Math has never been my strong suit, so it’s no wonder that I might have over-promised with the whole November blog posting thing. By my calculations, I now owe you five posts in as many days, not counting the weekend. Not sure how exactly this happened, but as I am a woman of my word, I will do my best to follow through.
Things I love today:
1. The Twilight series. Some days, I fancy myself the next J.K. Rowling. I keep thinking I have the next big fantasy young adult series buried deep within me and it’s just dying to get out and make me rich.
But before I could get started on my first Barry Trotter book, someone named Stephenie Meyer beat me to the punch. Twilight is the story of a teenage girl named Isabella “Bella” Swan and Edward Cullen, the vampire she falls in love with. My friend Laura gave it to me when I was in the States a few months ago, but I hadn’t started reading it until last week.
Just to give you a little perspective on how much I loved it: Even though it was heinously cold this weekend and I was so sick with this ridiculous cold, I actually trudged a mile and a half in sweatpants and Uggs just to buy the sequel yesterday. I take that back…I bought ALL THREE SEQUELS yesterday. I’m already halfway through the second one. Love.
2. Thanksgiving in London. I know I don’t get any time off this week, and I know there will be no relaxing four days eating turkey leftovers and watching football, but there will still be thanking and giving, sohelpmegod. Meghann and Mike will be in town as of Thursday morning, and on Saturday, we will be cooking up a delicious Turkey Day feast.
I ordered a 15 lb. turkey from the only Whole Foods in town and I am assured by a “bitcher” with a Scottish accent that it will arrive in time for us to figure out how to cook it, and then do so. Also on the menu: mashed sweet potatoes, regular roast potatoes, squash casserole, green beans, and apple pie. Just like the pilgrims intended it (they were, for all intents and purposes, British after all).
3. Lemsip. Here in the UK, we have this lemony goodness that dissolves in hot water and when you drink it, it makes you feel better…as if it were served up by Mary Poppins herself. I don’t know what the hell is in this stuff, but if I couldn’t buy it in my local Boots, I might be tempted to score it down at the docks. That’s how much it’s like crack to my virus-addled body.
4. Alex being back in town. I’ll spare you the schmooptacularity of it all, but suffice it to say that being sick, sleeping excessively, eating copious amounts of Pho soup, walking to the bookstore to buy emergency young adult fiction….It’s all much better when he’s in town.
5. Visitors. There are no words to describe my joy at having Meghann and Mike in town this week. Bonus: Their visit will no doubt buy me at least a day’s worth of blog fodder this week.
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Alice - Random comment from a person you don't know. I loved Twilight too but am starting to wonder what is wrong with me that I enjoy young adult fiction so. I read the entire series in a weeklong vacation at the beach in August. I was antisocial to the nth degree. But it was worth it!
-Sharon (worked at CSD with Meghann)
I read the first sentence of this post as "Meth has never been my strong suit..." which caused a double take in the career station this morning. Thank goodness meth is not your strong suit, I would hate for you to turn to hardcore drugs in order to meet your self-imposed deadlines. Hugs, not drugs, Shirls.
Have you seen this? Twilight from Edward's perspective?
http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html
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