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Well. I must go friends only. I hate to do it. I really do because I often send others here to my journal to look at pictures or book reviews. But after one of my LJ friends was anonymously called an idiot, when the person is not I feel obligated to go friends only.

While doing this, I guess I'll have to make a cut. I don't make big cuts, but there are a few who've defriended me or if you're lj name doesn't ring a bell, well maybe it's time for us to part ways.

This sucks so bad....

If you'd like to be added please let me know why and who you are  by commenting on this entry! Thanks!

It seems, from the book, that this list was made after the New York Times Book Review editor asked about 200 editors, writers, critics and other members of the literature world what the single best American novel published in the last 25 years was. So, I guess a bunch of people didn’t want to play, and it came down to about 125 votes. So here's the list they came up with, the top five in order of votes received and then 5 others in no order that received multiple votes.
(Please remember, this is from The Book of Books by Les Krantz and Tim Knight)

1. Beloved by Toni Morrison, 1987
2. Underworld by Don DeLillo, 1997
3. Blood meridian by Cormac McCarthy, 1985
4. Rabbit Angsrom: The Four Novels by John Updike, 1995
5. American Pastoral by Phillip Roth, 1997
6. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 1980
7. Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson, 1980
8. Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin, 1983
9. White Noise by Don DiLillo, 1985
10. The Counterlife by Phillip Roth, 1986

So there you have it. I hope you enjoy this list, and if you've read any I'd love to hear about it!

Well, I have to work today, so I won't be on after about twenty minutes. The new girl starts today, fingers and toes crossed every one.

After another LJ friend did it I'm shamelessly copying her and posting this:

You may ask me one question, and one question only. Anything you could ever possibly want to know from me. All questions and answers will be screened.

Have fun.

I've decided to put down The King's Nun by Catherine Monroe. It could be a good book, but I just don't have the time to waste on a book that doesn't call to me. ::frowns:: I'm 50 pages in and I'm not thinking about the book at all. Actually I'm thinking about other books I'd rather be reading. So, I'm going to cut my loses (I bought it new) and put it up on PBS tonight.

 I think I'll either start Kissing Coffins or Twilight tonight before I go to sleep.

I went for my bike ride tonight. I wasn't feeling well this morning (I think I ate some eggs that were teetering on the edge of bad) so I decided to wait until near sundown to go. It was nice. I still had to stop twice to rest. The first time was because the stupid seat hurts my...tush...so bad, I just had to stand for a second or two. And then I had to stop just a little bit after that because I was just getting too winded. But, it wasn't until the last stretch that I had to stop, and other than the tush thing I don't think I would have had to stop at all but it's Illinois and there was a rough breeze against me I swear to the gods no matter which direction I was heading!! Not helpful!

! made two huge pots of soup, Vegetable and Chicken Rice. I put them in like 7 containers and popped them into the freezer. There's 7 days worth of food. ::smiles:: I know, it's not the healthiest way to lose weight, but I'm going to try it for a while (couple weeks) along with the bike riding to see if I start at least to lose weight and gain some energy. If I start to feel at all sickly, I'll change my diet around, I promise.

Stockard Channing is on Craig Ferguson tonight. I'm very excited. I'm a HUGE The West Wing fan, so of course I love me some Stockard. ::grins::

I received an awesome little book in the mail today titled The Book of Books by Les Krantz and Tim Knight. Well, it's 200 pages of lists of books. So every couple of days or so, for discussion and informations sake, I'm going to post a list from the book. Today would be post number one. Under a cut, for your beautimous friends page.

Uh. Wow. I forgot I was doing this...in April.
If it weren't for library_of_sex I probably wouldn't have remembered. But I did. So here I am.

Random 6

After over two years I'm still obsessed with my boyfriend. I know that it's suppose to wear off or whatever, but nope. I still get all giddy when I see him. When he comes to see me at work I've been known to actually skip. Yep. Skip. It's sad really. I'm a grown woman now. This part should end. LOL.

