110 posts tagged “books”
Things on the home front are quiet. Nothing is going not that is a big deal aside from me cycling, but we have a new med dosage for that. I am looking forward to having D home for the long weekend. I feel like we haven't had
D just told me that I won't be able to get to Comic Con this year.:( Here is where I whine. I never want to go anywhere and the few places I want to go never work out and I am so sick of it. I get dragged to all these bullshit places I never want to go to and I hardly complain at all and then the 2 or 3 places I want to go don't work. Like TBS is in Anaheim on the 6/3 and I won't be able to go because of traffic. It fucking sucks. /end whinge, sorry for the tantrum.
I read two trashy romances this week. It's nice to read. I miss it. I have been picking romances because they don't
So I think I want to make some wishes and mayne anyone who reads this could combine their good thoughts and help make my wishes come true, I wish I could go to Comic Con for Thursday and see the New Moon Panel. I wish I could get BlizzCon tickets. I wish that Anya gets WotLK soon so she could hang out with us in Dal. I wish Mand gets a chance to do what he really wants to do. I wish T would come back because I need a break from being in charge. And I wish that I could do more things by myself so that Mand could raid and I could do more than sit and twiddle my thumbs.
Oh and this,,,
I have been caught in a trap and Voxing has been the last thing on my mind but I promised myself that today I was going to do it. A little too much questing and a little too little living in the real world. My life is really in the toilet.
I've been doing a real little of reading. I'm reading You Will Know Our Velocity! in 15 page segments. Jason is going to get the impression that I don't want to read it at all, which just isn't true. I just have this buggy personality and when I obsess it takes up all my energy. I haven't been able to concentrate at all. Of course I'm going to devour City of Glass when it comes out a week from tomorrow. Oh my god am I excited. And in my feed this morning was a Rachel Caine update about Fade Out the 7th Morganville Vampire book. The cover design to the left. So she has the next two books in the box. Oh Shane, I'm wishing happy things for you.
Class has been more interesting. I still think my prof is a tool but I really liked the video we watched in the last class. I liked the debate of Intelligent Design/Creationism and Evolution. Go Evolution go! I'm eager to see what happens in class tomorrow. I hope we actually start learning about something other than religion and politics though. D needs to know about psychology before he goes to grad school.
April is coming soon and we have Portland and Shanny and then Nielle will be coming to visit. Oh fun everyway around. Speaking of Shannon she took the pic to the left and I loved it so much that I snagged it for in here. She is so awesome. And Nielle... when she comes here we are going to do the RenFaire in Irwindale. I'm hoping we can do it on a day when Belle can come too. Note to self: remind D to buy plane tickets.
I haven't been watching hockey but I have been playing fantasy hockey and my team beat James for the first time all year last week. WOOT! D tells me that Chris Kunitz is playing well in Pittsburgh and Ovie is edging in on the 50 spot for goals this year. Go boy! Do DC proud. I can't wait until Thanksgiving this year when we will be in DC and I have high hopes that we can see a live caps game.
I woke up an hour ago singing the Canadian national anthem. I don't know why but it's stuck in my head. Maybe it is a little leftover from seeing the hockey game on Thursday night. The flames prevailed to win it with a 2-0 shutout. Belle enjoyed her first game. Paul and Amanda had a good time too I think. Ollie was over the moon because his team one. I think Mikey was just drunk. I was happy because I got to see a whole minute of Dion playing the way Dion played last year. I have to glean my Dion happiness wherever I can. I'm still a fan but man he is tanked this season. Only a week a way from watching the Sharks play. My Torrey jersey came. I swim in it but I am happy about it all the same. Go Torrey. I hope you might be back in time for Saturday's game.
So WoW is going well, although I think I have been a lvl32 forever. We did the Gnomeregen and that went well although a lot of heals. I have been thinking a lot about guilds and the last few days we have run a couple dungeons with his guildees and they haven't been asshats. I am just afraid to commit. I don't want to choose poorly. I have it in my mind that once I pick that's it for life. I know that isn't true but I still think that. I'm interested in where our next dungeon mission will be.
