Edit: More books added on!

Whenever you're in need of books to read? Go to fathers. Lol, my dad like pulled all these books out for me.

This is what came up

1. The Divine Comedy - Dante (never read Dante before...ought to be interesting.)
2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
3. The Tolkien Reader - J. R. R Tolkien. (my dad didn't pull this out, but, I also added the Simlmarillion, so I was thinking, hey, just go all Tolkien stuff, lol. Haven't done that in awhile)
4. Sherlock Holmes - A. C. Doyle (*shields self from the chance of an attack of Holmesian people. * No, I have never read it...before the summer. Nope. *covers head* don't hurt me, lol)
5. Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore. (Nope, never read this one either. Heard a ton about it though.)
6. The Collected Poems - Emily Dickinson.

But still, I'm always open for books, so...go ahead and recommend them anyway :-D

Book List.

People who have not read the post before this one. They shall have no idea what I'm talking about. SO. Peoples go read that one first.

Here's my list for people who have/will ask.

1. 1- Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
2. 2 - Fellowship of the Ring (my mom said I could re-read them :-D) - everyone knows this, lol.
   
3. 3 - Two Towers
4. Return of the King
5. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
6. Tess of the Dubervilles - ? (half way through this already. Just need to finish it.)
7. Daniel Deronda - George Elliot
8. Les Miserables - victor Hugo
9. Miss Bishop - Bess Streeter Aldrich
10. My Antonia - Willa Cather...? (question marks due to me not being able to read my handwriting, lol)
    
11. Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allen Poe (lol, that conversation about him made me want to read his stuff. But...I won't read it at night, lol)
12. Unnatural Death - Dorothy Sayers (who can go wrong with her??)
13. Gaudy Night - Dorothy Sayers (I started....hard to get into...stopped, lol. Shall preserver this time!)
14. The Girl of the Limberlost - Gene S?elton Porter
15. The Hobbit - J.R. R. Tolkien
    
16. Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
17. The Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
18. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

And, I'd also appreciate, if you've read the book. Whatcha think?


Tooooodles!
Grace }|{

Quote of the Day ~

You're never safe from surprise till you're dead.
~ Mrs. Rachel Lynde



This. Is a very big quote in my family. We use it a ton. It's best used with a Southern Accent. Preferably Texan. Enjoy, lol.

One of my MOST FUNNY memories/stories...whatever..

Ok. So, I bet. That, almost ALL my readers...which is a very shocking 7...or 7 followers anyway, have heard this story. I LOVE this story. Every time I think about it? I ALWAYS die. Laughing, of course.

Ok....setting stage.

We're at either the Costco, or Sam's. Forgotted which. Anyway, so we're checking out...and Joey and I are helping load stuff. In the checkout next to us, there are these 2 girls. One's about, maybe 10 or 11, and the other maybe 8 or something.

10/11 girl - We shall call her Susan.
8/? - Betty.

I am so creative. *sigh* Uh, so yeah. What follows is their dialog, which I'm so happy I got to hear this. *dies*

Betty - SO! Who's your FAVORITE Jonas Brothers!?!?!?! *wiggles*
Susan - *puts on lip gloss*
Betty - Well...*pause* ok...hard choice. Who's your favorite *TWO* Jonas Brothers???!?!
Susan - *still applying lip gloss* *pause* Nick and Jo. Totally.
Betty - *realizes she's been acting stupid, and suddenly refines herself* Yeah. Me too.

(Now, for the best part.)

Betty - Kevin is sooo creepy. He's got...huge sideburns...and...he looks like ELVIS.
Grace - *tries not to make enough noise to attract attention from these little Jonas Brothers obsessed girls* *ends up dying anyway*

And that, tis my story. *bows* So yeah...um...yeah. lol.

Major exciting newsflash!!!!

1) Katie's coming home for Mother's Day tonight! Sometime...around 9 or something. YAY. But, this means a lot of cleaning...and baking cookies...which it's not like cookies are a bad thing, lol.

