Note: I have painted nails for the first time in YEARS which is making my typing slow and awkward.

Why do I have painted nails?  For the release party of Breaking Dawn, of course!  (Yes, I followed the cliche.  They're bright, bright red.)  I'm working my store's party deal.  Tina, one of my bestest work friends, is our Mistress of Ceremonies and I ( Read more... )

Blah.  I had to finally cave and take my lovely, well-used computer to the doctor.  I left him (for I've discovered it is a he-computer) in the hands of a strange man at the Best Buy Geek Squad people in Brandon.  His check-up was $63!!  To just see what's wrong!  I'm predicting a full-system restore will be needed, which will be another $150.  It' ( Read more... )

I keep having things I want to remember to write in here, but of course I always forget them.  I do remember one hazy thought along the lines of, "I know I'm getting old.  All these books in the history section are starting to sound interesting."  But other than that, it's pretty much gone.

I'm already looking forward to the Voyage to the South that ( Read more... )

So, you know how you can pick up a book, read the first two pages, and get totally, completely, irreversably hooked?  So that you can't stop reading and then when you get done with the first one you have to run for the second, even if it means cheating on your beloved Borders and buying from the icky Books-A-Million?  And how, at 2 am you say, "oh ( Read more... )

I just got back from work.  :-D  Borders is having an overnight to get all the crazy huge loads of Christmas stock out and I worked from 9 to 2.  The bulk of my time was spent completely rehauling the Nursing, Weight Loss, and Nutrition sections.  And I got free McDonalds!  It's kind of crazy that 8 people got meals for $35.  No wonder America's ( Read more... )

"Are you a book lover? A TV freak? A movie aficionado? Put your mind to the test, and list some of your favorite fictional characters - one for each letter of the alphabet."

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I just finished updating my book inventory.  Yes, I AM a manic insomniac at the moment.  The Consensus: I own around 424 books ( Read more... )