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>The crud abounds.

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November 9, 2008

>Almost everyone here is sick. Only myself, D, Em and Fred went to church today. When I got there (I took my own car), Em was sitting by herself. She whispered to me, “Fred got sick, D had to take him home.” I thought Fred already had this and got over it. Oh well. So I am hiding out in my room because I don’t want it either. Besides, I also have the new James Bond DVD to watch because it is due back tomorrow.

Em asked if I thought she should take some Aleve and lie down, or push herself and go work out. I suggested she should lie down, after all I want to go with her and I wanted to check out my blogs and check my e-mail etc and etc.

So now I am doing that, then I will work out, and then dye my hair, then I don’t know what, since I take my contacts out when I dye my hair, I am not going to want to go anywhere. Maybe then I will watch my movie.

I decided to take the list of types of books in the challenge and compare them to my list of TBR books. That will help me decide which books to read for the challenge.

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>Just when you thought it was safe,

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November 8, 2008

>Beer Chips!

I saw a post about these on another blog, the blogger is in Missouri, or Mississippi, so I googled ‘beer chips’ and found a website, you can see it by clicking on this link. There is a ‘chip locator’ on the website, so you can find out where to buy these chips in your area. I put in my home address zip code and my work zip code and there is a store in NYC that sells them! I don’t think I will buy them though, given the trouble I have with beer.

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>New Rochelle

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>I overslept this morning, I missed the Book Study. Em called and wants to go shopping at a mall in New Rochelle. She doesn’t know where it is. I don’t even know where New Rochelle is. I had better get dressed, I think she wanted to leave by now.

I am thinking about canceling my WW membership. I am not using anything but the message boards. I am giving it this month and if I don’t consistently use the online tracker I am canceling. I can still post on the message boards, I just won’t have access to the whole site.

We did not go to the place in New Rochelle. Em found out it didn’t have many stores, mainly restaurants. So we went to the Palisades. It was so crowded I had to drop her off and drive around looking for a parking space. So I parked in Home Depot, except there is not an entrance to the mall from Home Depot and not wanting to walk around on the road I walked up the hill over the grass to the parking lot and over the guard rail, well, other people were doing it with no problem you know? I guess if you are only 5 feet tall and like to wear tight jeans, you shouldn’t try to hop over a guard rail. Well, I wasn’t really hopping but I tried to just swing my leg over and not touch the guard rail cause it was wet. Well, I touched it all right! I have a bruised backside, it hurts to even sit on my bed. I should have sat on an ice pack when I got home.

I got a new jacket and Em got a new red sweater and some tinted moisturizer from Lancôme. The jacket is to replace my leather jacket. I got some leather lotion and it was either the wrong lotion or I put it on wrong but now the jacket looks worse than before I put the lotion on. This new jacket is navy blue and matches the NYPD hat I got in the City.

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>Internet problems

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November 7, 2008

>I keep trying to get on WW my posts but I can’t. I think it is a problem with the website because I can get to my G-mail account and I just read Sarah’s blog. So for now I can’t see if anyone else has posted a message to me. I have to get lunch soon. I don’t know if I will get a sandwich or salad. I am tired of salad, it is too hot in here for soup. Maybe some Mac-n-cheese. Well gotta run.

I ended up getting a City Light, it is avocado, mozzarella cheese, tomato and olive oil. I don’t know if it is actually ‘light’ or not, but I kind of like it.

Em picked me up. She went to Mr. Mc retirement party. Someone where she works is causing a lot of trouble and bad times for her. Makes me mad.

When I got home, there was a package for me. I was surprised, it was the book from LibraryThing. The last book took so long to get here and this one so soon! I just finished Dewey so it is good timing.

This is from LibraryThing:

On a gray September day, on an island off the coast of Sweden, six -year -old Jens Davidsson ventured out of his backyard, walked out into a fog, and vanished…. Now twenty years have passed, and in this magnificent debut novel of suspense—a runaway bestseller in Sweden—the boy’s mother returns to the place where her son disappeared, drawn by a chilling package sent in the mail… In it, lovingly wrapped, is one of Jens’ sandals—sandals Julia Davidsson put on her son’s feet that very last morning. …

Now, with only a handful of clues, Julia and her father are questioning islanders who were present the day Jens vanished—and making a shocking connection to Öland’s most notorious murder case: the killing spree of a wealthy young man who fled the island and died years before Jens was even born. Suddenly the island that once seemed so achingly familiar turns strange and dangerous… Until Julia finds herself facing truths she never imagined—about what really happened on that September day twenty years ago, about who may have crossed paths with little Jens in the fog, and how a child could truly vanish without a trace…until now.

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>And the winner is . . .

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November 6, 2008

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I know this is a little late, my excuses are: (1) its my first giveaway, (2) I went to Lake Placid that week, (3) I got a migraine in Lake Placid, or I was hungover for a week. Since I only had 3 beers, I am going with the migraine.

