A first for March

[grinninfoole]

 Last week, I went to bed one night (Monday?), quite tired but a little wired, and decided to read a bit.  I picked up a book that Mom had recommended, and since her last two recs were Eragon and Twilight, I figured I'd get bored soon and fall asleep.  The book was The Hunger Games, and I was instead up until 6 am because I could not put it down.  There are apparently two more.  If you liked Battle Royale or the Running Man, or wished you did but would prefer something less completely bleak, this is the book for you.  (Don't worry, terrible things still happen to nice people.)

My parents are both now prone to falling, and my dad is forgetting M's name.  It's depressing.  I hope that my brother is bearing up under the load.  I hope he asks me for help when he needs it. I hope I can come through for him when he does.

I am adjusting to life in my own personal space, and I'm finding it's actually satisfying to have things all my own way, and I'm much better at keeping myself organized, and exercising every day.  (Oh, and I'm actually starting to get the hang of swinging a maul and splitting firewood.
) I'm still working on making a place for everything, so that everything can be in its place, but I'm actually working on it, and not just saying that I am.  The next big molehill to flatten before it becomes a mountain: installing a clothes bar in my new closet.  I'm not a handy person, really, but I think I can do this.  I have the pieces and tools.  I just need to do it. 

Resolution: do it tomorrow morning.  At least put in the brackets, and measure, so I know how long the bar needs to be.

And I finally got a big pile of gifts (some of which I have had for years) mailed off.  (Well, one remains, but I just need a current address and the silly little casual gift I got can be sent at last.  [eye roll])

Several of my friends are in dark places emotionally right now.  I hope each of you comes through it soon to happier days.  Please ask if I can help.

OK, now I have to go to my staff meeting.


EDIT: Mom insists that she never recommended Twilight to me, nor does she think it's all that great, she merely told me that she was enjoying it.  "I deserve my guilty pleasures, you know."

Eragon is still all on her, though. :)

Comments

[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

Oh god the Hunger Games. I got it out from the Jones on a friend's rec (had to wait too, there's a waiting list for those books three miles long) and I started it on the way home and yeah. Could. Not. Put. It. Down. I returned it the next day, that's how fast I blew through it.

Glad you liked. Hopefully the movie version won't completely screw it the hell up, lol.

Glad to see progress is being made on several fronts in your life. As Dory says, just keep swimming... you'll get there.

[rap541.livejournal.com]

It all sounds so manly...

But will you kill a deer for me? :)

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Yeah... it's been tough to stick with it, because nothing makes me reflexively reject something than being 'manly'.


Are you feeling OK? I totally would have expected you to have something to say about my bar being long enough.

And no. Too manly.

[rap541.livejournal.com]

I was just getting all hot from the idea of you manfully erecting a clothes bar :)

[fuschia.livejournal.com]

I also raced through Huger Games, unable to put it down. I just finished the second book and am about to start the first. I definitely think the story dipped in quality in book #2, but it's hard to keep up the momentum/pacing of the first one.