!
2. I enjoy cleaning messy things – stoves, bathrooms, bedrooms…whatever. I like seeing things well organized and clean. It gives me warm fuzzies that are second only to putting on warm socks fresh out of the dryer.
3. I am usually pretty generous with my things except for popcorn and books. I DO NOT share popcorn. Period. Get your own and keep your greedy eyes away from mine. I will share my books, but I am the nastiest librarian ever. When I say I want that book back in exactly the same condition I lent it out in – I really mean it.
4. I have an absolute horror of being late for things. If we’re meeting at 6 for dinner, you can bet I was in the neighbourhood at 5 (and sitting in nearby coffee shop checking my watch obsessively) and I will be no less than 15 minutes early for our date.
5. My book collection is organized like Chapters. Children’s books in one section, classic literature in another etc. I tried putting them on the shelves in alphabetical order by author, but I could never find anything. I expect to find Dickens and Austen keeping company and that my collection of hard cover Twilight books will be in general fiction.
6. Which leads to…I liked the Twilight books. No, I do not have any shame. I mean sure, they are silly and obsessive and even creepy at times – but the 16 year old girl in me LOVED them! The adult I was supposed to become thinks they’re ridiculous, but I never listen to her much anyway.
7. I believe that being a kid for the rest of my life is an honourable aspiration. It allows me to still believe in things I can’t see, own crayons and a couple of colouring books, play with toys when I’m feeling silly and adore cartoons. Plus, I still think that Sugar Crisp cereal with chocolate milk is fantastic!

Now for the dreaded tagging – but you don’t have to participate if you don’t want to (or Pan got to you first):

• The DailyDish – because now that she’s moved and got her pretty blue garbage bags out for collection, I feel OK about being nosy.
• Nate – anyone who can write about Guitar Hero as science is someone I need to know more stuff about.
• Lens Impressions – I’m hoping she’ll write one on Waldi’s behalf because honestly, that dog is ridiculously adorable. And I want photos too.
• Romi – I’m just nosy – her site is more entertaining than People magazine and her facts will be hilarious.
• Free and Flawed – She already shares lots about her life – but the public need to hear more is not so easily sated. Plus, she draws stick people too!
• CurlyWurlyGurly – Come oooonnnnn – all the cool kids are doing it!!

OK, that’s only six people, but I never said I would follow the rules.

I know, it’s been done a million times – the old “search term” blog post; the post that proves you had nothing to say to anyone but felt the need to talk anyway.

I never said I was a creative genius. So, here they are; the search terms that have led people here since my first post (and my comments in parentheses):

• cthulhu whore (wtf?)
• using Valtrex instead of condoms (not a good idea btw)
• stick people
• facebook ettiquette, ex-girlfriends (so much I could say, so little time)
• erotic stories
• peeing -dog toilet “stick figure” (and again…wtf?)
• french stripper names
• darth vader’s penis (“Hey baby, wanna see my light sabre?” – oh come on, YOU were thinking it too!)
• “his dirty bare feet”
• wie spritzt der same aus dem penis (Google translate says it means: “such as injecting the same from the penis.”)
• addicted to pens (Whoever you are, me too! And I love you!)
• sneaky blueberries
• can you still get an STD after a vasectomy (Yes. Wrap it up you moron.)
• barbarian screaming

These are just the ones I found amusing. Anyone else want to share some of the more amusing (or horrifying) search terms that have brought them traffic?

This is my “I don’t have a better post prepared today.” post. Still, I did have to bold a lot of stuff, so I think I get a few points for a little effort (a very little effort).

I found this meme over at Trixfiend’s blog (hi Allison! I’m stalking your old entries!) You’re supposed to bold all the books you’ve read – and I’m going to add a few little comments too.

I’ve read 75 of the 100 books on this list. I suppose I qualify as reasonably literate.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) (Mr. Darcy is my literary boyfriend.)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery) (I still cry over Matthew when I re-read this book)
9. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Rebecca Wells)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) (Owen Meany is a fascinating character)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) (I still get teary over Beth in this book)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) (I couldn’t finish it. Not a big fan.)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) (love, love, love this book)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett) 
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) (My ex’s mum lent me a copy of this – I’m so glad she did. It was awesome!)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) 
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) (I wanted to smack the main character.)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. [Bible] (I read the whole thing in university)
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card) (I didn’t think I’d like this book – but I ended up loving it)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough) (bloody fantastic book!)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger) (In my top 5 of all time favourites.)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy) (I’ve only read half, but I’m counting it anyway.
64. Fifth Business (Robertson Davies) (Didn’t like this one. I know, I’m a cretin.)
65. Interview With the Vampire (Anne Rice)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez) (I did NOT enjoy this book. The main characters are ridiculous)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence) (I love this book, even though it sort of depresses me)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier) (Has the best opening line of a book ever.)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields) (I hated this book. What is all the fuss about?)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)