Week-in-Review

Well at least the exciting stuff in review...

Monday: We painted and cleaned and then for FHE activity we did face masks. Brent (my 16 year old brother) refused to have his picture taken and Mom was too tired so here are the pics of Maddie, Dad, and I.


Maddie and I


Dad and I

Tuesday and Wednesday: I cleaned and painted a bit in the morning but then crashed from exhaustion for a couple hours both days...

Thurday: I went to the laundry mat because the clothes were pilling up because we were working on the laundry room... did a rough estimate of about 20 loads of laundry and had them washed, dryed, folded, and put away by the time Mom got back! Also when matching socks I found 20 bucks, pretty good for a day's work.

Friday and Saturday: At about 7:30 pm dad and I started laying hardwood floor in the mudroom/laundry room and we worked until about midnight. This was begun after we had spent a good portion of the week tearing out a closet that was in the empty space next to the washer/dryer... Dad made the wall skinnier as well as removing the top portion of the closet which required him to re-tape and texture the walls as well. Beautiful! On Saturday I was awoken by the nail gun at 7am and went down to help dad for another couple hours (he nailed and I placed the wood, measured, and used the chopsaw to cut (I knew that semester in wood tech would pay off!) and the result is this beautiful hardwood floor... Sometime next week dad and I start on the study which is about 4 times larger but now that we have a method hopefully it wont take too long.


View from outside/View from inside

Later on Saturday: Melissa had senior prom and I was chosen to help out... I did her makeup and her hair (pictures of her hair are forthcoming) and was so sore from doing the floor and then helping melissa that I went to bed early... Man I am getting old, I cant even stay up late any more!


Melissa with her date, Bobby

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.

(X) 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
(X) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
(_) 6 The Bible
(_) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
(X) 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
(_) 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
(X) 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
(_) 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
(_) 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
(_) 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
(X) 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
(_) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
(_) 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
(_) 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
(_) 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
(X) 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
(_) 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
(_) 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
(X) 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
(_) 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
(_) 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
(_) 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
(X) 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
(X) 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
(X) 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
(X) 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
(_) 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
(X) 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
(X) 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
(_) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
(_) 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total Read: 16

I guess my reading habits stack up ok but interestingly enough a lot of the books on this list that I haven't read are on my reading list! I will have to see how my habits stack up at the end of the summer!