Speaking of guilds, I finally caught up on the Guild. The one before last I watched when I was falling asleep. I remember only bits and pieces clearly which is a shame when it is only 5 minutes long. There was a part with Clara and Tink selling Codex that was pretty horrifically funny. The last Guild was pretty good. I think Zaboo stole it for me and Vork and Bladezz talking to him about the duel was hilarious. Of course the entire show is a bunch more funny now that I'm playing WoW. The dynamic is better understood if you know from where they are coming from.
I'm still reading the Eggers book with Jason. It's going pretty well. I have a strange resistance for Will's thinking when we are submersed in his head. Jason's right, it is all very Kafka-esque and I'm not sure that I like that much of Kafka. I still like Hand though. Eggers has these phrases and these statements that I love. He was right. He was a titan. We were again golden. I just love the imagery it brings to mind for me. I won't get to the next park until tomorrow, as D and I are going to spend the day playing WoW.
It's been raining a lot lately. LA floods and it gets chilly. I kind of love it. Right now it's coming down and I have the blinds open so I can look out. Of course being who I am, I want to look at it but I don't want to be out in it.
There is a lot of hockey coming up. Thursday there will be a group of us going to see the Flames at the Kings. Mikey and Ollie will be meeting up with D, Belle and I and D said Paul and his girlfriend will be coming too. I am excited to see Chris because I haven't seen him since 2001/02 when he drove through Chico. I haven't seen Mikey since 2000. Then the weekend after next D and I will be driving up to SJ to see the Sharks play the Thrashers. I'll have my Torrey jersey then and we will fit in with all the Shark heads. I can't wait. Hockey in the day and WoW in a random hotel room with a jacuzzi at night. Heaven.
My sisters birthday was yesterday and she turned 13. A teenager. Now is the time where she starts to no longer make sense right? I hope that isn't the case. I do wish that I was home for her birthday. It's so hard being so far away. My mom said I got her too much for her birthday, but I feel I need to make up for not being there for her, Phone calls don't matter much in the end.
I am almost to the part where Clary and Luke pick up Jace from the institute to go after Simon and Maia. I got to listen to the part with Jace and Alec in the weapons room, which is one of my favorites. And I paid super attention to Alec talking Jace into jumping over the barrier and he does refer to some of Jace's endeavors as flying. D is convinced that he is going to prove to be an angel. I think he can just fly. The people who won the City of Glass contest have received their copies and this girl wrote a really good, yet non-spoilery review of it. I am a little disappointed that she didn't shadow a few events. I would have given my eyeteeth to know if there was a Jace and Clary kiss in CoG. I will be buying my copy as soon as I can. B&N sometimes put them out early and I will be there every day the week before to see if it's there. Then I will be ignoring all signs of responsible life to read it. I don't even believe I will be eating while reading it. I am that obsessed with knowing the end of this story. 64 more days. I can't do math and I got really excited saying that it was 55. Bejeebus, time makes it own sweet hellicious marks.
Sometimes I pick books up at Walgreens and they become a part of my collection and other times they end up mooched. More often it's that they are crap. I saw Ecstasy and it sounded really good and because of my track record I put it back and then proceeded to buy it two days later at B&N because it still sounded interesting. I really really liked it. It touches on a few sexual taboos and that always holds my interest. The hero is dark skinned and the heroine quite fair which is not the normal of romance novels. The story was really interesting. The entire mythology pretty riveting. And it was not about vampires even if the subtitle of Shadowdwellers lead me to think it might be. I added it too my bookshelf because I can see myself reading it again.I can't wait to read the next book that comes out in June that is called Rapture. I am going to read her previous series called Nightwalkers now. One of the characters Gideon did a cameo in Ecstasy. I hope I enjoy them as much as I did this one.
