better late than never...

Note: I wrote this  last week and have been having problems with internet.

I wish that my internet worked better than it does. I’ve spent most of the night fighting to keep it connected long enough to load a page so really getting a chance to blog has not been an option. I wish that there was more that I could say but I am making progress on my current 30 before 30 book, flipping through around seven chapters on my day off. The problem I ran into is it is one of those books that I must read in complete silence. I mean nothing I can’t even let my mind wander without having to read and reread the same paragraphs just to try and understand them. The waiting room at the dentist’s office was nice yet a little cold. I was doing good until the ladies that work in the office starting getting all chatty and giggly and then I couldn’t focus because I wanted to know what was going on since it sounded like no one was working. My Sugarbear was getting lower wisdom teeth removed, well that day he was getting x-rays and a game plan for the surgery. Then the next day we came in they knocked him out and in less than an hour he was two teeth lighter. 

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Winter weather...

I guess that we are going to have some winter weather this week. It has been 36 most of the day and a little damp which just makes it colder. I would like for it to finally be below 32 so I can try and blow bubbles to see if they will freeze. Of course I  may freeze in the process since we have a large sliding glass patio door and there really isn't a way to insulate those in the winter. You can tape all the foil up you want in the summer to keep the light out but it does not one thing for cold. The door is right at the end of the couch. I really should be up and moving around, cleaning the house but I don't really feel like it.

For now I think that I will enjoy watching season one of CSI until The Fog comes on. We were watching it this morning and I didn't get to see the first or last 30 minutes of it. I like to see though how each of the original characters have changed over the seasons. They all look so young and I really miss Grissom. I will admit that watching the dvds is much better than watching reruns on tv where they sound like chipmunks on helium.

I may get some more in tomorrow after I take Just a boy to get two of his wisdom teeth surgically removed. He is ready to get them out and after x-rays today and surgery tomorrow, those are the visits that I like. No waiting, no time to back out.

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30 Before 30...Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

So confession on this one...I finished the book and completely forgot that it was on this list. I was looking over it to see what else I had to read in an ever shortening timeline.

It was a lovely book that I read because I like what Maguire did in Wicked and the background story of the witches of Oz.

Since it has been so long I don't have a lot to say about the book but I like that it was more in line with the original fairy tale of Cinderella and less Disney than what we are accustomed to as well. Clara is our classic Cinderella and her stepsisters are the plain Iris and then Ruth who is the oldest and well as you read you draw your own conclusions about her.

Iris is the one who holds the family together through the story and makes sure that the family will make it through all the tough times. I really can't remember too much of the story because it has been so long since I read the book and I don't really want to rip off another person's thoughts on the book.

My favorite character had to be Ruth because it isn't until the very end that you find out that she is the narrator and then it hits you. I've read that there is a chance she may have been autistic and that is a possibility. You realize that she has a keen eye for details and has been the one telling the story.  I had to wonder if she didn't suffer from PTSD as a result of being run out of their home as a small child. I think that she became introverted as a way of protecting herself from her mother's hateful attitude and resentment. She knows that her mother has come back to Haarlem without any money. with no prospects and it is dangerous for her. To be beautiful and smart her mother would have been quick to try and marry her off to someone in order to gain a place for her family. Which is ultimately what the mother accomplishes by killing Clara's mother and then marrying her father.

I don't want to ruin some of the details that make this story unique but is worth the read. I promise that if you like to look at the traditional from a different angle then you will enjoy this story.

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Blah Blah Blah...

That's how I feel right now. Just blah. Nothing much to say. Nothing much going on. So other than just wanting to make this more of a daily habit this year instead of starting strong and then crashing and almost disappearing for awhile. I think I did worse about getting on here more than normal last year than the year before.

Maybe things will start picking up in the next few weeks and I may have more to talk about or I could be too busy to even remember to get on here.

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Forgetful me..

I completely forgot about what I had planned to write. Last night I was thinking about what I wanted to write but it didn't work out that way.

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New Year..

I hope that this year will be a little different around here. I hope to get on here a little more, maybe post a few more pictures that I take instead of scouring the net for them.

Expect great things with this new year and never give up.

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Last one...

This is probably the last post of the year that I meant to write last night and was kicked off the internet repeatedly. Been watching a few movies on tv and they have really made me think about where I want to take my writing. All the stories that you see follow the same pattern. The stories are all from the same perspective. The girl in in love with a guy who has no clue that she exists and if he does, he treats her like a little sister. Someone she knows comes in and steals him away fro her. Then she just goes along with it all, even though inside she is dying and being torn apart. Torn between her feelings for him and for her friend. Eventually the stress and strain causes her to crack and ruin everything. Because after all of these years of hiding her true feelings she lets it all out. You have this period where no one talks to each other, but then all of a sudden they make up like nothing ever happened, that no feelings were hurt. We all know in reality that this isn't really how it happens. Especially that complete Romeo and Juliet sorry story and confessing that he's been a fool.

I guess for me that just doesn't satisfy. I know that life doesn't wrap up cleanly like that. There are other things that happen and usually after it gets worse, it gets worse again and then after that it starts to get better slowly. There is pain and suffering, grief and depression and eating of all the food that can be reached.

What I really want to see is the same story but told from the male perspectives. Maybe as women we shouldn't fear having a straight male friend. I want to see two male friends fall for the same girl. So pretty much the story in Made of Honor but not so cliche of finding some tall, dark and handsome stranger in a foreign country. But to see one man silently court his best girl without her ever realizing what he is doing, not to only discover that he loves her when his friend swoops in and starts courting her. To see the same struggle women have as the perfect one sweep your friend off her feet instead of you. Maybe one day I will be able to accomplish this.

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