At work? Really?

I thought about doing this in vlog form, but it isn't counting books for me.

So, I sent my folks off to Long & McQuade with a list, that year-is-ended-and-I need-new-books list, and then I went to work. Around 11 AM I got a phone call I was expecting.

 It was L & M saying, Umm... We don't have the exact book you are looking for? What are you after? So I say "C'est l'extase" by Debussy. L&M says ummm..? I ask if you can search books be songs, fortunaetly she says yes. And then asks me how the title is spelt. OK, I think, I can do this maybe, I mean, I have a year of French under my belt, I have maybe seen the title splet twice? and I am dyslexic, and phonetic speller. No biggy. So I sound out the closest thing that I can come up with. L&M asks "is that an exact spelling?" I don't know, I am at work, without my syllabus. So I ask her to look it up in the new syllabus, and would you believe it, but the reason she could not find it in the RCM Syllabus is becaus they decided to move those Debussy songs from ARCT to Grade 10. GRRRRR. Also, they have scratched "Come Scoglio". Sigh

I re-read Mastiff by Tamora Pierce. I have a wierd relationship with her. Not nearly as bad as Malissa Marr, but I broke that in half and never have to go back and read her book ever again.

RIG gives us the...
Fork

This is a medieval dining skewer. Is that close enough?

P.S. Yes, I bought the new syllabus.
P.P.S. Any spelling mistakes are on my head. Spell check appears to not be working.

I read. Just not always new stuff.

Re-reading books totally counts. It has too, because if it doesn't... well it just has too.

I was talking to RED earlier about the fact that even if we aren't reading books, we are reading something, and that something is often re-reading a book. I have books that I read annually, like an event. I keep coming back to them and garnering more from them, I keep falling in love with the characters, or it is the first re-read and I discover little clues that the author planted early that not knowing the out come I didn't catch the first time, but now make me all tingly on the second time round. 

So I need to count re-reads, in my effort to count how many books I read in a year. I just need to figure out what the label should be called.
Biblio-stalgia? Ya, I think I will go with that.

I have access to the RIG today.
And it came up with... CELLS.

So I give you cells.

Nitty Gritty

These are the topics that should be discussed in depth. My cat, dumb brains, and of course, Cheese.

I should just call this the saga of Tolliver. This post should come with a picture of my cats tail. I got to take him to the vet again, because something bit his tail and he now has wounds and antibiotics and the end of his tail keeps hanging limply down. It looks pathetic. Mostly because of how much is shaved. He looks like a badly shorn poodle.

So that is the cat.

Thought I would share this funny little anecdote;
there was a business card on the back counter at my work and when I passingly glanced at it, I had to frown. It read,
"Name's Mobile Sharpening Services"
What I should have thought was, someone who goes around sharpening knives and things.
What I did think was "How do you sharpen a cellphone?" Ummm... Huh?

I don't live in the UK, I am not British, I have never, out loud, referred to a cell as a mobile, but I do watch to much British TV, obviously.

I have issues. They just don't happen to issues worth having.

Yay, for being done exams. I love cheese. I can't breath and have been snoring up a storm, I have continuous bruises under my eyes, but gosh I love cheese.

Now we have moved to birds.

Just for the sake of an update, I thought I would add that in two days my sweet little kitty went form ineffectively catching flies to full blown hunting. Yesterday it was five shrews, today it was a shrew and a full grown starling. There are feathers everywhere in my house.
Cute cat. (Please hear sarcasm.)

This is what he is now.

I just finished a book about zombie apocalypse called-
Hollowland by Amanda Hocking

Stupid Cat

I feel this is more fitting for my twitter account, but since I don't use i,t this is going here.
For the live update, it is 11:51 AM and I am up to 5 shrew rescues this morning. I am getting really good at grabbing them. Much to my chagrin.

Superwoman

I have spent my morning rescuing shrews. Quite literally. My sweet little kitten finally figured out how to do more than empty a nest of baby birds. Three shrews and it isn't even noon yet. I am supposed to be practicing, not rescuing rodents.

Like a Phoenix

I have a valid reason for disappearing this time. My computer died a tragic and very final death. But now I have a new one. This also happens to the first computer of my life that has never belonged to someone else before coming into my possession. This one is all mine.

About every two days in my computer drought, I would have an idea with the tag in my mind, oh I should blog about that. Yup, not going to happen. And now I don't remember any of those lovely, insightful or humours anecdotes. I have found free books on my kindle though, so I am at biblio-geek x 6? Something like that.

Have you ever planned dinner on a remembered amount of protein, only to go to the fridge and find out that the remembered amount is from last night? I just did that. So, supplementing dinner is tonight's challenge. It would be so much easier with bread and cheese, but those two are on the verboten list.

I am back.