1 New Item on My Amazon Wish-list

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! Manufacturer: Quirk Books Price: $10.36 Learn More

KAY !!!!!!! IT ARRIVED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just had a neighbour from up the street walk in on my buck naked.  Well don't walk into an open doorway without checking first!

However he did bring me two packages that had been mis-delivered.  One is Kay's 2009 RR and the other is also from Kay and when I opened it I saw a Happy Birthday card!

The missing one finally arrived !!!!!

Lust List - Charts N-Z

Simply Old Fashioned

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OK after 750 pictures in one album I finally broke Multiply. Lust List Charts are now spread over multiple albums :)

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"gorgeous Growth Rings by Ink Circles"

Hmm - catching up on the Violarium blog today I noticed this snippet:

"March/April issue of Just Cross Stitch arrived today! " .... "Then there is a cute St. Patrick's Day design by Prairie Moon, gorgeous Growth Rings by Ink Circles and a cute bunny and lots more!"

Have I been asleep again or has our favorite designer been characteristically humble about a new design ....

Hmmm - when its cool enough to go outside, I'd better go and try and track down a copy of said magazine .........

Blind-sided

I was completely blind-sided last night.

I had picked up the latest James Patterson thriller from the library, had a crappy day at work and prepared to sit down and escape into a book for a while where the goodies were good and the baddies were bad and it was a thrill a minute.

As an aside.  I read mysteries, I reader thrillers, I read fantasy, science fiction. I read pulp. I love to read as pure escapism.  I don't read high literary art.  I don't read novels that explore complex human interactions in stupefyingly dull prose.  I love a boys own rollicking good read.  For the same reason I do not read true-crime.  As most friends can attest, I don't even know who most real life crime psycho killers are!

I'm not interested in how much hurt we can do to each other.  I can read that in the newspapers.  I want a book that has tension, and action and leaves you quivering for What Happens Next (tm), a happy ending, or at least a resolution, where most of the major characters make it out alive and are ready to face the baddies in the next book.

And yes - you guessed it.  James Patterson in his latest Alex Cross novel takes our hero to Africa.  To Nigeria. To Darfur.  He introduces us to characters and then describes the atrocities they have witnessed.  Atrocities they have been victims of and then he kills them in horrifying manners through the book.   We witness our hero being tortured, we see the realities of bribery as a way of life, we hear 80% of all women in the country are raped, sometimes with pieces of wood.

James Patterson is a skilled writer.  He brought those atrocities, that are happening now, into my reality.

And he described the hopelessness of the situation.  There there's not a damn thing a normal person can do to help.

I've been thinking about this all day.  I doubt its gong to change my life in a dramatic fashion, but it reminded me of humanities passion for power and hatred of other humans.

I'm not going anywhere with this; I just had to get my thoughts out.

I'm going back to Terry Pratchett - you know where you stand in Discworld :)

Not getting much stitching done lately

I wonder why ???

And that's not including the excess of heat and the surfeit of cricket .....

Just wanted to say

Congrats USA on a smooth transition today :)