The Bucket List.

So, Jessica and I decided to make a list of things we were going to do before the end of the year in 2009. Its small right now, but Its going to get larger. She calls it The Bucket List...but I'm not sure where that comes from at the very moment.

When its finished I may or may not post it here and use it like a check list depending on how personal it gets.

Here's a neat list I found from a livejournal.

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 blog 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
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 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
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' 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

That's all I wanted to say.

Fools.

The Myspace.

I update my myspace blog far more often, but I think I'll come back here to talk about things for the new year. I'd like to talk about books, movies, and many other things aside from photography. There's a lot more to me than photographs.

I plan on reading at least fifty books this year. I want to keep track of those things here too since myspace has a limited style for adding things. It would take me forever.
First book I plan on reading for the New Year is Paper Towns By John Green.

I'd also Like to mention that I've gotten a new camera for the Holidays. Its not exactly what I was wanting, but For a more High tech camera I'm going to have to save up for that myself. Its a Sanyo 7.1MP. It has quite a bit more flexibility than my other camera and it has a flash that works. (I don't want to talk about it.) I'm very pleased with it, but I still have to get a handle on how this one functions. I've only had it about 2 days now. My Dad and Mommy Lisa are Amazing. =]

Well, that should be all I want to say for the moment.
Later.

Losing touch.

I've lost it. Of that I can be sure, that I can.

I'm moving on to other ventures to get out of...the "rut"?

Meh. Here's to hoping. ^.^;

"I am a wanderer, That I am."

Ostara

Ostara was amazing. Egg hunts,candy, chocolate covered strawberries and my sisters.



Photo by: Logan Photo edit done by me.

#701

My first Photo shoot with an abandoned building and I couldn't believe the thrill! I hadn't even made it inside either of the two places I've been to since Friday. However I think I might give it a try here this weekend, providing that the weather isn't so cold. It was a bit chilly when I went Friday and Sunday they are calling for -2 degree weather.

I know the risks and I am being careful. The buildings I'm looking at aren't that old, but old enough to be worn down. They all appear to be structurally sound, but looks can be deceiving. This is why I’ll have accomplices.
Upon telling a family member about it and showing her a few photos, she got excited and wanted to know when I was going inside, because she was going too. Little did I know at the time that her boyfriend was going to get in on it too. Which is all well and good, we can always use a man to do man things and we can always use a getaway car! lol.
This spot (file name 701) is going to be tricky simply because it is across the street from the chief of police. So we have to be careful about going in at night and be careful about how much light we use so not to attract too much attention.

To view more of my photos from the day you can always go to my DeviantART. I don't post everything, but I do post what I think is good.

Wow.

Well, it would appear that not working has taken it toll on everything BUT my art. My Art has only had time to improve. That pleases me. I've been editing my photos in a new way and so far its been nothing but positive feedback.

The photo on the right is one of Dani that I'd taken in late October. The older version was much larger an not as pleasing on the eyes. The previous photo when uploaded ontop DeviantART didn't fair so well on views and favorites. However this new verison has gotten 2 favorites and several pageviews. Not a lot, but thats better than the first time around! I must be doing something right? Hmm?

I've recently fallen in love with taking photos of old, abandoned buildings and items. Theriom doesn't seem to be too interested in this new hobby of mine, but my photo skills are improving and he's noticed too. I'm pleased all around on that aspect.

I'm hoping to find more abandoned things in the furture.

New Year!

Well, it's the new year and I've gotten some new hope. However it is difficult for me to feel completely happy due to still being unemployed. The 12Th of this month was the anniversary of my grandfather's passing. I think some of that sorrow came out in my cemetery photos rather unintentionally.

I've still to burn my braid as a symbol of the end of my mourning. Its difficult. I'm not quite sure I'm ready for it, but Theriom will be there which will make it seem like an easier task for me. I'll have someone I trust to lean on. I think that's really all I've needed.

I'm just simply feeling a bit overwhelmed.

To keep my mind on other things I've started re-arranging my apartment and reading a lot more than I used to. I've also tried sketching again to my miserable failure. However I do have watercolors now and I might just give that I good try. =] I can't wait until I have the space and the alone time to do it.

Some books that I thought would be good to recommend reading are the Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs. The characters are so realistic and give you a sense that they are real people and face real problems but at the same time has this wonderful mix of Werewolf, vampire, and Fae fantasy to it. Its set in a real location, No made up lands with names you can't pronounce. The main character Mercy is witty, sarcastic, loyal, and young. Which is just the spunk anyone would love to read about.