I probably haven't seen a lot of these (or like one episode), but I love lists like this, so I'll do it anyway :P

+ Bold all of the following TV shows of which you've seen 3 or more episodes.
+ Italicize a show if you're positive you've seen every episode.
+ Asterisk if you have at least one full season on tape or DVD
+ Exclamation mark if it's an all-time fave.
+ Add up to 3 more shows that are not on here.

24
The 4400
Abbot Elementary
A League of Their Own
The A-Team
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
Agent Carter (! I watched it again a few months ago I think and one of the characters had a four-poster bed!! Don't remember that from before haha)
America’s Next Top Model
The Americans
Angel
The Andy Griffith Show
Arcane: League of Legends
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: Legend of Korra
Arthur
( the rest )

Earlier this week I found a book I might be interested in, and when I started flipping through it I saw "fussbudget," a word from the Biz Bee last week!! I don't remember ever seeing it before, and just right after the Biz Bee?? That's crazy haha, what are the chances?

On Tuesday before book club, mom and I went to a Chinese restaurant, which was closed on Tuesdays (huh??), another that had closed for the day, and just went to the Mexican restaurant across the street. I wanted ice cream after, so we went to Sonic, but they were out of ice cream. Mom was like "uh ok, there's nothing here I want then" and I said "don't be rude!" We then went to another place and the guys said they stopped making ice cream. I was like "...but this is an ice cream shop!" Mom and I were dying of laughter when we got outside..she was like "you literally did what you just told me not to do!" We went to Cold Stone (mom joked they were probably out of ice cream too, and I'd just have to get a bowl of sprinkles LOL)..it took like 30 minutes and were late for book club, but at least we had an amusing story to tell :P

It's been sooo nice out this week..not looking forward to the birch pollen though D:

20. How Much Control Do You Think You Have Over Your Fate? Some, you do have some control over your decisions, anyway..

21. How Do You Try to Reduce Your Impact on the Environment? Not litter..I should probably do more :/

22. How Do You Celebrate Earth Day? I don't really

23. Did Your School Have A Dress Code? Are School Dress Codes a Good Idea? Yeah. To an extent..banning band shirts seemed ridiculous though :/

24. What Have Your Parents Taught You About Money? *shrugs* General stuff??

25. Are You a Good Driver? I don't drive, and I don't think I can, because when I get surprised, I freeze and can't react for a few seconds (sometimes I can't speak at all, like when I saw a bear charging at mom's car), which could mean the difference between accident or not. It just seems scary anyway haha

Four places I have worked:
1. When I was a kid, sometimes I took care of people's pets while they were away, if that counts lol
2. Forget-Me-Not Books. Work went by SO FAST today!! It was pretty busy! Someone bought a lot of mystery books this weekend, and put quite a bit back on the shelves..satisfying! I'm so glad I'm enjoying it again (I found five books today that
I wanted though..so dangerous working there :P)
3.
4.

Four things I love to watch on TV/Netflix:
1. Here Come the Brides..I discovered it when looking for movies/TV shows with characters who stutter (still fascinating to me for some reason. I've come across some weird movies, like The Passion of Darkly Noon. O_o It had Viggo Mortensen in it though, which is always a plus LOL). Jeremy (played by Bobby Sherman) is a main character who stutters (mostly in the first season, he was helped by a snake-oil salesman in the first season, and only stutters in the second season when he's nervous or unsure or something). He's shy and caring and just a great guy (Bobby Sherman himself seems like a great guy! Not bad looking either LOL). The show can be cheesy, but it's entertaining. Everyone I ask who grew up in that era (late 60s) gets really happy when I ask them if they know who Bobby Sherman is LOL (even my mom, and she doesn't care about celebrities!). Too bad there's only two seasons :(
2. Stranger Things
3. Bones (though I haven't seen it in a long time)
4. Agent Carter

Four places I have visited:
1. Carcassonne, France
2. Galveston, Texas
3. Wheathampstead, England
4. Watertown, Wisconsin

Four things I love to eat:
1. Popcorn
2. Cake with lots of frosting
3. Strawberry smoothies/milkshakes
4. Paneer masala

Four places I’ve lived:
1. Claremont, California
2. Flower Mound, Texas
3. Fairbanks, Alaska (Goldstream, outside of town)
4. Fairbanks, Alaska (downtown)

Four favorite drinks:
1. Strawberry smoothies/milkshakes
2. Lemonade
3. Vitamin Water
4. Apple juice

Each time I use the CPAP it seems to get a little better..I still feel tired, but maybe that'll go away in time..

