So I realized today, with yet another trip to Barnes and Noble, I'm seriously obsessed with books! I guess all of you reading this are saying "Wow, Really??" Because all of you know me and probably already know this to be true of me. ...But for myself, I think I've suddenly realized it on a whole new level. New to the point of dangerous...
Pretty much in exactly two months, 60 days, I've collected roughly 30 new books. That's not really an exaggeration, folks. That doesn't mean I've bought that many, I've just...acquired that many, through choice and personal attraction...I guess you could say...
So lets do the math on that, and please correct me because, as math is my nemesis, I'm sure to be wrong, but wouldn't that equal, on average, a book every other day?
Wow. Alright, so this part I asked my brother the answer for (what can I say? It made my brain hurt) ...If I stayed on that track for a whole year, collecting a new book every other day, my total of new books at the end of the year would be ... 182.5 !!
I'd end up with 182 and a half books...I don't exactly know what that half would equal...a picture book maybe? Or Stardust minus it's cover? Or my copy of Les Mis which is literally torn in half? I dunno. But that's A Lot of books! [secretly planning this to be my new life's goal]
Anybody know any Books Anonymous groups? We could form one, who's with me?? It could be called BAG and would probably go something like:
"Hi, My name is...I'd rather not say... I've been collecting books since I was a child...people would give them to me and my parents had no problem with me buying them whenever I felt like it. My friends can't understand why I can't stop touching them whenever I see them and they're all over my room... I use them to go to sleep at night, or zone out with during the day, maybe it's their seemingly-hallucinogenic nature...I just can't seem to get enough of them, especially when things are really bad...that's when I feel I need them the most."
But come on, in reality they are just books, right? Nothing wrong with that. I don't have a book problem. Do you??
As a side note, in Dean Koontz's words, a nemesis cannot be beaten. An adversary can...Maybe it's time to refer to math as my adversary rather than my nemesis...I might do better in school that way.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Another One Bites the Dust
I'm soooo glad I didn't spend all that money getting my car professionally cleaned! Yes. Friends were complaining at how repulsively disgusting it had become...at least one friend anyway, who I'll refrain from naming. But you know who you are! : ) Good thing I didn't listen to you! (and yes, for those of you wondering, I am too dang lazy to clean it myself. But really, when it's That bad...who wouldn't be?)
Okay, so, why am I glad?? The transmission completely went out on it. My second Subaru that's been mine is now officially gone. So, so long to Charlie all over again and so long to this nameless piece of trash that was never good. At least Charlie was a really great car. First cars are always great. Charlie Never stopped running. In the end the windows wouldn't go up, the glove box wouldn't stay in and he smelled like wet dog all the time. He was sold to the kids across the street for fifty bucks and they took him to the sand dunes of St. George and shot him mercilessly. But that was when we were still living down there.
No, this piece of trash car died in Bountiful, the day I took my kids to the museum, actually. We found ourselves stranded, at a bakery! See, now that's lemonade!! Only, I guess you could say the lemonade came in the form of sweet sweet orange rolls and a tray of very pretty cookies. : )
So anyway. I'm getting myself a bike and officially becoming an inner-city dweller who'll ride public transportation and...my bike. In truth I don't feel coordinated enough for a bike ...especially one for a city. But I will get over that, I'm sure. Just like I get over everything else: by shopping at bakeries and eating chocolate ice cream, and reading, of course.
Speaking of public transportation, today I spent all day riding Trax to and from various places, but not without purpose. And now I'm topping it all off with a visit to my favorite downtown hangout, Cup o' Joes. I wiled away the time with my newest Dean Koontz novel, Velocity. I'm still not very sure of how I feel about Koontz, his style's good, but he's a little predictable and his favorite room in the house seems to always be the kitchen. Dashner, you could ask him for me if that's true. You know, if the two of you run out of conversation Sunday. For those of you who don't know, Dashner gets to meet Neil Gaiman, Judy Blume, and Dean Koontz all in one weekend - at the BEA in LA. Lucky Dawg! Gosh, some day when I'm a famous writer (realistically 5 years from now) I'll be sitting at some spectacular thing with JK Rowling. So There!!
