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27th September, 2008. 11:43 am. Anathem

A book I am anxious to read:


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22nd September, 2008. 7:10 pm. Heroes!!!

I've been waiting for this day for ages and it's finally here. Heroes is on! Season premiere. One of these days I've got to check out the alternate ending in the dvd set of the second season.

Current mood: excited.

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14th September, 2008. 9:35 am. Yay for me!

I won an ebay auction for Alice Starmore's Fisherman Sweaters! I can hardly wait to see it. I absolutely love her designs, but I've never knit one. Are they difficult?

Current mood: excited.

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14th September, 2008. 9:28 am. I'm awake!

I had to work yesterday (sixth day in a row!) and enjoyed a really lazy evening. Laundry needs to be done and the floors need attention, but what do I do? I sit down and watch Primeval. LOVE that show! The twist in last night's episode was great. They went to a future and found that they had already been there and then when they got back, one of them was missing entirely and no one knew them! I won't tell you who in case you haven't seen it, but this show is very worth watching. I love BBCAmerica. Great channel.

I picked up my library book and need to check the date to have it read by for the group. I need to get started on ELANTRIS, too. I'm really looking forward to that. Maybe in between cleaning I'll take some me time. I want to work on my shawl a bit, too.

With all the rain, I don't imagine we'll be outside much. Or maybe we will. The sun is shining. Hurricane Ike is gone. We didn't get much here beyond rain and some wind and the rain was welcome. My son, Jake, was down by the coast, though. I haven't heard from him yet, so I'm crossing my fingers that he's okay. Surely I would have heard if he wasn't.

Current mood: hopeful.

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11th September, 2008. 8:30 am. Where have I been?

In an effort to make an appearance here, ta-da!

I've been getting more hours in at work lately, which is wonderful. Maybe not full time, but there's a lot to do at home so I guess I won't complain. I'm not at Walmart any more, just at Hastings, which is where I want to be anyway. I'm supposed to be permanent receiving room personnel, but they can't find anyone to work daytime in books, so I'm both receiving and books at the moment. Ah, the conflicts. I did the majority of the stocking when just in books and now the powers that be have decided that not only should the receiving room do the receiving, the inventory, the prep work for rentals and sale alike, but they should also do all the stocking for the entire store. Harlan is always amazed at how that place is run. Sometimes it makes sense. Books needs to concentrate on cleaning and selling, but stocking is a part of that. If you stock, you know what's come in and where it is, for the most part. So, on the days I work in books, I play with the endcaps and refill the displays and do as much stocking as I'm able. The girls in receiving have enough to do.

I just need to graft the toe on the second ankle sock. Pictures to follow. I got some yarn at Knitpicks in their new Imagination line and was curious if I could get a pair of socks out of one skein. Barely. It's a good thing my feet aren't any larger! But I will manage a pair of ankle socks out of it. The colorway is Lost Boys..blues and greens and browns, named for the Lost Boys in Peter Pan, I think. I have another skein of that type called Looking Glass which has some beautiful blues!

I'm a member of the Three Irish Girls Sock Yarnista club and just got to pick October's! There was a choice between Lewis and Tolkien. Of course I chose Tolkien. Check out their site at http://www.threeirishgirls.com and see what you find. Awesomeness!

Socks were my project for 2008 and as the year winds down, I'm thinking about 2009 and what I should do there. Cardigans? Fair Isle? I've never really tried my hand at Fair Isle and recently got myself an Alice Starmore book called Celtic Collection. OMG!! The gorgeousness! Course, many of the patterns involve steeking! Ack! I've never done that, either. Scary stuff! I don't know if I'll try that right away. I think I'll work on fair isle first.

On the reading front, I've got ELANTRIS by Brandon Sanderson coming up for Fantasy Favorites' book this month. Woo hoo! I've been wanting to read this one for a while. I'm curious to see what he does with the Wheel of Time series and I have MISTBORN waiting here for me as well.

The Stand is finally out in comic form..or at least the first issue. It looks awesome!!

Current mood: sleepy.

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23rd August, 2008. 11:20 am. It's been ages!

I really should make more of an effort to update this more often. I always think I'm going to and then I never seem to get around to it.

I've been reading, although not as much as I'd like. Now that I'm back to one job, I thought I'd find more time, but it's always tricky. I've read WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen and I can highly recommend it. It goes back and forth in a man's life and tells of his days in a circus and his days in a home. What a fascinating life!

I've got THE LACE READER by Brunonia Barry coming up shortly and I'm looking forward to it. If you want to check out the website, it's http://www.lacereader.com . Pretty graphics and it tells a lot about the book. We got it in at work, too, so I put it on the book club endcaps. I think it'll make a good addition. Being a knitter and loving lace, it just seems to me that I would have heard about reading lace before. You learn something new every day, don't you?

Speaking of knitting, I've been busy with goddessknits' anniversary shawl and I've got most of it done. I meant to have it done by midmonth, but I didn't find the time, so I'm still working on it.

Here's a picture of the beginning. I need to get updated when I finish it.


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23rd August, 2008. 11:19 am. Odd results?

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5th July, 2008. 7:55 am. The new classics

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076_20207387_20207349,00.html

How many of these have you read? I've heard of a reading challenge going on based on this list. I wouldn't mind joining that, but I just don't have the time right now. Still, a lot of these I've read and a lot I've been meaning to read.

1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
4. The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
7. Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
16. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)
17. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
18. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)
19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
20. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)
21. On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
30. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)
31. The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990)
32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)
33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
34. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)
35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
37. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)
38. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1998)
39. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
40. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
41. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)
43. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)
44. Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
45. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1988)
46. Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
47. World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
49. Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
50. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money, Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
65. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)
74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)
77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
82. Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
83. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)
84. Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
85. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
93. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)
96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)
97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
98. The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)
99. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)

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5th July, 2008. 7:51 am. time

I've taken on a second job for myself at Walmart. My first job is still there, but they've cut the hours so badly that probably fifty percent of the people who work there are taking on/have taken on a second job. Walmart gives me 32 hours a week. They consider that part time. At Hastings, that's full time. No one there gets 40 hours unless you are salaried management. I get my first check next week! I hope I can keep from bouncing too many bills until then.

Where is this economy going?

Current mood: stressed.

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5th July, 2008. 7:48 am. hmmmmm

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