2) I. am done. With. Great Books!!!!!!! I'm like....duuuude. Lol. I still have my paper that's not even close to being finished yet, but hey. It's the study questions...the stuff I have to print out every week...those things. Yeah. When I wasn't taking it...I was like worried I wouldn't get anything...be horrible at reading, and the study questions. But, everything turned out *much* better than I expected :-D. Now, I have next year to look forward to, lol. My main goal is to get to the 4th year, which is where, or so I've heard, that comes the Jane Austen, and other authors like that. So...lol, yeah.

Mother's Day is on Sunday. I have a knitting project (yes peoples...I have *another* new project, lol.) I'm totally obsessed with knitting, and I don't mind saying it :-D lol. So yeah, our knitting store, got in these really cute patterns from www.cocoknits.com. There might not be any pictures there, but there are some super cute stuff. Anyway, they had this little loafer pattern. As in the shoe. And my mom has always looked at the pattern whenever we go in. So, she asked for a pair for Mother's Day :-D The great thing? I got the *last pattern*. Lol, so far, it's a brand new experience. I've never knit a shoe type thing before, lol.

The way it's knit -
first, the sole, which is super easy. Just, garter stitch (which means, you knit every round), and increasing, and decreasing. And it was like...72 rows or something. Easy-peasy. got that done in one morning... So, then you pick up stitches all around the sole. Knit in the round (meaning, knitting in a circle. You peoples could get that though, that's pretty easy to understand, lol) Then, doing "short rounds". Which, I have no idea how to do. They used the abbreviation in the pattern, and I was like...Uuuuh, what?? The abbreviation is w&t. Which stands for wrap and turn. It's kinda like...uh...hard to explain. You slip the stitch to one needle, purl wise. Then, you bring the yarn to the front. Move the stitch back where it came from. Turn your work completely around, bring the yarn forward again, and now you'll be purling the way you were just knitting from. Don't worry. If you didn't understand that, that's ok. I had to like read through it a couple of times to do it with my knitting. Then...it's got these optional little decorations. There's...acorns. a huge puff-ball thing. Or, a way so you can actually fit a penny in it...which I thought was pretty clever. My mom wants to puff-ball ones.

She chose....this aqua yarn for the sole. And light pink for the main body of the shoe...which I think is pretty cute. Then, it also has little suede foot-y things, that you have for the heel and the ball of your foot. No sliding around :-D.

The yarn store has 2 AWESOME little contest thingers....that I'm SO going to enter, lol. Or try at least, for one of them.

One, is where you buy sock yarn, it gets marked off on a card (which I now have one) make the socks, that gets marked, you go get more yarn, etc, etc. So, the point is whoever gets enough sock yarn *and* make all 15 socks...they win, and get a bunch of stuff. INCLUDING a 30.00$ gift card to the store...which is like the BEST thing there. There are also...like a hank of Malabrigo yarn (same stuff from my Clapotis...so awesome!!) pattern book of socks, some needles, and somtehing else.

THEN. There's one that you get to design a scarf, bring it in...people vote, and whoever gets the highest vote, gets the scarf's picture on the front of some little booklet they're going to send out. But, it has to be all your own...it could either be super intracate with the stitches, or super brightly colored, OR both :-). Also, I think you get a gift card as well...I think...not sure.

When I heard about all this, was like AAAAAAAH. Yeah, peoples who know me, and knitting? I'd be like..yeah...something drastic. Lol.

Also. One quick question to ALL of my readers. If you read this. PLEASE COMMENT.

I'm supposed to put together a summer reading list, of 25 books, each have to be 200+ pages. So far, I have 18, but running out of ideas. Sounds silly right? HOW IN THE WORLD could we run out of ideas of books to read. I am anyway. Heh. Anyway, if there's any book that you've read, or you're reading and you're like DUuuuude, I LOVE this book. Or, if not that...something that's optimistic, lol.

