I'm making this up as I go ...

Here @ my journal

So much stuff, so little time...well, I guess I have plenty of time.

For some odd reason Flickr was being all screwy for me earlier today so I wasn't able to post Rain pictures as I was planning. But, I guess it'll work fine for me now, so I'm going to put them up before I go to bed.

I started The True Story of Hansel & Gretel before work and am already 53 pages in. So I guess that means it's pretty good. It's not as dry as I was expecting it to be (though I have no idea why I was expecting it to be dry...

My man's friend brought in a lovely box of 'old' books (50's and 60's) for me tonight. I was surprised that out of like 10 I actually am interested in reading 2 of them. The Bride of Pilate by Esther Kellner and also the condensed Readers Digest book for young readers that include (remember condensed) The Scarlet Pimpernel, Tom Sawyer, The Good Earth, and Robin Hood . The rest of the books include 3 books published by The Watchtower and a teen book, and three Perry Mason novels. I'm not sure what I'll do with them. I may keep the Watchtower ones, though why I'm not sure. If anyone is interested in the Perry Mason ones, let me know, though I'd like them to go to a good home. I think they were his grandmothers and while they probably have little meaning to him, they're books and she was a good woman from what I hear and her possessions deserve respect. ::sigh:: That made me sleepy. LOL

Work went well tonight. I ended up working with the Ass man. Our working relationship itself is very bi-polar, and so when I saw I was working with him I was a bit nervous cause I didn't want to have a bad night, but we did well, and we got out at a decent time and here I am. Oh, and I had a perfect drawer which was pleasant. I also like being quicker than him, because he's very...snotty about being Ass. man some times, so when I can show him up with ease it's a little (though snotty) victory for me. Life is filled with these little victories, mostly because I rock.

Well I guess it's picture time.


( Cute Bebeh Under Here )

snagged from 2eclipse 

book meme
"What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded.

Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school (ie, you only read them because someone else made you), and italicize the ones you started but didn't finish I very rarely start books and don't finish them, so I'm changing this one to "italicize the ones you own but haven't read".  Add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place."

The List

Addendum -- never even heard of it.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell *
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22 **  -- one of my all-time favorites
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre * -- finally got around to it!
A Tale of Two Cities*
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies -- wow-- this one I actually did start reading and never finish; not through lack of interest, though.  I still plan to read the rest.
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ** - yes!
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex -- I want to read it!
Quicksilver  -- No thanks.  SnowCrash was good, but too bloody long.
Wicked : the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West *
The Canterbury Tales - if listening to it on tape counts.
Frankenstein -- finally!  Just got around to this one recently too
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula  -- for all I love Vampire stories, this is not one of my favorites.
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King  -- at least, I think it was for school.  I can't imagine any other reason why I would have slogged through the entire damn thing.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel ** -- I adore Kingsolver.  "The Bean Trees" was better, though.
1984 *
Angels & Demons  -- nor do I plan to buy or read it.
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest ** -- just got around to this one recently too.  Wow-- I've read a lot more classics since I left school.  Ironically, it's because I felt so guilty that I never read classics anymore because I wasn't in school.
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables  -- I have it in French, no less.  No wonder I've never read it.
The Corrections -- Yeesh-- I've never heard of this one either!
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay * -- again, as a book on tape
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time *
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present  -- no interest whatsoever
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere *
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything  -- shame on me for not having read it yet.
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved *
Slaughterhouse-five ** - I actually can't recall whether or not I first read this for school, but I think it was assigned at some point.  Anyways, I loved it.
The Scarlet Letter *
Eats, Shoots & Leaves *
The Mists of Avalon *
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas  -- no, but I plan to read it, damnit!
The Confusion  - The what?
Lolita **
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down *  -- actually,  I had a grade-school teacher who read this book to us.
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit *
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth *
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

What type of Fae are you?


Oh, nailed!!

Ok, who did I get this link from?

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel won the poll by quite a bit.

I'm off to the shower/bath now and then to work.

Have a great night all, and there will be pictures later.

And oh yeah, thanks for voting!!!!!

Sign ups for Round #03 at 
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Posted these at deviantART yesterday but I wasn't really awake enough to faff about with an icon table generator so I'm putting them up here now.

( there's an outragous amount of running )

Don't forget about the challenge. I'm not extending it again, so get those icons/banners in.

( Georgia Rule still )

( Hustle & Flow premiere )

Yup, I don't know what I want to read again...
So, please to help me.

