The last time I seemed it fit to visit was to discuss my Christmas wish list. Good news! Mark purchased for me a beautiful Tibetan singing bowl! One out of three 'exotic' items is not too shabby.
At first I was a little sad because I couldn't get the bowl to sing. Then I was angry because Mark could and it was turning into the inanimate equivalent of our parakeet Claudia wherein it was purchased for me but was in love with Mark. Then I laughed at the irony of the whole situation that a Tibetan singing bowl, used for help in meditation and clearing the mind, was actually making me frustrated. But eventually I just picked it up and very half-heartedly starting rubbing the striker around the edge and tadaaa! it was singing. It was cool.
I'm really into the book series A Song of Ice and Fire which is the basis for the HBO show Game of Thrones which is the name of the first book in the series and then each successive book having its own name. I found the first book daunting. Maybe it was just because it'd been so long since I had read a book where there are a bazillion characters you're supposed to try and keep track of. And I had no idea that it was a bit fantasy- as in dragons, and sorcery, etc. But it is also all about kings and lords and knights and that's right down my alley.
So now I'm on book three with two more waiting and I was just told by a friend that there might be more after that. I'll need something light and girly very soon just to rest my weary brain.
And of course I started reading the books so that I could watch the show and then be all snobby about how the story is different and I know how and 'oh if you read the book you'd know what was happening'. Which is really why I read almost every other book nowadays since most movies and a lot of tv is based on novels. I just have to wait forever until is comes out on DVD since I don't have HBO. Sigh.
I'd like to think I'll be back before the New Year but that's iffy. But: I will be back. Until then:
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