And...it prob shouldn't be anything like...The Mysterious Benedict Society. Cause, that's easy reading, lol. Or, no The Naming, otherwise, those books would TOTALLY be on my list. (I got the next 2 after the first one....yes!!)

First on my list?

Little Dorrit. By Charles Dickens.

I'll post the rest later.

Wow. that was long. Hope you people's eyeballs didn't fall out. And thank you for reading. Please exit, and leave all popcorn and drink contaners in the nearest trash can. Thank you.

The Attack of the Flying Cockroach.

This happened...maybe on Sunday or Monday evening. And, it was the most creepiest thing I have EVER felt. EVER. Yes, it's true.

Ok....setting stage.

Me, sitting at computer, chatting. Joey sitting next to me. Me, I'm about to go hot tubbing with my parents, so I have on my swimming suit, all ready to go.

I hear this *thunk* and a small flutter. Next thing I know?

Little creepy-crawly feet falling/crawling down my back and arm. Then, the *next thing* I know?

There's A COCKROACH IN MY LAP.

I freaked out.

SOME PEOPLE thought this was very extremely humorous. *ahem*

Ok, and you know the phrase; "Everything's BIGGER in Texas!"? That is SO true for cockroaches. They. are. GINORMOUS! It was bigger than my thumb...which is HUGE...for a cockroach, lol. Cause...my thumb is teeny-weeny. I'm being corrected by Joey. Who's thumb is much bigger than mine, lol.

All the rest of that evening, I kept feeling little things that felt like cockroach feet.

So, I did something...or it fell out...so, it was then under my desk, chair thing. I, on the other hand, was on my knees on my chair, trying to get as far away from the floor/cockroach as possible. It ran out, it was super creepy...to hide underneath the bookshelf that sits behind our computers. Then, it runs out, into our game closet. I forget about it. Thankfully. And, I join my parents in the hot tub.

THEN. There's more...*shudder* Ok, I'm coming back in, all wet. Walk past the computers, and I'm in the doorway of my room, and I ALMOST step on the now dead cockroach.

And that? Is my story :-) Some people experienced my freaking out first hand, and they found it amusing. Ha ha ha. lol.

Before, I didn't really care about cockroaches, cause... I hadn't really had an encounter with them before. Now? I hate them. It's like cheese. It's EVIL. and EMO. Yes.

Toodles!

Major Sadness. *sigh*

You know when you've worked on something so hard, and it's just perfect? And then, you find out you didn't do something right, and had to undo everything, and start over? I hate it when that happens.

I got a new knitting project. Heh. We, uh, went to the knitting store, on Saturday, to get more yarn for my Clapotis. Alas, they did not have my color way...this is EXTREME sadness in a knitter's eyes. When you're in the middle of a project, or almost done, and they don't have more of your yarn? It's devistation, lol. Anyway, so my mom said I could get another project :-) I had my eye, on this French Girl pattern, in their new book (see pictures below) and so, I was like, hey, let's do this. So, I get the yarn, come home, figure out the needles, get all set up...tea, long movie, my mom's ready, it's perfect. I cast on* (see Knitting Terms below for non-knitters) 111 stitches, with my normal cast on, and begin working. All together, I worked maybe like 2 and 1/2 or 3 hours on it. Got maybe 3 inches done. Not then, lol. That was spaced out, of course, lol. The yarn, it's a fingering weight, I think, so it takes awhile to knit, plus I'm knitting with only size 8 needles, so that's also a hindrence to my knitting speed. Ok, so, last night, we settle down again. I decide to check the pattern, to see how exactly long I need this back thing. This is what I read. "Cast on, using provisional+ cast on". If you glance up there, notice I cast on, with my *normal* cast on. Not provisional cast on. So...guess what that meant? I had to rip back** all my hard work. Start at the beginning, with casting on those 111 stitches. This is one of my extreme stupidity moments. Why had I not read the pattern more carefully before??? *sigh* Another bad thing, the yarn I'm using? It's like..fluffy...and has a lot of extra "fuzz" to it. So, once you knit it, all those little fuzzies cling together, making it extra hard to rip back. Extreme annoyance, as you can imagine.

