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1) I miss my feet. I thought about going to get a pedicure today as a vacation-treat. But then I got pissy with myself about what the point would be as I can't see my feet anyhow. I also can't reach them, and my nails grow at an alarming rate which is why I considered going in the first place so I have an internal struggle going on that sounds very much like "need! can't see!"
2) I fell asleep on the couch. When I woke, it took me 10 freaking minutes to sit up. I feel like a beached whale every time I try to get back in an upright position.
3) I STILL HAVE 12 MORE WEEKS LEFT.
I'm clearly going to be a terrible mother.
Unrelated, but I burned up a number of vacation days in December. I pretty much had all 3-5 day weekends which was nice. But, this led to something VERY, VERY bad. I avoided all my pregnancy books. On one of the weekends, I decided to borrow a friend's copy of Twilight. I'd made fun of the premise of the books for the entire year I've lived in Dallas - it seems to be the only books that my Dallas colleagues had read and I found that fascinating. But, having read about the premise promised myself I'd never read them.
Well, I read it on one of my first days off of work. And on Saturday, impatient to borrow the second book - I bought it. And on Sunday, impatient to start the third book...I bought it. On Monday, I waited until after work to purchase book four. I would have dashed away on my lunch hour but I had a conflicting conference call.
That said, I don't actually like the books. Weird. I liked parts of them, sure. But the idea that they get wrapped up in each others lives so completely in such a short amount of time cracks me up. If they weren't marketed to teens, I would like them more than I do. But, I can't say that I'd want to hand this book off to a 14 year old. The main character seems to lose her sense of self and that bothers me.
I did, however, enjoy the partial draft of the first book from the boy's point of view (on Stepheniemeyer.com). I find that much more enjoyable. I hope she finishes the book, although it looks like she may not because the first 12 chapters were leaked on-line. It was funny, she posted the 12 chapter draft on her website, but asked fans to not read it. If someone is determined enough to go to your website and learn about the series, they aren't NOT going to click on the PDF version of the first 12 chapters of the book. Dumb ass.
To redeem myself, I gave away books 2-4 to various colleagues that didn't have them yet as I didn't want to "own" the series. Some of you have seen the number of books that Matt and I have, for me to be too ashamed to put these books in the same company of our other books says a lot. But, needing a little more angst in my life, I downloaded all the PDFs of the books and selectively re-read parts that I like when I'm avoiding real life things..like how to swaddle a baby.
I've decided this is just a phase, and to not be worried.
But, my kid isn't reading this trash until he/she's an adult. I think it will be much like the Philip Pullman books - they may be marketed to teens, but they shouldn't be.
2) I fell asleep on the couch. When I woke, it took me 10 freaking minutes to sit up. I feel like a beached whale every time I try to get back in an upright position.
3) I STILL HAVE 12 MORE WEEKS LEFT.
I'm clearly going to be a terrible mother.
Unrelated, but I burned up a number of vacation days in December. I pretty much had all 3-5 day weekends which was nice. But, this led to something VERY, VERY bad. I avoided all my pregnancy books. On one of the weekends, I decided to borrow a friend's copy of Twilight. I'd made fun of the premise of the books for the entire year I've lived in Dallas - it seems to be the only books that my Dallas colleagues had read and I found that fascinating. But, having read about the premise promised myself I'd never read them.
Well, I read it on one of my first days off of work. And on Saturday, impatient to borrow the second book - I bought it. And on Sunday, impatient to start the third book...I bought it. On Monday, I waited until after work to purchase book four. I would have dashed away on my lunch hour but I had a conflicting conference call.
That said, I don't actually like the books. Weird. I liked parts of them, sure. But the idea that they get wrapped up in each others lives so completely in such a short amount of time cracks me up. If they weren't marketed to teens, I would like them more than I do. But, I can't say that I'd want to hand this book off to a 14 year old. The main character seems to lose her sense of self and that bothers me.
I did, however, enjoy the partial draft of the first book from the boy's point of view (on Stepheniemeyer.com). I find that much more enjoyable. I hope she finishes the book, although it looks like she may not because the first 12 chapters were leaked on-line. It was funny, she posted the 12 chapter draft on her website, but asked fans to not read it. If someone is determined enough to go to your website and learn about the series, they aren't NOT going to click on the PDF version of the first 12 chapters of the book. Dumb ass.
To redeem myself, I gave away books 2-4 to various colleagues that didn't have them yet as I didn't want to "own" the series. Some of you have seen the number of books that Matt and I have, for me to be too ashamed to put these books in the same company of our other books says a lot. But, needing a little more angst in my life, I downloaded all the PDFs of the books and selectively re-read parts that I like when I'm avoiding real life things..like how to swaddle a baby.
I've decided this is just a phase, and to not be worried.
But, my kid isn't reading this trash until he/she's an adult. I think it will be much like the Philip Pullman books - they may be marketed to teens, but they shouldn't be.