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Regret is currently flowing through this bookworm's veins concerning the closing of Borders.
I hear the romances were 90% off today. Now I'm wishing that I'd bought a few of the titles I already own. The one's I have are used, so it'd be nice to replace them with NEW books. I would also buy a few novels I put back on the shelf simply because I wasn't sure I'd like them.
I'm so stupid, stupid, stupid!
I might have to drop by there tomorrow, just to see if our store is still open at all. This is how it stands now:
1). The store is officially closed.
2). The books I want have been taken into total stranger's homes, either to be read or used as props for the legs of uneven furniture.
3). The books have been packed in boxes to be transported to other book chains where I'll just sneer at their astronomical price tags.
Oh! I was reading "Goodnight Tweetheart" last night, and guess who was mentioned. GERRY! (Not surprised of course, as I already knew Teresa Medeiros was a fan). Which reminds me of how I've read a few books where the author says they had Gerry in mind for the hero in their book. The first which comes to mind is "MacGowan's Ghost" by Cindy Miles.
Ooh, wow! Cindy Miles has the same ipod decor I have on my writing site. Too bad we don't have being published in common. It begins and ends with a pink ipod. Sad.
I guess I'll watch Doctor Who now. I dvr-ed it earlier. I hope it was good!
I never did watch Doctor Who, but here it is 3AM and around 30 minutes ago I finished reading my book.
I'm on here now because of THE ENDING!!! I loved it, and I hated it because there's no full closure or answer. I'm not going to go into detail, as I'm not a fan of spoilers, but GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Update #2 -
Did someone just try to break into our home? As I was typing the above update (to nobody, let's face it. It's 3 AM and not many peeps know about this blog... or would continue reading after being subjected to mindless ramblings such as this one I'm typing right now)... okay, back to my point. I was typing inside this echoey blog when I see Mom downstairs, taking the dogs out for their untimely (sleepy human's perspective) 3 am potty break. Then I see Dad constantly going outside to the backyard, then the frontyard over and over again. Either this was a really, really bad episode of OCD, sleepwalking, or trouble was afoot via the skanks that live 2 doors down from us.
What it was, was that when Mom was letting the girls out she heard the chain on the gate constantly being jiggled. It was a very DELIBERATE sound, which stopped once she turned on the porch light.
I looked on the security cameras, but the cameras didn't record a thing. I guess it could have been another cat, but unless it's paw was stuck on that chain it wouldn't have sounded like a person was trying to break and enter. And the sound did stop once Mom turned on the light. If it was a cat whose paw was stuck on the chain lock somehow, the jiggling would have persisted even after the light was turned on.
I guess it was the punk kids, but I sure wish our cameras had picked them up. Mom did say she heard them roaming the streets earlier tonight.
Gonna sign off now. I hate typing on these laptops. My dribble always ends up disappearing as I'm typing. It's as if some evil little pixie is waving it's evil little magic wand over my keyboard pad once I finally reach the end of typing out another rambling sentence. It has to be the same pixie devil that makes the mate to our socks disappear after WE KNOW we had put BOTH socks in that dryer.
And see? It happened again. I had to re-type the sentence above because it went POOF! on me. The greedy little pixie bastard steals sentences, too. Even boring one's at 3:30 am. My words must be like M&M's to him/her/it/they?
Well, gonna go to bed now. Wendy Kitty is snoring peacefully on the bed next to me. I'm still angry with her over her treatment over poor Tiger Lily, so once I turn my bedside lamp off and go to bed I'm gonna feel like I'm sleeping with the enemy.
I'm sure that makes her happy, giving her sweet dreams for the night. Cats DO love pissing us lowly humans off. I'm convinced 2012 is all about them. They're going to turn off their 'cat perception filters' at the stroke of midnight, revealing their true identities (please, God, don't make them all Adam Lambert), and then turn us all into kibble and/or their slave race.
