I’m a Mommy Too!

THE RULES:
** Post about the meme and link back to the person that tagged you.

** Go back to your archives and link to your five favorite posts.

ohchicken tagged me, which makes me feel popular… but pressured to be clever!

okay, i haven’t been blogging for very long… but i’ll give this a shot.

Link One: must be about family
Link Two: must be about friends
Link Three: must be about yourself
Link Four: must be about something you love
Link Five: can be anything you choose

** Tag five other people (at least two must be new acquaintances so that you can get to know them better).

1. i love this post about our night with annie — it’s very us.
2. i remember that when i wrote this post, i mentioned a few friends in passing.  re-reading it, it makes me feel good, these references to our life here.  it’s a life we created all on our own, and it’s been anything but easy!
3. this whole blog is about myself!  but this recent post was painfully honest, and i got some really loving feedback.
4. this post is about two things i love — books and this pregnancy!
5. i think i’ll link to this pic for number five, in honor of rog.er clem.ens looking like a total crazy at the hearing today!  i don’t think i’ll get into it right now, but those steroids have maybe made him nuts.

i love this kind of thing: the new york times just published what they’re calling the top ten books of 2007.  i almost never read books when they’re in hardcover, mostly because i love to buy books, rather than go t the library or even borrow.  few things make me happier than looking at my bookshelves!  point being, i haven’t read any of these books  but some of them look pretty interesting.

d is not the bare-my-belly-for-photo-documentation type, nor am i the type to post pics of my wife’s growing body.  i will say, however, that her pooch is big enough for ourdaugtherthedog to cuddle.  she wraps around with her head on top and her paws kind of hugging around.  and we squeal “she’s cuddling the baby!!!”  like the nutty dog-lovers that we are.

found this on another blog, and loved it!  for those who don’t know me, books are just about my favorite thing in the world.  i think the most relaxing thing i can do is to go into a bookstore and stroll the fiction aisles, admiring the alphabetical order.  so calming.  as i go through the list, an interesting pattern emerges: there are no books i started and didn’t finish, because i can’t bear to not finish a book.  the only two i couldn’t stand were by ayn rand!  oh, and one that when i think about it, reminds me of her.  anyway, here’s the activity:

Bold what you have read, italicize those you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand. Add an asterisk to those you’ve read more than once. Underline those on your to-read list. ? for can’t remember if I ever tried to read it or not.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights ??
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities ??
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: A Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath ??
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray (isn’t this called the Portrait of DG?)
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Corrections
The Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present (i pick and choose which parts i’m interested in)
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being ??
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: a novel
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an Inquiry into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers