Feme Meme

Stolen from Bezzie and then Jo.

I've highlighted all the books I've read, and starred the authors I've read, but not specifically the book listed. If they're highlighted and starred, then I've read more of that author's catalogue in addition to the book listed.

Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina, 1992
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969 ***
Atwood, Margaret. Cat's Eye, 1988 ***(read The Blind Assassin)
Bainbridge, Beryl. The Bottle Factory Outing, 1974
Bambara, Toni Cade. Gorilla, My Love, 1992
Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood, 1937
Barker, Pat. Regeneration, 1992
Brookner, Anita. Hotel du Lac, 1984
Brown, Rita Mae. Rubyfruit Jungle, 1973
Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth, 1931
Byatt, A.S. Possession: A Romance, 1990***
Carter, Angela. Nights at the Circus, 1984
Castillo, Ana. So Far From God, 1993
Cather, Willa. My Antonia, 1918 (I own though...should read)
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening, 1900
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street, 1984
Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Elders and Betters, 1944
Desai, Anita. Clear Light of Day, 1980
Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa, 1938
Doerr, Harriet. Stones for Ibarra, 1984
Drabble, Margaret. The Radiant Way, 1987
DuMaurier, Daphne. Rebecca, 1938
Emecheta, Buchi. Second Class Citizen, 1974
Erdrich, Louise. Tracks: A Novel, 1988
Fitzgerald, Penelope. At Freddie's, 1985
Flagg, Fannie. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, 1987
Frame, Janet. Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room, 1969
French, Marilyn. The Women's Room, 1977
Goldstein, Rebecca. The Mind-Body Problem: A Novel, 1983
Gordimer, Nadine. July's People, 1981
Gordon, Mary. The Rest of Life, 1993
Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness, 1928
Head, Bessie. When Rain Clouds Gather, 1968
Highsmith, Patricia. The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1955
Hobhouse, Janet. The Furies, 1993
Hulme, Keri. The Bone People, 1983 (another one I own, but haven't read)
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937
Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House, 1959
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. Heat and Dust, 1975
Jong, Erica. Fear of Flying, 1973
Kincaid, Jamaica. Lucy, 1990
Kingsolver, Barbara. The Bean Trees, 1988
Kingston, Maxine Hong. Tripmaster Monkey, 1989
Kogawa, Joy. Obasan, 1981
Laurence, Margaret. The Fire-Dwellers, 1969
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook, 1962
Lively, Penelope. Moon Tiger, 1987
Loos, Anita. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1925
McCarthy, Mary. The Group, 1963
McCullers, Carson. Ballad of the Sad Cafe, 1951*** (read The Heart is A Lonely Hunter)
McMillan, Terry. Mama, 1987
Manning, Olivia. The Balkan Trilogy, 1981
Miller, Isabel. Patience and Sarah, 1969
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind, 1936 (twice! 6th & 8th grade?! maybe I should read it again as a grown-up!)
Moore, Lorrie. Anagrams: A Novel, 1986
Morrison, Toni. Beloved: A Novel, 1987 *** (I've read almost all of her novels. Probably one of my favorite authors and I still remember reading this book for the first time as a freshman in high school. Another I've read twice)
Mukherjee, Bharati. Wife, 1975
Munro, Alice. Lives of Girls and Women, 1971
Murdoch, Iris. A Severed Head, 1961
Oates, Joyce Carol. You Must Remember This, 1987
O'Brien, Edna. House of Splendid Isolation, 1994 (Is there an Irish authors meme? I've read quite a few of those! Have a few more of hers on my bookshelf that I haven't gotten to yet)
O'Connor, Flannery. A Good Man is Hard to Find, 1955
Olsen, Tillie. Tell Me a Riddle, 1979
Paley, Grace. Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, 1974
Parker, Dorothy. The Collected Dorothy Parker, 1973
Phillips, Jayne Anne. Black Tickets, 1979
Piercy, Marge. Braided Lives, 1982
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar, 1963
Porter, Katharine Anne. Ship of Fools, 1962
Powell, Dawn. The Golden Spur, 1962
Proulx, E. Annie. The Shipping News, 1993
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead, 1943
Renault, Mary. The King Must Die, 1958
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966
Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping, 1980*** (another one I own, but after reading Gilead, well, no desire to read Housekeeping)
Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things, 1997
Sarton, May. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing, 1965
Shields, Carol. The Stone Diaries, 1994 (another one I have, but have yet to read)
Shreve, Anita. The Weight of Water, 1997***
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Almanac of the Dead, 1991
Simpson, Mona. Anywhere But Here, 1986
Smart, Elizabeth. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, 1966
Smiley, Jane. The Age of Grief, 1987 *** (read A Thousand Acres)
Sontag, Susan. The Volcano Lover, 1992
Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961
Stead, Christina. The Man Who Loved Children, 1965
Stein, Gertrude. Three Lives, 1909
Taylor, Elizabeth. Angel, 1957
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club, 1989
Tyler, Anne. If Morning Ever Comes, 1964 *** (can't remember which one we read for book club)
Urquhart, Jane. Away, 1993
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple, 1982
Weldon, Fay. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, 1983
Welty, Eudora. Selected Stories, 1943
West, Rebecca. The Return of the Soldier, 1918
Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome, 1911
White, Antonia. Frost in May, 1933
Winterson, Jeannette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, 1985 *** (read Written on the Body)
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway, 1925