- Went to Borders for the last time today. I went upstairs only to find the romance novel section completely empty.
Imagine my horror.
Mom told me they probably just moved them downstairs, but I figured they just took them off the shelves to sell elsewhere. I peruse the rest of upstairs, then go downstairs to see what they had in the bargain books. A few minutes later Mom shows me that they did move the romance novels to the back, downstairs.
Mommy was right!
I bought FIVE books for the price of ONE!!!! The romances were 80% off, so my total was only $8.34! The most expensive book I bought was $1.60! Only 2 of those books were on my list, but I'm still very pleased.
Oh! Mom found the Outlander graphic novel, The Exile! She bought it for me. Sweet, huh? It was normally $25, and she got it for $7.50! She didn't even know about this book, and I never bothered looking for it b/c I figured it'd either be gone or still pretty expensive. It was 70% off.
And now I'm wondering if they had the "Songs of Love & Death" anthology. I wish I had thought to look for that.
There are a few books I probably should have bought today, but I didn't want to go too crazy without looking for the titles I REALLY want at the antique mall first, even if they are used. I do wish I had looked at the children's section during my previous trips, for some of the classics, because today the selection was just overpicked.
- GREAT NEWS! Karen announced on Facebook today that "Into the Dreaming" is going to be re-released. It's going to have extra scenes and deleted scenes from the HIGHLANDER books!!!!!!!!
- This is nuts. I got up early, turned off my alarm and decided to rest for just 15 minutes before looking up jobs in the school system for today. Hours later I woke up, realizing I had DREAMED about getting up and checking the system. It felt so real, too.
- Whoa, this is a record breaker. I've bought something like 27 books over the last month or two. Most of them were new and marked down, too! I feel like I'm on candid camera or something. This just can't be real.
Be sure to zoom in 100% once it's on the Photobucket Page. I just want to stare at it for hours on end. This has got to be one of the most gorgeous pictures ever taken in GB History.
I only wish we were allowed to make siggies from this. I made one, but then a couple hours later saw that they added a disclaimer about not altering it.
Not sure how I feel about the title for the next Outlander book: "Written In My Heart's Own Blood."
Okay, I can't lie. As much of an Outlander fan I am, I really don't like this title. It doesn't sound anything like an Outlander book to me.
Maybe it'll grow on me. I have a few years for that to happen anyway, right? No matter what it's called, I still love the series.
Update: DG has changed it to "Written In My Own Heart's Blood." (Even though I'm not in love with it, I prefer the sound of the first title. It just flows better to me).
- Lucky me!!!!! My grandma heard that I was planning on asking her to look for some books for me at HPB sometime. I planned on waiting, because I wanted to check the antique mall first, but Mom talked me into it.
I know, like THAT was hard to do.
I narrowed my 7 page wish list down to 6 titles. Then Grandma calls from the store today, and said they had 4 books from my list!
I think I'll read either Highland Guardian or Return of the Highlander first. Today I read some excerpts online of both, and I'm having trouble deciding.
I need to get back to the book I've barely started. I've really been hankering to read a good Ghost/Highlander book, but I've been obsessed with working on one of my sites.
I just realized that over the past month I've bought 20 books! (And this isn't even counting EITB). Only 6 of those are used, too. Now THAT is a record. I'm gonna have to buy another pretty box to store them in. I'm tempted to buy a shelf at Borders, as they're selling 3 of the HUGE shelves for $100 and I only need one... I think. The trouble is I wouldn't know where to put it and I'd have to paint it black.
- I'm gonna try to forget about this weekend's Doctor Who episode. Last week's episode I liked - even though "Mels" in the beginning worried me b/c I was afraid she was to be a new character - but I hated the latest. I kept waiting... and waiting... and waiting for something exciting to happen. I had the entire episode figured out early on, too. The monsters were creepy, but it was nothing like the "Blink" episode from Tennant's run. I really thought it would have been similar.
At least Rory didn't die in this one, too.
