the best of the 80s

My brother sent me this. The only mistake they made is they should have had this at the end: "And also starring Alec Guinness." Otherwise he'll throw a fit in his trailer.



And brother is right, this one is really clever:

My day

I had half a work day today--stayed at home and made manager schedules, which requires a high level of uninterrupted concentration. Got 6 weeks worth done.

Feeling very Pleased With Myself I also downloaded the instruction manual for my recumbent bike and figured out how to work it properly, and had a leisurely bike ride while catching up on my news and blog reading.

I intended to go to the bookstore with Fernando tomorrow to shop shop shop, but remembered I'm getting together with old high school friends downtown. Another sushi date!

After having had my many blogs for a couple years now I'm further refining them. I waited to see which ones would naturally work out the best--which turned out to be this one, and the beauty one. I had long ago decided not to spend too much time fiddling with my blogs when I should be writing, but all the agent blogs I read have been talking about the importance of social media. So I'm finally reading up on how to make my blogs a little better, and at some point I'll Twitterize myself.

Then I took a headache pill, took a bath and read the relationship book I'm slowly getting through--it's the best one I've come across.

And then started Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, while Fernando sits at the other end of the couch completely caught up in the Temeraire dragon series (imagine the Napoleonic wars, but with an aerial corp... of intelligent dragons.)

And my final accomplishment: I finally managed, in a matter of minutes, to summarize my current novel in two phrases (for the comments section of a blog I read): "I'm finishing up a classic "fake engagement" romance between a woman whose last fiancé dumped her for being infertile, then toured an award-winning one-man show about it; and the childhood sweetheart who's just reappeared in her life. Story includes poetry theft, a family curse, and gossiping chauffeurs."

As my old and not-loved manager used to say: Amaaaazing.

Now I must abed!

What to read next??

I'm at that horrid yet lovely point of deciding what to read next. I've been reading romances to get to know the market, but I think I need a change for one book. And I've been reading graphic novels, but I think that phase has waned for now, so I'll shelve my League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for another day. (No sense rushing through graphic novels, they are SO expensive.)

Probably I'll read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo:




Only problem is the second book is in hard cover, and the third not yet out in English translation. Well, if the book is so good and I get all desperate, the third book is out in French.

Michael Jackson! my my

Spent my afternoon doing some work from home, and now I just settled down for some internetting and apparently Michael Jackson is dead!

Only the AP and LA Times have reported it yet, I guess. I'm watching CNN's The Situation Room. They're just playing videos and talking fluff cause they have nothing else to report.

I'm not surprised, that poor guy always looked so ill and unhappy. Wonder what'll happen to his kids.

UPDATE: I have to add Swisgirl's comment from facebook cause it's funny...

"I remember when we were in HIgh Scool and "boring people" from the 50s & 60s died... and Entertainment tonight was REALLY BORING... I remember thinking: will it be like this when Billy Idol and Madonna die??? I guess so! "

Irving Berlin knows me so well

Updates

Prezzies: Scored a sweet Chewbacca LEGO pen from Fernando. Since we forgot it was our 11th wedding anniversary a few weeks ago, I figure that counts.

Friends: Well I see the Maewitch more often these days at manager meetings. Tonight the Toronto Gang was in town and we went out for sushi, had a lovely time. They had three different menus. It was so confusing they spent an hour just figuring out how/what to order! (I just told the waiter to bring on the vegetarian food, waiter's choice.)

Writing: Going well--adding a subplot to my book. Plain old writing is always fun.

Exercise: Today I discovered that I can write / get my blog reading done while using the stationary bike! ...Except I had to sit at an angle. I need a desk that fits over the bike...

Nothing new in Job Land or Job Hunt Land. I'm trying to focus more on my writing. All the tv shows I was watching have ended, and I don't intend to pick up any new ones--trying to get back into my Nanowrimo habit, which was to come home and collapse in front of computer rather than the tv.

Headaches: Fine for a couple weeks now. After those initial days of constant headaches I decided to go off all painkillers last weekend, and now I'm getting far less headaches. My goal is to take my new pill no more than 2 X a week, which is what they recommend to prevent rebounds. I'm more likely to get headaches at the end of a work day, or when I haven't had enough sleep, so my weekends have been great. Anyway... all is well.

if only this were real... amazing