Yesterday we went to lunch with Belle to Iso and great gods do I love the girl. She always makes me laugh. It feels good to be with her and I only wish that there was more times that ended in that kind of laughter. We stopped at Old Navy on our way back to Hollywood and we got to shop. I got two sweaters that zip and a green argyle polo shirt that is just really cute and another top in white with a turquoise tank to wear under it. I have very little that is white. Everything I own is gray or black with some green thrown in for color. Anyway after that we still didn't want to put Belle back where we found her so we went to Koreatown to an ice cream shop, called Scoops, that has vegan ice cream. Mine was a non-vegan blueberry and lychee which was really really good. I can't remember what Belle got but she had a selection, which is good because now I know of a place to take Nielle. D had caramel oreo. He said it was very good. I think we are agreed that we would like to visit again. Maybe we can get Belle to come back with us.
I finally read #3 of Spike: After the Fall this morning. I have #4 with me too but I only read the one. I don't know I didn't like it as much as the other two. I thought it dragged a little. I did like the kiss between Spike and Illyria but it had too little of her in it to be a really good issue. Hopefully #4 which is the end of the series will be better. And I want it said... comic book Gunn sucks. I haven't liked new vampire Gunn at all. I want softie/hardass Gunn. The one that was caught singing the Pirates of Penzance. That was the Gunn that I liked. I also read my first issue of Lords of Avalon Knight of Darkness. I forget how much I didn't like the beginning of that book. I do like Varian but all that stuff with Narishka, who is simply the most hatable book character in all of Sherrilyn Kenyon's books. Well maybe Satara and Stryker. When the woman wants to write evil she really can do it.
Last night I watched the new Guild eisode and it was a filler episode. It had a couple funny parts but ultimately it was missing the wallop of previous episodes. Zaboo was his normal annoying part. Vork had some chuckle lines. But there was no Clara, Bladezz or Tink. I give it a 3 out of 5 stars. Wait I'm giving stars now? Who do I think I am?
This entry that I'm writing is 2/3 negativity I should balance it out with some good stuff. I am sore from working out last night. I did 50 minutes of strength training and 50 on the bicycle. I feel like I had a good workout. I'll see what today is like. I plan to just do cardio, no weights. Maybe I will do an hour. But working out does make me feel better. I'm still having low days but I try to do the gym anyway. Maybe with enough working out I won't need meds anymore.
Oh wait I know something positive. I am playing my arch nemesis on my Fantasy Hockey League and last night was a big face off because Pittsburgh and DC were playing each other. Now you have to understand that I love the Pens, they are probably my favorite team and Geno, Evgeni Malkin is one of my favorite players. After Vesa he is my favorite player. But he's on this Down with the Ducks team and I love kicking this guys ass. So I had to lean toward routing for the Caps. Not a problem because I love Brooks Laich and Ovechkin and watching Federov play. So it was a tense matchup and they were playing goal for goal until the third period when the Caps just dominated and they one the game. I'm still up on Down with the Ducks, which is just a stupid name, and I hope to keep it up. I was doing it good until I disparged about his dumb name. It was almost positive.
I'm at work with David today. We have to see the allergist this afternoon so I had to go to work with him. My plan is to sit and read. I brought Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause and In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, so I have to decide which of the two I will read and I have Spike #4 and LOA #2 as well. I don't know I don't know which to read first. Then I'm going to lunch at Mika.... mmmmm veggie rolls. Then later it's back to the gym and then snuggled in for my day to myself.
I wonder why all my entries jump from topic to topic. I think it is because I lost the art of segue somewhere. I am just so eager to get all my thoughts out that they poop out of my head in little rabbit piles. I'd worry but I don't think anyone reads this on any regular basis. Well maybe Alison and I love her for replying to my posts.
I'll work on being more on the flipside rather than on the side of evil.
Today I had to see Dr. Scott and it was a good visit even if he did increase my meds. He said that it seems as if I'm doing really well even if I am cycling some. I have to go back in three weeks so well see how things are going then.
Tomorrow is going to be a reading day. I haven't had much me time in the last few weeks. D's been home and I love that, but it really cuts into having the book time. Tomorrow night is hockey. Hopefully I won't sleep through the third period. We shall see.
P.S. I worked hard at the gym today and bicycled for 16 miles.
I had therapy yesterday and we talked about something that I am starting to feel terribly bad about and it's not very funny although for a while I was laughing about it. Dr. Moore made me realize how wrong I was to share the thought and now I just don't know how to take off the table. I think I'm going to avoid it and see if it won't go away. She'd be really proud of me taking that route too. Damn, what a mess.
Thursday night D and I are going to the Staples Center to see the Ducks play the Kings. Go Anze and Raitis. I would like to be able to stay up the entire game. We'll have to try it out as a new thing. There is just something embarassing about falling asleep at a sporting event. A year ago I would have been all for the Ducks but then they traded Andy. I have man-loyality. And Teemu and Beauchmin aren't playing. It leaves little to be excited about. Hell, they don't even have Bertuzzi for me to be excited about someone hitting. But it will be a good game. We will have fun.
Yesterday was a day full of surprises. I wore my green sweater with my green converse. They aren't grass green, more of a gem colour and it looked really good. It isn't often that I like what I wear. So it was a good start. I went to the bookstore to get Faefever and found Lord of Misrule was out on the shelves early. I whooped and jumped up and down. I have little self respect when it comes to books. I haven't started it yet but I plan to start it today. Oh where for art thou, Shane? I went to a hockey game. Kings vs. Flyers at the Staples Center. I found myself routing for the Flyers... and that is just not acceptable. I have never liked Philadelphia. Even when Mclaughlin was making me watch every game. But I do like Braydon Coburn and D has Scott Hartnell on his fantasy hockey team. It was a hard hitting game. I imagine they will be feeling it today. Although the Kings won in the end, I didn't see it because I fell asleep on D's shoulder and we left early. Hopefully I'll have a better time of it this Thursday when we go to see the Ducks play. I can route for the Kings that game. I never have gotten over them trading Andy McDonald.
I'm of half the mind to watch some TV today. This is highly unusual. I have the gym today so anything I would want to watch gets cut into by that. And then we are going to go and meet Jamie in LBC for some Indian. By then this idea will have burned off. Tomorrow I'm meeting Nicky online at 11:30 so it is out then too. Then I have Dr. Moore. I have plans to read Lord of Misrule sometime in the next 24 hours too so that leaves me really short on time. But I have Sinchornicity, which D found for me and Lost in Austen. D is going to have Hex come through on Netflix this week. I will have to readjust my mental thinking to work on this.
New Years Resolutions!!
I made a few... alright more than a couple. I was generous with my resolve and not doing so great on a few of them. But I will list them here so that I can look back and know which ones I need to work on.
- Go to the gym three times a week. 3 hours cardio and 1.5 weight training.
- Lose 15 lbs and keep it of.
- Be more mindful of my hygiene.
- Do something social each week.
- Read 5 books a week.
- Walk more.
- Clean the house one a month.
- Keep on top of the kitty litter.
- To let my hair grow. No cutting it.
Now I am looking forward to the new year. It will be my new slate on my book tracker. I started it in September and I've read 89 books in 16 weeks. The new one will be for 52 weeks and I am ready to devour books in the new year. Maybe I will set a goal of something like 25 books a month. I want to be sure I read things other than fantasy too. So in the new year I am going to hope to mix things up. Of course saying that all the books in my pile to be read next are fantasy save for 1 which is a romance. I still haven't read Moby Dick. Oh and I will be finishing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde before the end of the year. Even if the very act kills me.
On Saturday while out running errands D bought me new shoes and I love them. I have a really bad habit of buying shoes that I sometimes never wear. But I've already wore these so that shouldn't be a problem with these.. Ofcourse I keep all the original boxes for my shoes so when I'm done I can take them to the Goodwill in a tidy fashion. How do normal people house their shoes? Or a better question is how many pairs is normal to have? Not that I'm Amelda Marcos, she opened her shoes--so clearly, I'm not. I might be like her disciple.
There are new Guild episodes and I'm behind, Zaboo could be running amok. Felicia Day looks less cute this season. Robin Thorsen who plays Clara is getting a world's worth of good lines. Bladezz is still only seen for half a second. But still worth a watch even if you aren't an MMOG.
