5 posts tagged “lord of misrule”
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.
I got a new purse from D's mom full of tea from refugees from Nepal. Kai Kai spent this morning pulling it all out of the bag under the tree and playing with it. I got two long sleeved t-shirts from D in gray and black. A black Gap cardigan from D's mom which I love to death. A gray hoodie shirt from Old Navy. A gray hooded cardigan from American Eagle. A green sweater from Old Navy. A gray hooded sweater from Old Navy. All of which were from D. Oh he also got me jammie bottoms. They are really heavy and that rocks because the apartment is so cold during the winter since we don't use the heat. Someone got me a Taking Back Sunday t-shirt. So I will be way fashionable the next show we go to. I got Carnivale, Season 1 from D and I think D's parents got me Hellboy 2. I got the Magic Bullet from my mom. She does a lot of weird cheap stuff but then she comes through with the bullet, a B&N gift card for $50 and cash. I love her dearly even if there are times when she just confounds me and drives me to tears. D also got me my Twilight poster framed. It should be ready next week. Then it's going to be hung right over the bed. I hope that won't be creepy for D.
D got the newest Prince of Persia game and DC vs. Mortal Kombat from me, so we may never watch real tv again until they are beat. I got him Dr. Horrible. His mom and dad got him a special screwdriver with replaceable nibs. We never really have projects that require screwdrivers but maybe we can lookout for them now. I got him a pair of jeans from Old Navy and two Gap sweaters with three pairs of Gap socks. His mom got him a pair of Gap jeans, a blazer and a vest, which is too big, so we are going to have to exchange it. I also got him the Iron Gym. It's the pull up gadget you see on TV where you install it over the door frame for doing pull ups. He loves it and does some everytime he comes through the door. I got D a Sharks t-shirt and a license plate holder. Ah see something he can use his screwdiver on! D's mom got him some of the edgiest ties. I should have taken pictures of them. Maybe I will make him take some pictures of his gifts for his Vox. That is a good idea.
We had a good take. I think it will hold us over until Easter which I am making a gift giving holiday. Wait I can't if it interferes with going to Portland but then there is Valentine's Day. They should all be holidays where we decorate the tree in a new color scheme and exchange gifts.
Now I need to start thinking New Years Resolutions and Christmas clean-up.
Being in LA has me feeling decidedly of two minds. It's home but it's also a cage. Really hard to be excited about a place that suffocates me. I miss big open spaces and fresh air. I miss home. At least I know that this July I'll be going home for a while. I do miss laying on the floor of my bedroom reading books all night, the sound of crickets coming in through the window. That was near perfection to me.
Last night I found a Rachel Caine audiostory of Dead Man Stalking. It was a story from Shane's perspective and I got very excited because in it he admits he loves Claire. He's never said it in the Morganville Vampire books so you were left wondering what he felt. I was giddy. I wonder when he will tell her. Lord of Misrule comes out in just over a month. Caine has three books coming out next year; January, July and November. It's like a banner year for me. But back to Misrule--I can't help but wonder how she is going to save Morganville. She left it burning to the ground at the end of Feast of Fools. And splitting up the core. My entire body is in EEK! Mode.
I haven't finished a book in a week. I am reading three at the moment. Dead After Dark, Snakecharm and Wizard's First Rule. I'm kind of blowing through Dead After Dark so I may finish it tomorrow. I liked Fury's story and I love Sherri but I feel like she is really falling down on her storytelling. Angelia hates Fury and then all the sudden she loves him and wants him as her mate. It's frustrating because she used to be much stronger than this on plot. One Silent Night was similar to Fury's tale and I don't really like it. I loved Fury though and wanted his story to be compelling. I did LOVE the JR Ward's The Story of Son. It was a good spin of on her vampire lure and well written. I loved Michael. Although the story bled Lover Unbound influence. Still I loved it. I still have two more stories to read.
The last two days I've had D home with me and it's nice. I like it. I like that boy very much. We decorated the Christmas tree last night and played Scrabble the last two nights. It's much nicer than me reading in bed and him out on the couch watching TV. I'd like to keep it this way. Oh and when we were in Alaska we got our gTalk video chat to work. So now while D is at work I can video chat with him. I have noticed not many people have it though. Too bad Nicky doesn't. I'll have to set my mother up wiith it.
I still haven't unpacked from Alaska. I know I need to. Maybe today. I have a caboodle of books in the one bag. I also have to pack a box or two for my mother. I ahoulsn't use my Vox as my Things To Do list. It's not the venue. While in Alaska I found a copy of Demon in My View. I love the cover of it and because I didn't recognize it as a Den of Shadows book. So now I have two copies of it. I have to quell that acquistiveness. It does me no favors.
I have to get the Alaska pictures off the camera. But for now. Here are two that Erin took for Thanksgiving.
So now I've read almost all of my new books I will have to read ebooks for the next while. I need more vampire books. Oh there you go I can read Sookie Stackhouse books for a few days. Come Sunday and I will be back to reading 20 in 20 books. There is a lot to read. Not to mention that D should be done with City of Bones soon so I will be able to reread that and there is a shortage of Jace Wayland in my life at the moment.
Today I called home and got to talk to my sister. She had her first real boy/girl dance today and she said she danced and had a good time. We chatted about other things. She stilled my heart and made me smile because she told me she was reading a book. It's about shelter dogs but it could be about play-doh and I wouldn't care so long as she was reading. She also told me her plan for the weekend was to watch TV and do homework. I guess my life is pretty simple now but hers seems idyllic.
