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31 things to do while I'm 31

1. Finish the wedding quilt.

2. Sew the grey and pink fleece coat.

3. Design and knit my Weasley sweater.

4. Finish my Bayerische socks.

5. Knit a sweater for Justin.

6. Knit 20% of my yarn stash, including any new additions.

7. Spin 30% of my fiber stash, including any new additions.

8. Piece my very own Harry Potter quilt.

9. Send #8 out to be quilted.

10. Make a cream pie. Done! Made a vanilla cream pie on July 6. It was delicious, as long as you don't mind a wonky crust. (It's too hot for beautiful pie crust.)

11. Finish the first draft of my story.

12. Complete and submit the first level of the Master Knitter's program.

13. Sew something out of knit fabric.

15. Teach myself Trigonometry.

16. Begin my quest to knit all of the sock architectures in Cat Bordhi's New Pathways for Knitters.

17. Finish big orange blanket.

18. Make macaroons.

19. Learn double-knitting.

20. Knit 5,000 yards of fingering-weight yarn.

21. Finish all of the Sherlock Holmes books.

23. Teach Gracie some manners.

24. Relearn geometry.

25. Repair the two white afghans.

26. Get Henry to roll over. And how. It only took him nine months...

27. Go to Houston to see Abby (and go to Quilt Market...).

28. Lego Harry Potter. Buy it. Play it. I tried. I really did. I had it in my possession, loaded it, and then it turned out that my stupid computer didn't have the right stupid graphics card. Stupid. So I sent it back to Amazon, who charged me a ridiculous re-stocking fee, so my return was only $8.00 STUPID.

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AFI's Top 100 Movies (as of 2007)

1. Citizen Kane, 1941.
2. The Godfather, 1972.
3. Casablanca, 1942.
4. Raging Bull, 1980.
5. Singin' in the Rain, 1952.
6. Gone With the Wind, 1939.
7. Lawrence of Arabia, 1962.
8. Schindler's List, 1993.
9. Vertigo, 1958.
10. The Wizard of Oz, 1939.
11. City Lights, 1931.
12. The Searchers, 1956.
13. Star Wars, 1977.
14. Psycho, 1960.
15. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968.
16. Sunset Blvd., 1950.
17. The Graduate, 1967.
18. The General, 1927.
19. On the Waterfront,  1954.
20. It's a Wonderful Life, 1946.
21. Chinatown, 1974.
22. Some Like It Hot, 1959.
23. The Grapes of Wrath, 1940.
24. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982.
25. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962.
26. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939.
27. High Noon, 1952.
28. All About Eve, 1950.
29. Double Indemnity, 1944.
30. Apocalypse Now, 1979.
31. The Maltese Falcon, 1941.
32. The Godfather Part II, 1974.
33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1975.
34. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937.
35. Annie Hall, 1977.
36. The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957.
37. The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946.
38. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 1948.
39. Dr. Strangelove, 1964.
40. The Sound of Music, 1965.
41. King Kong, 1933.
42. Bonnie and Clyde, 1967.
43. Midnight Cowboy, 1969.
44. The Philadelphia Story, 1940.
45. Shane, 1953.
46. It Happened One Night, 1934.
47. A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951.
48. Rear Window, 1954.
49. Intolerance, 1916.
50. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001.
51. West Side Story, 1961.
52. Taxi Driver, 1976.
53. The Deer Hunter, 1978.
54. M-A-S-H, 1970.
55. North by Northwest, 1959.

56. Jaws, 1975.

57. Rocky, 1976.
58. The Gold Rush, 1925.
59. Nashville, 1975.
60. Duck Soup, 1933.
61. Sullivan's Travels, 1941.
62. American Graffiti, 1973.
63. Cabaret, 1972.
64. Network, 1976.
65. The African Queen, 1951.
66. Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981.
67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966.
68. Unforgiven, 1992.
69. Tootsie, 1982.
70. A Clockwork Orange, 1971.
71. Saving Private Ryan, 1998.
72. The Shawshank Redemption, 1994.
73. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969.
74. The Silence of the Lambs, 1991.
75. In the Heat of the Night, 1967.
76. Forrest Gump, 1994.
77. All the President's Men, 1976.
78. Modern Times, 1936.
79. The Wild Bunch, 1969.
80. The Apartment, 1960.
81. Spartacus, 1960.
82. Sunrise, 1927.
83. Titanic, 1997.
84. Easy Rider, 1969.
85. A Night at the Opera, 1935.
86. Platoon, 1986.
87. 12 Angry Men, 1957.
88. Bringing Up Baby, 1938.
89. The Sixth Sense, 1999.
90. Swing Time, 1936.
91. Sophie's Choice, 1982.
92. Goodfellas, 1990.
93. The French Connection, 1971.
94. Pulp Fiction, 1994.
95. The Last Picture Show, 1971.
96. Do the Right Thing, 1989.
97. Blade Runner, 1982.
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942.
99. Toy Story, 1995.
100. Ben-Hur, 1959.