And why would a BOY (okay, alien) have a dollhouse in the first place? And then there's foreshadowing of The Doctor's death at the end of every episode. They really need to stop that.
I was surprised to see the return of Amy's intro before the music and titles began. I figured they had chucked that for good since it wasn't there last week. A lot of people hate that intro, finding it unnecessary. It doesn't really bother me, but it does leave Rory out.
Rory's my favorite companion. He's a sweetheart.
- This is a flippin' miracle. It's almost 4:30 and it's 84 degrees!!!! Not over 100 for a change. For days it's been really windy, too.
- I think I'm either going to start a brand new personal blog on my other account, since this one looks horrible in Firefox, or just stop having one altogether. I never really talk about anything interesting or important. I just ramble about nothing.
By the way, it bothers me that my wallpapers don't all look the same on Firefox as they do here on IE. Either there's a 'seam' in the background or the top and bottom of the paper is cut off.
Well, I guess I'll look to see if there are any jobs at the schools for tomorrow yet. Whoopty-doo. Can you sense my excitement? Okay, so it's still the lesser of evils. I just wish I had an iphone. I get to school EARLY and am so bored on breaks. Having internet access would make the day so much brighter. I get restless having nothing to do except read or edit one of my books. The day just draaags on and on and on.
I have to find a job with health insurance - thanks obama, you rat b@stard, for taking our freedom of choice away - but am petrified. I'm not a fan of things changing. Already, I'm worried and feel such dread over the future. I can actually feel myself trying not to panic.
Update: Didn't realize it's Labor Day Weekend. No school tomorrow.
Talked to my niece for a bit on webcam via her brand spankin' new iphone which she's so excited about. It was nice seeing her. I missed seeing Luke though. His girlfriend Stephanie was there. Mom said Luke was carrying her around the house on his back. Lol! It's their anniversary today.
- Got more books from Borders, courtesy of Mom this time. Isn't that SWEET?! We were at lunch and she just slapped a $20 bill down on the table to nurse my bookstore obsession.
This week the romance novels were 70% off! Only 2 of the books were on my shortened list, but the others were still on my very looong and growing original list so it still turned out great. Only 1 of the 7 I picked up out of curiosity. I might just go ahead and buy the others in the series if they still have them when I go back.
At the very last minute was when I spotted "Goodnight Tweetheart." I've been looking for this book for ages!!!! Would you know this book was originally 15 smackaroo's, but I... I mean Mom (Lol!) paid only $4.50! Ooh! Also, two of these books were $2.10 a piece. Originally, they were $6.99. The others were normally $7.99, but they were on sale for only $2.40!
This was my first return trip to Borders where my favorite titles were actually missing. Since Borders is closing and the Barnes and Noble here is so lacking in the romance department, I guess I'll jot down a few titles and ask my grandma to stop by her Half Price bookstore for me. I've never lived close to one and she has a HPB right around the corner from her house. As it is, our used bookstores are major expensive. The antique mall sells them for a little over a dollar these days, but it's rare that they'll have the books on my list.
And now cue the Ahhh's, because Gerry has been out and about with little Lolita this week.
How adorable!
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And... drool-pant-pant-dreamy-siiiggh... I am so loving The Butler's hair in that last pic. I just want to finger comb it while we relax under a palm tree with only the sounds of the surf and his rolling Rrrrr's kissing my eardrums. If his beautiful hair and that delicious brogue ever leave me alone on that beach it'll only be to fetch me a Starbucks iced mocha frappuccino.
I haven't watched this in so long. I might have to remedy this tonight. It'll depress me, but it's well worth it I think.
Day-um! He's so sexy! "Paaast.... the point of no return." Shall I pass out like a pathetic, Gerry-starved fan girl now?
I LOVE this video someone made a few years ago. This is one of my favorite songs now. Mom's, too.
Or maybe I'll watch something funny tonight like THIS.
