Thursday Next, a Firs Among Sequels

no: 6

title: thursday next, a first among sequels

author: jasper fforde

Ok this book is a pure 5 stars. it is the 4th book by jasper fforde in the thursday next series. this is probably my favorite series in modern lit. it details the life of thursday next, a character in an alternate earth. she is a brit, living a modern life. only in this alternate version of our earth - people travel cross country via air ships and take gravitubes cross country. trains and planes are things that just nver took off. there is also an enormous tax on cheese in this world. it is just an absurd almost brittain that isn't quite like the brittain of today. the books are fille with references to literature. thursday is actually able to jump into books, and is a member of the policing agency within fiction, jurisfiction. this bok takes place 13 years after her first novel in which she obtained her ability to jump into books. in this book she is fced with a number of tasks- incluing geting her son friday to join the chronoguard - the time traveling policing agency whose duty is to keep time straight. she also needs to save the book orld from being taken oer by tv due to falling reading rates. all in all it was a grat read. as always fforde has put togethr a clever and entertaining novel.

amanda young is my hero

yay for amanda. she came up and helped me fix the leaky faucet at lunch. buying her lunch was the least i could do to repay her. now i can focus on that nasty wallpaper...

i heart cooking!

i really do!
i don't actually want to eat but i love cooking. well, i enjoy eating (obviously), but i get tired of eating leftoevers. tonight i made chicken spaghetti. yum. that wll feed me dinner until i get tired of it. right now i'm roasting vegetables(red bell peppers, onions, garlic, and zucchini). i am going to process them with some reduced fat cream cheese. then, that cn get spread on some bread with a few tomato slices and that will be lunch for the rest of the week. i got that idea from alton brown. he is so cool. i also cooked on monday niht. i made mini quiche cups. they have spinach, canadian bacon, green bell peppers, onion, and cheese in them. they are just quiche muffins! i froze them and then i can just pop 2 muffins in the microwave and i've got dinner on the go.
i really heart cooking. if anyone wants to eat, please tell me - i much prefer cooking for others than for me.
http://altonbrown.com/

me and miss cleo

i slept really poorly last night. i kept waking up. at one time i swore that my spoiled little dog was playing with the trash. well, no trash in my bedroom this morning. but, when i went out this morning to let her out, the dogs across the street had knocked over my garbage can and strewn it all over the front yard. a little weird. actually, a lot weird.

happy home

today i got my first housewarming gift. lucy and elizabeth decidd to get me something. they were unsure of what to get since they haven't seen the house yet. so, they went with a very "unique" gift - a "matched pair" of candle holders/vases. they are glass, painted sort of silver. how generous of them. they don't reallyu go with my style, but it was sweet of them to do it. unfortunatley, one of them broke when the bag tipped over in my office. literally, fell 6 inches from vertical to horizontal, and broke. still, isn't it "nifty" how one direction up they are candle holders and the other direction up they are vases... notice my nice, normal, silver hurricanes in the background.

the home warranty people have called a new plumber. let's hope it will happen - after all, every time i use the hall shower it turns off less.

by the way, here is a picutre of the painted laundry room. i don't think i posted one yet. next step my room!!!

daisy dogg is doing pretty well. she has found her spot on the couch. you wouldn't even know that the the couch had been moved half way accross the country!!! of course, currently, she is barkign her head off to let me know about some threat... she is also going to town with her new duck. i think he has been killed. many times over.

sunday - not all sunny

well, yesterday ws uber productive. today, not so much. i started pulling down border. it is a little slow going - good thing it is just border to remove. of course, it would be less slow going if i actully did it. mid-day i had to take a break to go let my friend's dog out. they called me this moning to ask if i would mind coming by their house to let out the dog because they were out kayking and didn't want to leave him in the hosue for 12-14 hours. well, i did it because i'm nice - even though it is a 30 minute drive from my house up north to their house down south. of course i brought daisy and the two dogs ran around the yard and body slammed one another. it was fun for her. not so fun for sarah - no labor day cookouts for me - just hard work.

i'm still without my new lawn furniture :(

more importnatly, the bathroom/plumber crisis is getting worse. it started out with the fact that i noticed that the plumbing in the master bath was making weid noises - air bubbles appearing in the toilet when the shower was running. so, i called the home warranty compay and the plumber was supposed to come out. meanwhile i started using the hall bathroom instead. the plumber called back and was supposed to come out tuesday. they never did. on thursday afternoon i called the home warranty company after giving the plumbers time in case i wasn't paying great attention when we talked. the home warranty people left a message with them and the plumbers called me back. they said they hadt he wrong phone number for me and we agreed that they would call friday afternoon and we would do the house thing then. no, they never calledand they never showed up. meanwhile, the hall bathroom shower is starting to drip and it won't turn off all of the way, no matter how much i turn. ugh to home ownership ;-(.

in other, beter news - just removing the border in my bedroom makes it look better. i can't wait to see what it looks like with decent paint. i'm tempted to put in a new ceiling fan too - but that might be a bit much for right now. the big prioritiy is the fence. now that the back yard has furnitue an the sunroom is useable i want to be able to put daisy dukes out there and eat or read.

daisy dogg is lying on the couch next to me passed out - apparently half an hour of playing with a boy and a 1.5 mile walk will do it to you...

other good news - it rained. the plants are thanking the Lord.

house work home improvement - whats the diff?

well, it is an "exciting" labor day weekend in beautiful vicksurg, ms. thus far i have spent my saturday cleaning and at the home depot. doesn't sound very fun? it is exactly what i planned to do!!! i made a list of things to do an i've been rip roaring down it. i'm not allowed to do home improvements until after getting the house clean. i'm pretty much at home improvement stage. i'm working on cleaning/finishing unpacking my room. once stuff gets cleaned up in there i'll start attempting to pull down the beautiful border. my goal for the weekend: pull down border, wash walls, spackle walls, paint ceiling. it is a rather lofty goal, but i've got two more days to do it!

i did go into town this afternoon to home depot. i went with the intention of buying one thing - an extetion ladder. did i buy it? you bet ya not. but, i did buy some bigger pots to repot some plants for my sunroom. in the cleaning frenzy this afternoon i finally moved the boxes out of the sunroom into the garage. i put daisy's old, little cage out there. we are going to try giving her the sunroom to play in during the day. if she has cage, food, and water she ought to be pretty good. but, back to home depot and the sunroom. i had fallen in love with some furntiure for the sunroom at home depot,but being a tightwad i hadn't bought it yet. i was waiting for it to go down to 75% off. too late. it is still 50% off and it is gone. so, instead i bought a glider and a bar set for the sunroom/patio. it is on hold until see a man about a truck.. actually, i'm going to see a woman, but the difference i irelevant. i'll have to post a picture or two once things get looking nice!