I don't know if it's cause I'm sleepy or if it's really funny but this one is cracking me up!


more cat pictures

After sitting her for like...I dunno ten minutes laughing outloud I had to share...a few. Or more.
heh
Under cut for your friend page comfort.



( It's funny under here! )

That's enough for now. I could have put up ten more I'm sure.
Speaking of kitteh's. My Jerry has not been at my head for the last hour and I'm a bit worried.
::sigh:: Must find my Jerry.

Do any of my nifty graphic making LJ friends want to make a header for reviewsalone? I need it to have heh, books and to have creams and blues for coloring. If you want to just comment and let me know. If not I'll go to a community and ask.

Thanks!!

I woke up this morning when Todd did for work. I had to pee. Stupid bodily functions. When I got up I decided I'd just stay up. There will be a nap later mostly because I have to work tonight and Midnight is very late if you woke up at 4:45 a.m.

I went on a bike ride this morning after Todd left. I think I rode roughly a mile, though I'm not sure. I had to stop twice. The first time because I started out pushing too hard and tired out. The second time because...well because it's not as easy as it was when I was 10! I can feel myself getting old and it's...well..it's getting old.

I wen to the station with Eleanor to drop off some books for the Boss Lady. She's read them all already, but she's going to re-read them to her husband.
For those who care to know according to the Boss Lady the movie Gone, Baby, Gone is not near as good as the book. Denis Lehane wrote it if you're interested.

I have a book to mail out today, and am mailing out a card and also a present for duckiebills. Maybe I'll nap for a bit after the post office trip (trip, hah! It's two doors down LOL)

I started The King's Nun by Catherine Monroe yesterday at work. The first 20 or so pages moved quite slowly, but it seems to be picking up now. I don't know if I'll read Kissing Coffins or Twilight next.

I plan on spending most of tomorrow cooking soups to be frozen. Vegetable and Chicken Rice. Today will be spent with a bit of reading, online time, t.v. and The Sims 2, and later work.

My legs hurt. But at least the nausea from after the bike ride has gone away.

What are my flist peoples up to today?

		I will marry Todd.
		After a wild honeymoon, We will settle down in PA in our fabulous Apartment.
		We will have 4 kid(s) together.
		Our family will zoom around in a Red Viper.
		I will spend my days as a Curator, and live happily ever after.

I'm so flippin' tired. I hate the weekend. ::sigh::

My work experience today sort of blew. I got chewed by a customer. Like, completely chewed.
I was the only one up front. The Ass Man (who really pulled through on this one) was doing paper work and my co-worker was doing his job. We were really slow (thought we'd be crazy busy this weekend, but we weren't. Win!) Anyway, dude comes in and gets coffee (which was a refill, this costs 73 cents). He comes up to the register and then says he's on Pump 7 and so I ring him up, coffee and all. So then he looks at me and says

"Did you just charge me for my coffee!?"
ME: "Yes" (quite meekly actually. I wasn't sure if he was joking. I couldn't think of a reason not to charge him for his coffee)
HIM: continues to fill out check "Well, I'll be talking to Jerry ((the guy who owns the place I work at)) about this tomorrow. I spend 100 dollars here every day on gas and YOU charge me for my fucking coffee"
He hands me the check and goes to leave. He turns around and looks at me (I must have looked like a deer in headlights, my mind still trying to figure out what I did wrong) "Oh yeah, I'll be having a long talk with Jerry about this"

So. I just stood there for a second and then realized Dude wasn't kidding. Wtf!?!? I charged you for your coffee. Of course I did. You wanted it didn't you. If you don't want to get charged for your coffee, got get some at home. This guy must think he's the only person who spends more than 100 dollars a week on gas. Sadly he's mistaken. I went to the back and told the Ass. Man. He explained that dude is a prick (he must actually know him) and that I didn't do anything wrong (which i was pretty sure of, but it was nice to hear someone else say so) Anyway, I asked "What if he really does says something to Jerry??" and was told Jerry would probably side with me. At the worst he would tell prick dude that I was wrong but never actually say anything to me about it.

