I’m still here just barely hanging on

Hey guys.  I’m still around although I am going through some pretty big personal drama (will Bookie be single again?), and I’m also taking 2 online courses, History of WWII and Early American Lit.  Both classes consist of 15 lessons and each lesson requires at least 2 essays, so I am FUCKED.  Well, not really, just busy.  I’m enjoying the diversion actually.  I can’t believe my brain still works in an academic way I was sure my brain had passed out of me right along with Jackson’s placenta.  Anyways, I did manage to read The Kite Runner the other day.  Depressing as shit, but good.  Well, I’ll be around to your places sometimes soon to say hello.  Fix me a drink will ya??!!

I Need A Quickie!

I can’t decide what I want to read next, but I think I may be leaning towards some chick lit.  It’s Spring and I’m really sick of being all depressing and boring.  I think I might need some shameless flirting, and casual sex to cheer me up.  The book I’m eyeing is Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews.  She’s really quite funny and I’m a sucker for her Southern accent.  Yea….I think today night be a “order pizza and read chick lit on the sofa all day” kind of Saturday.  Screw the laundry, I think laundry is kind of like Gremlins, it just grows, multiplies and becomes more dreadful looking every time it touches water.

Major Major SLACKER

That’s me.

I’ve been reading but not blogging. So far I owe blogs on Eat Pray Love, The Stone Diaries, Season of the Snake, and now The Sisters, an ARC from B&N. I thought they were all very good and would recommend them btw, but will I ever get around to writing about them? Who knows…I mean, the sun is in Pisces people and that always has such a crappy effect on sunny bright Leo folk such as myself.

As of right now all I have to say is if I were to write a book like Eat, Pray, Love I would have to call it Starve, Pray, Divorce.

Good day.

I’m Spreading the Mono!

 

“So, the point (and I do have one) to this post is motivated by my desire to hand some of that love and kindness back around to those who have been so very, very, very good to me in this bloggy world. My hope is that those who receive this award will pass it on to those who have been very, very, very good to them as well. It’s a big kiss, of the chaste platonic kind, from me to you with the underlying ‘thanks’ message implied. I really do appreciate your support and your friendship and yes, your comments. … Mwah!”  - by the originator of the smoochie mwah blog post thingy.  I don’t know who it is.  I got this from A Readers Journal.

LK - The Literate Kitten.  LK is a smart, funny, and kind woman, very good writer as well.  She always stops by with a kind word, even on her worst days.  *smoochy poochy coochie coo* for LK.

Trifecta Mwahs’s for Stephanie, Heather, and Iliana who welcomed me into the book blogging world with open arms, and have helped me along the way.  For my book blogging big sisters - *SMACK*

Big *sloppy wet kiss* for Literary Gas.  Please come back, seriously, I miss you.  I know I’m really needy, but I promise to be good.  please.

For Nonanon - the Parker Posey of the book blogging world, for making me scoff and laugh all in the same breath -  *Mwah*  “don’t stop believin’, up and down the boulevard”.

Reading Matters.  Stop reading in your sleep.  Seriously, you make us all look bad.  *SMOOCH*

A Life in Books.  One day we shall be friends.  I have convinced my family on the basis that your blog is way better and more intellectual than mine, that you are not psycho and therefore safe to meet in real life.  Looking forward to it. *High Five*

 

OK, Tag you’re it, pass on the lurve……….germs included.

7 Things I Approve of

I got this meme from Cam, who got it from Charlotte, who got it from Hover Frog. Cam provided some lovely quotes to go along with his choices, be sure to check it out. Here are my seven things.

1. Reading in the bath-tub in the middle of the day. Actually, I approve of doing this at any time of the day but there is something so decadent about just dropping everything, chores, agendas, whatever, and surrendering to a hot steaming bubble bath and a meaty paperback.

2. Conversing with God. I talk to God all the time. Mostly when I need comfort, or strength, or when I am walking around the lake and I feel like its a good time to check in and say hello.

3. Relishing in the joy of my children. The type of happiness that you get from your children is called joy. Pure joy, unfiltered. A poem ala Bookie.

Pockets of Joy

The garbage disposal is making a shrill sound when I turn it on.

