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I saw this meme on quoththeravyn and thought it looked like fun.

If you want to play, leave a comment and I'll give you an age and you answer these questions about your age.

I was given 23.

I lived in: My parents house. Yes I still lived at home at 23. I have always had a good relationship with my parents so this made sense to me. I had all of the freedom of living in an apartment on my own, but the perks of being at home (no rent, laundry). I was going to medical school and surviving on loans, so being able to save on rent/food really helped me keep my debt manageable.

I drove: A 1994 white Jeep Grand Cherokee. At this point it was very old, but had very low mileage on it.

I was in a relationship with: My husband. We had just started dating for the second time (long story) and would be engaged before I turned 24.

I feared: failing. Medical school was an incredible challenge. I was gearing up to take the first part of the medical boards (there are three parts), and keeping my grades up so I could pursue a competitive residency if I wanted one.

I worked at: La Marina, a seafood restaurant owned by a friend of the family. I had worked their briefly during college, as a busperson and later in the kitchen working the fryers. I wanted some extra cash and had Friday afternoons free, so I worked from 3-9ish in the kitchen taking phone orders and cooking all of the fish fries, clams, shrimp, scallps, french fries, etc for both the dining room and take-out orders. It turned out to be great preparation for working in an operating room.

I wanted to be: At this point, I was still firmly convinced I wanted to do a residency in opthalmology and a cornea fellowship. I was still in lectures at this point, so I hadn't discovered the joy that was anesthesiology yet.

Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Name 5 songs you love starting with that letter.

phoenixsong gave me F. Unlike her, I am too lazy to find YouTube links for the songs so you're on your own to try listen to them.

1. Feel it Turn by Great Big Sea
2. Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks
3. Flowers by Brad Paisley
4. Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra
5. For Good from Wicked

liv started a friending meme.

Clicky here to participate and meet new people.

We've all done this before - I quote a movie, you name the source. This time with a holiday theme.

1. "Well Marie, once again my dear, you were as right as rain. I am, with out a doubt, the biggest pain in the butt that ever came down the pike. I meet someone who's company I really enjoy, and what do I do? I go overboard. I smother the poor soul. I cause him more trouble than he has a right to. God, I got a big mouth. When am I ever gonna wake up? I wish you were here with me right now. But... I guess that's not gonna happen. Not now, anyway. " - "Planes Trains and Automobiles" guessed by karelia

2. " Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. And forgive my husband. He knows not what he does. " - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - guessed by caity

3. " Seeing isn't believing. Believing is seeing" - The Santa Clause guessed by caity

4."You know what I'm going to get you next Christmas, Mom? A big wooden cross, so that every time you feel unappreciated for your sacrifices, you can climb on up and nail yourself to it. " - The Ref guessed by caity

5. "When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting, whatever it is you've got left. " - White Christmas guessed by caity

6. "Light the lamp, not the rat, light the lamp, not the rat!." - Muppet Christmas Carol guessed by karelia

7. "I want the Turbo Man action figure with the arms and legs that move and the boomerang shooter and his rock'n roller jet pack and the realistic voice activator that says 5 different phrases including, "It's Turbo time!" Accessories sold separately. Batteries not included. " Jingle All the Way guessed by krasnoludek

8. "Aunt Clara had for years labored under the delusion that I was not only perpetually 4 years old, but also a girl." - A Christmas Story guessed by karelia

9. "Yes. You're, well, you're a tad off-base, sir. That thing looked like The Manson Family Christmas Special. " - Scrooged guessed by caity

10. "What's this? What's this? There's color everywhere! What's this? There's white things in the air! What's this? I can't believe my eyes, I must be dreaming; wake up, Jack, this isn't fair! What's this? " - Nightmare before Christmas guessed by karelia

nice work all, that didn't take very long.

Out of 140 Life Experiences

Level 1
() I had an asthma attack
() Smoked A Cigarette
() Smoked A Cigar
() Tried Weed
(x) Drank Alcohol
(x) Been In Love
(x) Been Dumped
() Been Fired
() Been In A Fist Fight
() Snuck Out Of A Parent's House

total so far: 3

Level 2
(x) Ever Had Feelings For Someone Who Didn't Have Them Back
() Been Arrested/Seen Someone You Know Get Arrested
() Made Out With A Stranger
() Gone Out On A Blind Date
(x) Had A Crush On An Older Person
() Skipped School
() Slept With A Co-worker
(x) Seen Something Die

total so far: 6

Level 3
(x) Been On A Plane
(x) Thrown Up From Drinking
(x) Eaten Sushi
() Been Snowboarding
() Met Someone you met on Myspace
() Been Moshing
(x) Taken Pain Killers
(x) Love(d)or Lust(d) Someone Who You Can't Have
(x) Been in a bad relationship

