Cheap people need to be beheaded!

Oh minor rant!

I know I work with food, and that people want to try before they buy, but let me speak for everybody who has to work with food & people:
STOP BEGGING FOR FREE SHIT!
Really people, we really hate you. Seriously. It's not cute. It's not funny. It's not you're god given right to get shit for free. Just because you asked, does not mean you deserve to get it for free.

So stop it.

Come visit me at my condo on the river Styx!

Yeah, 3 days in a row! Awesomeness. Maybe I can actually focus enough to do this faithfully. Maybe regularly? Anyway, I'm excited. Go me.

Just spent 2 hours after a long ass day on my feet organizing my Fantasy section at home. Yes, this is my sad idea of relaxing. It made me realize, I have too many gorram books! Not really, just too many unfinished series. Damn you Robert Jordan! Will you just finish the damn series so that I can can finally finish it?! I refuse to reread the WOT series until I know for a damn fact that he will NOT put out any more books.

Oh Fuck. While searching for a link to put with the above rant I realized the Robert Jordan recently died. My condolences to the family & no disrespect meant. Well, it's not like my feet weren't burnt raw already. At least I see that someone else means to continue the series.

Now something completely different.

I had the most bizarre realization, which I'm sure most people think is obvious. Ringtones are the soundtracks of our lives. Right now mine plays the theme to Halloween. That says something folks. I also have Under Pressure & Fat Bottom Girls by Queen, Smooth Criminal by Alien Ant Farm and Just a Girl by No Doubt. Now I know that this seems to say that I'm a fat, psychotic girl who's under pressure and everyone keeps asking me if I'm ok, but it really means that I like fluffy bunnies. Fluffy bunnies that go boom! Yup let's go with that!

I'm so looking forward to the finale of Dancing with the Stars! I'm such a sucker for these reality shows. I used to watch many more of them, but now I culled it down to DWTS, So you think you can dance, Top Chef, Hell's Kitchen (on FF) and most definitely my all time favorite: Project Runway! It is just brilliant! I love shinyness. Have I mentioned that I'm a absolute Dragon? Shiny things good. Humans crunchy. Errr, ignore that last bit. The shitty news is that I have to wait until Thursday to watch both the dances & the finale! I'm working close today, well worked close, and I close tomorrow & I work a double Wednesday. It sucks being el Capitan. What's worse is that the store doesn't close until 11pm. The joy of working in a casino. Drunks, & Beggars & Pervs, Oh my!

Final random thought of the night:
I just listened to Hammerhead by The Offspring, The More I Drink by Blake Shelton & See You Again by Miley Cyrus on my ITunes. What does that say?

I love me some great books!

Yeah to good friends who look out for you!

Props to my girl Mac! She totally hooked me up with some awesome autographed books. A very good author, Charlaine Harris came to the Bookstore to sign some books (what was she supposed to sign? Shoes? Stilettos, size 9, black? Ooh, I have an awesome pair of them!) She's the author of the Southern Vampire Mystery series, aka the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries. She has three(?) other series that I haven't read yet, though I'm going to do the Grave series next. Mac had Charlaine sign the last 3 SS and the first 2 Grave books for me. Shiny! She's up there for some of my favorite authors. I used to sell her in the Paranormal Starter Kit along with LKH (before she insulted the intelligence of her readers), Kim Harrison ( love the pixies!), Kelley Armstrong (the best werewolf coming to terms story ever!!!!), Jim Butcher (how we loves the anti-hero) , Rachel Caine (fucking love this series, such an awesome idea, damn you for thinking of it first, ughhhhhh), MJD (asshat, hee),and Simon R Green (such a cool power!). There are tons of others though.

It's scary how many books I have. Having just moved, believe you me, I know. I'm estimating around 1500. Mostly MM thankfully. Mac came over to visit the new pad & I put her to work helping me unpack them. I'm an evil wench, but she took it in stride. It's scary because my books aren't just organized by genre, no, but by subgenre, mostly based on the Bookstore's guidelines, with some tweaking of course. I will always be a tweaker. That just sounded dirty & wrong. Ok, then. And the books are alphabetized. That's what you get when 2 booksellers get to organizing a library/den. How fucking cool is that! I have a library! Woohoo!

I'm in the process of reading 4 (?) books. I never know exactly, since I tend to put down a book if it's slow and something good comes out. Let's see: there's The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko. The premise is really interesting, a nice twist on the paranormal. I'm enjoying the Communist era background. It seems refreshing compared to the uberhip locales of many paranormals. Exotic without being farfetched, since clearly this is a part of contemporary history. It's intriguing to see the mindset of the author, it's very telling of the era. We all learned about the communist era (well I hope you did), hell I even got to experience it for a bit, but as an adult, I'm appreciating the sociological aspects of the time. Or maybe I'm reading a little too deep into it. Anyway, it the 1st of a trilogy, so we'll see how sucked into it I'll get.

I'm also reading Ghosts in the Snow by Tamara Siler Jones. It always annoyed me that we had to shelve this in the fantasy section. Ok, so it's set in a traditional fantasy setting, but to me it seems it could be a historical mystery. There's forensics, (reminiscent of Caleb Carr's the Alienist, an excellent, intelligent psychological thriller) that relate to an accurate portrayal of the time, and it's a true whodunnit mystery, with a healthy helping of a paranormal twist. Now, Abby Cooper, P.I by Victoria Laurie (another fantastic series), is considered a cozy mystery, even though the main character is a psychic. Shouldn't it be categorized with scifi? Oh, and before you go into a "there's a big difference between fantasy & scifi and its actually science fiction blah blah yakkitty smakkitty", you're preaching to the unholy choir! However, I've never been allowed to split the categories up in either of the bookstores I've worked in. So, I did it at home. Ha. Regardless, the category sums it up: scifi (definition) : category of entertainment that accounts for anything not natural to the natural world and which most people are afraid to try to get into because it uses big words like terraforming, and android and thingiemabob. Just try it people, there's something in that section you will like! Just go and look for it! Alrighty, finding my center and yes, now back on track. The mystery & setting are well thought out so far and this is definitely the book I'm focusing on now.

I started Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry a while back and haven't gone back to it yet. It started when I saw Comanche Moon on TV, ooohhhh, Karl Urban & Steve Zahn. Made me remember that I like Westerns! Huge fan of the Young Riders & the Magnificent Seven (Eric Close was one of my first husbands and who doesn't love Michael Biehn? (Kyle I heart thee!) )
And it won a Pulitzer so I thought I'd give the first in the series a shot. Hee. I like puns. Well, I think I'd rather see a Western than read one, which is quite mind boggling. But, I will not give up without a fight. Speaking of westerns, I can't wait to watch 3:10 to Yuma with another one of my husbands, Christian Bale. See, now here I'm excited!

Finally, or at least the last one I can remember, I'm "reading" The Law of Attraction by Jerry and Esther Hicks. I am trying to get past the hokey aspects of the book and actually focus on the guiding philosophy of the text. For someone who enjoys preternatural topics like I do, it's disconcerting to find out that I'm a bit of a skeptic. Ok, more than just a bit, but I love to imagine these farfetched ideals but have a lot of trouble believing in them. I'm very realistic, pragmatic if you will, about faith and supernatural abilities. Ok, so it's like this:

1. I believe we are not alone
2. I believe that there are forces in the universe that science has not been able verify yet, due to lack of sophisticated technology
3. I believe there is the possibility of supernatural beings to be with us, I just do not believe that it is probable

I'm trying to change my attitude and focus on the positive so that more positive will come to me. I'm still working on the believing aspect of it. I will report on how things come about.

I'll end on that note tonight.

Have a good one!