Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Crichton Novels

While I have recently gotten into Michael Crichton novels, I thought I would try to list my favorites, or at least some that I still want to read:

1. Prey

2. Sphere

3. The Great Train Robbery

4. The Andromeda Strain

5. Next

6. Disclosure

7. State of Fear

8. Timeline

9. Rising Sun

10. Airframe (not read yet!)

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

depressive moods

When depression hits, which seems to have become a staple in our household!, here are a few of my favorite strategies to deal with it:

1. exercise

2. read

3. watch tv

4. blog

5. play online games

6. write

7. cry

8. scream

9. a general vent

10. eat chocolate

Thursday, August 11, 2011

off to college

In just one week our son is off to college. I am very ambivalent about the whole thing. But I will try to list a few of my favorite things:

1. shopping for dorm supplies

2. the excitement

3. going to a good school

4. getting some good tools (laptop, phone)

5. friends going there

6. looking ahead to the new start

7. growing up

8. relief of tensions

9. ..........

10. .........