The whole problem is, the guy didn't say "Hey I have 97.00 in gas, could I please have this coffee on the house?" He just expected me to give it to him for free and then when I didn't got pissed.
Todd is livid and wants to know who the hell dude is. ::sigh:: I love my man. He's so protective and sweet sometimes. (Yup, I'm a sappy damsel in distress from time to time and I love it)

Okay, so there's the Nay. Here's the yay.

Remember my recent post about my new community reviewsalone ? Well, I have a whole 3 members (and wonderful members they are!!!!) and one of them has made a sweet ass banner! So, if you are interested in pimping me, here it is:




Isn't it awesome? All credit goes to burnbystarlight. I am going to put it on my profile after I post this here.

I think I'm going to do some out door reading today.

Do my LJ friends actually have...lives??

Where is everyone. My inbox has been empty of emails all day and it seems no one is around on LJ either ::sad face::
By the time you all come home from your shenanigans I'll be in my bed watching a movie and wishing I'd gone to sleep two hours earlier.

I spent much time on the Harley tonight. We went all the way up to K3 and then back then we got ice cream at the DQ and then rode another 'country block' and came home. Now he says he's going to wait a bit more before riding with me on it again. Something about he's sure it needs to be broken in more, but my girly mind has translated that into "Lose some weight, fat ass" ::sigh::

I did get some reading in today, while it was still light out. I'm about 100 pages into Eleanor Rigby and loving it with each page. It's pretty fast paced and just as "Wow...that's just...wow" as All Families are Psychotic was.

Well, tell me what you're doing if you are home on this Saturday night. And if you're reading this at 1 a.m. because you just got back from a wild night please to let me know as I'm lame and have to be in bed 'early'.

Stoopid job....
I want to grow down.

A pretty decent movie. Well the acting wasn't all that wonderful, but the story itself was very sweet. It's titled Tattoo: A Love Story.
It was surprisingly quaint and heartwarming. I recommend it!!

Well, going to read for a bit and then I must bed. Stoopid work in the morning.
And it's going to be hell. Graduation in a small town and we're the only gas station.
I want to die already.

Okay, so I'm a freak. I did it again. I started another community (though to be honest my last community thebbtheory has turned out well (140 members).

So, for all my wonderful book loving friends I've started reviewsalone. It's a place to post your reviews of books and read others. Discussion is for in the comments but I was sort of aiming for it just to be a review thing. Um, check it out and see if you understand what I mean. I've posted 2 reviews up so that people can see what I'm talking about.

I hope you're interested!

Oh and if you are, please pimp me. Pimp me like I'm cheap and easy (both true)

I went and spent 50 freakin' dollars and B&N today. Damn that place!

I came home with:
Kissing Coffins by Ellen Schreiber
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
The Kings Nun by Catherine Monroe
Fortune's Fool by Mercedes Lackey

I also found out that the girl that I told the boss she should interview got hired. I'm excited. She's a 19 year old little Goth girl who has never had a frown on her face when she comes into the station. She actually was the one who recommened Twilght to me. I hope that we can be friends. I know that sounds sad but if you remember my previous post about how I've been weird about friends lately, it's nice to think that I might be able to meet and make a new one.

I stared reading Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland last night. I'm still excited that I got it in hardback for like four bucks. Also it's shaping up to be a great read. I'm only about 20 some odd pages in and am already looking forward to more reading time. ::sigh:: You gotta love how a good book makes you all...child like inside LOL.  

So, I've now got the time to put up pictures of last night's craziness. Everyone here says that there was no reason to put the sirens on. Twice. But, oh well. I guess it has something to do with the whole county was going off so we just joined the crowd. ::face palm::
Anyway, these aren't the best pictures I've taken in my life. But I figured I'd share anyway.

( On To Pictures, and maybe a video )