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Gosh I'm tired today. Thursdays always knacker me out, although I imagine that when I get to work I'll be less tired when I've got used to doing things every day. A couple of things have happened this week that have been confusing, trying, and somewhat upsetting in that order, but I think I'm over that now. Since going shopping I've had a cream cake, some chocolate, some crappy pizza and lots of good TV. Just watched the end of Grey's Anatomy which was sort of sad, but Veronica Mars always makes me happy, and I really enjoyed tonight's because there was a large proportion of Jason Dohring being the charming bad boy again (note to self, find one of him in an English version!).
I finished Wintersmith (which arrived on Wednesday), and it was wonderful, but since I haven't read the other two with Tiffany Aching in I'm not going to have to find them (so I'm looking forward to that)! It's very good, I'd do a review but I'd be tempted to run away with myself and quote half the book and that would be bad (I don't wanna get sued!) so I shall just stick with saying that I adore the personification of Winter as The Wintersmith, and the fact that Nanny Ogg, Granny Weatherwax and the Nac Mac Feegle get a good look in and have a lot of fun! The Horn Of Plenty part of the story is a fantastic bit, and I'm going to stop now before I can't!
The last time I did a book review of the books I got from the library was two weeks before I went off to Germany and that was about half a year ago, so I've decided to start doing that again, but because I decided this on the way home from the library, and therefore had already got rid of last week's books, I can't review them because I can't remember the correct titles. Plus I read them all before Monday so I would have had trouble being comprehensive with my reviews.
Anyway that wasn't originally what I was going to write here. What I was going to write here was about my life, and justifying why I sometimes feel the need to apologise (and whinge) about not having anything exciting/interesting to talk about. However I don't think I should justify myself to anyone, especially not myself - which would be why I was going to write anything.
My father's birthday is on Tuesday, so on Sunday or Monday I shall be going into Bromley to get a frying pan (I coud not make this sort of thing up!) which is the only thing we need and since he can't think of anything he wants I'd imagine he'll be delighted with a new frying pan to melt the spatula to (I'm always going to clean up the frying pan and finding that the spatula is welded to it - it's exciting to see the new and improved ways to get it off!). We've be hesitantly discussing the dreaded C-word over the last couple of days (Christmas guys - where are your minds? Honestly) - once because of the birthday and once because of a news article about St Austell putting up their decorations 98 days before the 'big day' (I've just noticed that Frank the goat on the portal lj page is wearing christmas lights too). Anyway it lead to discussions about things, and I imagine that my Christmas will be very similar to last year's - the tree will go up in the living room so as to put a Christmassy face on things but behind the scenes it'll be basically just another day. I'm not sure I mind that actually, because making a big deal of it always makes me feel silly since there's only the two of us. So I've told him to think about what he wants, and I've already decided what I want so as long as I remember to buy them it'll be ok.
Gosh, I've talked an awful lot for someone who doesn't have anything to say, although if you were to narrow it down there'd probably be very little actual information in it! I'm going to go to bed now I think because tomorrow is a cleaning day - the kitchen floor is dirty again and the bathroom tiles need a quick scrub.
ETA - Somehow I just managed to delete this entry, although I had my lj open checking the link had worked so I didn't lose it, but it was quite odd nonetheless. I always wondered how easy it was to delete an entry... now I know!
Ooooh, ooooooh, if you made it to here please leave a comment. I'd love to know who reads my long entries.
I finished Wintersmith (which arrived on Wednesday), and it was wonderful, but since I haven't read the other two with Tiffany Aching in I'm not going to have to find them (so I'm looking forward to that)! It's very good, I'd do a review but I'd be tempted to run away with myself and quote half the book and that would be bad (I don't wanna get sued!) so I shall just stick with saying that I adore the personification of Winter as The Wintersmith, and the fact that Nanny Ogg, Granny Weatherwax and the Nac Mac Feegle get a good look in and have a lot of fun! The Horn Of Plenty part of the story is a fantastic bit, and I'm going to stop now before I can't!
The last time I did a book review of the books I got from the library was two weeks before I went off to Germany and that was about half a year ago, so I've decided to start doing that again, but because I decided this on the way home from the library, and therefore had already got rid of last week's books, I can't review them because I can't remember the correct titles. Plus I read them all before Monday so I would have had trouble being comprehensive with my reviews.
Anyway that wasn't originally what I was going to write here. What I was going to write here was about my life, and justifying why I sometimes feel the need to apologise (and whinge) about not having anything exciting/interesting to talk about. However I don't think I should justify myself to anyone, especially not myself - which would be why I was going to write anything.
My father's birthday is on Tuesday, so on Sunday or Monday I shall be going into Bromley to get a frying pan (I coud not make this sort of thing up!) which is the only thing we need and since he can't think of anything he wants I'd imagine he'll be delighted with a new frying pan to melt the spatula to (I'm always going to clean up the frying pan and finding that the spatula is welded to it - it's exciting to see the new and improved ways to get it off!). We've be hesitantly discussing the dreaded C-word over the last couple of days (Christmas guys - where are your minds? Honestly) - once because of the birthday and once because of a news article about St Austell putting up their decorations 98 days before the 'big day' (I've just noticed that Frank the goat on the portal lj page is wearing christmas lights too). Anyway it lead to discussions about things, and I imagine that my Christmas will be very similar to last year's - the tree will go up in the living room so as to put a Christmassy face on things but behind the scenes it'll be basically just another day. I'm not sure I mind that actually, because making a big deal of it always makes me feel silly since there's only the two of us. So I've told him to think about what he wants, and I've already decided what I want so as long as I remember to buy them it'll be ok.
Gosh, I've talked an awful lot for someone who doesn't have anything to say, although if you were to narrow it down there'd probably be very little actual information in it! I'm going to go to bed now I think because tomorrow is a cleaning day - the kitchen floor is dirty again and the bathroom tiles need a quick scrub.
ETA - Somehow I just managed to delete this entry, although I had my lj open checking the link had worked so I didn't lose it, but it was quite odd nonetheless. I always wondered how easy it was to delete an entry... now I know!
Ooooh, ooooooh, if you made it to here please leave a comment. I'd love to know who reads my long entries.