Having said that, I better get to work on my novel that I had planned to spend the entire weekend working on!
Okay, so, why am I glad?? The transmission completely went out on it. My second Subaru that's been mine is now officially gone. So, so long to Charlie all over again and so long to this nameless piece of trash that was never good. At least Charlie was a really great car. First cars are always great. Charlie Never stopped running. In the end the windows wouldn't go up, the glove box wouldn't stay in and he smelled like wet dog all the time. He was sold to the kids across the street for fifty bucks and they took him to the sand dunes of St. George and shot him mercilessly. But that was when we were still living down there.
No, this piece of trash car died in Bountiful, the day I took my kids to the museum, actually. We found ourselves stranded, at a bakery! See, now that's lemonade!! Only, I guess you could say the lemonade came in the form of sweet sweet orange rolls and a tray of very pretty cookies. : )
So anyway. I'm getting myself a bike and officially becoming an inner-city dweller who'll ride public transportation and...my bike. In truth I don't feel coordinated enough for a bike ...especially one for a city. But I will get over that, I'm sure. Just like I get over everything else: by shopping at bakeries and eating chocolate ice cream, and reading, of course.
Speaking of public transportation, today I spent all day riding Trax to and from various places, but not without purpose. And now I'm topping it all off with a visit to my favorite downtown hangout, Cup o' Joes. I wiled away the time with my newest Dean Koontz novel, Velocity. I'm still not very sure of how I feel about Koontz, his style's good, but he's a little predictable and his favorite room in the house seems to always be the kitchen. Dashner, you could ask him for me if that's true. You know, if the two of you run out of conversation Sunday. For those of you who don't know, Dashner gets to meet Neil Gaiman, Judy Blume, and Dean Koontz all in one weekend - at the BEA in LA. Lucky Dawg! Gosh, some day when I'm a famous writer (realistically 5 years from now) I'll be sitting at some spectacular thing with JK Rowling. So There!!
Having said that, I better get to work on my novel that I had planned to spend the entire weekend working on!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Fun Times
I'm really excited about the response my new hobby of blogging has received! I'm especially happy to announce that J. Scott Savage himself has invited me and my new blog to join his blog tour, set up to promote his upcoming novel, the first in the Farworld series! I suppose that invite is pretty well open to most people, but I feel special anyway :) So, expect to be seeing more with that around August maybe; i.e. an interview with him and a review of his book, and some kind of spectacular contest where one of you will be able to win a personalized advanced copy of his book! Coolness!
So for fun today I met up with my sister-in-law and we took our kids to the Discovery Museum at Gateway! The kids loved it. I was reminded of how amazing 4-year-olds are at wandering off. One minute my little boy was there, the next he was gone...repeatedly; though I found him mostly over in the gift shop playing with those really cool gooballs...or something...you know, the ones that squish and the bubbles come out ...yeah...that's all I'm saying about that.
I'm realizing how little I understand about blogging. I suppose it's pretty easy to figure out and I feel I'm picking up on things pretty quickly...but if I do something stupid with it, lemme know and I'll keep in mind not to do it again. Do you like the pink? I'm not sure how I feel about the pink. Truthfully it's not my favorite shade, but I've been thinking about having a site somewhere called Suzy-Q and I just always pictured it to be pink. So my apologies for those for whom it makes ill.
Now to discuss Monk. My most favorite show in the world is Monk. If you're a fan too, leave a comment of your favorite episode. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's the show where the guy's a detective who's got OCD and he uses it to solve his cases. He just cracks me up! I especially like the one where there's a painting of a spilled wine glass and he's trying to turn it back the right way. In the end I think he blurts out, "can't they just paint over it!" Control-Z
comes to mind. (Kudos to Eric Swedin for teaching me about Control-Z!)
Well, anyway, I think that just goes to show I've run out of anything remotely useful to comment about. Catch me at the end of the week, things might be more exciting then.
