New Time, New Place

I've got a new-to-me car - Relearning all the sounds and lights and bells and whistles is a little overwhelming sometimes. But I'll press on with it. :D And now! Time to go watch some Detective Conan!

Mail

I got the cutest card from my mum - it has a cat on it dreaming of a goldfish. I really like the art style and the color choices.

I have been catching up on Criminal Minds the past few days and hopefully will be caught up with the newest stuff as soon as I can get access to the dvr.

Other than that, lazy weekend at home. Yay!

Chocobos

So life has been a bit awful for the past couple of months. I'm a bit unhappy that I've neglected my blog but life comes first. I got motivated today to catch up with the blogs I normally follow and all of those authors' happenings.

I feel for these people, some of them I have known in real life. I know they don't want personal attention brought to their situation, no hugs or doing for because they aren't those kinds of people. So all I can do is stand back and go, "I'm here if you need anything" and be there to witness, to silently have their back.

I hope things start looking up for them. I hope that day by day more good walks into their life than bad. I hope for the best.

Bad Call

Stressful money situation at the house at the moment. We'll get by but it's hard on everyone.

Currently reading Sold Down The River by Barbara Hambly and enjoying it like I have all the others in the series so far. There is no place quite like New Orleans. I have to admit, I like reading about New Orleans. Past, present and future. She has a strange attraction to me.

So, book based in historical New Orleans from the perspective of free man Benjamin January. Mysteries. I like the characters or hate them, depending on the storyline. His mother drives me right up the wall, I may not like her but I can understand her to an extent. Voodoo queen Marie Laveau makes appearances but she always ties into the story, never gratuitous. Detective Shaw is a great character with depth, although first appearances are deceiving. So, like history and mystery? I'd totally recommend this series.

The first book in the series is A Free Man of Color. I've been picking these up where I can find them but since my local Borders stores have closed, I received this last one through Paperback Swap.

T.V.

The weather has been so nice the past couple of days. Typical, northwest pacific kind of weather. Grey, bits of sun, little rain, 70 degrees. I love this. Everyone is getting along for the moment, which is also nice. I wish I could get enough sleep, but that hasn't happened yet. Not really sure why, but my "oh god, get UP!" body alarm goes off early in the morning and I can't get back to sleep until late at night. So tired.

The car got a bath day before yesterday, and the next day it rained. Of course. :) But I'm happy because the car looks nice. So tomorrow I will clean out the inside again and wipe the dash and such down. As long as it isn't raining. I hate getting the car all wet inside just to clean it out. And there will be reading. And laundry.

Cats

I am so excited! I went and got the mail this morning and I've won a copy of Laura Joh Rowland's The Ronin's Mistress. Yay! I really like the Sano Ichiro mystery series and I cannot wait to dig into the newest book. And it is signed! OMG.

Totally made my day.

The Reader

The Fruit

At least the house is a tolerable temperature tonight. I hope it continues like this for the rest of the summer. If it wants to be hot during the day, I can live with it (unhappily) as long as it cools off at night. The paycheck arrived and we celebrated by eating out instead of heating up the house.

So tired today, DH's alarm didn't go off so there was a bit of a run around this morning getting him out the door. I'm not a fan of getting up that early so I think I did the sleepwalk-around-to-help thing. I know I helped but I don't remember much. And then I went back to bed.

Which I'm going to do again. I feel it coming on like a wet cement bag to the head.