I've been so neglectful this month yeesh. I hope I don't blabber on too long trying to note everything down ( Read more... )

So I'm reading this book, A Man Called Ove, and it is so funny and sweet and heartbreaking. I am really enjoying it. However I also finding it a tad alarming that I identify with Ove. I seriously have chunks of Ove in me. This grumpy old man, who gets mad when people don't follow simple rules like traffic signs, speed limits, or the neighborhood ( Read more... )

Earlier today I had an appointment with my dermatologist for a consult and request to get a full allergy screening.  But before that his assistant, reviewing my chart and DOB, told me she couldn't believe that was actually my age because I look like I could be 18.  I was like wow thank you ( Read more... )

“A library is infinity under a roof ( Read more... )

Well working in spurts throughout the week, and several bags of trash and boxes of goodwill donations later, I finally finished cleaning and organizing Es's room. What a project!

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This week is going by slowly. I keep thinking it's Wednesday but it's only Tuesday.

I finished the Kristen Hannah novel The Nightingale. Wow. Just wow.
I love when a book can make me feel such extremes. Extreme anger, extreme disbelief, extreme sadness...

So now that that's over I need to get back to Lolita and the 4 other books I'm in ( Read more... )

This month is just going by too fast. Slow down!!!
I still want to finish 4 books before the month ends. I am over half way through with Lolita.. which is a difficult read, because of all the French phrases he throws in there, that I then need to google translate. Also the plethora of words I have never even heard in the English language because ( Read more... )

Geeze I am so over indulgent at the library.  Every single time I go there I tell myself I will ONLY pick up the books I have placed on hold.  I seriously need to get to reading my own books because I would like to start to give away all the books I have read, to be able to slowly clear up my various book shelves.  I have at least 100 books of my ( Read more... )

It has been so cold here!!! My grass is frozen stiff by 5pm!  Granted, it thaws out the next day by 10 or so for a few hours.. but still, damn it is cold. I am so glad I have a garage and don't have to scrape my windshield every morning!  The house is not well insulated and we cannot afford to fix that yet.  Good thing I got the new windows earlier ( Read more... )

Ok first of all, this book is flippin awesome. I really only like to read memoir through audio, so I got the audible of Jewel's new book, and have just been blown away throughout by the life this woman has led.  What an insane journey she had!  Also her mom is a big bag of steaming shit and I hope she has had a miserable hard life, since Jewel cut ( Read more... )