My Life

Relay For Life

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:25:18 GMT

Hi everyone, it is that time of year again. CNU will be having its Relay for Life on April 4 at the Freeman Center. I am on the Chemistry Club team, and this is the second year the club has been involved. We have already raised a little more than $500, but we want to raise as much as we can.

Here is the link to my fundraising page...

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY09SA?px=9018145&pg=personal&fr_id=12655

The CNU Chemistry Club fundraising page...

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY09SA?pg=team&fr_id=12655&team_id=401200

And the main page for the CNU Relay for Life...

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR/RelayForLife/RFLFY09SA?pg=entry&fr_id=12655

Tracking Santa

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:28:16 GMT

Has anyone heard of NORAD tracking Santa,. it's been a neat thing that my family has done sometimes.
Here is the link...

http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html

As of right now Santa is in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.

Merry Christmas Everyone

*<): )

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:43:20 GMT

I hope everyone has had a great thanksgiving, whether it be celebrated with family or friends. I was blessed to spend the day at home with my family both old and new. quixoteslance</lj> and his parents came over and got to spend a day getting to know my parents and the rest of my family better. I think they had a great time, we watched the last little bit of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade to see Santa. We had a huge dinner (for 15) which included turkey, ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, jello jigglers, rolls, stuffing, more sweet potatoes (with pineapple), and cranberry sauce. For desert we had a choice of four different pies, pumpkin, pecan, blackberry and chocolate! Yummy, I love pumpkin pie :) There was also football watching, 360 playing and in general socializing. Everybody but quixoteslance</lj> has gone home by now, but it was a great day and there are plenty of leftovers.
Now on to deciding if I want to go through Shopping Survivor tomorrow morning. I have been woken up at 4 or 5 in the morning for the past several years and have had lots of fun experiences. Though I don't know if I will wake up that early tomorrow morning, I will have to look at the adds again and see if there is something on my shopping list that is on a good sale. I might go to the outlets tomorrow (12 a.m.) after hanging out at quixoteslance</lj> and watching The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I will not put my beloved through the adventure that is Black Friday, since he doesn't really like shopping anyways. So I'll let him sleep and go shopping on my own, Both the American Eagle and Aeropostal outlets have good sales, and I might stop in at Banana Republic and see what they have.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and have a great weekend.

6.02x10^23

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:06:04 GMT

Happy Mole Day

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:50:10 GMT

Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz ...

You Are a Doris!

You are a Doris -- "I must help others."

Dorises are warm, concerned, nurturing, and sensitive to other people's needs.

How to Get Along with Me

* Tell me that you appreciate me. Be specific.
* Share fun times with me.
* Take an interest in my problems, though I will probably try to focus on yours.
* Let me know that I am important and special to you.
* Be gentle if you decide to criticize me.

In Intimate Relationships

* Reassure me that I am interesting to you.
* Reassure me often that you love me.
* Tell me I'm attractive and that you're glad to be seen with me.

What I Like About Being a Doris

* being able to relate easily to people and to make friends
* knowing what people need and being able to make their lives better
* being generous, caring, and warm
* being sensitive to and perceptive about others' feelings
* being enthusiastic and fun-loving, and having a good sense of humor

What's Hard About Being a Doris

* not being able to say no
* having low self-esteem
* feeling drained from overdoing for others
* not doing things I really like to do for myself for fear of being selfish
* criticizing myself for not feeling as loving as I think I should
* being upset that others don't tune in to me as much as I tume in to them
* working so hard to be tactful and considerate that I suppress my real feelings

Dorises as Children Often

* are very sensitive to disapproval and criticism
* try hard to please their parents by being helpful and understanding
* are outwardly compliant
* are popular or try to be popular with other children
* act coy, precocious, or dramatic in order to get attention
* are clowns and jokers (the more extroverted Dorises), or quiet and shy (the more introverted Dorises)

Dorises as Parents

* are good listeners, love their children unconditionally, and are warm and encouraging (or suffer guilt if they aren't)
* are often playful with their children
* wonder: "Am I doing it right?" "Am I giving enough?" "Have I caused irreparable damage?"
* can become fiercely protective

A Book Meme

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:55:56 GMT

So, I haven't posted in a while and this seems fun :)

"The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed."
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

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
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
13. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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 (got through enough of it to get a good grade in english)
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (I love this, especially The Voyage of the Dawn Treader)
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
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
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
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
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
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 (hated it)
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
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
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by R. Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I have a favor to ask of those more knowledgeable

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:00:34 GMT

I have been looking for Martha Washington's cookbook (by a special request) and I would like some advice. I have found a couple different books, and have read some reviews on them, but I would like to know which would be a better research book to have. The two that I found are...

Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats
http://www.amazon.com/Martha-Washingtons-Booke-Cookery-Sweetmeats/dp/0231049315#citing

and

The Martha Washington Cook Book
http://www.amazon.com/Martha-Washington-Cook-Book/dp/0971988552/ref=sid_av_dp

Thank you for any and all information about the Martha Washington's cookbook.

Relay for Life

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:22:12 GMT

I haven't posted in a while, but I figured this is a good enough reason to. On April 12-13 there will be a Relay for Life event at CNU, I am on the Chemistry Club team. The great thing is that this event is one of the first things that the Chemistry Club will be doing together together since it was started this semester. This is a great opportunity to give to cancer research, as a team we already have $100 raised.

Thank You,
Pamela

http://main.acsevents.org/goto/Pam.Shimmin

...now getting back to finding the weight % of Calcium in limestone :)