They emerged three hours later carrying 7lb of chilis

[fightingthecage]

Dear Scribble

Get a fucking move on. The hospital won't force you out until the 15th and I can't be doing with waiting around that long.

No Love

Me

ETA: BWHAHAHA!

ETA 2: Book meme thing.

The list is the 106 books most often noted as unread by Library Thingusers. Bold is for books you've read. Italics for books you've started but haven't finished. Strikethrough is for books you found unreadable.

I'm adding an extra to mine. I'll underline the ones that I own but have not yet read. Because I have a lot of those in my bookshelves.


* Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
* Anna Karenina
* Crime and Punishment
* Catch-22
* One Hundred Years of Solitude
* Wuthering Heights
* The Silmarillion
* Life of Pi : a novel
* The Name of the Rose
* Don Quixote
* Moby Dick
* Ulysses
* Madame Bovary
* The Odyssey
* Pride and Prejudice
* Jane Eyre
* A Tale of Two Cities
* The Brothers Karamazov
* Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
* War and Peace
* Vanity Fair
* The Time Traveler’s Wife
* The Iliad
* Emma
* The Blind Assassin
* The Kite Runner
* Mrs. Dalloway
* Great Expectations
* American Gods
* A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
* Atlas Shrugged
* Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
* Memoirs of a Geisha
* Middlesex
* Quicksilver
* Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
* The Canterbury Tales
* The Historian : a novel
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
* Love in the Time of Cholera
* Brave New World
* The Fountainhead
* Foucault’s Pendulum
* Middlemarch
* Frankenstein
* The Count of Monte Cristo
* Dracula
* A Clockwork Orange
* Anansi Boys
* The Once and Future King
* The Grapes of Wrath
* The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
* 1984
* Angels & Demons
* The Inferno
* The Satanic Verses
* Sense and Sensibility
* The Picture of Dorian Gray
* Mansfield Park
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
* To the Lighthouse
* Tess of the D’Urbervilles
* Oliver Twist
* Gulliver’s Travels
* Les Misérables
* The Corrections
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
* The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
* Dune
* The Prince
* The Sound and the Fury
* Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
* The God of Small Things
* A People’s History of the United States : 1492 - present
* Cryptonomicon
* Neverwhere
* A Confederacy of Dunces
* A Short History of Nearly Everything
* Dubliners
* The Unbearable Lightness of Being
* Beloved
* Slaughterhouse-Five
* The Scarlet Letter
* Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
* The Mists of Avalon
* Oryx and Crake: a novel
* Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
* Cloud Atlas
* The Confusion
* Lolita
* Persuasion
* Northanger Abbey
* The Catcher in the Rye
* On the Road
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame
* Freakonomics
* Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
* The Aeneid
* Watership Down
* Gravity’s Rainbow
* The Hobbit
* In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
* White Teeth
* Treasure Island
* David Copperfield
* The Three Musketeers


If anyone hasn't read The Time Traveler's Wife or Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...sort yourselves out. And I really need to read whats in my bookshelves. I didn't realise I'd collected so many and not started in on them.

Comments

[nepheliad.livejournal.com]

Soemday, your child will read your LJ and either feel guilty or crack up or both.

This is how I felt when reading my mother's diaries that often included lines like, "Dear Thumper: Please stop kicking me in the bladder in the middle of meetings, it's rather irritating."

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Thumper! That's so cute. :D!

And...heh. This is my child. It will undoubtedly laugh and be cheeky to me about it, to the point of driving me nuts. Can't blame it really. It's what I'd do!

[nepheliad.livejournal.com]

I would kick my leg in threes, like a rabbit.

Tap-tap-tap. Pause. Tap-tap-tap. Pause.

So my pre-birth name was the name of the rabbit from Bambi.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

That's adorable! How could that nickname not have stuck after birth? I have a dreadful feeling that Scribble may be Scribble forever.

[newredshoes]

Bwah! Better Scribble than my pre-birth nickname, which was Zippy the Pinhead.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

*DIES* How on earth did your folks come up with that?

[newredshoes]

I think it was more my sister than my folks. :) There's a comic, see. And when my pediatrician asked if the baby had any nicknames and they told him, he sort of scratched his head and said, "Why don't we just call her Zippy."