Knitting terms -
*cast on - meaning like, making all those stitches, and putting them on the needle, so you're ready to start.
**rip back - means...rip back, lol. Take everything out. All of it. Or, to a certain point in some cases.
+provisional cast on - it's a special cast on, where you have live (meaning, they're available to be picked up, and started worked with) stitches sitting there, waiting for something to be added on to it.


La Picture ~ Veronique. Don't ask me were they get the names for these patterns, lol.

Here's the yarn I'm using. Annnd, guess what I just found out? It's name? Grace :-)Our knitting store, one of it's owners made Veronique in this color...it was soooo pretty. I made Katie's Christmas present with this same stuff, but it was silver, with a little shine to it. That, was like...a shall/jacket type thing with a lace pattern. Some of you peoples might have seen it.

What do you peoples think?

Random Facts that Not Everyone, not even my best friends, know about Grace Sapp -- Part Duos

1. I LOVE HUMMUS. I could live off of hummus...it's *that* good. Especially with chips, and carrots.
   
2. I can play...the piano, violin, dulcimer, mandolin (that's pretty obvious though, cause of the violin) and...tin whistle.
   
3. I am friends with both of my old piano teachers from Ponca, on Facebook...when I found them, I was kinda weirded out.
   
4. I currently use 2 different iPods.
5. I'm the kind of person who *has* to have something that's organized. Otherwise, I die. Or, if there's nothing that is organized, I fix it so it is, lol.
   
6. I have been told I laugh too much. In answer to their statement, I laugh, lol.
   
7. I DON'T WANT TO DRIVE. AT ALL. If you don't believe me, come to Houston. Sit in rush hour, *then* you'll believe me.
   
8. The Phantom of the Opera movie makes my skin crawl with the singing skillz of those people. It's like a big fat zero. Plus, how they ruined the story...but that's typical of every movie knock-off of a book
9. Mr. Darcy vs. Mr. Thornton? Mr.Thornton ALL THE WAY. Peoples, this is North and South vs. Pride and Prejudice...the A&E one.
10. I love pens. More then pencils. If I had a choice, I'd use a pen.
    
11. Smackers are da bomb. I have a little box full of them that I've collected/saved.
    
12. Kirby is da bomb. Especially the pink one. Original colors of the little person thinger, are like the best.
    
13. I'm saving for a Apple Laptop...whatever they're called. A white one. With a webcam built in....it's going to be AWESOME.
    

Ok....that's enough for now. I'll think of more later :-)

Bye peoples!!
Grace }|{

Helloooooo darkness!

Me? I'm feeling random. People who know me, yes, I can be SO RANDOM...it's not even funny :-) But then...after I'm random? and it's not funny? We always burst out laughing anyway...just because it was so random, it wasn't funny. Make sense? *rambles*


SEE! I told you I was random. I'm not really this strange in life...hopefully. I hope I don't scare my readers :-)

Title: "Hellooooo Darkness!" Meaning: it's 11:23. It's late. It's dark outside (SURPRISE!! lol) I am so brilliant, are I not? Joey's reading this and looking strange.

My main point in posting at 11:...24? To have at least one post that's after 10? Ooooh yes, after that, my life is totally complete! *laughs uncontrollably* HAHAHAH *fades* No. I've made a list (I love to make lists) of things to blog about. Aren't I brilliant? ^.^

This *evening's* post shall be....*drum roll please* bdbdbddrrrrrrrrr

"Random Things that Not a Lot of People Know About Grace Sapp. Even Her Best Friends"

Sound interesting?

Now, if you know me...I prob can't think of *everything* that's so random, that not everyone knows about me *right now* so...I might add on later, lol.

Ooooo, I know. I'll use that awesome little list tool. So, we can see how many random things they are. Cause it *numbers* them for you! How awesome is that!