I turn it off and investigate, a shard of glass has been caught, and has destroyed the gears.

The IRS sent a letter today, an error was made when filing your 2006 return, you owe $1023.63. Please submit as soon as possible, the letter asks coldly.

The fault between you and I keeps growing, I nurture it by sleeping on the couch and I lay there trying to remember what deep kisses used to feel like.

The weight of it all starts to pull and tug at my temples, and my spirit. Sleep does not come easily.

Then, morning comes.

I am awakened by tiny soft hands on each of my cheeks, hot sweet breath in my face. I smile knowingly. He smiles back, the blue of his eyes gleaming with the delight of a new day. “I love you mommy”, he says, unprompted. We stare at each other with grins the size of Texas, emitting the sweetness of a shared love.

These little pockets of joy, as I call them, exert their power on my spirit, and I feel my self folding into the joy, relishing in it, taking full pleasure in the love of my children.

Then my heart, which was just so heavy, is swollen with the power of my gratitude.

4. Expressions of Gratitude. See above. Appreciate what you have, appreciate your life, your family, your friends.

5. Vacation. Life is too short to work all of the time. Take a break, enjoy your life.

6. A fine brew at the end of the day. Nice crisp cold glass of beer at the end of the day. Priceless.

7. Random Acts of Kindness. I whole heartedly approve of this movement. Wanna pay it forward, this website will show you how.

Yes! Bloggers Rule!

Read Sarah Boxer’s piece on blogs and blogging in The New York Review of Books. I think her conclusion is that bloggers are like Superhero’s. OK - so maybe that’s not what she meant, but who cares, after reading this article, I kind of feel like one. BLOG POWER!

Also, on a sidebar, I could not start work today because my criminal background check has not come back from the FBI yet. lullzzzzzzzzz

Got a job!

I start tomorrow as a teachers asst. in a nearby school.  It’s not much money, but its income while I take a couple of courses I need and try to finish up on a couple of children’s books that I’m trying to write.

whew…

Far be it from me…

To resist a book challenge called The Pub.  Now you guys know I hate challenges BUT, with a name like The Pub, who am I kidding?  Check out Michelle’s Challenge rules below.

Want to read more books that are published in the current year? You’ve come to the right place! This challenge lasts all year. The rules are simple:

1. Read a minimum of 8 books published in 2008. (Library books are acceptable!)
2. No children’s/YA titles allowed, since we’re at the ‘pub.’
3. At least 4 titles must be fiction.
4. Crossovers with other challenges are allowed.
5. Titles may be changed at any time.

Sign up HERE using Mr. Linky.

So far, I have 2 books on my list:

Cleaning Up by Tania Glyde

and

People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks.

 

I better get a few free beers out of this…

This and That

*I’m purposely reading Carol Shield’s The Stone Diaries very slowly because it’s such a divine book I can’t bear for it to end. 

*Nancy Pearl has served up a new batch of under the radar books on NPR.  This is a great little feature, do check it out and go ahead and click on all her previous lists of under the radar books, you’ll be adding several to your TBR.  I added these, and I’m not done yet.

After by Jane Hirschfield - Poems.

Dingley Falls by Michael Malone

I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith

*Fans of Joanne Harris, might enjoy this podcast.

Oh…and I have a job interview in a few hours.  Wish me luck.

Twilight movie News!!!! Is this Edward Cullen?

Hmm.

…hmmmmmm?…HMMM.

Yeh sure, OK.  He’s pretty darn cute.  I can almost see the fangs.

Old news for rabid Twilight fans, but the book series is being made into a movie *shocker*, and Robert Pattison has been cast for the character of the most dreamy vampire ever, Edward Cullen.  Yeah, you heard me right, ef off Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.  Lestat who? Lestat what?

Also cast, is Kristen Stewart to play Bella, who is Edward’s love interest and the Cullen family’s pet human. *snort*

I think she’s totally perfect for Bella.  TOTALLY.

What do you guys think?  C’mon Twilight fans, I KNOW you have opinions on this, lets hear um.  Tell me what you think in the comments section…er, you know where it is.

For more news on the movie go here.

 

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