( aug 26-28 )

I'm back with another video! They are pretty fun lol, except for that awful word..yikes. D: I definitely try multiple takes, but then I get tired and sound worse haha. I kept this one because I liked how I recited from Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Hope it was enjoyable lol. Here is the meme, if you'd like to do it!

Instructions:
Your name and/or username
Where you're from
The following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Orange, Coffee, direction, naturally, aluminium and herbs.

What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

Random passage

Next journal entries are from my 8th grade English journal! A lot of it was boring school notes, but ( here are entries that might be interesting! )

21. What is the last thing you cooked? Hmm..chili maybe?

22. If you could live in a fictional world, which would it be? Hogwarts or somewhere in Lord of the Rings might be cool..though Narnia would be cool too! Hard question haha

1. What was the best thing about 2020? Going to my cousin' wedding, going back to work after quarantine, picking berries at Murphy Dome, etc
2. What lessons from 2020 will you carry into 2021? Just..try to hang on, especially during a pandemic..it can be hard though!
3. How did you spend your New Year's Eve? We set off fireworks on the frozen lake (a LOT of other people in the area were shooing them off too lol) and played Uno Flip; New Phone, Who Dis?; and this trivia game Ryan and Jo have on the computer that they hook up to the TV, and you use your phone to interact with the game..it was pretty cool! No one won on the first round, but I won on the second because of a book question..I love putting that knowledge to use haha
4. Legend says what you did at midnight on New Year's Eve/Day is what you'll do all year. So what did you do? Watched fireworks..I have never heard that legend before lol
5. What are you most looking forward to in 2021? Hopefully getting to travel somewhere..it'll probably still take awhile to get corona under control though..

My hysterectomy is in one week..wow O_o

For this year's daily meme, I am going to pick a/the "theme" of the day (Google "wacky themed days" lol) and ask a question relating to it. I'll try to keep it up all year lol

( here are january's questions! )

4. What’s your favorite musical? Phantom of the Opera

5. How do you respond in a crisis? I kinda panic lol..I like to get a calm, level-headed opinion so I'll stop panicking :P

6. Have you ever pretended to speak a foreign language you don't actually know? One that I made up haha

7. Which art movement best describes you today (e.g. surrealism, dada, impressionism, etc.)? Every day is surreal in the Age of Coronavirus :P

8. How much do you “bring work home”? Do you work at home after work hours, or do you leave it at the office? Never, it would be too much stuff to bring home, plus I want to relax when I get home!

9. Is there anything you fear that most people don’t seem to be afraid of? Bananas, because there might be wandering spiders on them LOL

( pokemon update )

Today's trivia: George Washington was so afraid of being buried alive that he wanted his seemingly deceased body to be laid out for three days, just to make sure he was really dead

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below.
Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series
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 (I tried reading it but I thought it was dumb, so I didn't bother with the rest lol)
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
19. The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
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 (OMG I couldn't get past the second page of this book..once I read the "curious incident" was a dog stabbed to death with a fork, I was like "HECK NO"..ugh)
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 Mitchel
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

I've read 13, so yay, I'm above average haha :P

We've had an EPIC day at the bookstore today..when I left, we were over $800!!! Part of it is the plant sale we're having this week, but even without it we'd be doing well. That's incredible..I told Donna to text me after she closes, it'll be epic! (Donna's been working at the bookstore a year now! That was fast lol)

( Day 249-251 )

Today's trivia: The dude in Aerosmith's “Dude (Looks like a Lady)” is Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil, whose long blond locks Aerosmith mistook for 
a woman's at a bar one night

