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Need to rant?
I'm sorry about your ocmputer Fiona. I am horrible with electronics, so generally just quit when I have trouble! At leave you have stick-to-it-ness!And yes, I am quite lucky!!!! It will do me well to remember that the next time I walk into a wrecked living room, t.v. on, homework not done, and dad and kids draped over various pieces of furninture, wondering what's for dinner!!! ;) (oh! but not tonight!)
I need to rant about the fact that I NEED TO BUY BOOKS.I Capture the Castle, Potato Society, Tamora Pierce books, more copies of TGDT so I can hand them out with coded messages and my goodreads account name.
CALLING. ME.
WHAT??!!! I don't understand (G)Emma. *handing emu chocolate carrot* (just so you know I pay attention;)
*Eats*Don't understand? How so?
I neeeddddd to buyyyy boookkssss.
Chapterssss, calling...out...
tsk, tsk, tsk- don't be a naughty emu or else no chocolate carrots for you!
You are reminding me of Gollum!!!! Was that your intention?"coded messages and my goodreads account name."
This is the part I don't get.
Rachel wrote: "My husband and I have just finally reached the point in our marriage where we have been together longer than we have been apart. (He spent about half of our marriage in Afghanistan.) It's funny, ..."rachel, I know it isn't the same but since my boyfriend worked for four months on a cruise ship and there were three of those months somewhere around America, Puerta vallarta and so on....well I just don't want him to be away from me for longer than a day anymore. About a month ago he had to go for a super fast visit to his place in Italy. It was like tuesday afternoon he left and thursday evening he was back. But I almost didn't manage.... I couldn't go with him but it was awful. Before he would even take holiday and go to Italy on his own when i couldn't but now I jsut don't alow him anymore. The experience of knowing (or not knowing actually) where he was somewhere in the ocean, around a different continent, constantly moving on the water......no more.
Rachel wrote: "Kandice, I have a wonderful pair of shoes with toe cleavage that I find very comfortable. I think your problem is the 5" heel. With that much height your foot is probably sliding forward too much ..."heel and practical just doesn't match together for me:-)
Rachel wrote: "My husband would never buy me shoes. He and I have a very different idea of what makes a practical shoe. For instance, I bought myself a pair of black patent leather pumps with a four inch steel (..."My boyfriend is Italian adn doesn't do anything so that the image of Italians and fashion wouldn't be true. He is very good in it but..well I have never been into fashion. I would open my wardrobe and just take what I felt like wearing. My favourite clothes would be casual and sportive.
When I need elegant clothes for work, I used to freak out. I also want everything simple..... the mix of his knowledge and knowing that I am not a lover of elegant clothes(even if it got better)and want thinks simple...well it does help me often. But he knows the ebst thing is just give me books when he wants to give a present.
You know that hs sister used to ask him to go shopping with her because he wouldn't mind walking around for hours and watch everything she tried on and give an honest opinion about it?????? If it isn't books or sport clothes shops, i am bored after an hour of shopping.
(G)Emma wrote: "*Eats*Don't understand? How so?
I neeeddddd to buyyyy boookkssss.
Chapterssss, calling...out..."
Chapters isn't calling you!!! It is you calling your voucher or card!!!! Put it faaaar away and keep doing as well as you were!!! You can do it!!!
Jeane-I think it's lovely to feel that way about your partner! Makes you feel special and lucky you found each other.My only experience with absence, was when we did our house addition last year. My husband sent my children and I to spend 6 weeks at my mom's lake cabin. I did not anticipate this, but I would miss him so much sometimes, I would feel like crying! There's no phone there, so calls had to be planned, and it made me appreciate our relationship much more than I had.
I guess it's tru that absence makes a heart grow fonder. If not, something may be amiss;)
Kandice wrote: "Jeane-I think it's lovely to feel that way about your partner! Makes you feel special and lucky you found each other.My only experience with absence, was when we did our house addition last year...."
Those four months I was home in belgium and it were the most awful months of my life!
I think super long times apart are harder because we are constantly changing as people. You come back to as and to a different spouse! Not the same thing, I know, but my youngest brother and I were very, very close up until about 5 years ago. We spent a few weeks together last year, and I left wanting to spank him! He had been such a bright, responsible, sweet boy. Life had canged him into a bitter, grouchy, foul mouthed young man! Of course I still love him, but like?.... That's a hard one!
Oh, that. I mean about TGDT so the whole universe can read it! I would send stickeys and be all:
"What do you think of Gemma? Who is she? Who is Circe? What does this world mean?" And be all cryptic.
The library could work, but I'd have more motivation if I bought it. :D
True.....because then I will be all:
"MUST. BUY. MORE BOOKS. MUST. READ. OWNED. BOOKS. FIRST."
I will look for I Capture the Castle, and let you know as soon as I read it, okay? It's not a kissing book, right?
It sounds awesome.Fi, that's exactly why I need to buy it! So I will read it sooner!
Emma, read all the books you ahve or a lot of them and then you can buy it without feeling guilty!!!
