I sent out the group lists for Burn It - The Winter Edition this morning, so everyone should have their groups shortly. Have fun creating your CDs and don't forget to mail them out by the end of the day Monday, March 29th. Remember to send me a copy as well so I can put a check by your name and let you participate next time.

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I know that I said I'd send the groups out for Burn It yesterday, but a date that ended at 4:30 this morning and being at Emily's for game night put a crimp it that plan. I'll send them out tomorrow, I promise.

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My mom pointed me in the direction of a great place to download ringtones, screensavers, games, and apps for your phone. It's called 3gupload.com and you can do unlimited downloads for as little as a $6.99 donation. Lots of cool stuff there.

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I sat down in a 300 player freeroll (no entry fee) poker tournament and managed to get some really good cards (including flopping four of a kind) and I finished in seventh position.

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Emily put up her pictures from the third Tiara Happy Hour that we had back in January. For some reason, my boobs make quite a few guest appearances. I'm sure the many vodka shots at the bar had nothing to do with it. Go here if you want to check it out.

Just think - only three more weeks or so until the next Tiara Happy Hour! Wheee!

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I took Emily's suggestion and went and rated everything on my Amazon wishlist. It's just a coincidence that my birthday happens to be only two weeks away, I swear.

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Thanks to Mikey, I've spent way too much time on the Movie Alphabet Game. So far, despite my vast movie knowledge, I've only been able to get A, D, G, H (because I saw it in Mikey's comments), I, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, W, and Z (again because of Mikey's comments).

Anyone know the rest of them? I know I know B and V, but I can't figure them out.

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It's some kind of miracle, but I've already completed my CD for this edition of my Burn It CD exchange. Since I still haven't mailed out my CDs to my last group, they'll get a copy of this CD too.

If you're interested, here's what went on the CD. It came to 79:56, leaving only 4 seconds of blank space. Not bad, huh?

01 Hed Kandi - Rainy Days And Mondays (5:42)
02 Zero 7 - In the Waiting Line (4:33)
03 George Michael - Cowboys and Angels (7:15)
04 The Passengers & Pavarotti - Miss Sarajevo (5:22)
05 kd lang - Love Affair (4:41)
06 Tears For Fears - Woman In Chains (6:30)
07 The Cure - Pictures Of You (4:49)
08 Don Henley - The Heart Of The Matter (5:22)
09 Sting - Shape Of My Heart (4:40)
10 Eve Cassidy - Fields of Gold (4:43)
11 The Cranberries - Ode to My Family (4:31)
12 Brooks & Dunn - Neon Moon (4:22)
13 Vince Gill - Worlds Apart (5:44)
14 Wild Colonials - Victim (5:59)

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Which Historical Lunatic Are You?
From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey.

A fine, amiable and dreamy young man, skilled in horsemanship and archery, you were also from a long line of dribbling madmen. King at 12 and quickly married to your sweetheart, Bavarian Princess Isabeau, you enjoyed many happy months together before either of you could speak anything of the other's language. However, after illness you became a tad unstable. When a raving lunatic ran up to your entourage spouting an incoherent prophecy of doom, you were unsettled enough to slaughter four of your best men when a page dropped a lance. Your hair and nails fell out. At a royal masquerade, you and your courtiers dressed as wild men, ending in tragedy when four of them accidentally caught fire and burned to death. You were saved by the timely intervention of the Duchess of Berry's underskirts.

This brought on another bout of sickness, which surgeons countered by drilling holes in your skull. The following months saw you suffer an exorcism, beg your friends to kill you, go into hyperactive fits of gaiety, run through your rooms to the point of exhaustion, hide from imaginary assassins, claim your name was Georges, deny that you were King and fail to recognise your family. You smashed furniture and wet yourself at regular intervals. Passing briefly into erratic genius, you believed yourself to be made of glass and demanded iron rods in your attire to prevent you breaking.

In 1405 you stopped bathing, shaving or changing your clothes. This went on until several men were hired to blacken their faces, hide, jump out and shout "boo!", upon which you resumed basic hygiene. Despite this, your wife continued sleeping with you until 1407, when she hired a young beauty, Odette de Champdivers, to take her place. Isabeau then consoled herself, as it were, with your brother. Her lovers followed thick and fast while you became a pawn of your court, until you had her latest beau strangled and drowned.

A severe fever was fended off with oranges and pomegranates in vast quantities, but you succumbed again in 1422 and died. Your disease was most likely hereditary. Unfortunately, you had anywhere up to eleven children, who variously went on to develop capriciousness, great cruelty, insecurity, paranoia, revulsion towards food and, in one case, a phobia of bridges.

(Link courtesy of Michele.)

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Do you support the right for all couples, regardless of their sexual orientation, to marry? Then go sign the petiton and let your view be known.

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Katie just called my date for Thursday "dreamy." I feel like a teenager in the 50s! :-)

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Don't forget that today's the last day to sign up for Burn It - The Winter Edition, my latest CD swap. Go read the rules and send me your info if you'd like to participate.

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Parting Gifts by Charlotte Vale Allen: a touching look at the relationships between people and their families.

The novel starts off with Kyra, daughter to a well-know director father and actress mother, learning that her husband Gary has died in a freak accident. A few days later, while coming home from Gary's funeral, Kyra is confronted by a teenage mother that insists that Kyra is her own mother and that she must now watch her son whom she plans to leave with social services if Kyra won't comply. Kyra is confused to how this girl could think she's her mother (she was born with a birth defect that left her sterile, so it's an impossibility), but agrees to accept the neglected boy since she always wanted children. The rest of the book deals with Kyra and Jesse learning to live together and Kyra coming to terms with her family until an important decision that Jesse must make changes life for everyone.

I haven't read any of Charlotte Vale Allen's books before, but I must confess that at first I didn't think I was going to like it. The book seemed to start off a little stilted and while we're reading about Kyra's family as she comes to grips with Gary's death, I thought it was going to go right off into the land of caricature (which, in retrospect, is probably the point). Fortunately, as soon as Jesse was introduced, this proved not to be the case.

Ultimately, I found the novel to be really touching - I even cried towards the end. The characters were very real and believable and while some of it was pretty predictable, it was still very enjoyable.

(Finished on March 1, 2004 for Zuly's Reading Room.)

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