1. What mini version of a popular snack food is better than its original? Mini Chips Ahoy..you can eat more of them at once haha
2. What mini version of a popular snack food is not as good as its original? I like Mini Oreos, but there isn't enough icing lol
3. What food, not yet miniaturized as far as you know, might make a great hors d’oeuvre for parties? Hmm..not sure..
4. What snack food might be better in a giant size? Hmm..Oreos?
5. What five mini-scoops of ice cream flavors would go really well together? Vanilla, chocolate chip, cookies and cream, cookie dough, strawberry

Here are the answers to the movie quote meme:
1. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions, but the road to heaven is paved with lost opportunities": The Worst Journey in the World

2. "I will not say 'Do not weep,' for not all tears are evil" Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (chazzbanner)

3. "Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future" Interstellar (ragnarok_08)

4. "Congratulations, madam, there's another town you've destroyed" Cutthroat Island (ragnarok_08)

5. "John, get ready to have some kids!": Wall-e

6. "I gotta go Julia, we got cows!" Twister (hamarakissa)

7. "This was my first bus ride": The Mummy Returns

8. "I had a little trouble with the fireplace" The Hunchback of Notre Dame (ragnarok_08)

9. "Why would I go looking for somebody that wants to kill me?" Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (hamarakissa)

10. "If it's all the same to you, I'll have that drink now" The Avengers (ragnarok_08)

11. "A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having": V for Vendetta

12. "Can I transfer to the class with the cool Vikings?": How to Train Your Dragon

13. "Nobility is not a birthright, it's defined by one's actions" Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (ragnarok_08)

14. "No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it" Mulan (ragnarok_08)

15. "Do you realize that the first man who carved a wheel out of stone used it as an ornament?": Papillon

I saw Where'd You Go, Bernadette, and I was very sad they didn't include The Worst Journey in the World like the book did LOL..it was still pretty true to the book though :P

( Day 231-234 )

Name ten of life's simple pleasures that you like most, then pick ten people to do the same. (I tag everyone :P)

1. A purring cat on my lap or bed..I have been chosen!!

2. Relaxing under a cozy blanket after a busy day

3. A nice cool breeze that smells like Alaska and mountains *swoons*

4. Eating something I've been craving

5. Making lists and putting them in alphabetical order lol

6. Starting a fresh new book, and the feel of the cover and smell of the pages

7. Puffy clouds, and when the sunlight streams through them

8. The smell of a spruce/evergreen forest

9. Watching the Northern Lights dance above me

10. Learning something so awesome it gives me chills

( Day 221-223 )

Today's trivia: Ants are the longest living of all insects, living for up to 30 years

Reply here and I'll give you 3 subjects I don't think you know or care much about. Then you talk about those subjects in your journal. It's interesting to see who knows what about what?

From monkiainen:

1. Star Trek: I have never liked Star Trek lol, I've always thought it was dumb for some reason. I was always like "meh" when I tried to watch it. :P To me, Star Wars is way better lol

2. Gardening: They're nice to look at, but way too much work for me. It is nice to have fresh food to eat though! Mom usually plants one, but she's too busy this year. I love how huge all the plants get in the Midnight Sun haha

3. Knitting: It can be nice to look at too, but I don't have the talent, patience or desire to knit lol. I do love the qiviut scarf mom made me (the underhair of a muskox, which is super warm), it definitely helps in the winter!

It was mom's birthday yesterday and I asked how it felt to be another year older, and she was like "huh, I only feel a day older!" LOL, best answer ever :P

( Day 165-166 )

Name ten of your favorite female fictional characters:

1. Hermione Granger
2. Katniss Everdeen
3. Arya Stark
4. Abby Lockhart (ER)
5. Flava de Luce
6. Mulan
7. Morgan Adams (Cutthroat Island)
8. Temperance Brennan/Bones
9. Evelyn O'Connell (The Mummy)
10. Dory (Finding Nemo)

Next week mom and I are going to Juneau! Mom has friends there, and of course there's Mendenhall Glacier (our bed and breakfast is like five minutes from the glacier :D)..I wonder how much it's changed since I saw it last (2014?). We'll stay there a few days, then go to Anchorage for a couple days..there's going to be an exhibit about the Franklin Expedition at the museum there, and on the opening day there's going to be a special showing..can't miss that!! Of course we'll have to go to Title Wave Books, and find some geocaches lol. Should be fun!!

( Day 144-146 )