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Revolutionary Road
“He felt as if he were sinking helplessly into the cushions and the papers and the bodies of his children like a man in quicksand. When the funnies were finished at last he struggled to his feet, quietly gasping, and stood for several minutes in the middle of the carpet, making tight fists in his pockets to restrain himself from doing what suddenly seemed the only thing in the world he really and truly wanted to do: picking up a chair and throwing it through the picture window. What in the hell kind of life was this? What in God’s name was the point or the meaning or the purpose…
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Friday Dog Blogging
You wouldn’t believe the week I’m having! Sorry, I forgot to say, “Hi Everyone, this is Genevieve”, but I was distracted by the week I’m having! It started on Wednesday, which was a very bad day. First off, I didn’t get any breakfast. Medium Boss usually feeds me, but I think she forgot or something! Then when we went for our walk, we stopped at the vet’s office! I hate that! Why should we stop there? Usually when we stop there, whichever boss is with me stays in a little room. The doctor takes me into another room and tells me what a pretty girl I am, and feels my…
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Dewey’s Book Challenge
I was looking around for a Classics Reading Challenge yesterday, hoping for some accountability that will get me to read a few classics, when I came across this excellent blog, A Novel Challenge, which lists a TON of current reading challenges. Really. A lot. If you’re looking for a chick lit challenge? She has links to one. Historical Fiction more your thing? She’s got that, too. Practically anything you’re looking for, it’s there. I found a classics challenge there, and as soon as I figure out what I’m going to read for it, I’ll put up a list. Anyway, one of the challenges I came across is the Dewey’s Books…
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Fingers Crossed…
(You can click here to get a larger version and see more of what I’m talking about.) Gen’s going under the knife today, so keep your fingers crossed that she’ll come out fine, OK? If you look closely at this picture, you can see that she has a growth on her bottom eyelid. We call it her lump of coal, or sometimes, eye boo boo. It’s been there for awhile, but it has gotten progressively larger, to the point where her doctor suggested that we remove it. She said it’s unlikely that it’s harming her eye, but she’s worried that Gen will scratch at it more as it gets larger,…
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Spatchcocked Chicken
One of my gifts at Christmas was this cookbook, which promises to provide us with many yummy meals, though they do seem to have a lot of ingredients, and may not be terribly simple. I know many people love Jamie Oliver, think he’s cute and sexy and so on…me, his mouth bugs me too much. I guess I’m like a Seinfeld character, in that any lame thing can be enough to keep my amorous feelings at bay. I mean, I can barely love Curtis Stone, with his heavy breathing while he cooks…Thankfully, my real life love isn’t a heavy breather, and has a completely normal mouth, that doesn’t look like…
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Friday Dog Blogging ~ Saturday Edition
Thanks to Jimmy for the idea, which you can try here.
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Happy New Year!
Thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday yesterday. Really, I feel blessed to have such wonderful friends and family. I had good wishes here, on Facebook, on the phone, and in person. I feel like George Bailey, with his message from Clarence: “Remember, No man is a failure who has friends”. Indeed. I had a lovely birthday, thank you for asking. I would suggest waiting awhile before attempting the California Academy of Science, as it was an absolute ZOO, totally overcrowded and busy busy busy, and we could only stand about an hour of it before we had to bail and go get lunch elsewhere. Really, though,…
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Goodbye 2008…
Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. OK, this year has been the worst of my life. My mom’s illness was incredibly stressful, and had me feeling like I was running in circles, scared as hell. Then she died, and the stress was gone, followed by a sadness and emptiness that I wasn’t prepared for, and can’t entirely shake. Add to that Ted losing his job, which has been stressful and worrisome and scary, because you never know how long it will take to find another job. Also, Ted’s aunt passed away in January, his brother was in an accident which required surgery in…
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2009 TBR Book Challenge
Having just finished the TBR Challenge for 2008, I’m ready to set my sights toward 2009. In honor of one of my favorite book bloggers, Dewey, who passed away recently, several of the books on this list are books I came to via her blog, The Hidden Side of a Leaf. So many of the books I’ve read in the last couple of years, I found on her blog. I am going to miss her. The challenge is to read 12 books in 12 months, all at once or spread out, whichever way you want. They cannot be re-reads, and you have to make a list and stick to it,…
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The Pillars of the Earth
(picture and game found here) The Pillars of the Earth is set in 12th century England, and sweeps a period of about 40 years. It is the story of the building of a grand Cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge (there is a real Kingsbridge, but not this one), and the people involved. That doesn’t sound like it would make for a very interesting novel, but it turned out to be a page-turner of a book with flawed characters and enough twists and turns to keep any soap opera buff happy. There is sex, violence, murder, sabotage, intrigue, historical fact, and lots of ups and downs. The main characters…
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Merry Christmas
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9KpNznVLlY[/youtube]
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Wordless Wednesday ~ My Favorite Cartoon Character Edition, Christmas 2001
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And Me with my Christmas Shopping Done…
That’s right, it’s meat scented cologne. Cheap beef from South America, to be more precise. There aren’t enough words for how wrong this is.
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Maybe I get it
My ancestors are all Christian, some more so than others…and yet, I was raised as an atheist. Once, in 4th grade, when all of my friends were religious and I wanted to fit in, my mom caught me praying in the bathroom. She was incensed, and told me that if there was indeed a God, he was a bastard that she didn’t want me to have anything to do with. Her father had died when she was very young, her mother had married an abusive man who became her step-father, and she had a lot of serious issues with God. That was my first taste of the anger that can…
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TiVo Alert ~ San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5cYEAM6Te4[/youtube] We were fortunate enough to catch an encore performance of San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker yesterday. It was beautiful and really, really well done. I looked on our local PBS website, and there’s only one showing left, 2AM Tuesday morning. If you have a chance, record it. You won’t be disappointed, even though the Nutcracker Prince has a mask that looks a bit too much like the Burger King for my taste. It was filmed last year, and is distributed this year via Great Performances. Of course, there’s a DVD available for the ballet lovers out there. Enjoy. It’s gorgeous.