7 posts tagged “the morganville vampires”
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.
You know that feeling when you have just feasted and you still want more? I'm living that feeling. I finished Faefever this morning and I crave the next book. The ending of this one is so fucked up and twisted that I need to know how to come back from it. It will be 8 months before the next book comes back out. A long 8 months. I think that I will reread the fever books just a couple of times. I love Barrons and I could live in the world to be near him. I do wonder what his reaction to what Mac does. It won't be pretty. I wonder how you cure pri-ya. And V'lane... where was he when the princes appeared? Yes. I have found another series to love.
Next week the new Morganville book comes out. I am eager for it because I want to know what happens with the group once they are split up. Shane is sent out by Amelie on a suicide mission. Claire and Amelie are off to find Myrnin. Eve with Oliver, and that has to be an ugly pairing. And Michael off to the campus to reduce people in the neighborhoods. Morganville up in flames. No bloodmobile for the vamps. It is going to be a tense read. I can't wait.
I've been feeling a bit off center for a while. Like I'm cycling my mood is normal but my energy is up. I feel elevated. I've started taking more neurontin to help me sleep. I don't think it works. My sleep is all over the place. I need to call Dr. Scott and get an appointment to adjust my meds. I worry that if I don't things will get worse.
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.
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.
