2009 Part 1

So here is the list off books I've read so far this year. I know I've talked about a few of them, but here on my comments on the rest of them.


Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

Whitney Gaskell - Good Luck

Jen Lancaster - Bright Lights Big Ass and Such a Pretty Fat

Susan McCorkindale - Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl - loved it!

Vicki Myron - Dewey

Clare Naylor - The First Assistant

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife - always a wonderful read!

Gemma Townley - Little White Lies

Lauren Weisberger - Chasing Harry Winston - don't waste your time.

Tracy Chevalier - Girl with A Pearl Earring

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary - Movie is much, much, better.

Amanda Goldberg - Celebutants

**Karen McCullah Lutz - The Bachelorette Party - had me laughing till I wet my pants. Must read above all the others!!!!

Jennifer Weiner - The Guy Not Taken - some good short stories, some not so good. Hit and miss.

2 Books in 2 Days

So have you ever seen a movie based on a book before reading it? I tend not to see the movies of the books I have read because I am very disappointed in what is done to the story. Usually a lot of good detail is left out. But recently I watched 2 movies where I wonder if that was the same. Girl with Pearl Earring and Bridget Jones's Diary. So in the last 2 days I read these 2 books and I have some comments.

Girl with Pearl Earring - The movie was good, but very quiet and the ending was sort of a mystery to me. I have nothing bad to say of the actors or the way the story was told, but I felt it was missing a narrative by the main character. So I read the book, looking for it, and found it. Of course the ending was a tad different from the movie, but at least I felt there was closure. I can say that both the book and movie are good. Read the book first, and you won't be disappointed by the movie.

Bridget Jones's Diary - Love, Love, Love the movie. Don't really see how the book had anything to do with the movie. I found it strange that some of the lines of the movie come straight from the book, but the really good lines are no where in the book. I was sort of disappointed in the book all together. Hollywood made this story better than the writer intended I think. I have no want to read the follow up book. I will stick with the movies being better than the books on this one.

13

I was going to save this post for my 8 year wedding anniversary. But when I noticed the date on my calendar yesterday I had to smile. June 5, 1996 was the day my husband told me to mark on my calendar as first official day as a couple. We were not defined until that day, when a cousin of his said she was so excited he brought his girlfriend home. And when I turned to him and asked is that what I was, he said yes.

So 13 years is a very long time. It's almost half my life. And it's funny when I tell people how long I've been married and they are wowed by the almost 8 years. Then I shock them with, "but we've been together for 13." Longevity is sort of a novelty these days I guess. And it's funny because when I hear about young brides to be I'm sort of shocked myself. I forget I was only 24 when I married. And at that time I thought I was old. Now going on 32 I think, wow that was really young. Funny how life changes your opinions.

But it's been a wonderful 13 years and I don't regret a single day. But I guess I knew then what I know now, that I will always love my husband and my life was nothing and will be nothing without him.

Time flys

So it's been a while. Here's the short of it.

Good temp job ended when they ran out of space for me after condensing the office down to 1/8 it's normal size. I miss that place. I have had 2 interviews in 1 month and temp agency's act like they don't know me when I call.

The farmers market started and I'm not happy with my new space of the stupid bakery lady next to me. Oh and her cupcakes were horrible. Sales were low and people were picky.

The house hunt is still on. I don't believe a competent smart Realtor exists in this world.

Life is good with hubby and the cats.

I've read a few books but nothing worth noting yet. Any suggestions.

So that is the short of it.

Update

Well it's been a while since I've been here. I turned my crafting website into a craft blog and that has taken up a lot of my time. But I feel it is not the outlet for other things going on in my life.

So I am out of work again, and the job market sucks. I have resorted to taking my college education off my resume so that I am more qualified for those $14 jobs that are available in my city. And sadly I am way overqualified and will never be paid fairly if I continue to work in the city I live in. But I will always keep looking and keep my fingers crossed. I'll land something.

