Nothing else matters ...

Holy smokes. Today was the biggest waste of a day I've had in a good long while. I slept in a bit this morning and didn't get up to walk the dogs until almost 8. That's really late for me. Really late. Then I had to get Cole ready for his jaunt to Carmel with his dad. He left here at 10. My mom and I ran some errands and suddenly it was after 1 and I'd done practically nothing. Of course that meant that I had to take a nap. So I did. Because I rock like that.

Now? I've had dinner and opened up Word and done pretty much nothing else.

Yikes.

Oh, except that I've watched up through episode 10 of Veronica Mars season 1. That's something. I guess. I'm also edging toward finishing the book I'm reading. That shouldn't surprise anybody though.

Randomly, I have this bizarro-world iTunes playlist going that I like to crank while I'm writing my kinky werewolf novelette. It's a bunch of bands that I've recently started listening to and the songs don't really go together or anything. But they're damn fun and they make me do the writing thing.

Tomorrow's Cole's birthday. He's going to be 11. It's so weird. I'm sure he was only turning 6 last year. Or maybe it was 10. Whatever. My mom asked me what I was doing 11 years ago today and I was all "I don't know. Sweating because we were in the middle of a heat wave. And I was probably uncomfortable and swollen and just wanted the kid out." I have no idea why she asked that today. I mean, it's not like I was in labor or anything. That happened in the middle of the night. 11 years ago tonight.

I'm still in denial that it's been that many years. Surely someone calculated incorrectly and he's only 6. Or 7. Maybe 8.

Anyway. I'm going to see if Cole wants to see The Last Airbender tomorrow. Mostly because I think it looks super cool. I loved the cartoon. Cole and I watched every episode and I'm curious as to how the movie will compare.

Now I'm done.
I think.

I popped season 1 of Veronica Mars in earlier just because. I forgot how much I loved the first season. Just. Wow. Wow. Wow. The pilot episode. The Logan/Veronica hatred that morphs into full on lustiness. Two thumbs up!

I also wrote a bit ...

The bulk of that was done before noon. Which is nice. However, then I did the whole VM thing and didn't get much writing done after. Whoops. Easily distracted, that's me!

I did a little reading ... can you guess who the author is?
Book #118 - Down and Dirty by Moira Rogers - Another series of short stories. Wild Card is set in a time after a great war has decimated the human population and most technology has been cast aside, the werewolves live in relative harmony with the humans. Alpha Jack Owens and independent rancher Ginny Howard clash constantly. He craves her, she doesn't want to join the pack. A night of steamy sex and a set of rogue wolves determined to push Ginny off her land, leaves Jack with no choice but to claim her. Fun, quick and a nice little journey into a wild west universe. Calling the Bluff puts Hazel, a female werewolf about to enter her first heat, up against Oliver, the lone wolf widower who doesn't quite understand why Hazel is interested in him. When they get caught out alone and she goes into full heat, Oliver vows to make sure she's taken care of. In more ways than one. I liked that the framework for this story was laid out in #1 and it played out well. Ante Up gives us the Pack Beta Thomas, solid, steady and dependable, and Lottie, proprietor of one of the local whore houses who's looking for passion. A stolen kiss shows Lottie that she might be dismissing him without giving him a chance. A fire, a missing girl and some hot loving round out this story. Sweet.

-and-

Book #119 - Some Like it Haunted (Mystic Valley/Carnal Powers #2) by Moira Rogers - This book really had no relation to the first Carnal Powers book which is a pity since I really liked those crazy supernaturals. However, it did have a hot, powerful medium and a saucy, intellectual, almost magically-nil professor who are investigating a haunted house. Not bad, by any means. I was just hoping to get more face time with Lars, Claire, Kiara and Adrian.

So, there. I hope to get a little more writing done tonight. If I can just get that darn Veronica Mars off my TV.
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.

Holy crap! I hadn't finished a single book thus far this month. That's terrible. Terrible! However ...
Book #30 - Morgawr (The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara Book 3) by Terry Brooks - As a general rule I've enjoyed all the books in the Shannara series. This one was no different. I probably should have gone back and read the first 2 in this particular series before jumping in with both feet (especially considering I read them more than a year ago ... more like 2 years ago), but I liked it. Even though it took me a bit before I remembered who was who. Shannara! Woot!

I spent a whole lot of quality time today with my mom and grandma. We went shopping at Costco and Trader Joe's and had a nice lunch at Eric's Deli. Nice. Speaking of Costco. I scored Supernatural season 2 for a mere $18.99. Sweet. I also picked up Veronica Mars season 3 (also for $18.99), I Am Legend (2 disc collector edition!) and The Abyss (love that movie!). All in all, a pretty good shopping day.

Of course, all that movie buying means that I had to rearrange my dvds. Honestly, I look for any excuse to do that. I also had 3 books that were hanging out without a permanent home and I did some minor rearranging of the new bookcase to get them where they needed to be. I'm obsessed with that bookcase.

