just sittin' around...

I just finished Jilly Cooper's The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous. Heavens--funny and a great romance. When deciding what to read on vacation I purposely chose romantic comedies so I can get in the right frame of mind to think about my next book. And Jilly is a great writer to study... her plotting and pacing and descriptions and dialogue and detail and romance chemistry and funny animal characters... she's seriously talented.

I spent the first week of my vacay at my mum's in Vancouver.

Here's Yoda, reading Jilly & eating my
bagel when my back is turned.

Me and Sassy at the beach.
Sassy is one of my muthah's 3 dogs.

For a couple days now I've been at my dad and step-mother's in Nanaimo, and my brother's staying here too so we can visit. (He usually lives at Muthah's, but there isn't really room enough for us all to hang there. The Folks' house has three levels, so we can all escape each other when needed.)

Now I'm just sitting in the living room having some Alone Time. Actually, it's not so much about being physically alone. I just need time each week to listen to music, and if I go too long then I end up doing this... sitting here for hours going through my music collection and building a list of Stuff I'd Like to Listen to. The list now has 101 items, or 9 hours of listening. Not really gonna get through all that tonight. Ahem.

It's almost 5 AM. But I don't want to go to sleeeeps! Maybe I'll just listen to Metallica's "No Leaf Clover" before I go...

Confession: On another note... I have to confess that today I bought a book. It's an Adrian Mole that I don't think I own, though it's hard to tell because of the way the books are put together into collections and such. My first failure in my attempt to Stop Adding to My Fiction Collection.