(Don't say I didn't warn you. I'm so random. )

1. I'm currently hyper right now.
2. I HATE CHEESE (this is kinda widely known, but I *always* list this, no matter what*
3. I used to be not-so-fond of knitting (*everyone gasps*)
4. I only have 1 grandparent currently.
5. at one point in my life, I had hair past my waist.
6. most of my scars are from roller blading in water. (I wouldn't advise this...it's not fun)
7. except 2 of the scars aren't from roller blading, one is from a table from a hotel (WHY do hotel people make tables with *super sharp* edges?) and a swimming pool ladder that had a weird edge.
8. I have taken Latin all my life...pretty much. Well, from like 2nd grade on. (Like, Latina Christina...lol not online.)
9. I LOVE TO COLOR.
   
10. 96 boxes of Crayons make me all warm, and fuzzy inside.
    
11. My first cat. I named him Suggles. I was such a creative child, no? Jeff, my older brother, *changed* his name. To. FRED. -_-
12. I have 2 fortunes (as in from the cookies) taped onto my moniter that say: 1) "Learning is a treasure that accompanies us everywhere" and 2) "Relax and enjoy yourself"
13. I have a talking (yes, talking) Aflac (yes, Aflac) Duck sitting on my desk.
    
14. I'm sitting next to 4 Latin charts of conjugation verbs, and case endings that are pinned up on the wall (people might have seen these before, lol)
15. When I was younger, I HATED Skittlez. I grew out of that...until recently, when I broke a bracket (off of my braces) by eating one. Now, I hate them again, lol.
16. When I was younger, I was so shy, I hated to go up to a person at a restaurant and ask for a refill. One of my siblings always did it, lol. same thing with ordering food...or talking to any strange person. Thankfully, I grew out of that.
17. One of the first *real* plays I was in, was the Little Princess, where I played Ram Dass. Never eat powdered chocolate...unless it has sugar of some sort in it, otherwise, DON'T. I also wore a turban...which was fun.
    
18. I love change...not all change, but certain kinds of change (like, rearranging a room, or something)
19. I'm currently drinking a Root Beer. (I typed that Root Bear, btw)
20. I'm wondering if anyone is getting boring, or people are getting scared that I'm so strange.
    Though the fact that I say I'm strange...some people find this debatable, compared to themselves.
    
21. I LOVE to name things. Especially people...I have a lot of people who have nicknames. Ooooh yes. *laughs*
22. Some of my favorite words. (People who don't know this, it shall always be a mystery to you all. Don't even try to decipher these riddles. It'll hurt your mind) My favorite word: *ahem* Junebug. Squiggle. Churchill. Hatstand. Cupcake. Uh...Iggplant. And, Elmo :-)
23. Is anyone thinking that I seriously have a problem?
    
24. I HATE CHEESE
25. Oh, another obvious fact. If I can't dance, I die. Therefore, I dance all the time. Even while getting water out of the fridge. Folding laundry, tis true.
    
26. I love the stars.
27. I love my friends. All my friends. Dude, you guys are the best :-) Thanks for listening to my ramblings

And, a quick note. Before I leave. Seeing that it's 11:43, and I must go to bed at 12.

I have *almost* reached 200 views on my profile :-) And, getting at least 4 comments on my posts. THANK YOU peoples who are viewing my profile, and commenting!!!!

Comment it
A) You were entertained, and laughed
B) You laughed, but were seriously creeped out.
C) Had a sudden urge to the Posties
D) Walk away, saying that you have no idea who I am, for the reason that I'm insane.
or E) all of the above :-)

Or, if none of those. Comment anyway, with a reason that you came up with...

also, tell me what you'd like me ramble about! Just nothing religious, or political. I know this limits some people's ideas then...but...then nevermind for those peoples, lol.

Phew...wow, my hands are crammping. I typed that...without stopping. Except to drink my Root Bear.

Valete Omnes!
Grace }|{