What Are You Reading?

I just started Stephen King's 11/22/63. It's an intimidating 849 page book about time travel. The way it started seductively sucked me in immediately. I'm hoping our Mr. King can keep the pace, cause it's well on its way to becoming a favorite.

So... what are YOU reading?

I think I might read an oldie "Time and Again" by Jack Finney (sp?) next. It's about time travel too, but I don't know the specifics.

The Winged Heart

Let Thy wish become my desire, let Thy will become my deed;

Let Thy word become my speech, Beloved, and let Thy love become my creed.

How to Get Warm.

First, get in bed under two blankets while dressed in jeans, a t-shirt, a zip up hoodie. Then have one cat curl up behind your knees and have the dog curl up against your thighs. Snuggle and watch terrible movies so you don't have to bring your arms out to change the channel on the remote.  If you fall asleep? Bonus.

Eventually the cat and dog changed places. I didn't even notice.

PS My choice in terrible movies was "Twilight Eclipse." I'm not even (really) embarrassed by it. 

It's SO COLD! (and a couple other random thoughts.)

I am not usually phased by the cold, but today I can't seem to get warm. It probably doesn't help that I am sitting on the floor with the coffee table pulled up to my chest, but it's comfy down here. I'm not sure it's a trade off for being chilled to the bone, but I haven't gotten up yet so that's something.

Earlier today Quinn wanted to go outside. He has just started making requests, asking for things, so we took him and it's an ice cube out there. We went for a walk around the (very small) block and had to cut it short because we were chattering in our teeth area.  He was clueless. He is never bothered by being too warm or too cold. I'm sure he'll grow out of it though. Mark gets cold too easy and I get hot too easy. Our temperatures will never mesh, so I'm curious which Quinn will be.

So later today we're going to my in-laws to celebrate Nana's 91st birthday.  She doesn't want us to mention her age. I guess I wouldn't either.  But 91! And she's not just an average 91 year old. She still lives alone, is sharper than a tack, still grocery shops for herself, etc...  It's really impressive. I have never known a 91 year old that is in as good a mental and, really, physical shape as she is.  She gets tired easy and is a little unsteady on her feet sometimes, but let's face it, so am I. I require more sleep than most people, so Mark tells me.

Nana said no presents! Right. I bought her one of those coffee cups that you can write or draw on. I had the idea to take it tonight and have everyone write a happy birthday wish, but Mark vetoed that idea.  So I drew two birds with hearts and a few cherry blossoms. It turned out better than I thought it would.  I become so anxiety ridden when I make people things. Some of my in-law family doesn't really care for me, so as soon as I start thinking about creating a gift I imagine they will laugh and point behind my back and say how kindergarten it looks and how ridiculous and stupid I am for trying to give whatever it is as a gift.  Mark says I am imaging things, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.

We'll see. I'll report back how she liked it (or said she liked it, she's too nice to tell me it's crappy.)  And I'll post a picture or two. I haven't "cooked" it yet. It said to wait an hour so it's not quite finished yet.

Sleep... a brief comment

I am so sleepy right now I can barely hold my head up. So I'm going to go to bed as soon as I get home. IF the Dog barks and wakes me up? I am going to rip out his tongue and feed it to him. /discussion

Seriously Thought Provoking Questions!

I was watching TV today... Ok, I was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (again) today. In the specific episode that these questioned occurred to me, Spike had killed 10-12 people and then had to drink pigs blood for sustenance while he came "off" the "juice."  So here's the deal:

1) Do Vampires have a blood type preference? I know in True Blood they bottled, synthetic blood has a type.  And in Angel, Lorne's bar, they have specific type blood and plasma available.  So do they really have a "type"?

2) Do Vampires worry about blood born pathogens? AIDS, Hepatitis, etc... Wouldn't they be better off to get their blood from the blood service after it's had its testing performed?

3) Do women taste different than men? What about different ethnicity? Does age make a difference? Can they tell if the "donor" is old, young or middle aged?

4) If someone is ill, ie the flu, cancer, has the herp or a case of Syphillis... can they tell? Do they care? Will they get it?

I wish I knew a real vampire so I could get the answers to these questions? It's sad to be so puzzled with no hope of clarification.