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Omg! That dude is scary looking. Hee! Its a good job you didn't wind up looking like him. Its a cute nickname though.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

Are you having any strange psychic ideas as to when it might be? Dreaming of mystical dates, or whatnot? Then, if Scribble is a boy, you can be DOUBLY psychic :D

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Two nights in a row I dreamed of OCtober 5th! The first time it was a date circled in big red pen. So if he/she turns up on Friday, I will be very proud of myself. And I have had dreams come true before so you never know!

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

Oh, that would be so lush if you're right. You could be Psychic Mum.

My brother and I were both cesareans, so my mum is totally lacking in cool psychic pregnancy stories D:

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be awesome?! Of course, it'll never happen now I've told someone about it. Usually something happens and I go, 'Wow, I've dreamt about this before!' and no one believes me. D:

My mum is also lacking in cool stories. She was induced early both times due to her high blood pressure. BOO! My grandmother used to be able to tell when someone would die though. If she dreamt about her father standing in front of their old house, someone always carked it. Happened at least twice. 0_0.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

I vote you lie and say Scribble was born on the 5th, even if s/he isn't. And I know people who've had premonition-y dreams before, so I'd believe you! Never had any myself, though D: (which is probably a good thing, considering my dreams)

Your grandmother = creepy and awesome.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Hee! I could be fake!psychic!mum and totally go on Jeremy Kyle or something, being traumatised by my own power.

Definitely. Well, she was definitely awesome. Not really creepy. Not to me, at least. :)

[wakeupnew]

I arrived seven weeks early, while my parents were in Lexington, Massachusetts for a weekend. Or, well, I tried to arrive while my parents were in Lexington, Massachusetts; they drove two hours home to go to the hospital. This is why I was very nearly named Lexie, anyway. *grin* My mom always says she was furious with me because she hadn't gotten to the last part of all the pregnancy books yet, figuring she had plenty of time. So -- at least you are well-prepared, and probably not two hours from home?

[wakeupnew]

Oh! Also! When they were at dinner that night, they got Chinese, and my mom's fortune cookie said 'there will be a large change in your life very soon,' and my parents both went, 'first baby, large change, ha ha very funny.' And then her water broke while they were still at the restaurant.

I totally believe in weird psychic pregnancy things!

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Seven weeks early? 0_0! Wow, I think I don't blame your mum for being mad at you - Lord, if Scribble had turned up seven weeks ago, nothing would have been ready. To the extent that he/she would have been naked coming home from the hospital and would have no bed to sleep in.

But I totally believe in weird psychic pregnancy things too. I mean, a person's subconscious probably knows exactly what's going to happen and when, and lets you know about it in subtle ways. Damn weird about the fortune cookie though! Man, I'm so not going out between now and when the kid turns up - I live in mortal fear of my water breaking in public. *cringe*

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

When my mum had my brother, her water broke in the loos of a bar. Literally in the cubicle, I believe.

Luckily, it was the bar on the corner of my road, so it wasn't cringey so much as 'quick, to the car!'

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

LOL! 'To the Batmobile!' That's where my brain just took me, anyway.

I just have visions of it happening while wandering around the supermarket or something. Which would just be ew. *shudder*

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

>.> Mine too, really.

It would be ew at the time, but fifteen years from now imagine how much fun you'd have embarrassing Scribble by telling the story to everyone s/he brings home.

(Scribble = he to me now. I keep having to remember that it's still uncertain and an 's/' on the front.)

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

There is that, I suppose! And I totally would too. I am planning to buy a rug, just so I can take a naked pic of said child and embarrass him/her with it in front of future partners!

(<.< Me too, really. I wont be disappointed if its a girl but it will seem a tad weird to me now.)

[silverpenlight.livejournal.com]

As I suspect you know, I was born in Africa, and at the time Mom and Dad were living in a tiny little rural village up in the mountains of Lesotho. Anyway, the hospital in the capital was crap, so they'd already made the choice to go to Bloemfontein for the birth.

So one day, about a week prior to the due date the doctor gave her, my mom starts going into labour. And she is a calm sort, so she doesn't panic, just hops in the car with my dad and drives to the hospital (which takes a little bit). At the hospital, they tell her they're just false contractions, despite my mom pointing out that she's had a child before and remembers the difference. They say no, you're wrong, you've got a week yet, go home and then come back later. So whatever.

