1. A Million Little Pieces - James Frey (448 p)
2. Touching Earth - Rani Manicka (480 p)
3. Over the Edge of the World - Laurence Bergreen (512 p)
4. Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs (320 p)
5. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (448 p)
6. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson (240/478 p)
7. White Oleander - Janet Fitch (390 p)
8. The Know-It-All - AJ Jacobs (369 p)
9. Learning To Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan - Bruce Feiler (336 p)

currently: Portnoy's Complaint
coming up: Love Medicine - Louise Erdrich

books: 8.5/50 17%
pages: 3543/15000 24%

3,543 / 15,000 (24%)

days: 79/365 22%

my newest tattoo look. it's the same upside down as it is right side up.

peggy: dyphenhydramine is childsplay

peas for dinner i guess this leaves a little bit left to be desired...

beans for dinner tonight! this is the "tuscan white beans with garlic and sage" from vegan planet but i threw in some tofu and spinach and served it on top of tagliatelle pasta. really good. i never knew i was such a big fan of sage.

my books so far for 2005 - i'm off to a slow start. jan-apr i was taking 3 classes.

1. You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers 4/5
2. Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 4/5
3. Vegan, New Ethics of Eating - Erik Marcus
4. The Agile Gene - Matt Ridley
5. Opening Skinner's Box - Lauren Slater
6. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 4/5
7. She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb 4/5
8. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4/5
9. I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb 4/5
10. The Secret History - Donna Tartt 5/5
11. Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahniuk 4/5
12. On the Road - Jack Kerouac 2/5
13. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi 2/5
14. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult 4/5
15. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre 3.5/5
16. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 2.5/5
17. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde 5/5
18. Eating the Cheshire Cat - Helen Ellis 4/5
19. Watership Down - Richard Adam 4/5
20. Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde 4/5
21. Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde 4/5
22. Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins 4/5
23. Songs in Ordinary Time - Mary McGarry Morris 5/5
24. The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester 5/5
25. Hunger Point - Jillian Medoff 4/5
26. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 4/5
27. Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 2/5
28. Secret life of bees - Sue Monk Kidd 5/5
29. Never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro 5/5
30. Ada or Ardor - Vladimir Nabokov 5/5
31. Good Omens - Terri Pratchett and Neil Gaiman 2/5
32. The Magician's Nephew - CS Lewis 5/5
33. The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe - CS Lewis 5/5
TOTAL: 33/50 66%
pages: 12811/15000 85.4%
days: 160/365 53.6%
currently: something by Nabokov
up next: don't know yet

I'm participating in a 8k run for PAWS (Pets Are Worth Saving) a no-kill shelter trying to raise money.

if anyone can make a contribution at this site we can make a difference for these poor animals.

Thank you so much!

i've finally gotten back into cooking real, healthy, vegan meals.
i realize now how much i've missed eating.

these are large photos...
( pictures of num-num food )

does anyone have any comments about this list??

i'm about halfway through my book.
and i dont' want to sit here at work. i want to read it.
and i'm making lists and lists of books i want to read.
i think i'm becoming obsessed.
is there any type of job or career i could do and just read books?
i don't like writing but i'm good at grammar,
i would love to edit that stuff.
i just want to read and read.
and bake a cake.
i can't wait for the weekend.

is it easier to control yourself when you make a list of rules of things you can't/won't eat or a list of things you can??

guess who i get to babysit all day friday!!!

my nephew alex

lasagne with roasted veggies and tofu ricotta

strawberry graham shortcake

breakfast plantain orange apple banana crisp

nachos homemade chips with boca, refried beans, cheez sauce and pineapple salsa. yummm. but maybe a little too much.

2.21.05