This is funny because my name is Irish

Your Irish Name Is...

Zoe McGrath

What's your Irish Name?

These things are addictive LOL

You are "Shocked"

What Japanese Smiley Are You?

Which Happy Bunny are You?

you are the "you suck, and that's sad"
happy bunny. your truthful, but can be a bit
brutal.


which happy bunny are you?
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Banned Books. I guess this just got to me.

List of the top 110 banned books. Bold the ones you've read. Italicize the ones you've read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of). Read more. Convince others to read some.

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Qur'an
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Misrables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger #59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Emile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
I think what makes me the maddest is some of these books I read in school.

Number of Days since I bought yarn

Yeah right. I bought more yarn today. I ordered yarn online on Monday. I don't do very well on a yarn diet. I do have plans for the yarn I bought. I am trying to get thru my 10 items list. I guess I will be sucessfull if I have less of a stash at the end of the year then I started out with.
We will just see what happens. LOL
Of course I didn't make a list of my stash at the beginning of the year. LOL

Clapotis

I started the Clapotis shawl with my cashmere. The cashmere does not wat to be a Clapotis, so I will be frogging that.
I ordered Shimmer yarn from Knit Picks. I've seen pictures of a Clapotis in this yarn and thought it looked nice. So when I recieve the yarn I will start a Clapotis.
Now I have no idea what I should knit. LOL

I thought I would go ahead and update this list

. Heather's socks (Lion Brand Magic Strip) She is actually knitting these. I am just helping her along the way.(One sock completed)
2. Tony's Socks (Retro Rib Socks) I am on the gusset of the second sock.(I finished these socks.
3. Broad Street Mittens ( Cashmere yarn from School Products yarn shop in NYC. I bought this yarn in 2002)The Cashmere does not want to be Broad Street Mittens.
4. Lynnette's Irish Hiking Scarf (I just ordered the yarn for this. I will start it as soon as the yarn arrives. It has been shipped)(Finished 3-20-05)
5. Irish HIking Fingerliess Mitts (I have no idea what yarn I will use)
6. Irish Hiking Legging (yarn)?
7. Siobain's Broad Street Mittens ( One mitten already knitted)
8. Broad Street Mittens for Heather (The same Magic Strip yarn as for her socks. I have the yarn in my stash
9. Brian's Sweater (The flame sweater from Stitch'n Bitch Nation. I need to buy the 7 skeins of black yarn.
10. A hat out of the Lambs Pride Superwash sitting on my bookcase.(Made 2 hats.)

More items completed

Let's see.
I fininshed my husbands socks.
A Multidirectional diagional scarf using Lion Brand Magic Stripe. Looks nice.
Lynnette's Irish Hiking Scarf using Knit Picks Elegance. Nice and soft.
I will take a picture of everything today and hopefully it won't take me forever to get them posted.
Now what should I knit next?

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Nice and quiet over here. Just the way I like it.
I was able to knit today.
Need to go out and buy food for dinner.

Wear'n of the Green

Today was the St. Patrick's Day Parade in San Francisco
The kids and I went. We had a great time.
The weather was perfect. The sun was out but it wasn't to sunny.
The parade was over around 2pm. That is the earliest I have ever seen it over. They had booths and music down at Civic Center. We did walk around and looked at the booths and listened to the music. A nice way to spend the afternoon. I'm glad we went.
I was able to get tonight off so now I can relax.

Maybe I'm back online

The computer was back home when I woke up today.
Was able to get on and read my mail Yea.
I am knitting the Diagional Multidirectional Scarf out of Lion Brand Magic Stripe I had in my stash. I left the Irish Hiking Scarf at my mother's and will not be able to get it until I go up next week. Oh! Well!
Might finish this scarf in a few days. Doesn't look to bad.
I'm hoping to be able to download the last set of pictures of completed items.
Can't make any promises.

My computer has died

I have no idea when I will be back online.
So I shall knit while I cannot get online.

Eight items to go.

I finished a hat using the Lambs Pride yarn I had.
The pattern was on Knit Harlots blog.
I started another one to finish the yarn.
It is a nice pattern.
If I make another hat I'm going to knit it in the round.
I like hats knitted in the round.
The yarn from Knit Picks arrived yesterday.
I started the Irish Hiking Scarf with it on my way to work last night.
This yarn is going to work with the scarf.
It is very nice and soft.
The blue is just the right amount of blue.
I tried to start the Broad Street Mittens for myself using the cashmere in my stash. The cashmere does not want to be Broad Street Mittens.
I will try and make the multidirectional diagonal scarf with it and see what it thinks.
I'll try and wait unitl I have the IHS finished first.

Nine items to go.

I finished my husbands socks.
Now to decide what I want to knit next.
I'll try and get a picture up this weekend.

Knit 10 items from your stash before you buy more yarn.

That is a noble title. Yes, I did sign up to knit 10 items from my stash before I bought more yarn. I broke the rules before I finished signing up. LOl
So my new goal is to knit 10 items from my stash. I do not know if that is my goal for the whole year or just the next 6 months. Let's just see how I handle this.
So I have a list of items to make. Of course I can't think of 10 items right now.
1. Heather's socks (Lion Brand Magic Strip) She is actually knitting these. I am just helping her along the way.
2. Tony's Socks (Retro Rib Socks) I am on the gusset of the second sock.
3. Broad Street Mittens ( Cashmere yarn from School Products yarn shop in NYC. I bought this yarn in 2002)
4. Lynnette's Irish Hiking Scarf (I just ordered the yarn for this. I will start it as soon as the yarn arrives. It has been shipped)
5. Irish HIking Fingerliess Mitts (I have no idea what yarn I will use)
6. Irish Hiking Legging (yarn)?
7. Siobain's Broad Street Mittens ( One mitten already knitted)
8. Broad Street Mittens for Heather (The same Magic Strip yarn as for her socks. I have the yarn in my stash
9. Brian's Sweater (The flame sweater from Stitch'n Bitch Nation. I need to buy the 7 skeins of black yarn.
10. A hat out of the Lambs Pride Superwash sitting on my bookcase. Probably for Brian.
There that seems like a doable list.
Items I knit for 2005
1. Tony's Irish Hiknig Scarf
2. 4 Cotton Squares for blanket( I of course did not take a picture of the squares.
I wonder how long will it take me to knit everything on this list. I do find new things to knit every day.