I had to work today. I don't normally work on Fridays but the boss lady took the day off and I needed the money so I stepped up. It was sooooooo.slooooooow. Excruciatingly slow. The type of slow that people make up metaphors with. I rented my only vacant apartment in the morning and then spent 2+ hours without any human contact. Slow. Slow, slow, slow.

Yeah, I got a lot of reading done. That's always a good thing. And then I realize that I've read a ridiculous amount of books already this year and it's almost starting to embarrass me. Almost.

So. Books. Because I had a lot of time on my hands today.
Book #251 - Friendly Fire by Megan Hart - Sexy. Very, very sexy. I liked it.
Book #252 - Unlocked (Turner #1.5) by Courtney Milan - And this one made me cry. Lovely, sweet and sad. Not in that order.
Book #253 - The Seven Year Witch (That Old Black Magic #2) by Jodi Redford - Loved this one. Loved it. Fast paced, dark, gorgeous worldbuilding and characters that made me swoon. Oh, and it was hot, hot, hot.

I'm going to go spend time with the beastling. We're back to watching Firefly. Excellent.
Later.

The kids and I took the dogs to the dog park this morning. Bailey rolled around in every patch of mud and dirt she could find. She was adorably filthy by the time we left. Needless to say, both dogs got a bath today. Heck, I practically needed a bath by the time we were done bathing them.

In totally random news, malkovich03 had to make an emergency trip out of state and I miss her. I have a book signing I'm going to tomorrow and we would have gone to dinner to catch up on life and various other things (things which mostly involve me inserting the words "cock" and "screaming orgasms" into the conversation while trying to keep my voice down so the patrons at the next table don't hear about sleep orgasms. No fooling. Hey, researching for writing sex scenes is a dirty job and I'm happy to do it!) before the signing but now I'm just going to go, get my book and find a coffee shop to read at until I can read at the bookstore.

Thus far, I've watched all of disc 1 of Firefly with Hailey. Episodes: Serenity parts 1 & 2, The Train Job and Bushwhacked. Hailey still isn't convinced that it's as good as The Walking Dead but I told her she had to give it a chance before making such a sweeping declaration.

And now onto the books...
Book #234 - Shameless (The House of Rohan #4) by Anne Stuart - I really, kinda, pretty much loved this book. Historical shenanigans, FTW!
Book #235 - Solid (Solid #1) by Shelley Workinger - A well-written, nicely fleshed-out young adult novel. It has a mad scientist in it. Well, a mad scientist conducts experiments in the prologue and then the kids he experimented on have to deal with the fallout, so he's not actually in it in it, but... oh, nevermind.
Felicity Heaton's great e-book summer savings - Felicity's offering her newest paranormal vampire romance for $0.99 through July 1st. As an aside, I've read quite a few of her books. And I've liked them all.

Okay. I'm done.
Later.

I had a very Harry Potter day. And let me just say that HP7 was very, very good although there were a few points where I wondered when it was going to end. That's one long movie. It didn't help that Hailey was getting antsy and kept asking me how much longer it was. Or as she put it "how many more hours is this going to be on, Auntie?" Cute kiddo.

Anyway. jenah and kimbrchick journeyed to good old Morgan Hill for the viewing. We had breakfast before hand and then hit the theater. I ate a lot of popcorn. It was good.

Afterward we watched Serenity. Good movie watching day, if I do say so myself.

Book stuff:
Book Blogger Hop & Follow Friday - Pretty covers. Lots of pretty covers. yum.
30 days of books... Day 74 - Matchmaking faeries. Love it!

I'm reading a book right now that's only available online for a few more days. Basically I feel like I have to haul ass to gt it read so that I don't lose this window of opportunity.

Right. I'm done now.
Later.

I'm finally catching up on the episodes of Dollhouse that aired in December. I'm having some issues with Summer Glau's character. She seems very River to me. Maybe that's just because I've been watching Firefly. Still, some of her stream of consciousness talking is straight out River. River, River, River. Non-linear River-speak.

I'm thinking that I need to lay off the FF fanfic for a bit.

You know when you're not working and you start to forget what day it is? It used to happen to me all the time when I'd go on vacation. Anyway. I've been so clueless lately that it's almost laughable. At the same time it's not because I seriously wake up in the morning with no clue what day it is or even if I need to get the kids ready for school. That's bad. However, I think it would help somewhat if I picked up a 2010 calendar. This 2009 one isn't helping with my cluelessness. Maybe I should just take down the 2009 one so that I don't keep looking a it. But where would the fun be in that?

Okay. Back to the last few eps of Dollhouse.

OMG! I was having the weirdest dreams last night. I can't remember them at all at this point but I do remember waking up and thinking Hahahahaha! Wow!

