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starshadow_rivaulx) wrote2008-07-16 11:28 pm
starshadow_rivaulx) wrote2008-07-16 11:28 pm
::humming 'It's Gonna Rain' from Rurouni Kenshin::
So. There was a meeting of this women’s group I was supposed to attend. Not obligatory, but being a newly-minted member of the Board of Trustees, it would have been nice for me to have been there.
And I would have been, I was looking forward to seeing the National Historical Institute and all, but...it was raining, I’d been rousted out of bed at 1AM and 5AM, and by the time I opened my eyes after going back to sleep from the second wake-up, I just couldn’t stand up to save my life. One look at the clock told me that I could never make the 9AM meeting if I got out of the house at 8.30AM *in the rain*!
Of course I sent my apologies, and I’ll definitely be attending the trustees’ meeting on Saturday to make up for it. With a draft of my newsletter assignment, to sweeten things. (Which reminds me that I haven’t typed up my notes of the last meeting - dear heavens, has it been a month already?)
It’s been a quiet day all around. I finished the heel and gusset of the second of Ramon’s Laker socks, and so now it’s straight knitting till it’s time to shape the toes. ::bounce:: Once I’m done with these socks, I can think of working something flat, like a shawl or something.
I realized that I’m reading again. I managed to get through The Boleyn Inheritance and The Other Boleyn Girl, and quite a few Mills&Boon stories by my favorite author, Betty Neels. I managed to inventory my “books to read” cabinet, and it was gratifying to see that I have been able to move out some books! There are new titles now on the shelves, of course. My wishlist now has the new book in the Temeraire quintet, at least one or two titles in the Kushiel series, and one in the Sword of Truth series listed.
It feels good to be reading again, that’s for sure. Currently I’m on a Tudor/English history kick. All the books at the top of my queue have to do with Mary Boleyn, Mary Tudor (who became queen of France, then Countess Suffolk), Margaret Tudor (who became Queen of Scotland), and life in the court of Elizabeth I (another Philippa Gregory book). There’s a book on the two Princes of the Tower, whom Richard III is accused of murdering; and there’s a book by Jean Plaidy about Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles II of England.
Then there are the computer manuals. Darn if I’m not learning stuff I wish I knew back when the iBook was so new I was afraid to breathe on it. ::chuckle:: Somehow, somewhere, I’ve managed to carve out niches of time to read and knit and still catch up with online life. Not bad, say I.
:)
And I would have been, I was looking forward to seeing the National Historical Institute and all, but...it was raining, I’d been rousted out of bed at 1AM and 5AM, and by the time I opened my eyes after going back to sleep from the second wake-up, I just couldn’t stand up to save my life. One look at the clock told me that I could never make the 9AM meeting if I got out of the house at 8.30AM *in the rain*!
Of course I sent my apologies, and I’ll definitely be attending the trustees’ meeting on Saturday to make up for it. With a draft of my newsletter assignment, to sweeten things. (Which reminds me that I haven’t typed up my notes of the last meeting - dear heavens, has it been a month already?)
It’s been a quiet day all around. I finished the heel and gusset of the second of Ramon’s Laker socks, and so now it’s straight knitting till it’s time to shape the toes. ::bounce:: Once I’m done with these socks, I can think of working something flat, like a shawl or something.
I realized that I’m reading again. I managed to get through The Boleyn Inheritance and The Other Boleyn Girl, and quite a few Mills&Boon stories by my favorite author, Betty Neels. I managed to inventory my “books to read” cabinet, and it was gratifying to see that I have been able to move out some books! There are new titles now on the shelves, of course. My wishlist now has the new book in the Temeraire quintet, at least one or two titles in the Kushiel series, and one in the Sword of Truth series listed.
It feels good to be reading again, that’s for sure. Currently I’m on a Tudor/English history kick. All the books at the top of my queue have to do with Mary Boleyn, Mary Tudor (who became queen of France, then Countess Suffolk), Margaret Tudor (who became Queen of Scotland), and life in the court of Elizabeth I (another Philippa Gregory book). There’s a book on the two Princes of the Tower, whom Richard III is accused of murdering; and there’s a book by Jean Plaidy about Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles II of England.
Then there are the computer manuals. Darn if I’m not learning stuff I wish I knew back when the iBook was so new I was afraid to breathe on it. ::chuckle:: Somehow, somewhere, I’ve managed to carve out niches of time to read and knit and still catch up with online life. Not bad, say I.
:)
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He's my boy!
I still need to see Elizabeth. I'm so behind.
Glad you're reading again!
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:)
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