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amberinside @ 2012-12-11T21:09:00

2012-12-12T02:09:25Z

If you put an amber necklace on your baby, your thoughts on antibiotics are automatically rendered invalid.

Time Magazine's Top 100 Toys of All Time

2011-02-18T02:19:15Z

Bold if you had one.
Underline if you ever played with one or knew someone who did.
Italicize if you've never heard of it.

1920s

* Radio Flyer Wagon
* Chemistry Set
* Joy Buzzer
* Yo-Yo
* Pop-Up Book

1930s

* Stuffed Mickey Mouse
* Finger Paint
* Sock Monkey
* Buck Rogers Rocket Pistol
* Microscope Set
* Beach Ball
* Red Ryder BB Gun
* Army Men
* View-Master

1940s

* Bubble Solution
* Little Golden Books
* Slinky
* Magic 8 Ball
* Legos

1950s

* Water Balloon
* Silly Putty
* Fisher-Price Little People
* Colorforms
* Paint-by-Numbers Kit
* Mr. Potato Head
* Wiffle Ball
* Matchbox Car
* PEZ Dispenser
* Gumby
* Play-Doh
* Tonka Truck
* Frisbee
* Corn Popper
* Two-Handed Pogo Stick
* Hula Hoop
* Barbie
* Troll Doll
* Plarail Toy Train
* Chatty Cathy
* Fake Vomit

1960s

* Etch A Sketch
* Rock-a-Stack
* Ken
* Slip 'n Slide
* Chatter Telephone
* G.I. Joe
* Easy-Bake Oven
* Creepy Crawlers
* Rock'em Sock'em Robots
* Johnny Seven O.M.A.
* See 'n Say
* SuperBall
* Barrel of Monkeys
* Radio-Controlled Car
* Lite-Brite
* Hot Wheels
* Playmobil
* Flatsy Doll
* Barbie's Dream House

1970s

* NERF Ball
* Weebles
* Paddington Bear
* Baby Alive
* Shrinky Dinks
* Magna Doodle
* Rubik's Cube
* Stretch Armstrong
* Star Wars Action Figure
* Mattel Classic Football
* Simon
* Speak & Spell
* Star Trek Electronic Phasers

1980s

* Cabbage Patch Kids
* Polly Pocket
* Slap Bracelet
* Masters of the Universe Action Figure
* Glo Worm
* Care Bear
* My Little Pony
* Transformers
* Teddy Ruxpin <--it was my sister's
* Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine
* Pound Puppy
* Koosh Ball
* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
* Skip-It
* Glow Stick
* Wrestling Buddy

1990s

* Little Tikes Log Cabin
* Little Tikes Cozy Coupe Car
* Super Soaker
* Beanie Baby
* Buzz Lightyear
* American Girl Doll
* Tickle Me Elmo
* Furby
* Neodymium-Magnet Toy

2000s

* Bratz
* Mindflex
* Zhu Zhu

amberinside @ 2010-11-15T22:17:00

2010-11-16T03:17:03Z

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Bold the ones you’ve read! Italicize the ones you’ve partially read!

01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06 The Bible
07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Day Seven: Four turn offs.

2010-10-24T11:42:39Z

1. Lack of ambition
2. Laziness
3. Right-leaning political beliefs
4. Bigotry

Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)

2010-10-23T14:03:41Z

1. Sebastian
2. Nate
3. Dominic
4. Conner
5. Logan

amberinside @ 2010-08-10T09:27:00

2010-08-10T13:27:39Z

Wanna hear something pathetic?

I think one of the reasons that I fail over and over when I try to lose weight is that I'm afraid.

I'm afraid to lose weight because then I'll get healthy.

If I'm healthy I'll probably live longer.

If I live longer, I may live longer than Nathan.

And that is one of the worst things that could happen to me.

To have to say goodbye to him would break my heart beyond all repair.