Here are the three to choose from:

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy

In the last months of the Nazi occupation of Poland, two children are left by their father and step mother to find safety in a dense forest. Because their real names will reveal their Jewishness, they are renamed "Hansel" and "Gretel". They wander in the woods until they are taken in by Magda, an eccentric and stubborn old woman called "witch" by the nearby villages. Magda is determined to save them, even as a German officer arrives in the village with his own plans for the children.

The End Of Alice by A.M. Homes

Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal--and revel in--their obsessive desires, Homes creates in the End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.

Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore

Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching back, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her.

Making th transition from the nine-to-five grid to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that's where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana, Tommy (to his friends) is biding his time night-clerking and frozen-turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway. But all that changes when a beautiful undead redhead walks through the door...and proceeds to rock Tommy's life--and afterlife--in ways he never thought possible


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Thanks everyone!

Just found out that Rain walked between two couches today. I'm so excited!! She's a stubborn lil' poop and wouldn't even stand today when we wanted her too.

So, after reading fuckingtoxic  's entry about the weather in her area I felt the need to tell you all about the wicked windy day it was here. When I woke up for work it was all raining and lightening and a bit of the thunder. It was windy but not like...crazy for Illinois wind.
Toward the end of my shift though we had to close and lock one of the doors because it kept blowing open, then about forty five minutes later we had to switched th doors because the other one wouldn't close when it was opened because of the wind. We actually had a passing through customer complain about the fact that it was cold in the store....can't do anything about the doors flying open except close and lock them...can't do that to both...

Anyway. The wind tore apart our swing set canopy thingy...I took pictures, then Casper and Jerry felt the need to be all cute and picture takable...


( To Those Who Had The Weather Nasties Today )

Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
Number of Pages: 325
ISBN: 978-0-06-121468-4
Inside Flap Description:

Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey together. If he fails, bloodshed and brutality will follow.

Seventeen-year-old Leslie knows nothing of faeries or their intrigues. When she is attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo of eyes and wings, all she knows is has to have it, convinced it is a tangible symbol of changes she desperately craves for her own life.

The tattoo does bring changes--not the kind Leslie has dreamed of, but sinister, compelling changes that are more than symbolic. Those changes will bind Leslie and Irial together, drawing Leslie deeper and deeper into the faery world, unable to resist its allures, and helpless to withstand its perils...

My Rating: A+

( My Review )

In addition to the release of FEAST OF FOOLS (otherwise known as Morganville Vampires, Book 4), June's also going to see the release of this lovely thing:



So what is it? It's the second release from a new collaboration between BenBella Books and Borders, called Teen Libris, and it's a collection of essays -- from the funny to the serious -- about Stephenie Meyer's brilliant book TWILIGHT.

Lovely, no? I was so lucky to be asked to contribute.

( The full press release, after the jump! )

Wicked cool, man.

... Sorry for the silence, I've actually been drawn back into my former employer as a contractor for a limited period of time. BUT! Stay tuned, there's a cool contest a-coming to celebrate the release of both FEAST OF FOOLS and A NEW DAWN.

I will just say one word as a hint: iPod.

Okay, two words: custom iPod.

And signed books, too. Obv.

Last but not least: Please go and donate to the Red Cross -- so many people need help right now, in the wake of the disaster in Burma and the recent deadly tornadic storms that have ripped through the U.S.

Charity begins at home. Or, in my case, at PayPal ...

-- Rachel

Ok, the links should be fixed now-- seriously, you guys, watch these! At least the last one, which is funny no matter what your political views..  (Since only one person commented on the bad links, I assume the rest of you just skipped this entry...)

Found one of my favorite (the cutest!) Obama ads here.

More serious favorite here-- I don't know how this missed being a finalist in the competition.  Made me all teary.

And I finally(!) found my very favorite one of all... it's funny because it's true.

20 icons

( You're the most anomolous bloke I know! )

Ya. Really have nothing to say, this is really just a waste of your precious friends page. I have heartburn and I'm waiting for the buffering to stop.

It's taken me over an hour to watch a half hour of this damn show. It's driving me nuts. But I'm almost done, not going to quit now...

I was featured in an article that appeared in the Brookline TAB - http://www.wickedlocal.com/brookline/fun/x1838795911

I haven't written anything in weeks. No ... more like over a month.

I fail.

I've just been so damn busy I don't feel like I have five seconds to sit down and figure out what to write. I want to get going on Newer Fic really bad - I have the opening scene in my head, but I have research I need to do on it. Ugh. I'm so uninspired because my brain is crowded lol.

Listen, peeps. Get those entries in. I have TWO entries. A kudo each to those people ;D. No kudos to those people who said that they'd participate and then totally didn't enter. Anyhooooozle, ENTER HERE! You'll find all the details in that entry also.

( Friday Night Lights cast )

Four Brothers press conference

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