This is the giveaway of Hell Bent by William G. Tapply. I was actually reminded of this, I mean I never really forgot, maybe I should say I was spurred to action by the fact that I am getting another book.

Anyway, there is a service to random pick winners, but since I only got two entries, I just flipped a coin and the winner is . . . Carol!

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>EarlyReviewer

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>I just checked my Library Thing account and I am getting another book to review. Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin, it’s about a child that goes missing and sounds spooky, creepy good.

From Publishers Weekly

Set predominantly on the Baltic island of Öland, Theorin’s deeply disturbing debut will remind many of Henning Mankell both in its thematic intensity and dark tone. Two decades after the unsolved disappearance of a young boy, Jens Davidsson, who vanished one foggy autumn afternoon in 1972 and was presumed to have drowned, Jens’s grandfather, Gerlof, a retired sea captain, receives one of Jens’s sandals in the mail. Gerlof enlists his alcoholic daughter, Julia, who’s still struggling to come to grips with the loss of her only child, to help solve the mystery. All leads point to infamous thug Nils Kant, who was rumored to have killed numerous people. But Kant allegedly died years before the fateful day that Jens disappeared, so who could’ve killed the boy? And why? Further investigation leads the unlikely sleuths to some startling revelations about their isolated island community and its much-storied history.

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>Train delays

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November 5, 2008

>After missing all day Monday and yesterday coming in at noon, I was happy to catch my regular train. Now I am sitting on the train looking at the River (I don’t know which one) and the bridge over it and a green sign that I can’t read. The problem? A red light! We have been sitting here for over 30 minutes I hope we get moving soon. I have to go to the potty.

Looking at the map, I figured out I was looking at the Harlem River and I think the bridge I saw was the George Washington. We had this training, meeting, video conference because of the budget cuts. As long as my position doesn’t get cut, I don’t really care. Anyway, part was O.K. and part was so boring!

More train problems coming home. Not mine, the train before mine, we stopped in Cold Spring to pick up passengers from that train, one said the train just died.

So now I am getting ready to go to bed. Nothing else to do.

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>Argh!

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November 4, 2008

>Missed another day. Yesterday I had a doctor’s appointment. I wanted to get new medicine for my migraine headaches. They have come back. I don’t know what is triggering them. Anyway, I was running around all day yesterday. Took Stitch to school and Gwen and I went to see WALL·E at the $2 theater. I hadn’t seen it and she didn’t mind seeing it again. It was cute, I need to record it on my list before I forget. I can’t find the receipt so I have to do it tonight. Then took Gwen to class, went to get Stitch, but he wasn’t at school, he was at a friend, one of his classes got canceled. I told him he was taking a chance thinking I could remember how to get there. Anyway, I found it. Then got Gwen and home. I feel like I was in my car all day.

This morning I went for blood work. Dr. Nejad also wants me to have an MRI. Not looking forward to that. I have a bruise on my arm where the technician took the blood. I got a headache, I don’t know if it was exactly a migraine, but it wasn’t going away so I took one of the tablets Dr. Nejad gave me and “WOW”, that is strong stuff. So I should sleep good tonight because no headache.

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>Last night

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November 2, 2008

>Anyway, I didn’t tell you that this morning when I came upstairs Em told that Fred had been throwing up. I didn’t quite grasp it then but evidently it was all night he was throwing up. Anyway, Tigger is now in competition for Best Big Brother award because he got up with Fred every time, and D got up ‘once’. Em says, “That’s what fathers are for.” Someone else I know would say something about the flat spot on his cranium just fitting a frying pan!

Tonight he seems to be feeling better. I am sure he will be staying home tomorrow. As I will be since I have a doctor’s appointment. Want to get something for these migraines I have been having.

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>What’s In A Name 2 Challenge 1 Jan – 31 Dec 2009

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>I read about this challenge and decided to do it. Thanks to Vickie for the link.

ARHHH!! There be a new challenge for 2009!! I really enjoyed this one this year and look forward to doing it again in the new year.

Hop on over to What’s in a Name 2 and sign up!

ROE:

*This is a challenge that anyone can join, no matter what types of books they like to read. You should be able to find books from any genre that will work.

*Dates: January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009

*The Challenge: Choose one book from each of the following categories:

1. A book with a “profession” in its title. Examples might include: The Book Thief, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Historian

2. A book with a “time of day” in its title. Examples might include: Twilight, Four Past Midnight, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

3. A book with a “relative” in its title. Examples might include: Eight Cousins, My Father’s Dragon, The Daughter of Time

4. A book with a “body part” in its title. Examples might include: The Bluest Eye, Bag of Bones, The Heart of Darkness

5. A book with a “building” in its title. Examples might include: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Little House on the Prairie, The Looming Tower

6. A book with a “medical condition” in its title. Examples might include: Insomnia, Coma, The Plague
My choices:
1. Profession – The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
2. Time of Day – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
3. Relative – The Rapist’s Wife by Kathryn Casey
4. Body Part – Cold Eyes by Romina Wilcos
5. Building – The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
6. Medical condition – Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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