Time's Best 100 Novels of All Time

1. The Adventures of Augie March (1953), by Saul Bellow
2. All the King's Men (1946), by Robert Penn Warren
3. American Pastoral (1997), by Philip Roth
4. An American Tragedy (1925), by Theodore Dreiser
5. Animal Farm (1946), by George Orwell
6. Appointment in Samarra (1934), by John O'Hara
7. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (1970), by Judy Blume
8. The Assistant (1957), by Bernard Malamud
9. At Swim-Two-Birds (1938), by Flann O'Brien
10. Atonement (2002), by Ian McEwan
11. Beloved (1987), by Toni Morrison
12. The Berlin Stories (1946), by Christopher Isherwood
13. The Big Sleep (1939), by Raymond Chandler
14. The Blind Assassin (2000), by Margaret Atwood
15. Blood Meridian (1986), by Cormac McCarthy
16. Brideshead Revisited (1946), by Evelyn Waugh
17. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), by Thornton Wilder
18. Call It Sleep (1935), by Henry Roth
19. Catch-22 (1961), by Joseph Heller (attempted)
20. The Catcher in the Rye (1951), by J.D. Salinger
21. A Clockwork Orange (1963), by Anthony Burgess (attempted)
22. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), by William Styron
23. The Corrections (2001), by Jonathan Franzen
24. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), by Thomas Pynchon (attempted)
25. A Dance to the Music of Time (1951), by Anthony Powell
26. The Day of the Locust (1939), by Nathanael West
27. Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), by Willa Cather
28. A Death in the Family (1958), by James Agee
29. The Death of the Heart (1958), by Elizabeth Bowen
30. Deliverance (1970), by James Dickey
31. Dog Soldiers (1974), by Robert Stone
32. Falconer (1977), by John Cheever
33. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), by John Fowles
34. The Golden Notebook (1962), by Doris Lessing
35. Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953), by James Baldwin
36. Gone With the Wind (1936), by Margaret Mitchell
37. The Grapes of Wrath (1939), by John Steinbeck
38. Gravity's Rainbow (1973), by Thomas Pynchon
39. The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald
40. A Handful of Dust (1934), by Evelyn Waugh
41. The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940), by Carson McCullers
42. The Heart of the Matter (1948), by Graham Greene
43. Herzog (1964), by Saul Bellow
44. Housekeeping (1981), by Marilynne Robinson
45. A House for Mr. Biswas (1962), by V.S. Naipaul
46. I, Claudius (1934), by Robert Graves
47. Infinite Jest (1996), by David Foster Wallace
48. Invisible Man (1952), by Ralph Ellison
49. Light in August (1932), by William Faulkner
50. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), by C.S. Lewis
51. Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov
52. Lord of the Flies (1955), by William Golding (attempted)
53. The Lord of the Rings (1954), by J.R.R. Tolkien
54. Loving (1945), by Henry Green
55. Lucky Jim (1954), by Kingsley Amis
56. The Man Who Loved Children (1940), by Christina Stead
57. Midnight's Children (1981), by Salman Rushdie
58. Money (1984), by Martin Amis
59. The Moviegoer (1961), by Walker Percy
60. Mrs. Dalloway (1925), by Virginia Woolf
61. Naked Lunch (1959), by William Burroughs
62. Native Son (1940), by Richard Wright
63. Neuromancer (1984), by William Gibson
64. Never Let Me Go (2005), by Kazuo Ishiguro
65. 1984 (1948), by George Orwell
66. On the Road (1957), by Jack Kerouac
67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), by Ken Kesey
68. The Painted Bird (1965), by Jerzy Kosinski
69. Pale Fire (1962), by Vladimir Nabokov
70. A Passage to India (1924), by E.M. Forster
71. Play It As It Lays (1970), by Joan Didion
72. Portnoy's Complaint (1969), by Philip Roth
73. Possession (1990), by A.S. Byatt
74. The Power and the Glory (1939), by Graham Greene
75. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), by Muriel Spark
76. Rabbit, Run (1960), by John Updike
77. Ragtime (1975), by E.L. Doctorow
78. The Recognitions (1955), by William Gaddis
79. Red Harvest (1929), by Dashiell Hammett
80. Revolutionary Road (1961), by Richard Yates
81. The Sheltering Sky (1949), by Paul Bowles
82. Slaughterhouse Five (1969), by Kurt Vonnegut
83. Snow Crash (1992), by Neal Stephenson
84. The Sot-Weed Factor (1960), by John Barth
85. The Sound and the Fury (1929), by William Faulkner
86. The Sportswriter (1986), by Richard Ford
87. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1964), by John le Carre
88. The Sun Also Rises (1926), by Ernest Hemingway
89. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), by Zora Neale Hurston
90. Things Fall Apart (1959), by Chinua Achebe
91. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), by Harper Lee
92. To the Lighthouse (1927), by Virginia Woolf
93. Tropic of Cancer (1934), by Henry Miller
94. Ubik (1969), by Philip K. Dick
95. Under the Net (1954), by Iris Murdoch
96. Under the Volcano (1947), by Malcolm Lowry
97. Watchmen (1986), by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
98. White Noise (1985), by Don DeLillo
99. White Teeth (2000), by Zadie Smith
100. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), by Jean Rhys