It's my dad's birthday, so she's like "while we're here, let's just go out for lunch!" So they find a nice restaurant and settle down and order. And then, because I have the best ever sense of timing in the world, my mom's water breaks.

And because she is disgustingly practical and offered to mop the floor, I was almost born there. Fortunately she started being in too much pain to actually mop, and went to the hospital where I was born a very short time later. Which accounts for my second-first-name, Rose! As I was born in what is, translated quite literally, 'The City of Roses'.

And to jump on the bandwagon, my pre-birth nickname was Tabby XD

(incidentally, when they did routine bloodwork on me at birth which included checking my blood type, they thought I was a bastard child - Dad's blood type is A+, Mom's is A-, and my sister was A+. I was O-. Apparently there were some very, very awkward moments until they managed to sort out that I got my blood type from my grandparents on my dad's side)

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

...OK, stories like this? I AM SO NOT GOING OUT FOR THE NEXT 12 DAYS! There seems to be a high percentage of people whose mothers' water broke in resturants. I will eat the food in my cupboards and then get food delivered for the next two weeks. Yis.

But I didn't know you were born in Africa. That's awesome! Why were you nicknamed Tabby? Did they just like it?

(*snicker* I can see how that was awkward. If Scribble ends up with a bizarre blood group...then I'll just have to write it off as being someone on Steve's side that I'll never know.)

[silverpenlight.livejournal.com]

XDDDDD Sounds like a plan! You can just hide away and wait. Although given that it's your child, I bet Scribble'll wait until you just have to go somewhere.

I was, yeah! My parents were there for four years, 'though I was only there until I was one or so. And they nicknamed me Tabby because for the longest time, my name was going to me Nthabiseng, a Basotho name that means 'bringer of joy'. It's...sort of pronounced 'nn-tab-is-ang', and so they nicknamed me Tabby.

Only then they realized no one would ever be able to say it right XD

(Very, very awkward. But that sounds about right!)

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Yeah. *eyes the Bump* It wouldn't surprise me at all if that's what the little bugger does.

Phonetically, Nthabiseng sounds like a really pretty name. But yea, no one would ever get that right and it would end up doing your head in.

[silverpenlight.livejournal.com]

And then it will laugh at you. In a...small baby sort of way

>.>

Ahahah, yeeeah. It's one of those 'gorgeous in concept, awful in reality' names that seem to happen every now and again.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

...i.e, scream and scream and scream when it does finally show. Yep, I imagine that'll be happening. Bleurgh.

Heh. Be thankful that she didn't actually go through with it then. Some mothers do!

[silverpenlight.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeeeeeeah. Well! Perhaps it will be very quiet and well-behaved?

And those mothers scare me!

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Well, I was. So I have hope!

[silverpenlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[shadowofdoubt.livejournal.com]

After reading all the comments, I asked my mother what she called me before I was born. Ricky was called Baby Toot (no clue), and me . . . apparently I had no name until I was born. *POUTS* God, mom, thanks. :(

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

That's practically an act of cruelty on her part! And what on earth did she do when you belted her in a particularly painful way at an inopportune moment? It's not as much fun swearing at a nameless bump, I can vouch for that.

[shadowofdoubt.livejournal.com]

She has informed me now that she thinks she called me Lil Snookums. Gag. I think I'd rather not have been named anything at all.

And my mother doesn't swear. Ever. Sometimes I wonder if I might be an alien, because I don't know how in the hell I was produced from a woman who thinks "crap" is a bad word.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

*spits tea everywhere* BWHAHA! How...sweet. *snorfles*

That's impressive in its own way. I mean, my mother never really swore in front of us until I was a teenager. And then I started swearing at her - I think after that, she figured she might as well let it all hang out.

[im-a-yogi.livejournal.com]

Watch Lord of the Rings - it worked for me!

I went to the movies in the evening and then had what felt like cramps during the night. I woke up around 9 and just felt like something was about to happen. I had time to think: OMG, the mattress!!! and I jumped out of bed. I managed as far as the bedpost - then the water broke! LOL

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

LOL! That's another thing that was on my mind - my mattress is brand new! I didn't want to risk ruining it so I've bought a couple of protective coverings for it. Can't afford a new one so hopefully they'll do the job if necessary.

And I was actually thinking of going to the movies tomorrow. Maybe its an omen! I'll go and then Scribble will turn up on Friday. Hurrah!