Does anyone know?? When is the next fairly local writer's event/conference/Anything?? Do I really have to wait for Round Up in September? Anyone know of any fun book signings or launch parties...or anything?? Ooh. Rick Walton talks about that writer's week at BYU in June...maybe I'll look that up. Anyone know the name for it?
WoW!! So June is like Next Week!! Oh my gosh! In my head it's still two months away...isn't it weird when that happens? Like you hear a month and you picture it being so far away and then it's like time rushes forward and there it is - next week! Okay, so I need to find out about that quickly then...
Write On!! : )
So for fun today I met up with my sister-in-law and we took our kids to the Discovery Museum at Gateway! The kids loved it. I was reminded of how amazing 4-year-olds are at wandering off. One minute my little boy was there, the next he was gone...repeatedly; though I found him mostly over in the gift shop playing with those really cool gooballs...or something...you know, the ones that squish and the bubbles come out ...yeah...that's all I'm saying about that.
I'm realizing how little I understand about blogging. I suppose it's pretty easy to figure out and I feel I'm picking up on things pretty quickly...but if I do something stupid with it, lemme know and I'll keep in mind not to do it again. Do you like the pink? I'm not sure how I feel about the pink. Truthfully it's not my favorite shade, but I've been thinking about having a site somewhere called Suzy-Q and I just always pictured it to be pink. So my apologies for those for whom it makes ill.
Now to discuss Monk. My most favorite show in the world is Monk. If you're a fan too, leave a comment of your favorite episode. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's the show where the guy's a detective who's got OCD and he uses it to solve his cases. He just cracks me up! I especially like the one where there's a painting of a spilled wine glass and he's trying to turn it back the right way. In the end I think he blurts out, "can't they just paint over it!" Control-Z
comes to mind. (Kudos to Eric Swedin for teaching me about Control-Z!)
Well, anyway, I think that just goes to show I've run out of anything remotely useful to comment about. Catch me at the end of the week, things might be more exciting then.
Does anyone know?? When is the next fairly local writer's event/conference/Anything?? Do I really have to wait for Round Up in September? Anyone know of any fun book signings or launch parties...or anything?? Ooh. Rick Walton talks about that writer's week at BYU in June...maybe I'll look that up. Anyone know the name for it?
WoW!! So June is like Next Week!! Oh my gosh! In my head it's still two months away...isn't it weird when that happens? Like you hear a month and you picture it being so far away and then it's like time rushes forward and there it is - next week! Okay, so I need to find out about that quickly then...
Write On!! : )
Monday, May 26, 2008
My New Blog! How Exciting!
I just finished up another weekend of hanging out with local authors! Lucky me! The price for that was being labeled as a Sci-Fi Junkie, Trekky, or Geek, by those who know me and were less fortunate in going to the Sci-Fi convention, ConDuit, held right here in Salt Lake. And no, I don't consider myself any of those things. Thank you very much : )
But I do consider myself lucky to see and hang out with so many Fabulous authors! You know, the great ones, like Jessica Day George, Julie Wright, James Dashner, L.E. Modesitt, Eric Swedin. I really missed seeing Jeff Savage though, and Sara Zarr, but I got to see her the weekend before along with Rick Walton and several others at the Children's Book Festival in Provo! That was a lot of fun.
I guess you could say one of the major highlights of this weekend would include meeting Mette Ivie Harrison, author of The Princess and the Hound. I enjoyed lunch with her, and several of the other authors previously mentioned, on Saturday. Before leaving, she personalized a paperback copy of her book to me. It made me feel very special and excited to add another special book to my collection of signed books. (and I get to be one of the first to receive her paperback edition as they officially get released in stores tomorrow!!)
I'm very proud of my collection of signed books as it takes up a whole shelf in my library and includes seasoned authors Marc Brown and Dick King Smith, as well as newer great ones, like Brandon Mull, and pretty much all the authors previously mentioned.
