Friday, February 27, 2009

Happy 1 Year Anniversary,Feb.28th


woo hoo! been married for one year now, to the best husband in the world!:)

Reading

via friend Guido at Atlantic Lines
(and apparently also making the rounds on Facebook, but I never seem to have time to respond to any of the 'tagged' notes I get on there)

The BBC say the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list. How many have you read?
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an ‘x’ before those you have read.
2) Tally your total at the bottom.


Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
X The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
X Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
X Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
X To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
X The Bible - (parts of it, never read all)
X Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
X Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
X Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
X Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Complete Works of Shakespeare
X Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
X The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Middlemarch - George Eliot
X Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
X The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
X Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
X Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
Emma - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
X The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
X The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
X Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
X Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
X Animal Farm - George Orwell
X The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
X A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
X Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
X Dune - Frank Herbert
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
X Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
X The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
X Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Dracula - Bram Stoker
X The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
Ulysses - James Joyce
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
Germinal - Emile Zola
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
Possession - AS Byatt
X A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
X Charlotte’s Web - EB White
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
X Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
X Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
X The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
X Watership Down - Richard Adams
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
X The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (read it in French,lol, sure couldn't do that Now!)
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
X Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


Total: 36

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Thoughts from my brother on Fox Business News

My brother,Kirby Daley, appeared on Fox Business news this morning,
and then also at this link on their interactive web broadcast.

I couldn't watch it, had to work......but here's a bit of the video from the webcast




the thoughts of a man I respect a great deal, who has been sounding a warning since 2007.

My brother on Fox Business News again:)

Brother Kirby is appearing on Fox Business News this morning from 5-7 a.m. EST.........

And will also be on at Noon EST on their interactive business link here

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/entertainment/check-foxbusinesscom-live-weekdays-noon/


(which I'll be at work, so I'll miss the webcast, darn!)

Go, Kirby:)

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Finally Blogging the Hawaii trip:)




Well, it's only taken me a week,lol....but I had to upload pics and videos, and the week was just too busy to get it done most evenings.


(I'm going to split this post up between here and the 'Mail Call!' blog)


The above pic is a 'teaser' for you to click on the picture links, be warned! I had about 234 pictures from the 330 we took, to choose from to upload.....and then I got confused uploading them,LOL....but I tried to pick out the best ones.


Besides welcoming Dustin home at about 1:00 a.m. on Jan. 27th, while we were in Hawaii we also drove to the North Shore a few times, visited the USS Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor, visited the Punchbowl Veteran's cemetery, and drove around Diamond Head to the eastern side of the island to take a hike up to the Makapuu Point lighthouse (pictured above)


even though it was often overcast and rainy and a little chilly (for Hawaii...we missed an ice storm back home while we were gone, so I'm Not complaining) Oahu was still absolutely beautiful, and we had a fabulous time!!!


so, here go the links:


The photos I posted on Facebook




(the link for album 2 will be on the other blog,it's mainly the welcome home pics)








(there's another album from Punchbowl cemetery, that link will be on the other blog......and the story will be over there)


Now, for the video links....I posted the videos we took on MySpace (I have been uploading pictures and videos half the day here,LOL.


The 'Welcoming Ceremony' video link I'll put on the Mail Call! blog, but here are some nice videos we took of beaches and waves:








waves crashing (we saw some Beautiful sights on our hike, and took several of these)









and this last one is of a beach near the lighthouse


a beach video (with a fire truck beeping as it backed up, towards the end of the video,lol)


well, I think that's got the 'blogging the Hawaii trip' covered! Enjoy!
The link to the Welcome Home part of the post is Here










Monday, February 2, 2009

Back to 'Real Life',LOL

Ok, so last week we were Here

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and tonight, it's doing this......


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back to reality,lol:)



(I'm still working on sorting through all the vacation pics...it'll prob take me all week! between work, etc......and, of course, the addiction to Wii Golf,lol, have to factor in time to play a few rounds of that)