no witty titles.

I have rug burn.

On my knees.

No, i didn't get it the way you think i got it, but perhaps the way i did get it is just as amusing for you.

Okay, so you've sucked me into it (what is it with these damn sexual references?).

When i come home from work, one of the most important things for me to do is strip. i take my uniform off. get that wretched thing away from me. then i check my email. i may have checked it 20 minutes ago at work, but i'm checking it again. then i'm checking my blogroll, to see what you people have to say (again, i may have checked 20 minutes ago but it doesn't matter). after all this i will get dressed in normal, non-work-related clothing (okay, so maybe it's just a tank top and pajama bottoms) and think about dinner.

so yesterday i had followed this sequence and was sitting on the living room floor responding to a journal in my underwear and a key turns in the lock. it was 5:43, and christen wasn't supposed to get off work until 6. i freaked. i abandoned the laptop, crawling for the bedroom as fast as my knees would take me. i hid in the doorway (still unclothed, it didn't occur to me to cover myself in case it really was someone other than christen) and watched the person on the other side of the door emerge. it was christen.

he got off early, got a haircut, and came home to me.

So now my knees have rug burn.

I should start getting dressed before taking my place on the floor with my laptop.

if only they had asked about books...

a new post in a new template

so i tried a new template today, but the problem is that it's not written for blogger so i had to take the template and fiddle with it for the last two hours so that it was readable. not so easy for those such as me who don't know much html and have to teach it to ourselves on the fly. i still have two problems.

1.) the comments on yesterday's post "more of the same" won't show up and therefore i can't access the comments page of that post, and

2.)also in the comments (but the other posts with comments, such as in "i swear i'm not a whiny bitch") the comments show up but there's no space between the separate comments so it ends up just a block and is very difficult to read. if anyone has suggestions, i would greatly appreciate it.

we had a lovely day today, despite my waking up in a terrible mood. i picked fights all morning and burst into tears at the credit union. after that, though, i was much better and we did a good deal of shopping. i found my mecca of shoe stores: dsw. shea tells me about this place all the time and i hadn't had a chance (or much need) to stop in, but woohoo! i went today and bought 4 pairs of shoes that would cost me more than $300 dollars but i spent about $100. also bought: garden state, 84, charing cross road by helen something or other, take the cannoli by sarah vowell, and stranger than fiction by chuck palahniuk. good stuff. it was a great day, and i got to follow it up with dinner at mimi's so i could have a wonderful broccoli and cheddar quiche. mm, mmm, good.

the change to the title of this blog is because i keep feeling like i can't find a name that illustrates me. book lust is the name of a book i came across at b&n today, and i think it fits. so book lust i shall be.

i have nothing more, being that i spent so much time on the template today. i can't think anymore. off to read. yay!

hey look! i'm the chick from andre!

Deb





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don't shea and kyle look so sweet? this is from their engagement dinner at macaroni grill (shea's brother is to the left) 

more of the same.

movies watched in the past two days:

napoleon dynamite. interesting; the first half kinda dragged by, but the second half was hilarious. and he's such a good dancer! the audio commentary was friggin' funny too, and i only watch them if the actors are talking (like LOTR and kevin smith movies) because they have a much funnier outlook than the damn writer/producer/director -- and what do i care about them?

king arthur. i don't generally like the "epic film," but it was pretty good. i guess. i saw through it without hurling fake blood, so i guess that's good.

the stepford wives. i had no preconceptions about this film, and i really have no postconceptions either. it was pretty decent, though predictable.

books read in the past two days:

the secret life of bees. amazing. fabulous. here -- let me consult the dictionary for more synonyms: aces, amazing, astonishing, astounding, bang-up, best, breathtaking, cool, crack, dilly, doozie, extravagant, fab, fantastic, fictitious, first class, gone, greatest, groovy, immense, in spades, inconceivable, incredible, legendary, marvelous, mind-blowing, out-of-this-world, outrageous, peachy, phenomenal, primo, prodigious, rad, remarkable, spectacular, striking, stupendous, super, superb, terrific, top drawer, tops, turn-on, unbelievable, unreal, wicked, wondrous.

so there.

now on to hoot by carl hiaasen, which is about florida, and looks to be pretty good because florida is, as he says, "an armpit compared to montana."

or so i've been told.

shea's engagement ring.