And yes, I am very proud to be able to actually say I own my own library! It consists of four bookcases (but is growing rapidly) and I have actual sections, such as all my cookbooks, how-to books, magazines (the Writer's Digest mainly - 3 or 4 years worth of those : ) Newspaper archives (The Mount Desert Islander!) young adult fiction, picture books, adult fantasy, adult fiction, and of course, my own 20 + journals from high school and beyond! (And yes, I realize it doesn't equal Eric Swedin's library of 32 book cases, but he's much older than I am. I still have time to catch up : )
Speaking of libraries, I applied for a job as Library Assistant at the main Salt Lake Library!! I really really hope I get it. I had an interview Friday that I feel went very well. So, wish me luck!
I guess I could update those of you who don't know. I've moved to Down Town Salt Lake! woohoo. I should have an apartment by the end of this week for myself and my little ones, and I start school next Wednesday! I'll be going to SLCC very part time taking intro to communications and intermediate writing...we'll see how that goes. (any questions on any of that, feel free to email me : )
My favorite hangouts in Salt Lake include Cup o' Joes and the Cathedral of the Madeleine... I think that's how it's spelled... favorite bookstores up here include the Golden Braid and The King's English; I'll always be partial to Barnes and Noble, however, having worked there for a recent span. (I Loved my job at B&N!! It was very fun!)
So anyway, that's what's new with me...please comment, I seriously believe nobody reads these things and I hate feeling like I'm talking to myself : ) I have enough voices in my head, most of which I write down so others can hear them too : ) ...you know the ones.
Have a Fantastic Memorial Day!!
But I do consider myself lucky to see and hang out with so many Fabulous authors! You know, the great ones, like Jessica Day George, Julie Wright, James Dashner, L.E. Modesitt, Eric Swedin. I really missed seeing Jeff Savage though, and Sara Zarr, but I got to see her the weekend before along with Rick Walton and several others at the Children's Book Festival in Provo! That was a lot of fun.
I guess you could say one of the major highlights of this weekend would include meeting Mette Ivie Harrison, author of The Princess and the Hound. I enjoyed lunch with her, and several of the other authors previously mentioned, on Saturday. Before leaving, she personalized a paperback copy of her book to me. It made me feel very special and excited to add another special book to my collection of signed books. (and I get to be one of the first to receive her paperback edition as they officially get released in stores tomorrow!!)
I'm very proud of my collection of signed books as it takes up a whole shelf in my library and includes seasoned authors Marc Brown and Dick King Smith, as well as newer great ones, like Brandon Mull, and pretty much all the authors previously mentioned.
And yes, I am very proud to be able to actually say I own my own library! It consists of four bookcases (but is growing rapidly) and I have actual sections, such as all my cookbooks, how-to books, magazines (the Writer's Digest mainly - 3 or 4 years worth of those : ) Newspaper archives (The Mount Desert Islander!) young adult fiction, picture books, adult fantasy, adult fiction, and of course, my own 20 + journals from high school and beyond! (And yes, I realize it doesn't equal Eric Swedin's library of 32 book cases, but he's much older than I am. I still have time to catch up : )
Speaking of libraries, I applied for a job as Library Assistant at the main Salt Lake Library!! I really really hope I get it. I had an interview Friday that I feel went very well. So, wish me luck!
I guess I could update those of you who don't know. I've moved to Down Town Salt Lake! woohoo. I should have an apartment by the end of this week for myself and my little ones, and I start school next Wednesday! I'll be going to SLCC very part time taking intro to communications and intermediate writing...we'll see how that goes. (any questions on any of that, feel free to email me : )
My favorite hangouts in Salt Lake include Cup o' Joes and the Cathedral of the Madeleine... I think that's how it's spelled... favorite bookstores up here include the Golden Braid and The King's English; I'll always be partial to Barnes and Noble, however, having worked there for a recent span. (I Loved my job at B&N!! It was very fun!)
So anyway, that's what's new with me...please comment, I seriously believe nobody reads these things and I hate feeling like I'm talking to myself : ) I have enough voices in my head, most of which I write down so others can hear them too : ) ...you know the ones.
Have a Fantastic Memorial Day!!
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