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2010-04-09T03:01:52Z

22:28 is now on plurk.com....whatever the hell that means. plurk.com/p/4kr94t #

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2010-04-07T03:02:12Z

21:27 I'm going to use my 3.5 hour lunch break tomorrow to take Sebastian to swim at the lake. Yay! #

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2010-04-06T03:01:24Z

16:08 According to the masses my kid is apparently 1.smart 2. best behaved kid @ store/event 3. adorable 4. has awesome hair. Can I $$ in? :) #
16:28 Already getting the pre-30's jitters. If we threw a birthday party, would you come? #
17:27 Music nerds help me! I need/want some new music that sounds like the opening of "Circle of Life" from the Lion King. Go! #

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2010-04-05T03:01:10Z

09:57 Just cleaned my desk and found my teaching cert and praxis scores. There's $80 I didn't need to spend to order new ones.. -_- #
09:59 Sebastian loved his egg hunt this morning. Now, onto the Reading Museum and then to Nana's house! Pics to follow, I'm sure. #

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2010-03-31T03:01:24Z

06:05 Ricky Martin finally came out of the closet. Color me unsurprised. ;) #

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2009-12-09T04:03:23Z

19:55 Remember what the Web was like in 2004? Thanks for changing that, Firefox! bit.ly/Fx5yr2 #Firefox5 #
19:55 Finally laid my long-suffering goldfish to rest tonight. Swearing off goldfish until I'm out of baby-raising mode. #

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2009-12-07T04:01:32Z

20:51 I need a hand massage. Crocheting is a full contact sport. #

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2009-11-28T04:00:23Z

06:35 Finally watched Jon & Kate finale. Cried like a baby. Divorce is so ugly& awful. I hope and pray it never happens in my life. #
12:21 That was entirely too much shopping for such a small a haul. Thank goodness for Cyber Monday. #

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2009-11-27T04:00:26Z

16:02 I'm thankful that I'm so full of forgivness. Appologies do go a long way. #

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2009-11-26T04:00:23Z

20:20 A homophobic hate-speach rant has apparently canceled my Thanksgiving plans. I really believe apples CAN roll far away from the tree. #

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2009-11-25T04:00:28Z

21:09 So, today I bought a car and discovered that my son digs monster trucks. #
21:55 "Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport you to the furthest shore." #

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2009-11-17T04:00:37Z

17:23 Send a coat hanger to pro-choice Dems who voted for #Stupak Amendment: www.sendacoathanger.com @credomobile Please RT #

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2009-11-13T04:01:59Z

15:48 I ran into Kate Gosselin at Target today. Why do paparaz
zi want photos of a woman buying wrapping paper? Poor dear. #

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Yep.

2009-11-02T02:31:22Z

Since it seems like I'm never here anymore...

2009-10-20T20:16:44Z

I promise you, even though I never post, I check my flist several times a day. So I do care!

The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but some of us don't know much about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away. Bonus points if you share a little known fact about yourself to me also!

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

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2009-09-29T03:00:10Z

05:38 I had a dream last night about a long-passed friend. If felt so good to hold him and to finally say my goodbyes, even if it was only dreams. #

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2009-09-24T22:30:19Z

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2009-09-19T03:02:47Z

15:38 Reading Eagle says Amber M Brown was arrested for something or other -- remember, my name is Amber M Hartman-Brown. It WASN'T ME! #

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Con Meme

2009-09-15T22:33:00Z

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Anthrocon	x	x	x	x	x		x		x
Technicon					x
Faerie Con									x	x	(x)
Faerie Fest (Spoutwood)									x	x
Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire								x	x

I've been known to go geek on occasion ;)

I totally recommend both Faerie Con and Faerie Fest at Spoutwood. They're awesome!

.:*Ophelia*:. .:*Immortal*:.

amberinside @ 2012-12-11T21:09:00

Time Magazine's Top 100 Toys of All Time

amberinside @ 2010-11-15T22:17:00

Day Seven: Four turn offs.

Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)

amberinside @ 2010-08-10T09:27:00

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Yep.

Since it seems like I'm never here anymore...

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Con Meme

.:Ophelia:. .:Immortal:.