I'm in a much better mood than I was yesterday. I have no idea what that was but it was banished by watching the first 2 Final Destination movies. I think I'll review those. They're just so damn fun.

By the by, I think part of yesterday's bitchiness was caused by staying up way too late and getting up way too early. 4 hours of sleep is enough for a normal person, isn't it? I think I need to lay off the fanfic late at night. It sucks me in and makes me lose track of time. Damn those fantastic writers out there! I'm currently alternating between Firefly and Terminator Salvation (Blair and Marcus all the way, babies!) fic. There's not a ton of TS out there (and even less that's well written and in character) but the FF more than makes up for that lack.

I don't think I'm going to get out of my pjs today. Nope. It just feels like the right thing to do. How can I argue with such a feeling? I can't.

I was thinking last night (between bouts of fanfic reading) about this time last year and ( I was a mess, wasn't I? )

Heather wants to go grocery shopping.
I'm out.

OMG! I have so much to talk about. It's like the proverbial floodgate has opened and all this STUFF is about to spill out. I hope I can remember it all.

Part the first: Is anyone else having problems with the LJ comments alerts? All of a sudden I'm not receiving them. It's annoying me because that's how I respond back. Now I actually have to be on top of things and check???? Terrible.

Numero two: We had a little 15 minute cloudburst last night around 6 or so. Then we had freezing weather overnight. I woke up this morning to a glittery, frost rimmed wonderland. It's very, very pretty to look at. And then I almost slipped down the stairs taking the dogs out and it wasn't quite so pretty anymore. Anyway. I called my sister and told her to park in the garage when she brought Hailey over because I could just see her slipping on the stairs and ruining her knee even more than it already is.

Number 3: I dreamed again last night. Something weird about having to solve puzzles to advance to the next level. Not puzzle puzzles. Like, video game puzzles. You know that there's way past the obstacle, you just have to find it. Mine involved a series of sinks, one of which didn't have a way to turn the water on. I had to figure out how to get the water running to open a series of doors and move on. For the record, I did figure it out. It was cool.

The fourth: I watched Pathfinder last night. Umm ... I like that movie. I've seen it several times. I still can't figure out what's going on in it. Sure, it's very pretty to look at and Karl Urban is fab but... what killed the Vikings in the beginning of the movie? I was cool with the rest of it, I just couldn't figure out what had killed the Vikings and left young Karl Urban alive. Whatever. I'll watch it again. It's just that pretty.

5: Amazon has all 5 seasons of Lost on Blu-Ray for $108. Normally a season costs close to $50. That would be like buying 2 and getting 3 free. On Blu-Ray. I might break down and buy this one. I was good with Firefly, but this one might drag me in. Dammit.

Six: I have a munchkin home today. Cole woke up with a bad tummy. He's watching cartoons at the moment. :/

I don't think that's everything I wanted to talk about, but it's a good start. You might end up hearing from me over and over and over again today. Or you might not.
Later!

Okay. This movie looks pretty cool. I used to not be real keen on Nic Cage but then he had to go and make the National Treasure movies and now he and I have a cordial relationship. Anyway. That trailer kinda makes me want to go to an actual theater. I can honestly say that doesn't happen very often anymore. I'm sure this urge will pass by March, so I don't have to worry too much about it. Yet ... apocalyptic movies! Yay!

Which reminds me, I have an urge to see The Day the Earth Stood Still. The Keanu years! Seriously. It looks pretty. All deadly and swirly and black fog eating stuff. Awesome.

I also keep getting this dark urge to watch random episodes of Firefly. I think I'm going to give into it.

Later!

neversince makes me play meme games ..

( She asked, I answered )

There you have it. I'm not doing the part where you comment and I give you things to tell me about. Because I'm feeling incredibly lazy right now.

oddmonster's on vacation and she's going to surpass my book number any moment now. dammit. I think that means that I need to take a vacation. Right now.

Or not.

I must go read.
later.

The lovely neversince asked me about these 7 icons when I commented on her meme. I'm too damn lazy to ask others to do it, so here are my answers with out any of the other stuff ...

( look here! )

Okay. My computer is nominally working. I really hope this decides to post. Also, Cole has finished with his temper tantrum. I'm glad. It was making me tired.

I am in the worst mood right now. For no reason. I can't decide on a movie/tv show to watch. I've put in a couple of dvds and nothing is catching my fancy. I have Firefly on at the moment and it's working but it's not like "oooh! I must watch!". I hate that. I want to curl up into a little ball under my covers and just lose myself in my show ... but it's not happening. That sucks.

Okay. I'm going to go work myself out of my funk.