total so far: 12

Level 4
(x) Laid On Your Back And Watched Cloud Shapes Go By
(x) Made A Snow Angel
(X) Had A Tea Party
(x) Flown A Kite
(x) Built A Sand Castle
(x) Gone Puddle Jumping -
(x) Played Dress Up
(x) Jumped Into A Pile Of Leaves
(x) Gone Sledding
(x) Cheated While Playing A Game

total so far: 22

Level 5
(x) Been Lonely
(x) Fallen Asleep At Work / School
() Used A Fake / Someone Else's ID
(x) Watched The Sun Set/ sun rise
(X) Felt An Earthquake
() Kissed a snake
(x) Been Tickled
(x) Been Robbed / Vandalized
() Robbed Someone
(x) Been Misunderstood

total so far: 29

Level 6
(x) Pet A Deer
(x) Won A Contest
( ) Been Suspended
(x) Had Detention
(x) Been In A Car/ Motorcycle Accident
(x) Had / Have Braces
(x) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) Had deja vu
(x) Danced in the moonlight
(x) Hated The Way You Look

total so far: 38

Level 7
() Witnessed A Crime
(x) Questioned Your Heart
(x) Been obsessed with post-it-notes
(x) Squished Barefoot Through The Mud
(x) Been Lost
(x) Been To The Opposite Side Of The World
(x) Swam In The Ocean
() Felt Like You Were Dying
(x) Cried Yourself To Sleep

total so far: 45

Level 8
(x) Played Cops And Robbers
() Recently Colored With Crayons / Colored Pencils / Markers -
(x) Done Something You Told Yourself You Wouldn't
(x) Made Prank Phone Calls
() Laughed Until Some Kind Of Beverage Came Out Of Your Nose
(x) Kissed In The Rain
(x) Written A Letter To Santa Claus
(x) Been Kissed Under A Mistletoe

total so far: 51

Level 9
(x) Watched The Sun Set With Someone You Care / Cared About
(x) Blown Bubbles
( ) Made A Bonfire On The Beach
(x) Crashed A Party
() Have Traveled More Than 5 Days With A Car Full Of People
(x) Gone Rollerskating / Blading
(x) Had A Wish Come True
( ) Been Humped By A Monkey
(x) Worn Pearls
() Jumped Off A ledge into water

total so far: 57

Level 10
( ) Screamed "Penis" In Class
( ) Swam With Dolphins
( ) Got Your Tongue Stuck To A Pole / Freezer/Ice Cube
( ) Kissed A Fish
(x) Worn The Opposite Sex's Clothes
(x) Sat On A Roof Top
(x) Screamed At The Top Of Your Lungs
(x) Done / Attempted A One-Handed Cartwheel
(x) Talked on the phone for more than 5 hours
(x) Stayed Up All Night

total so far: 63

Level 11
(x) Picked And Ate An Apple Right Off The Tree
() Climbed A Tree
(x) Had / Been In A Tree House
(x) Have been/Are scared To Watch Scary Movies Alone
() Seen/ felt a Ghost
() Have/Had More Then 30 Pairs Of Shoes or Flip Flops
() gone streaking
( ) Been to/Visited Someone At Jail
( ) Played Chicken
() Been Pushed Into A Pool With All Your Clothes On

total so far: 66

Level 12
(x) Been Told You're Hot By A Complete Stranger
(x) Broken A Bone
(x) Been Easily Amused
(x) Caught A Fish
() Caught A Butterfly
(x) Laughed So Hard You Cried
() Cried So Hard You Laughed
(x) Mooned / Flashed Someone
(x) someone Mooned / Flashed You

total so far: 73

Level 13
() Cheated On A Test
(x) Forgotten Someone's Name
(x) Slept Naked
() French braided someone's hair
() Gone Skinny dipping
(x) Been Kicked Out Of Your House
(x) Rode A Roller Coaster
(x) Went Scuba-Diving / Snorkeling
(x) Had A Cavity

total so far: 79

Level 14
(x) Been Used
(x) Fell Going Up The Stairs
() Licked A Cat
(x) Bitten Someone
(x) Licked Someone
( ) Been shot at with a paint ball/bb gun
() Had sex in a field/garden
( ) Flattened someone’s tires
(x) Drove in a car until the gas light came on
(x) Had five dollars or less and bought something.

total: 85

Post your results like this:
Out of 140 Life Experiences, I've Had 85

Picture meme
take a picture of yourself right now.
don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture.
post that picture with NO editing.
post these instructions with the picture.





I took this with the iPhone while holding the baby.

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) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading.
5) Bold and strike books you read but hated.
6) Reprint this list in your own LJ

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The 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
14 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 Hitchhiker'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
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
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 - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Totals:
Read: 42
Favorites: 5 (with the exception of the Harry Potter stories all of my favorites have required the purchase of additional copies because the previous copy fell apart from over-reading)
To-read: 7 (this list only includes ones I'll actually think I read someday)
Hated/not interested: 4