Goodbye February!

Can't say I'll miss ya!

Hey Katherine

I lied, I didn't email anybody last night. I was feeling all icky and puny so I didn't even touch the computer after I got home. I will try my hardest to email tonight.

I'm officially a "white person"

Because I <3 Mos Def. I don't apologize for this though. I think he's infinitely talented, so there. Also, I just bought two Lionel Richie songs from iTunes, which I will say, puts me into a special category of "white people". I also bought a D'Angelo/Erykah Badu duet. I'm sure my music selection seems totally weird to the casual observer.

A quick look at my iPod shows:

Outkast
Mos Def
Musiq
Gnarls Barkley
The Roots
Erykah Badu
Blondie
Aphex Twin
and Bjork

I'm sure there's a music snob out there with something snarky to say about that.

Total Lunar Eclipse of the Heart

Total lunar eclipse tonight, if you're a cancer like me, that means something apparently. Darn moon, always messin with my emotions and crap.

Book Club Suggestions

For everyone who has expressed an interest in starting a book club with me, let's hear some suggestions on the fist book to read.

Currently I am reading Margaret Atwood's Robber Bride, that would be a fun one to discuss I think.

Let's hear it folks!

My new favorite thing

Chocolate Silk Soymilk, it's the best!

Somebody Please Stop Me

I just got an iTune account, and I am tempted to buy everything!

Ben & Jerry's, health food?

I sure hope so because I almost polished off an entire pint by myself, just now, the Stephen Colbert flavor.

Diet Soda Can Make You Fat?

According to this story, yes

I've always known that artificial sweeteners aren't exactly health food, but actually make you gain weight in some magical "changing your brain chemistry" way, sounds crazy. I could probably give up diet soda, not a big deal, but what the hell am I gonna put in my coffee, I can't very well drink it black YUCK. A while ago I remember hearing about a no-calorie natural sweetener called stevia, I wonder where I can find that and try it out.

Hmmm

I have nothing to say. Bla bla bla, it's a crappy day, I woke up an hour late because my alarm didn't go off this morning, because we lost power in the middle of the night. Lame.

Pictures!

Aaron and me in front of the blurry Buckingham fountain on New Years Eve.



My brother Joey in front of the same fountain, same night.



My family, taken on Grandpa's 83rd birthday at my grandparents house. You can see why my grandfather likes to brag about always being surrounded by beautiful ladies. From left to right there's Meredith (cousin), Ruth (grandma), Jessica (aunt), Beverly (aunt), and Sarah (my mother), and I'm hoping you can figure out that the only male in the picture is my grandpa Louis. I took the picture that's why I'm not in it. We all kinda look like alike don't we (even Meredith who's adopted)?



Chili peppers, for no reason whatsoever.

Procrastination

I'm totally putting off cleaning the litter box and vacuuming because I really just don't feel like doing it, but it's gotta get done dammit!

I'm also dissapointed that I have such an obnoxious computer nerd boyfriend and he's done something to the computer so that when I plug in my camera I can't get it to come up on the screen so I can get our pictures fron NEW YEAR'S off of it. There's that procrastination again.

Book Club

I've always wanted to be a part of a book club. Considering that I read a lot, and when I read a book I always want to talk about it, like we did in school. But I don't know very many people in the area, I've only been living in Virginia for 3 years, and while I've made a few friends, I still don't know nearly as many people here as I did when I lived in Chicago. It just happens that way when you live somewhere your whole life, you tend to accumulate friends and acquaintances. Of the friends that I have met, most of them are not big readers like me, so starting a book club with those folks wouldn't be all that easy.

Olivia and Katherine have expressed an interest, which is great, but you two ladies are the only ones I know around here who read. If you want to have a three person book club with me, I'm all about it. If you know anyone else who wants to be a part of it, even better.

I propose we meet once a month, I figure that's a good interval since we are all busy people and all, and I think having more frequent meetups would be more difficult to fit into everyone's schedule.

Mostly I'm interested in a book club because my reading has been pretty redundant lately, and I would love to have some recommendations for other books to read.

Here's a short list of some of the authors whose books I've read most recently:

Jodi Picoult
Jennifer Weiner
Joyce Carol Oates
Margaret Atwood
Toni Morrison
Kurt Vonnegut

I've been reading mostly female authors lately, mostly because I enjoy being a reverse sexist and all that. For a while there I read like, 5 Margaret Atwood books in a row, and then I even re-read A Handmaids Tale and The Blind Assassin. She's great really, but sometimes she can be kind of a downer. So then I got into Jennifer Weiner because she is totally chick-lit and entertaining and happy-endingish, and when I am done with her books I tend to feel a little better about life for some reason. I read Jodi Picoult on a suggestion from a friend and I like her stuff, but at the same I hate it. It reads like it was meant to be a movie or something. I'm not quite sure how I feel about Joyce Carol Oates, she's good and I really enjoyed reading her novels, but they don't leave me feeling all that great, and sometimes that's OK, but I guess at this point in my life I don't really need any help feeling depressed. I don't even think I need to explain why I love Toni Morrison, I first encountered her in high school required reading, but I LOVE her, and I could read her books over and over again. Kurt Vonnegut is an old standby, I just know that I could pick up any one of his novels and that I would totally love it, at least that has been my experience so far.

Anyway, that's the end of my ramble about books. I would love some suggestions on other authors to try, and anything about a book club.

This is how I feel today

Don't ask me why, because I have no idea. I am beholden to my irrational emotions.

Obligitory

This is just a post to say that I am gonna post something more interesting later, perhaps with some pictures or something even.