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>People

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November 12, 2008

>People are such creatures of habit. Like the man I saw giving directions to a blind man and he was pointing! I almost said ‘Dude, he can’t see you.’ Well, I hope he got where he was going. My throat is sore and Em just told me Fred might have strep. She says ‘Joy’ I say yuck.

I bought a new cane today. It is pretty, it has flowers, and is almost identical to my other cane. Since I climbed over that guard rail my knee has been hurting me. I got some cute pictures from H that I will post later. Now I should do some work.

I left work early, just couldn’t stay there with my ill feelings. My head was stuffed up and achy and my throat was sore and I have trouble breathing. I was going to buy some music by The Police, but I don’t know if I should. I have CD’s that I could sync to my MP3 player, except I don’t feel like it.–

Addio

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>Holiday

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November 11, 2008

>No work today so I turned my phone off when I went to bed. Fortunately I turned it on when I woke up this morning. Em called to let me know when she was ready to go shopping. So I got up, sewed the button on my coat, my new coat, they sewed the buttons on crappy so I had to secure it so it wouldn’t fall off.

We went to Woodbury Commons, to the Bose store, Em looked on the website and it looked like they sold I-Pods. Tigger had talked her into getting an I-Pod Nano. They didn’t. So she went to another store to get Fred new jeans. Those were the two things she was looking for.

After we left there, we went to New Jersey to get gas. I was going to post this picture so you could see how cheap the gas is where I am, but its not really where I am, this picture was taken in New Jersey. When Em saw the sign, she threw on the brakes, I never thought the van could stop that fast. But it did, and we got gas. That is another thing nice about New Jersey, it is illegal to pump your own gas, so we didn’t have to get out of the car.

Em got an I-Pod Nano, purple at Best Buy in Paramus. There is an Applebees in the same mall so we got lunch there. We were going to split this really decadent chocolate dessert there, but I couldn’t get the waiter’s attention and we decided to just leave.

After we got home we went to Allsport, this is the 3rd time in 4 days. I am just happy to be doing something, after at least 2 weeks of doing nothing. When I got home, Em went up to take a nap, I left to take Casino Royale back to the library and go to get something chocolaty and yummy! The rest of the evening I was watching TV and putting music on my new MP3 player. It is Em’s old one.

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

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November 2, 2008

>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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>Today

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October 30, 2008

>Got my flu shot, I went to CVS in Manhattan. Afterward, I was wandering around and was hungry, I walked by Delmonico Gourmet Food Market, so I had to go in and check it out. I got some Kimchee Raman and it was enough for at least two people, maybe three! I got it spicy and it was good, but messy, I ended up with spots on my top. Well, nothing a spin in the washer won’t cure.

I hate having such a short post, I also hate it when my laptop slides off my lap. My blankets are bunched up on my lap so that is why it keeps sliding toward my knees. I don’t think I told you I had a bad cramp in my leg last night, the muscle just knotted up and it hurt! Today it was hurting too. My tummy is still a little upset, I tried calling the Doctor for some migraine medicine, but they were at lunch and I was leaving to get my flu shot and it just didn’t work out. There are some other things I really should be doing but I just don’t have the energy right now. I did a load of whites, only because I wore my last clean pair of socks today. I have no idea what happened to all my socks, but I don’t have as many pairs as I used to.

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