Birthdays, books, and the 50 closest non-friends meme

Happy birthday to my sister, Jill! She won't see this, but I wanted to say it anyway :)

I'm just past the 1st chapter of Moab is my Washpot (which is quite a ways into the book, as Mr. Fry's chapters are *long*), and am enjoying it immensely. Stephen, his life, and his writing are truly fascinating.

I got around to doing the 50 closest non-friends meme. Not sure why things like paidmembers are on there, but I do recognize many of the names.

1: amorettea, 2: kalyw, 3: paidmembers, 4: julian_love, 5: aithine, 6: tir, 7: jakejr, 8: sjsharks, 9: tersa, 10: witchqueen, 11: wereadshite, 12: cassieclaire, 13: lotrboys_daily, 14: resonant8, 15: thamiris, 16: thenightsfall, 17: mecurtin, 18: gryffleclaw, 19: leiabelle, 20: flambeau, 21: gblvr, 22: mimesere, 23: movielady, 24: connexions, 25: ninglor, 26: sidewinder, 27: destina, 28: ebonlock, 29: denialcorp, 30: contrelamontre, 31: aelfsciene, 32: cyranocyrano, 33: slin, 34: liviapenn, 35: cycnus39, 36: ckr, 37: mabiana, 38: mediawestfen, 39: danielmedic, 40: jenwrites, 41: snaples, 42: prillalar, 43: dolimir, 44: natlyn, 45: brighidestone, 46: velvetglove, 47: ingrid_m, 48: codyne, 49: pearl_o, 50: 3jane

Enjoyed this week's Tremors, thus the new icon. I've been shuffling the icons around quite a lot lately. 10 icons just isn't enough, dash it.

Also, welcome skutir!

Birthdays, shopping, and 3rd PotC viewing...

*sigh* I say, I'm ever so glad to be home. What a long day!

Today was "no tax day" in Georgia, so my entire family drove down in order to do back-to-school shopping (for my sis and bro), birthday shopping for Jill, and do the usual birthday lunch thing. Lunch was at Golden Corral, and was surpisingly good. Shopping was in Calhoun and Kennessaw, and was...well, mixed. Everyone who knows me well knows I hate shopping (except for books) and can only handle so much of it before I feel like a fidgeting child who just wants to get out of there already. I did find a shirt, though, and something else that made me *very* happy.

Books! Yes, of course books :) I was poking around the discount book store, and was about to dispair when I saw the wonderful name of PG Wodehouse on the spines of 3 paperbacks. I pounced, and have now acquired Carry On, Jeeves,; How Right You Are, Jeeves; and Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. I am Jeevesless no more! I'm still going to finish Moab is my Washpot, but it's so nice to have new adventures with Bertie and Jeeves in my possession.

Also found cheap copies of Neil Gaiman's Stardust, and Artemis by Julian Stockwell (who is another Age of Sail writer, sort of a successor to Patrick O'Brian). Much happiness.

Also for Jill's birthday, we all went to see Pirates of the Caribbean, since she hadn't seen it yet. This makes my 3rd viewing, and I made sure to take notes (in the dark theatre, so it's amazing they're legible).

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I'm glad to be home. On the whole, today was fun, but the shopping was too much for my tolerance and I'm worn out.