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Better show me a teasin’ squeezin’ pleasin’ kinda time

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First off, big thanks to Crystal for sending me my featured image. I ran out of pictures earlier this week, and have been recycling them all week.

Tomorrow, I’ll be heading to SlightlyBiggerTown. I’m very excited. I’ll be by myself. I’ll have my pay check. And I’ll be by myself.

I can’t wait.

Seriously. Can’t wait.

Just have to make it through today.

I moved stuff around in my bedroom, so you can move around easier. I moved the dresser next to the bed. The bed is so tall (how tall is it?) that the dresser is my night table. And it’s so big, I’m using half of it for more of a satellite night table that holds the phone, bed, and Kleenex. Haha

I even managed to do some reading! So be looking forward to a book club post this afternoon. Woo!

But it’s Sunday, and I’m watching Lucky Christmas starring Elizabeth Berkeley. I came into it half way through, and it’s terrible. Terrible in a cheesy Christmas, you know they’re gonna get together in the end kind of way.

Book Review: The Raw Shark Texts

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Welcome to my book review of The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall. As I was gathering a couple pictures, and reading the synopsis of the book to refresh myself on the book, I could swear that I’d done a review on it before. So I went to my site, and looked, I couldn’t find anything, but then again, I didn’t look too hard. It want checked off on my list, so here we are!

Imagine waking up in a strange house, with no memory of being there, no memory of yourself, no memory of anything. That’s what happened to Eric Sanderson. There’s a not to call this number, and it signed by himself, or so the note says. He calls the number and it’s his psychologist, and she tells him he has a condition.

Following a trail of clues and notes, Eric finds that he’s being hunted by a conceptual shark called a Ludovician.

I really liked this book. You can really identify with Eric, as you are going into this as blind as he is. You, like him, don’t know if you can believe the Eric that’s writing the notes. You even start to feel a little paranoid as Eric explores his past with the help of some mysterious characters that help him a long the way.

Like House of Leaves, this has some interesting printing in it. Some pictures formatted from words. At one point you actually turn what you’re reading into a flip book.

This book really does need to be on more people’s to be read lists. I really enjoyed this book, and more people should as well.

Girl when I break you off – I promise you won’t want to get off

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So work was good yesterday. I managed to put out some fires, and sell a few things. Big ticket items. I felt really good when I left the shop.

The commute home was pretty easy. Five minutes on foot and I was home. What I didn’t know is that my dad had been home since 3:30, and was working on the bed frame to the king sized mattress. I had to rush around to clean out my room. Everything out. Disassemble the day bed. Books in a old ladies style shopping cart.

Then we started to build. We stopped once to have dinner, and by 8ish I believe, the bed was on it and by 9, made and everything was back in the room.

I slept well, I didn’t stretch out I stayed in the size of the day bed. The one thing I noticed right before blissful sleep took hold was;

Wow, this is the first bed that me feet don’t hang off the end. That’s cool.

Then I was out like a light, and didn’t really move until right before my alarm went off.

Coffees on, happy Saturday y’all!

First Line Friday

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So did everyone guess correctly? Was it too difficult? Will this one stump you or not?

Ok, last weeks book was: House of Leaves. Quite possibly my favourite book. If you haven’t read it, you probably should.

And now this weeks:

The naked child ran out of the hide-covered lean-to toward the Rocky beach at the bend in the small river. It didn’t occur to her to look back. Nothing in her experience ever gave her the reason to doubt the shelter and those within it would be there when she returned.

Until next week my friends!

Policeman taps his shades – is that a Chevy 69?

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First thought this morning: yay, it’s Saturday.

Narrator: it is, in fact, not Saturday.

Least it’s Friyay, and I’m not dreaming of Saturday, on say Monday. So that’s a good thing fo sho.

I was busy helping my dad help me build a bed frame for the king size bed I got last night. The basic frame should be built by Saturday. I can’t wait to princess star-fish on it. I haven’t been able to stretch out in bed in a long time. He’s even building Crystal a step stool to get in!

Time to grab some coffee and start the day! Happy Friday everyone! We made it!