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Bookish Ramblings

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This is my last week of work before the break, so I find myself doing last-minute, work-related items but I’m still managing to get my reading in. Yes, sometimes it’s at my desk here at work but it all counts in my book.

My favorite time of the day right now is right after dinner. The Girl and I get into our jammies, grab our latest read and head off to my room to get cozy. I am reading Last Night in Twisted River on my Kindle. Let me tell you, my Kindle is an endless source of fascination for The Girl. She taunts me with “What page are you on?” more times than I can count.

I read somewhere that the Google e-book store will have versions with page numbers, but depending on the font size you use, you could end up with 20 pages with the same page number. I’m not sure what’s worse. No page numbers or the same darn page over and over again.

 Little Women Book Cover

What is The Girl reading? She is reading Little Women. The library at her school weeds through their books regularly and takes out anything that is tattered or torn. Well, The Girl can’t stand to see a book go into the trash (I raised her right!) so she she nabs them when she can. This time, she nabbed Little Women. It’s a really old copy and very short so I can only imagine what was taken out, but she’s loving it. I just get a kick out of the fact that she is reading Little Women. She’s only seven.

As for break, a friend from work let me borrow his Harry Potter series, so that’s what I will be reading in between the books for the Indie Lit Awards shortlist. Oh, the shortlist is going to be good. I can’t wait to share it with you next week.

Speaking of breaks, what will you be reading over the holidays?

Oh, and if you don’t mind, please answer this question for me.

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Vacation Money, Sort Of

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Hey, we’re all friends here, right? I’m having a little bit of a breakdown. Not a true breakdown, but one of those “being back at work sucks” kind of breakdowns.

It started late yesterday when someone asked me to test Gmail. Somehow, the test account that I created wiped out my personal Gmail account. Additionally, it screwed-up my Google account so I was unable to get into this blog. I’ve no idea how the two are even connected but after pulling out my hair, I think I fixed it.

So today, I was given two more projects to work on. Hey, I’m a multi-tasker from WAY back. No problem, except my desktop continues to lock-up if I have more than a few applications open and with the projects at hand, I have to have several open at once so it’s not going well. Above is a pic of my frozen screen. Nothing is working except my screen capturing software, which is pretty funny if you think about it. I mean, what’s to capture when the screen is frozen?

Additionally, I am really wanting to get back to Twilight. I was in la-la land while reading it and it was a good place to be in. I feel resentful that work is interfering with that. On a happier note, my book group meets tonight so at least I will manage to get some book talk in later today.

Oh, and I almost forgot to explain the title of this post. My daughter doesn’t understand why I have to work so the other day, my husband told her that Mommy works so we can have money to go on vacation. Um, hello… but the money Mommy makes pays for the house you live in, the clothes on your back and oh yeah… the food you put in your mouth but I guess it’s nicer to think that I go to work to pay for vacation. Hmmm.