Sunday, February 25, 2007

#53 Watch 100 movies that I have never seen.

14. "Adam's Rib" Starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

#89 List 100 books I've never read but should.

COMPLETE!

1. A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer
2. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
3. A Month of Sundays by Julie Mars
4. Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies and SD-6 by Kevin Weisman
5. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
7. All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein
8. America by Jon Stewart
9. American Smooth by Rita Dove
10. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
11. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
12. Atonement by Ian McEwan
13. Beowulf Translated by Seamus Heaney
14. Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
15. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
16. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
17. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
18. Chatter by Patrick Radden Keefe
19. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
21. Dracula by Bram Stoker
22. Emma by Jane Austen
23. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor
24. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
25. Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates
26. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft
27. Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
28. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
29. Grace Notes by Rita Dove
30. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
31. Hope in the Dark by Jena Lee
32. Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono
33. How to be Good by Nick Hornby
34. How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson
35. I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
36. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
37. I Will Marry When I Want by Ngũgĩ
38. In the Fog of the Season’s End by Alex La Guma
39. Inside the CIA’s Private World by H. Westerfield
40. Investigating Alias: Secrets and Spies by Stacey Abbott
41. July’s People by Nadine Gordimer
42. Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
43. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawewnce
44. Leonardo by Martin Kamp
45. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
46. Life Studies: Stories by Susan Vreeland
47. Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells
48. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
49. Maus by Art Spiegelman
50. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
51. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
52. Naked by David Sedaris
53. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
54. On the Bus With Rosa Parks by Rita Dove
55. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
56. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
57. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
58. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
59. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
60. Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
61. Players by Bertram Fields
62. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
63. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
64. Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
65. Saturday by Ian McEwan
66. Secrets by Nuruddin Farah
67. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
68. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
69. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
70. Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer by Victor Cherkashin
71. Squirrels at my Window by Grace Marmor Spruch
72. Straight Man by Richard Russo
73. Sula by Toni Morrison
74. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
75. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
76. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
77. The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel
78. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
79. The Cider House Rules by John Irving
80. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
81. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
82. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
83. The Family Silver by Sharon O’Brian
84. The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
85. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
86. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
87. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
88. The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA by Antonio J. Mendez
89. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
90. The Radiance of the King by Laye Camara
91. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
92. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
93. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
94. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
95. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
96. Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
97. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
98. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
99. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
100. White Teeth by Zadie Smith

#80 Commit to a Lenten sacrifice and the stick to it.

For all 40 days of Lent I will write a letter to one person telling them the impact that they have had on my life.

#5 Have 3 servings of fruit a day for a month.

Starting on February 21, 2007
Ending on March 20, 2007

#73 Don’t buy any DVDs for a month.

Starting on February 21, 2007
Ending on March 20, 2007

Saturday, February 17, 2007

#90 List 25 classic movies I’ve never seen but should.

COMPLETE!

1.
Ace in the Hole (1951)
2.
Adam's Rib (1949)
3.
All About Eve (1950)
4.
American Graffiti (1973)
5.
An American in Paris (1951)
6.
Annie Hall (1977)
7.
The Big Sleep (1946)
8.
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
9.
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
10.
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
11.
Dirty Harry (1971)
12.
Double Indemnity (1944)
13.
The Graduate (1967)
14.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
15.
His Girl Friday (1940)
16.
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
17.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
18.
The Odd Couple (1968)
19.
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
20.
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
21.
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
22.
Sleeper (1973)
23.
Sunrise (1927)
24.
The Way We Were (1973)
25.
Woman of the Year (1942)

#9 Donate $10 to 10 different charities.

4. Donated $10 to Women in Conflict Zones and Cumberland County Domestic Violence Services

Friday, February 09, 2007

#53 Watch 100 movies that I have never seen.

13. "The 10th Kingdom" Starring Kimberly Williams, Scott Cohen, and John Larroquette.

Saturday, February 03, 2007

#53 Watch 100 movies that I have never seen.

12. "Because I Said So" Starring Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, and Lauren Graham.

Friday, February 02, 2007

#93 Read 12 books that aren't related to school.

4. Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood By Ann Brashares