Doing this meme makes me miss reading! I've always loved to read but I'll admit, with the knitting obsession, its hard to do both sometimes. I really need to make more time for it (e.g., put the needles down once in awhile). Any great books by women authors you would recommend (either on this list or not)? Happy Reading!
xoxo Irishgirlieknits

A Little about Me...

In Pictures.....

1. Carrie, 2. cheese enchiladas, 3. Mercy, 4. Blue, 5. Brad Pitt - Actor, 6. Pink Champagne, 7. Ireland, 8. Cake, 9. Knitter, 10. Family and Friends, 11. Caring, 12. Carrie Knits

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

The rules:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

The questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

I have to say it was hard to pick just one celebrity crush (Vince Vaughn, Jesse L. Martin, McDreamy, Chris Brown (I tease Snowboarder that my new guy is quite young but he's so cute when he sings!)). And hard to pick a dream vacation. I've been to Ireland twice and can't wait to go back. Of course, I'd love to go to Italy and back to France and explore more of Europe, but if I could only pick one, it would be Ireland. Or sock camp.

xoxo Irishgirlieknits

I'm it.

Another meme. This time I was tagged by both Neuroknitter and Turtle to do the 7 random things meme. Here goes!

The rules are: 1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog. 2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird. 3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs. 4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I took Irish dancing for 10 years. Oh yeah baby. This was before Riverdance, so we're talking really cool. Let's just say it gets old dancing every year with your best friend in front of the entire school on St. Patrick's Day.

2. Fortunately, I also played basketball, softball, and volleyball for quite awhile too.

3. I've read Gone with the Wind twice. First in the sixth grade and then again in high school. I also read and did a book report on Uncle Tom's Cabin in the sixth grade too. I think it may have had something to do with loving the mini-series North and South. And dad's a huge history buff.

4. I think I even dressed up as a Southern Belle in the 8th grade (with a hula hoop-hoop skirt as part of my costume that I made myself). (note: Rowan is saying, "You think? You know you did.").

5. Okay. And this is from Rowan who sat here helping me think of weird things about me (she actually had quite a few more. Sisters.). Laugh away now. So we were at an outdoor concert a few years ago, and I turned to her and said, "Ew. Why does it smell like skunk?" My sister laughed and said, "No dude. Its pot." (clarify, she wasn't smoking it, but she loves to share this story whenever we have friends over). So, I guess random thing. I can't distinguish between the smell of skunk and pot.

6. I'm a night owl. And back in college, to make sure I got up for those early early classes, sometimes my dad would call to make sure I got up (and going to school in the midwest, there was a time difference). Thanks dad!

7. I love my socks that rock (not random or weird, I know). Although, I have enough of it that its organized in my stash according to weight (e.g., this bucket is for mediumweight, this one for lightweight).

