make a map of what you see

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:35:12 GMT

This might be the best website ever.

OHYES

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:47:48 GMT

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:29:32 GMT

I have a boyfriend.

:D

blah

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:45:52 GMT

I'm getting really bored/sick and tired of LiveJournal. Well, the internet in general. I'm seriously thinking of deleting everything and just sticking with email & Facebook to stay in touch with a few people. I've been thinking of this for awhile now. Eh, I don't know.

oh my friggin' god

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:13:01 GMT

I know this may seem very miniscule to some, but I found someone in Calgary (a two hour drive from here) who shares my last name. This is huge, because up until now, I thought my immediate family and I were the only ones with the last name 'Parczen' in North America. I've always used genealogy websites and searched Google, and not much would really come up. I used Facebook and BAM! Ramona Parczen.
Also, I found three people in Germany (Rosa, Georg, & Jorg).
And, as always, I get refered to Sophie Parczen. A relatively famous Hungarian ballerina, I guess.
Wow, if Ramona isn't totally creeped out by me, I may actually get somewhere with finding out my family history.

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:45:19 GMT

To anyone who had input on the color combos in this post, does it look better now? I guess a few people saw a blinding blue background behind the text, and I think maybe I fixed it now? If not, then shit.

hell yes

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:14:31 GMT

I'm moving in exactly one month.

I talked to Jason (my landlord/my friend Jen's older brother) a few days ago, and it is even better than I thought. I figured we were going to have to share the laundry room, but I get my own :) I think there may even be a private entrance. Oh. Yes.

The area I'm moving to even has a page on Wikipedia!

?

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:58:38 GMT

which combination do you prefer?

combo #1.

combo #2.

combo #3.

:)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:50:23 GMT

I'm unbelievably happy. To the point where I'm scared to even talk about, because I don't want to jinx it.

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Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:02:37 GMT

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i finally fixed my kitchen chairs!

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:57:49 GMT

This was the first time that I've ever upholstered anything. I figured it was best to start with something so simple. Best thing is, is that it didn't cost me anything!

Two years ago, in my first apartment, I bought these chairs (and a kitchen table) from Wal-Mart for $130. I couldn't afford much, so they would have to do. They were really cute, and were fine for the time being. The weekend I moved to my current house, they were left in the moving truck over night. Since they were just covered in that woodgrain laminate, it cracked, split, and peeled off (well, two of them - the other two remained intact). The table did it too. I am moving again in one month, but cannot afford a new table and chairs right away. So, I just fixed these and will put a table cloth over my hideous table for the time being. Then, once I can afford a new one, I will most likely buy this table from IKEA (in brown-black).

I just removed the seats, cut 2" memory foam to size, glued it on (hello headache! contact cement is fucking deadly!), and then used the staple gun to attach them. It took almost three hours, though. They look great on top, but underneath they are a fucking mess.

I crossposted this to tarantulove_.

wiki is my god

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:30:50 GMT

What results to you get when you search your first name on Wikipedia? Your middle name? How about your last?

My first name (Amanda - all of the results):
What I thought was the most interesting is that Amanda is also a town in Ohio, a community in Washington, a type of dragonfly, and a Norwegian film award. My first name is fucking awesome!

My middle name (Marie - all of the results):
The only interesting result was that Marie is also a commune in France.

No matches whatsoever for my last name. I'm not surprised!

24 & 25.

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:04:16 GMT

24. I'm allergic to mosquitos. Well, mosquito bites. Even if only a drop is taken from me (and I've noticed them on my arm/leg/whatever and squished them into oblivion), the bump will be about an inch in diameter. My parents never thought it was a problem until I was bit on my face once and half of my face was swollen within five minutes. I've since been prescribed a topical medication that I'm supposed to apply immediately after being bitten. Even when I apply it within seconds of being bit, massive bumps are still left behind. I currently have 27 mosquito bites. I guess I smell/taste good?

25. I haven't dyed my hair in over three years. I'm aware that there are some of you who have never dyed their hair, and I am truly jealous of such will power. However, for the entire duration of my 'high school career', I dyed my hair black. However, I was an idiot and didn't touch up my roots. Oh no, I would apply the storebought black-blue hairdye ALL OVER. I eventually got sick of having black hair, and one day when I went to the hair salon with Sarah (she got a pretty brutal haircut), I asked the hairdresser if I could get the color stripped. She said that since I just put black dye on top of black dye for years, my hair was saturated with it. My hair would turn to mush during the stripped process before the color was removed. So, I let it grow out. It took a year, and I looked ridiculous (light blonde roots, anyone?) ... but I'm glad I did it. Now, I'm obsessed with my natural hair color and will never, ever dye it again. HUGE mistake!

more lists

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:12:00 GMT

Thanks to bwayboogiewooge, I found an even better book list. The 100 Best Reads from '83 - '08. However, instead of having the entire list up, I'm just going to post the ones I've read, and the ones I intend to read. The list can be found here.

I've read (I've underlined my favorites):
1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
20. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (1998) (why is this book on both lists?!?!?!)
28. Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
34. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)
72.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006) (this was nothing but a self indulgent piece of shit)

Okay, this is even worse than the other list. I've only read six! These lists make it look like I read, like, one book a year.

I intend to read (I've underlined the ones I own):
9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
17. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
36. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
50. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
82. Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)

I'm currently reading:
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)

And, because what kind of person would I be if I didn't include the movie list? ...
The 100 Best Movies from '83 - '08. Same as before (only listed the ones I've seen/want to see). The list can be found here.