I'm done now. I'm going to read my 31st book tonight. Just kidding. It'll take me a day or two. :)

Book #40 - Un Lun Dun by China Mieville - First off, China Mieville is a man not a woman, as I erroneously concluded from his name. Sorry, Mr. Mieville. In my head, China is a girl's name. Okay. This book is wonderful. It's very ... I'm not sure how to describe it. It has the weirdness of Alice in Wonderland but it's less fantastical without being less fantastical. Wait. That didn't make any sense. It's more modern. It's more fascinating. It's strange and wonderful. I'm kinda hoping that although the main plotline was tied up this world is revisited. I mean, it was left very open for a sequel and I'd definitely be first in line if one was written. You know what? The book's good. End of story. But not the end of the story. I hope. I mean ...

I'm just going to move along.

I vaguely remember a week or two ago announcing in a very snooty voice that I was all caught up on my TV watching. Yeah. I'm not anymore. Not by a long shot. I have episodes of Veronica Mars (3) which I'm not sure I'm going to be watching for a while. I'm ... I don't know what I am anymore in regards to VM. I have the season finale for Blood Ties. I have ... stuff. Lots of stuff.

And I think I'm proud of it.

Finally, I'm hot. Not sexy-hot, hot-hot. The house refuses to cool down. It's gross.

Cole wants to play on the computer. :)

PS - My sister is annoying me with all her phone-talking lately. Get off the phone!

Good golly. It's been a long week. And it's only Wednesday. *laments* I kinda sorta missed the last 5 minutes of Veronica Mars and I feel a little out of sorts because of it. I was dealing with a work issue and was a wee bit distracted. I'm also so tired right now it's funny. I guess it a good thing that I don't watch any shows live tonight. My brain stopped functioning while Cole was reading to me. Which is no reflection on his reading itself, but rather a statement about how tired I am. *nods*

Anyway. I may have to work six days this week. Suck.

This journal is all over the place. I'm also making a lot of stupid spelling errors. Funny.

Oh, and my iPod was acting up this morning. It froze up on me. How annoying. I couldn't listen to my music while driving to work. I had to listen to some morning show on the radio. Gag me.

I'm seriously tired.
Out.

I had to stay at work late. Yuck.

Today on my lunch, ebarnon and I went to the giant Best Buy at Santana Row. It was ... awesomely huge. Yes, I've been there before but it was lovely and so close to the new branch. Tee-hee. Eric also poured a bucket of cheese grease out of his bean burrito. Gross. Ha! I finally get to use my "bean burrito" tag again. I've been waiting for so long.

I watched the second episode of Heroes last night (I kinda/sorta/not really watched the first episode last week but ended up slightly lost due to the kinda/sorta/not watching) and thought it was very good. I'm downloading the first two eps so that I can get all caught up.

Somebody ask me what I ate for dinner! Okay! Bacon and avocado and ice cream. Not all at the same time. In fact, none were at the same time. That's what happens when I work late. Weird dinners.

Veronica Mars is on in a few. Yes, I did already watch the ep, but I'm excited to watch it on the big TV screen.
Toodles.

Some of these were made earlier in the week, I've just been very lazy about posting.

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>>King Kong caps by lavellebelle
>>Veronica Mars caps by marishna
>>MirrorMask caps by fitz_schiz
>>textures by inxsomniax
>>posted at Bay 12
>>Something wicked ...

Teasers:

( There are bones ... )

I had a nice day yesterday with jenahville. There was movie watching. I can't stop sneezing today.
I'm going to go play with Cole.

I haven't been online today. Wow. I think I logged on this morning (very, very briefly) and then wandered away to play pick-up-stix in my own little world. *shrug* One day away from the internet won't make my brain scream in denial and pain (because of the withdrawal, you know) so I'll ignore it and maybe it'll go away. What? It doesn't make sense? Yeah, it doesn't really make sense to me either.

I went to Best Buy* today. My credit card is quietly weeping in the corner because of the way I abused it. But I had things to buy. Cool things. Neat things. Things that make me smile. Too bad nothing I bought is for me.
*please note that I have finally broken down and added a 'best buy' tag.

I have a cool, new, animated (the first animated icon ever added to my user icons) Veronica Mars icon made by heather13. Mmmm ... pretty. Plus, Veronica and Logan sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Or, not kissing but cute arm punching. Whee!

I think I'll peruse my flist tomorrow. I'm feeling sassy tonight. Plus, I want to watch the second half of last night's The Triangle before I tape tonight's. Alternately, I'd like to watch Weevil and Logan beat the crap out of one another.

Oh, yeah. I woke up at 5:30 this morning. Like, ZING - I'm wide awake. It was weird.
Out.

Dammit! My plan to watch Veronica Mars has been foiled by my old DVD player (which I gave to my mom a while back because it pulls shit like this without warning!). It simply refuses to play certain discs. Without rhyme or reason.
DVD player - "Oh, I'll play disc 3 for you, Kel. But don't even think about putting in the 4th."
me (whining very unbecomingly) - "But I wanna watch disc 4!"
DVD player - "Life's tough. Suck it up. I'm in charge. No disc 4."
me - "Fucker."
DVD player - "You kiss your mother with that mouth?"
me - "No."
DVD player - "Good. And I'm still not playing that disc."
me - "This is why I got rid of you, you know! It's because you suck! You suck! I'm going to my room. That DVD player is good! It wasn't spawned in the fiery pits of HELL!"
DVD player - "Whatever."
me - "Arggggh!"
In conclusion, I'll be sequestered in my room for the rest of the day (until I have to pick up Cole from school) watching VM.

Take that, evil DVD player.