I've seen this meme floating around blogland for awhile so I'm not going to tag anyone tonight. But feel free to share if you'd like! And since I didn't want to post without a picture.....Enjoy!

The mediumweight bucket.

Happy Knitting!

xoxo Irishgirlieknits

I'm it.

Melanie tagged me. And since Little Guy is asleep....here goes :)

4 jobs I've held:

Premier Babysitter (just kidding....but since the age of 12 and all through high school I lived in kid central it seemed!!)
Sales in the Children's Dept. at Nordstrom (are we sensing a theme!)
Washing Dishes in the Dining Hall in college (worst job ever...the smell...you prayed you didn't get the lunch shift in between classes....thank goodness this evolved into office assistant in the computer science department by sophomore year)
Behavior Consultant for children with autism

4 movies I watch over and over again:

Pride and Predjudice (BBC)

Elizabeth

Love Actually (so much so, that I can't seem to find it?)

Harry Potter 3,4,5 (I know, I'm too lazy to write them all out)

4 places I've been:

Dingle Peninsula, Ireland

Sitka, Alaska

Edinburgh, Scotland

Paris, France

4 places I've lived:

Daly City, CA
San Mateo, CA
Notre Dame, IN
Menlo Park, CA

4 tv show I watch:

Grey's Anatomy
Law & Order:SVU
Friday Night Lights
American Idol
(and two shows that I miss, Ally McBeal, and Alias, although still watch that on DVD)

4 people who email me regularly:

Rowan
Disco
Christy
And way too many people at work :)

4 favorite foods

cheese enchildas (okay, pretty much most authentic mexican food)
chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting
pizza
shrimp po'boy, jambalaya, beignets, pralines, gumbo (at least lately!!)

4 places I'd rather be:

snowed-in, by the fire, at Granlibakken, in Tahoe, with Snowboarder
in Portland with Christy and the kids making cupcakes and yarn-crawling!!!!!
anywhere along the West Coast of Ireland
hanging out at the Musee D'Orsay in Paris


4 things I'm looking forward to:

going to Stitches West with Disco!!!!!!!!!!
making my first Woolgirl purchase of 2008 tomorrow (a little birthday treat for myself!)
celebrating my birthday next weekend with the family (Reno or Tahoe...still up in the air)
yarn shopping in the UK (and doing lots of other things there too, but priorities!!)

4 people to tag:

Dannette
Rowan
Disco
Cherie

Happy Weekend!
xoxo Irishgirlieknits

Birthday Meme

Zknitter tagged me with the Birthday meme. It was kind of interesting too! The rules are to go to Wikipedia and type in your birthday month and day only. Then post 3 events, 2 births and one holiday that occurred on your birthday, then tag 5 friends.

My birthday is February 11......


3 Events:

1790 - Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for abolition of slavery.
1858 - The Blessed Virgin Mary reputedly appears to Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes.
1990 - Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.


2 Births:

1926 - Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor Okay, I picked him, not for the Airplane movies, but for his role in Tammy and the Bachelor! I love that movie and remember watching it with my mom over and over. He was so dreamy. Tammy, tammy, tammy's in love......

1969 - Jennifer Aniston, American actress So, do you think that rules me out as a potential love interest for Brad...I mean, will he trip out about us having the same birthday and all??

1 Holiday:

Catholicism - Feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes. I knew this one. See Catholic school girl all my life. In grammar school, every year you had to do a "Saint" Report. Everyone always picked the saint that had the same name as them. There never was a St. Irishgirlieknits. But, St. Bernadette's Feast day was on my birthday so I always picked her. I used to know lots about her. I knew I went to the right University when they had a replica of the Grotto at Lourdes :) Well, and the football team too!

So, I'm tagging these five friends. Enjoy or not :)

Disco
Cherie
Batty
Jupiter Jessica
Stilaholic Nartian

Oh, and a few posts ago, Pashyknits posted a whole bunch of finished objects and then at the very end a quick photo of her recent SockPixie yarn purchase. Sockpixie? I had never heard of it, but the colors look so yummy. Ummmm....so I bought some :) WOW!! WOW!! I'll leave you with that teaser...some yarn prOn pictures to come tomorrow! Oh, and her blog has some great free sock patterns too!