This is an archive of my shorter book reviews and notes, which historically have been posted over at the 50 Book Challenge on LiveJournal, but which I’m starting to move over here. I’m posting them with altered date-stamps, but they might show up in my LiveJournal cross-post anyway. Bear with me, please.
Note: Many of these books also have full reviews available in the book review podcast (RSS).
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Yeah, I know… I don’t usually post these, but:
| Your Birthdate: August 17 |
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Your birth on the 17th day of the month suggests that you are very lucky financially, because this date indicates a solid business sense.
Although you are probably very honest and ethical, this birthday enables you to be shrewd and successful in the world of business and commercial enterprise. You have excellent organizational, managerial, and administrative capabilities enabling you to handle large projects and significant amounts of money with relative ease. You are ambitious and highly goal-oriented, although you may be better at starting projects than you are at finishing them. A sensitivity in your nature, often repressed below the surface of awareness, makes it hard to give or receive affection. |
Solid business sense, shrewd, successful in business and commerce, excellent organizational skills, and hard to give or receive affection. Oh, yeah. That’s me, right on the dot.
</sarcasm>
Sorry, babe. My cell phone battery died on Saturday and I didn’t get around to charging it until just today. Oops. 
I slept a bit late this morning because I knew I’d be staying late at work.
I woke up with a kink in my neck.
The scrapbook page title I have lettered four times now smudged this morning, over 10 hours after I finished it. I’ve determined that I cannot use that calligraphy pen for inking anything in the scrapbook.
I have cramps. REALLY FUCKING BAD. So bad that I was almost crying on the way to work this morning. I have taken drugs now, but they only help a little bit.
Leaving a half hour later than I normally do meant I hit the bad traffic everywhere, so I ended up taking Bear Creek Road, which is windy and awful and sucks in the rain. I don’t think I’ve ever driven it when it wasn’t raining, either. And I still got nasty traffic. It took over an hour and a half to get to work this morning.
The only good thing about my morning so far, aside from getting to shower with my lovely husband, was listening to Wizard and Glass in the car.
My favorite Idol got voted off and THE CREEP IS STILL THERE! Why? Does anyone else smell a fix? Fox has a lot of experience rigging the votes….
I want to go home and sleep and write.
My digital camera broke. Just in time, since I have a presentation next month on using a digital camera…. Growl.
Other good things that happened, though they were yesterday:
I got a lot of scrapbooking done last night (4 more pages), and journalled two pages as well. I think I’m ready for page protectors the final step, to protect the photos and such).
I didn’t gain weight this week, though my loss was minimal (.2 lb.). Still, not gaining was a victory in itself.
I didn’t uber-snack last night when I got home. I had a big lunch, enough points to carry me through the dinner hours, and had a hot chocolate while watching Idol.
I have a poker game tonight. I suspect I will lose all my money before the pizza even arrives. *sigh* [I am a really good fish....]
I want chocolate. That’s not really an up thing, but I want it.
In my life, I have owned three dogs, and been a part of two others’ lives.
Lady was the only dog who played “ball,” but she didn’t retrieve very well– she’d run off and grab whatever you threw, but she would not bring it back to be thrown again, and would instead run around with it, and then chew it, and play tug of war, but she would not bring it back, drop it, and wait for you to throw it again.
I’ve had four cats. Of these, none have been big “play” kitties, once out of kittenhood. Except for the Cat Dancer toy, which seems to be a hit with every cat everywhere.
Alladin fetches. I swear to god, he fetches. I throw a mousie, he runs and attacks it, then picks it up in his kitten-sharp mouth and brings it back, drops it next to my feet, so I can throw it again.
He does this with the mousies. With the “cat jacks” (they’re little plastic things that he likes to play with). With the feathery-wand toys (he likes to pick them up and carry them with the plastic wand pointing forward– I don’t know why).
Throw. Run-pounce-tackle. Bring back toy. Drop toy. Repeat as necessary.
On Monday night while I was upgrading to OSX 10.3, we played fetch during the upgrade. I think he was in kitten heaven– an HOUR of fetch.
I don’t think I’ve ever known a kitten who could stay attached to ANY activity for a whole hour.
Oh, and he now outweighs Allegro, who at last weigh-in was 12.5 lbs. His head hasn’t changed into the “adult cat” shape just yet– it’s still in that weird adolescent cat form, where it’s part kitten, part cat. But getting there.
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