True....it would take me all year though.Plus the rereading.....
I adore stories with castles, as long as there isn't too much kissing! There's a book I read when I was about 11, set in Scotland ( I think) with lots of castles, lords, ladies, wealth, poverty, marrying for money... I have read it maybe 15 times. I bet you would like it.Wild Cat Laura Black
Oh! But I am NOT encouraging a purchase! I mean in the future...
I would like it? The Emu would like it or the cartoon bird would like it? I'll put it on my to-reads list.HAH Fi, you're such a book pusher!
*sniffs* I'm so proud.
I GET that!!!! I promise I will look for it!
I think EVERYONE would like it! It's not a challenge though, so don't go looking for that! There is a bit of a mystery, dialects, muted action, humor, not too long.... I LOVE this book! My copy is in tatters and I will never give it up.
Well, I am NOT a nudger, I push, I push so hard people fall on the ground and then they go to the book store with scrapes on their knees.
True, I kick and kick and kick...BUT IT WORKS.
With most of them anyways.
Although your strategy works too. It's just not my style. I'm pushy.
Don't Emus spit, too? I would follow your suggestion to keep from being spit on!It's about a family of wealth. The father is an inventor, (1 daughter, Catriona) who fritters away all their money on his inventions with the doting encouragement of his frail wife. Their daughter is then left pretty much unmarriable. She does end up marrying an incredibly wealthy man that falls head over heels in love with her and seems the answer to her families prayers.
But, is he? Or does he have ulterior motives not apparent due to the sparkle of all that money in their eyes?
I don't want to spoil, so I wont say why, but she ends up running away and posing as a stable boy in her families old castle.
IN-TER-ESTing......It sounds like my type of book.
No! There is only a little romance in the beginning when the rich guy woos her, then she immediately runs away. That's the real story! Then the last few pages are romancy because she actually falls in love. That's it, the rest is castles, sneaking, hiding, lying, cheating and what not.I didn't know it wasn't available. Now I'll have to be more careful with my copy!
I just watched a Nerdfighter video talking about the hard times in book publishing:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvWETi...
I JUST WANT TO HELP JOHN. *runs to Chapters*
How about I Capture the Castle AND Potato Society? Eh???
Than I can get another copy of AGATB and put it in some awesome place!Or I could do that with a copy of AGATB in the library, and put a stickey in it.
I think the need to rant thread has turned into the I-Must-Not-Buy-Any-More-Books thread.. I got confused for a moment. At any rate, I think I am going to get myself a copy of I Capture The Castle.
Okay....TO THE I MUST NOT BUY ANY MORE BOOKS THREAD.
Lori doesn't care about this thread as long as we don't SPAM! I'm so silly I didn't know what that meant until I read the SPAMMERs Circle in Hell.
True....Well, I suppose we can stay here.
PUSH, FI, PUSH.
(G)Emma wrote: "True....Well, I suppose we can stay here.
PUSH, FI, PUSH."
She's not in labor, haha. Sorry, it was just my first thought.
I have not vowed to not buy more books, Fiona, and Brady just called me at work to ask me to take him to Borders tonight, so I will be looking for I Capture the Castle! I ownt be able to read it until I finish Outlander though, and that is super long!!!!Little Hedgemu, please refresh my memory AGATB?
I'm sorry Fiona!!!! I'm hitting the dusty trail.
We do tend to seep into other threads, don't we?And Kandice, AGATB=A Great and Terrible Beauty.
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray, a part of The Gemma Doyle Trilogy, my favorite trilogy of all time and it is absolutely AMAZTASTIC.Buy it when you go to Borders!
(Oh no, I see a fight between Fi and I over your Borders trip in the near future...)
Fiona wrote: "Vicki wrote: "I think the need to rant thread has turned into the I-Must-Not-Buy-Any-More-Books thread.. I got confused for a moment. At any rate, I think I am going to get myself a copy of I Captu..."No Need to apologize. I was never intending on abstaining from buying books. I admit to having no will power. Just need to wish harder for the room full of bookshelves :)
I have decided to compromise:On Feb 14, I will buy myself ONE book, this is in honor that I bought TSFT for myself on that exact date a year ago.
I'm sort of obsessed.
Ahem.
And that one book will be....
I Capture the Castle.
No, I'm planning to love it. :D I'm sure I will.This will also help me gulit trip you into re-reading AGATB.
Did I just say that?? ;D
*hugs back*
:D Also, a few arguments for your argument against it:
Gemma was from India. Her father treated her mother as an equal. She wasn't used to seeing women treated as inferior.
Truee...but the most experience she has had is the relationship between her mother and father.You see my logic?
Just saying. Anyways, I will get down on my knees and BEG and give you cookie, and read all the books you want me to read, for you to read TGDT.
That's what I felt like right after I finished TSFT.And then I read Twilight.
HATE. IT.
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I suspect that's exactly what he got me! I guess I should be thankful he still wants me to wear F-Me pumps after 21 years!!!!