O hai 2013

[glacier_kitty]

Yesterday we went to watch the fireworks at the university. For once it wasn't super cold (it was in the teens or 20s!) so we had to take advantage of that haha. We parked at the place where you can get water..which turned out great cause there was a bonfire! That was SO nice haha. We Alaskans do it right. ;) The fireworks were alright..the university's have never been that great to me. Then we went home and had a little time before the fireworks show in Goldstream by Ivory Jack's. There was a bonfire there too but it looked crowded and the place we were at was perfect anyway. OMG..their fireworks show was AWESOME!!! 29765869 times better than the university ever does. It's probably the best fireworks show I've ever seen. It was cool listening to it echo across the hills haha. Too bad the battery in my camera died..I shouldn't have wasted my pics on the university's fireworks. I'll have to see if anyone posted a video. I'll post my pics tomorrow or later in the week (apparently you can't charge the battery unless you choose that option on the set up menu. Wth..I've never had to do that with my other cameras!). At home we watched the ball drop in Times Square..yay! I hope 2013 is good!

I'm gonna post all the books I read in 2012! I'm gonna keep posting them here cause it's fun and useful and is a good motivator to read haha. I'm gonna put what I rated them on Goodreads here too


January
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (December-Jan 8) (4/5)
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt (Jan 9-22) (3/5)
The Accidental Adventurer: Memoir of the First Woman to Climb Mt. McKinley by Barbara Washburn (Jan 23-30) (3/5)

February
The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation (Jan 31-Feb 23) (4/5)

March
The Sound of Gravity by Joe Simpson (Feb 24-March 12) (5/5)
The Mountain of My Fear/Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative: Two Mountaineering Classics in One Volume by David Roberts (March 13-March 26) (4/5)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (March 27-March 31) (5/5)

April
High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashears (Apr 2-29) (3/5)
Heresy by SJ Parris (2011-Apr 16) (4/5)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (Apr 17-18) (2/5)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Apr 22-23) (2/5)

May
Conquistadors Of The Useless by Lionel Terray (April 30-May 23) (3/5)

June
Escape from Lucania: An Epic Story of Survival by David Roberts (May 29-June 10) (3/5)
No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley (June 11-20) (5/5)

July
Desire & Ice: A Search for Perspective Atop Denali by David Brill (June 21-July 4) (4/5)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston (July 5-29) (5/5)

August
Facing The Extreme: One Woman's Story Of True Courage And Death-Defying Survival In The Eye Of Mt. McKinley's Worst Storm Ever by Ruth Anne Kocour (July 30-Aug 12) (4/5)
Minus Three: McKinley, Aconcagua and Kilimanjaro -- Man Against the Summits of Three Continents by Gene Mason (Aug 13-20) (3/5)

September
The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--the World's Deadliest Peak by Ed Viesturs (Aug 21-Sept 4) (4/5)
The Kid Who Climbed Everest: The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old's Summit of Mt. Everest by Bear Grylls (Sept 5-18) (4/5)

October
Annapurna by Maurice Herzog (Sept 19-Oct 2) (4/5)
Seven Summits by Dick Bass, Frank Wells and Rick Ridgeway (Oct 3-28) (5/5)
Ice Land by Betsy Tobin (ongoing, but finished Oct 31) (4/5)

November
Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can See by Erik Weihenmayer (Oct 29-Nov 18) (4/5)

December
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day by Amanda Padoan and Peter Zuckerman (Nov 19-Dec 5) (4/5)
Dangerous Steps: Vernon Tejas and the Solo Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley by Lew Freedman (Dec 6-13) (4/5)
Critique of Criminal Reason by Michael Gregorio (Nov 6-Dec 31) (4/5)

In all I read 27 books! I hope I read more this year haha


130. Weary


1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation
101. Life
101. Youth
103. Content
104. Change
105. Dreams
106. Pessimistic
107. Pirate
108. Novel
109. Doom
110. Garden
111. Sadness
112. Confusion
113. Freedom
114. Inevitable
115. Idle
116. Vampires
117. Convention
118. Roleplaying
119. Skull
120. Pain
121. Joy
122. Time
123. Warmth
124. Voodoo
125. Insomnia
126. Solitude
127. Zombies
128. Heaven
129. Evil
130. Weary
131. Candyland
132. Robot
133. Old-school
134. Patriotism
135. Flight
136. Movie
137. What if...
138. Batman
139. Dance
140. Oh, REALLY???
141. Play
142. Uh-oh...
143. Duel
144. coldness
145. Caption
146. Photo
147. Pants
148. Red
149. Fiesta
150. Percent
151. cute
152. playfullness
153. Stress
154. Froof
155. Mutation
156. Skeleton
157. Rock
158. Lies
159. Ninja
160. Message
161. Bugs
162. Effort
163. Band-aid
164. weird
165. Imaginary
166. Fly Me to the Moon...
167. Discovery
168. What?
169. Adhesive
170. Underworld
171. tropical
172. magic
173. Random
174. Video Game
175. Crisis
176. Insanity
177. Ice
178. Working Hard
179. Hardly Working
180. Sandwich
181. Clone
182. Clumsy
183. Keyboard
184. Hope
185. Song
186. Surprise
187. Cursed
188. Awesomeness
189. hate
190. Fire
191. Orange
192. Love
193. Annoyance
194. Misunderstanding
195. Fantasy
196. Puppy
197. Lost
198. Pie
199. Fate
200. Death

Comments

[foxydanish.livejournal.com]

Good job on all your reading Heather! You are very inspirational for me in that aspect, because I have been doing so horribly with reading this past year! I don't know WTH it is... It's annoying though, I generally love reading. I really need to start doing more of it again.

I saw the pics on Facebook of some of the fireworks show and those looked awesome, so if the other fireworks show was better, I can not even imagine! That sounded so great... Fireworks and a bonfire! Not a much better way to ring in 2013 :) Yay! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!