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Friday, July 29, 2005
blecch
I have been getting comments-spam. (also trackback spam, which is why I turned trackbacks off a while ago, not that anyone likely noticed). No thank you I am NOT interested in... any of that stuff. How. Annoying. But hey, at least somebody's writing something in here.
Also, it is way hot, still. I can now say officially that I hate July. And it's not looking good for August either.
We had a swimming party today (one of LT's friends had a birthday) at our public pool, and ten minutes after we all got in, they had to clear the pool for 36 hours because of a Bodily Emission in the Pool. Yeah, no problem, I will LEAP out of the water; you don't have to ask me twice.
And also, why did Wal-Mart have to add glittery little things to the neckline of their tank tops? I was enjoying being able to buy myself a really useful piece of clothing for $4.50 every time I went shopping, but the jewels-on-the-neck thing takes a tank top from "yeah, I'm casual, that's the point, duh" to "see how fancy I can be for only $4.50? What do you mean, tacky, these are jewels!" So I had to stop at only four different colors, instead of having one in every color except lime green by the end of the summer. Life is full of little disappointments like that, isn't it.
Otherwise, everything's great. Kids are healthy, I'm healthy, T is healthy, everyone's getting along, except for the tendency the kids have nowadays to try to boss each other around all day long, just to see if they can in fact make me certifiably crazy before my thirty-first birthday. Really I am quite cheerful and happy. A little insane, but happy.
P.S. I just finished reading one of my favorite book series -- the Into the Wilderness series by Sara Donati, which in my opinion puts the Outlander series (which I also like) to shame, although a lot of people compare the two. This means that in about a week and a half I read approximately 2500 pages of epic historical family-drama romantic fiction with complicated plots and excellent characterization and wow. Anyway. Now I need something kind of light and maybe quirky before I dive into Middlemarch, and I was thinking I'd read The Blue Castle, but I realized I'm wanting something I've never read before. I tried The Eyre Affair, but five pages into it I decided that it was going in the yard sale pile, just not my type. Any recommendations? Please?
Comments
Wow, that's too bad, I hope the little boy didn't feel like his party was ruined. I don't use public pools for that very reason. I hate the whole tacky casual thing most places have going on. I mean I cannot find a t-shirt or a tank top without some sort of catch phrase or ridiculously loud pattern all over it! I don't think I'm "Bootylicious," and neither should a five year old little girl.
Posted by: jenn at July 29, 2005 06:06 PM
Book suggestion - I just finished Beverly Lewis' series Abram's Daughters. But, there are 5 books in the series ......
Posted by: Cami at July 29, 2005 08:16 PM
I'll have to try to find that series then, seeing as I absolutely LOVE the Outlander Series.
Posted by: Maria at July 30, 2005 03:20 AM
Cami -- is the Abram's Daughter's series finished yet? I have read most of them, i think, but the series was not finished yet. I enjoyed them, in an Amish Soap-Opera sort of way. :)
Posted by: mary at July 30, 2005 10:20 AM
yes, the Abram's Daughters series is finished,
wraps up in the 5th book. I was lucky enough to find the first 3 books for $3.99 ... but had to pay retail for the last 2, I just had to know how it all ended up. Couldn't wait to find out how the story unraveled.
Posted by: Cami at July 31, 2005 06:03 PM