As for books I've read. I finished Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger. It wasn't very good and it smelled a lot like Sex in the City, minus 1 character. Very boring, the plot wasn't all that good, and well there wasn't much Harry. The other book I just finished was called Dewey. It was about a library that found a kitten in their book return. Real story, bad writer. And of course just like Marley and Me, it ended with a lot of tears. No more books about pets for a long time.

As for the rest of my life, home is good, cats are good, hubby is good. The crafting toils on but I haven't been very productive. Sort of in a rut these days.

Lets see the baggers at the grocery store are still making me mad. I still hate the old bitties that come to our HOA meetings and complain about pogo sticks and leaves on the ground. Nobody has died lately so that's a good thing.

Well that's about it for now.

Latest Reads #4

So I've been a bad kid, and realized I haven't done a book update all year. I can't believe how time is flying. November went by so fast!!! And I only realized the book list was out of date when I was cleaning up the shelves the books were on. So here is the list with a few comments. It's long because it's been about a year. I'm putting a * by the must reads.

Claire LaZebnik - Knitting Under the Influence
Clare Naylor - The Second Assistant
Curtis Sittenfeld - Man of My Dreams
Curtis Sittenfeld - *Prep - good teen angst
Jacqueline Sheehan - Lost and Found
Jhumpa Lahiri - *Interpreter of Maladies, *Unaccustomed Earth
Lolly Winston - Happieness Sold Separately - Good Grief was better
Merrill Markoe - Walking in Circles Before Lying Down - funny and a good read
Sharon Krum - Then Thing about Jane Spring
Zoey Dean - How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls (Privilege TV Show)
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez - Haters (always a wonderful writer) (mad that it was found in the teen section of the book store and not in the adult section)
Beth Harbinson - Shoe Addicts Anonymous (will read followup book)
Beth Kendrick Fashionably Late
Cara Lockwood - I Did (But I Wouldn't Now)
Eileen Rendahl - Un-Veiled
Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love - good for an autobiography
Emma Mclaughlin, Nicola Kraus - Dedication (read it in 3 days, good, but disappointing ending)
Gabriel Marquez - Love In the Time of Cholera (good read, just felt like it took 60 years to read)
Holly Peterson - The Manny
Lorna Landvik - *Angry Housewifes Eating Bon Bons
Louise Wener - The Perfect Play
Lynn Messina - Fashionistas
Sara Gruen -*Water for Elephants (made me want to watch Dumbo again)
Sloane Crosley - *I Was Told There'd Be Cake - funny and very relatable

Can the Temp Agency get any more Dumb??

So I've been at my new temp job for two weeks. It's about time for my first paycheck to show up. (You get paid weekly). I call them and ask if it will be mailed to me or do I have to go to the office to get it?? I talk with the nice lady and she tells my first check will be ready at the office on Friday. Then she asks if I elected Direct Deposit? I said no, you don't have a voided check, and she tells me that the system has my checking account in there and she can activate it. Strange I think because when I registered with you, and told you I used to work for you, you said you had no records of me. Anyway I say ok, sign me up.

So Friday comes around, I rush over to the office to get my check. Get there right before they close and well no check. Nothing in the pick up box. SO they look in their system and it says that because it was my first check, Corporate mailed it to me. Ok fine I say, then this strange look comes over the lady's face. She looks at me and says, "is your address 19928 Chase Street, Winnetka, CA?"??? (hi we are standing in Santa Rosa by the way). I tell her no, that was my old address where I lived in LA where I registered with you guys the first time and tried to tell you a month ago. I just wanted to scream, then laugh, then yell not so very nice racist slurs, but kept my cool. I just said fix it.

So they had to stop payment on the check and issue a new one that I should get by time my second check is ready. I am just shocked again. So I leave, get in my car and yell, "of course, they lost my resume while I was in the office, why did I ever think the could pay me correctly."