9 posts tagged “rachel caine”
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 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.
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.
So it's been a week since I wrote in here and I have done things. D was home a lot of last week and it was really nice. We laid in bed and read a lot and played marathon games of Scrabble. I love the boy. We actually watched a Sharks game together last week. I haven't watched any hockey other than the game we went to. We used to share that and I'm so off of TV that I just don't do it except rarely. I wish I could say that would change but it won't. I will read over TV at every option. I did go to see Twilight again last Friday. We met Crystal in Pasadena. She tried to get me to go see some Swedish horror film but I don't see that in the cards. Today I did most of my Christmas shopping for family. It's so expensive. I would veto it but I really like the getting of presents. If only the giving wasn't so costly. There is one present under my tree and it's for Belle.
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.
Today is a auspicious day for no real reason. Just a feeling. I woke up too early and have that feeling in the pit of my stomach, which has nothing to do with hunger. Just unsettled. I feel like Elena, writing that something bad was going to happen today. I feel like something, good or bad may happen and that either way, I won't be ready for it. I just need to distract myself and think of other things... kittens, Jace or the ocean. A botanical garden with a myriad of color. Speaking of which the picture to the left. On Sunday Susan, Belle, D and I went to the Getty Center and we walked in the gardens. It was really nice. I like doing things with the girls. I already have plans to go to the 101 Coffee Shop with them on Friday. And on Saturday D will have his birthday thing. I don't know yet who all will be there but I think it will be nice. It will fulfill the demands that I socialize. I think I am most excited for D to open his birthday gifts. I hope he likes what I got him.
Last night I read Glass Houses by Rachel Caine and I really liked it, although it has a chaotic quality unlike anything else I've read. And violent, oh yeah, is it violent. I am dying to read the rest of the Morganville Vampires books now. I asked D if we could go to the bookstore tonight so that I could pick them up. I've read all but one of the books that I bought on Friday as well as both of my library books. I still have a bunch of ebooks and all my Blaze books so I'm far from tapped, I would just really like to read the rest of these books while it's all in my mind to. This morning I read Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz and I didn't really love her style. I will read the remainder of the Blue Blood books but unless there is some huge change I won't ever read them again. I didn't really like what she does to the main character and the love interest. It must be the week of reading dismal love stories. I am going to read a romance novel just so that I don't forget how a book is really suppose to end. I'm about done with not happy endings. That said, I am not done with Jace and Clary and I think I'm going to read the excerpt for City of Glass again so that I can have it memorized before the book comes out in 181 days. I do pray that I won't be so keyed up about things the entire time. This could be exhusting.
I'm feeling almost tempted to leave the apartment. Those sorts of thoughts scare me. Why would I want to leave the apartment? I don't know where these thoughts are coming from these days. There seems to be an overabundance of weird running through my mind. Maybe I need my meds adjusted again.
Yesterday was really nice. Susie, Belle and I went to The Grove for lunch and shopping. Other than books, I got a new top and some underthings from the Gap. I saw so many things there that I covet and would like to have. Also they had a picture on the wall that was Sean Avery. I was suprised. Sean Avery never struck me as a Gap guy. After the mall we came back to the apartment for a bed party. We hung out and Belle and I discussed books and Susie started reading my Gossip Girl book. She said it is pretty different from the show and when they had to go she asked to borrow it to finish it so it must be compelling. It was nice to see them and I think it fulfills Dr. Moore's edict of more socializing less isolating. We might even see them on Sunday, they might come to the Getty with us. Maybe we will go to the zoo instead.
There are so many books I want. I'm, sadly, learning the LA Public Library doesn't carry most of them. I was able to find The Vampire Academy and Frostbite on a message board last night. So, I have them on ebook with two other Richelle Mead books, Succubus Blues and Succubus on Top. I got the first three House of Night books by PC Cast. I was also able to find the first five Black Dagger Brotherhood books by JR Ward. What I wasn't able to find that I wanted to was Glass Houses by Rachel Caine or the Lords of the Underworld books by Gena Showalter. I was able to find Melissa De La Cruz's Blue Bloods books at the library but that was the only thing I was able to find. I bookmooch wishlisted what I couldn't find. I do have more than I could want to read. I find so much comfort in books I want to pull them to me by the arm full and get lost in them so I don't have to deal with my unhappy life. That's pathetic isn't it?
The last thing I watched was 90210 and it is such a small blip on my radar. I'm not really invested in the characters. It's not funny. I do have to say that Shenae Grimes might be the ugliest thing on tv. I really hope that at some point Ethan and Annie will actually hook up because Naomi is just a hideous beast. And Dixon and Silver, just not believable. He's like some horrible characature of a stereotype of the black kid who is whiter than bone. Silver could do better. Hell, she should come out and date Naomi. I would find it more believable.
I should get back to Vampireville or I will be reading this book in my grave.
Oh and I got Vesa on my fantasy hockey team! Woohoo. Go Leafs! Yay for Vesa.