Top 100 Children's Books

The Egypt Game — Snyder (1967)
The Indian in the Cupboard — Banks (1980)
Children of Green Knowe — Boston (1954)
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane — DiCamillo (2006)
The Witches — Dahl (1983)
Pippi Longstocking — Lindgren (1950)
Swallows and Amazons — Ransome (1930)
Caddie Woodlawn — Brink (1935)
Ella Enchanted — Levine (1997)
Sideways Stories from Wayside School — Sachar (1978)
Sarah, Plain and Tall — MacLachlan (1985)
Ramona and Her Father — Cleary (1977)
The High King — Alexander (1968)
The View from Saturday — Konigsburg (1996)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — Rowling (1999)
On the Banks of Plum Creek — Wilder (1937)
The Little White Horse — Goudge (1946)
The Thief — Turner (1997)
The Book of Three — Alexander (1964)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon — Lin (2009)
The Graveyard Book — Gaiman (2008)
All-of-a-Kind-Family — Taylor (1951)
Johnny Tremain — Forbes (1943)
The City of Ember — DuPrau (2003)
Out of the Dust — Hesse (1997)
Love That Dog — Creech (2001)
The Borrowers — Norton (1953)
My Side of the Mountain — George (1959)
My Father’s Dragon — Gannett (1948)
The Bad Beginning — Snicket (1999)
Betsy-Tacy — Lovelae (1940)
The Mysterious Benedict Society — Stewart ( 2007)
Walk Two Moons — Creech (1994)
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher — Coville (1991)
Henry Huggins — Cleary (1950)
Ballet Shoes — Stratfeild (1936)
A Long Way from Chicago — Peck (1998)
Gone-Away Lake — Enright (1957)
The Secret of the Old Clock — Keene (1959)
Stargirl — Spinelli (2000)
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle — Avi (1990)
Inkheart — Funke (2003)
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase — Aiken (1962)
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 — Cleary (1981)
Number the Stars — Lowry (1989)
The Great Gilly Hopkins — Paterson (1978)
The BFG — Dahl (1982)
Wind in the Willows — Grahame (1908)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret — Selznick (2007)
The Saturdays — Enright (1941)
Island of the Blue Dolphins — O’Dell (1960)
Frindle — Clements (1996)
The Penderwicks — Birdsall (2005)
Bud, Not Buddy — Curtis (1999)
Where the Red Fern Grows — Rawls (1961)
The Golden Compass — Pullman (1995)
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing — Blume (1972)
Ramona the Pest — Cleary (1968)
Little House on the Prairie — Wilder (1935)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond — Speare (1958)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — Baum (1900)
When You Reach Me — Stead (2009)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix — Rowling (2003)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry — Taylor (1976)
Are You there, God? It’s Me, Margaret — Blume (1970)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire — Rowling (2000)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham — Curtis (1995)
James and the Giant Peach — Dahl (1961)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH — O’Brian (1971)
Half Magic — Eager (1954)
Winnie-the-Pooh — Milne (1926)
The Dark Is Rising — Cooper (1973)
A Little Princess — Burnett (1905)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass — Carroll (1865/72)
Hatchet — Paulsen (1989)
Little Women — Alcott (1868/9)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Rowling (2007)
Little House in the Big Woods — Wilder (1932)
The Tale of Despereaux — DiCamillo (2003)
The Lightening Thief — Riordan (2005)
Tuck Everlasting — Babbitt (1975)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Dahl (1964)
Matilda — Dahl (1988)
Maniac Magee — Spinelli (1990)
Harriet the Spy — Fitzhugh (1964)
Because of Winn-Dixie — DiCamillo (2000)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — Rowling (1999)
Bridge to Terabithia — Paterson (1977)
The Hobbit — Tolkien (1938)
The Westing Game — Raskin (1978)
The Phantom Tollbooth — Juster (1961)
Anne of Green Gables — Montgomery (1908)
The Secret Garden — Burnett (1911)
The Giver — Lowry (1993)
Holes — Sachar (1998)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler — Koningsburg (1967)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe — Lewis (1950)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s/Philsopher’s Stone — Rowling (1997)
A Wrinkle in Time — L’Engle (1962)
Charlotte’s Web — White (1952)