1. Pulp Fiction (1994)
3. Titanic (1997)
5. Toy Story (1995)
6. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
9. Die Hard (1988)
10. Moulin Rouge (2001)
13. GoodFellas (1990)
15. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
16. Boogie Nights (1997)
17. Jerry Maguire (1996)
20. The Lion King (1994)
22. Rushmore (1998)
23. Memento (2001)
25. Shrek (2001)
31. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
32. Fight Club (1999)
33. The Breakfast Club (1985)
34. Fargo (1996)
35. The Incredibles (2004)
38. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
39. The Sixth Sense (1999)
41. Dazed and Confused (1993)
42. Clueless (1995)
43. Gladiator (2000)
46. Children of Men (2006)
47. Men in Black (1997)
48. Scarface (1983)
51. There Will Be Blood (2007)
57. There’s Something About Mary (1998)
58. Ghostbusters (1984)
60. Scream (1996)
61. Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
63. Big (1988)
64. No Country For Old Men (2007)
66. Natural Born Killers (1994)
67. Donnie Brasco (1997)
73. Office Space (1999)
76. The Departed (2006)
77. Sid and Nancy (1986)
81. Moonstruck (1987)
82. Lost in Translation (2003)
83. Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987)
84. Sideways (2004)
85. The 40 Year-Old Virgin (2005)
86. Y Tu Mamá También (2002)
87. Swingers (1996)
88. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
90. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
91. Back to the Future (1985)
94. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
99. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
100. South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)

21. Schindler's List (1993)
45. Rain Man (1988)
50. The Piano (1993)
70. Broadcast News (1987)
74. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
93. Ed Wood (1994)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:40:45 GMT

Aparrently, the average adult has only read six of the top 100 books.

1) look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) italicise those you intend to read
3) underline the books you LOVE.
4) reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (the only book I enjoyed and truly loved that I was assigned in high school)
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 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 Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (I will never understand what the big deal is over Salinger. I thought this book was crap)
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (I can't even put into words how amazing I thought this book was)
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 Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
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 (shit)
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 (even thought the movie was SHIT)
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 Night-time - Mark Haddon (this book shouldn't be on the list)
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 (broke my heart)
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding (fuck off)
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 Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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

I feel a little lame, since I've only read 18 of the top 100 books. And, I only intend to read another 5. I guess my taste is just completely different than those that put this list together.

mom! the meatloaf!

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:33:34 GMT

What are some of your favorite movie cameos?

My favorite cameos:

Will Ferrell in Wedding Crashers.

Nicolas Cage as Fu Manchu in the "trailer" for Werewolf Women of the SS between Death Proof & Planet Terror.

Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Tim Robbins, & Luke Wilson during the newsanchor rumble in Anchorman.

Jack Black in Anchorman.

David Spade as Shilo in Grandma's Boy & as the transvestite in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.

Steve Buscemi as best man at the first wedding in The Wedding Singer.

Jon Lovitz as Jimmie Moore in The Wedding Singer.

Neil Diamond in Saving Silverman.

Bob Saget in Half Baked.

Jamie Hyneman & Adam Savage in The Darwin Awards.

Ron Jeremy in Detroit Rock City & Ghostbusters.

Ben Affleck in Clerks 2.

George Carlin, Judd Nelson, Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Sean William Scott, Jason Biggs, Tracy Morgan, and Diedrich Bader in Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.

Natalie Portman in The Darjeeling Limited.

Christopher Meloni as Freakshow in Harold & Kumar.

I think that might actually be it. I know there are more, but the list is getting loooong.

Also, with moving to Edmonton, I can't decide whether or not to get an account with Zip.ca (the Canadian version of Netflix). Either way, what movies would you reccomend? These are the movies I've seen so far this year.

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:54:38 GMT

George Carlin's death is the worst news I've heard in a long time. This sucks.

amanda goldblum has a nice ring to it

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:27:08 GMT

I don't care how many weird looks this has gotten me and will continue to get me, but I love Jeff Goldblum. He may be old enough to be my father (maybe even grandfather if everyone had their children very, very young), but hot damn! I've had a weird crush on him since Jurassic Park. I wouldn't think twice about making out with him.

miserable silas

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:42:04 GMT

miserable silas
Originally uploaded by amamma-jamma

silas doesn't have testicles anymore. he's sad.

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:03:04 GMT

I'm actually using Facebook now, so you know, you can add me if you like. My email is 'throughthesnow@gmail.com', (or if you prefer names: Amanda Parczen), so feel free to search for me!

snip snippy

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:47:12 GMT

So, with recent decisions and upcoming changes, I've realized that I won't have nearly enough time to keep up with LJ and everyone on my friends list. I will still be on LJ regularly (maybe once or twice a week), but there is no way I will be able to catch up with every post on my friends page (I'm already terribly enough with commenting).
I'm going to do a 'friends cut'. If I remove you, it really isn't anything against you (I promise), it's just because I know I won't be able to be a good LJ friend. Also, there are some people on my list who don't even comment as it is (and vice versa).
Again, it isn't anything against you. As the much more eloquent Amy put it in her friends cut post: some of us have grown apart, and some of us have just never connected at all.
EDIT: It's done.

squee x 98529358

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:58:05 GMT

There is a 90% chance that I will be a live-in nanny for Sarah (!!!).

I'll explain more later.

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Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:03:29 GMT

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Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:03:37 GMT

01:23 i can't sleep because of how nervous i am about driving. #
08:45 Ugh, there is still 2 hours of driving! Oh well, it's totally worth it! #
10:19 Oh snap, i love being able to listen to my favorite edmonton radio station (sonic 102.9)! #
10:28 i'm finally in edmonton! #
11:11 finally at sarah's! #
15:31 I never want to go home. #
19:20 Oh my god, longest lineup ever! #
19:30 Oh my god, the movie starts in mere minutes! I am actually nervous! #

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Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:05:52 GMT

21:30 I AM BEYOND STOKED FOR TOMORROW. #

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