I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they panic and give in ( Read more... )

I finally got around to watching The Departed the other night.  I never saw it in the theater and I've been sitting on the dvd for a couple months.  I'm still not used to all the free time at night I have now or I would watched it earlier.  I should probably do some kind of review for the movie, but I don't bloody well feel like it.  You don't like ( Read more... )

Man, what a weekend.  Most of the milk at my store is HyVee (name brand) and Roberts.  Roberts handles the distribution and delivery for brands and, well, apparently because of the holiday their milk supply was royally screwed up.  We should have gotten a big delivery of milk for Friday, but Roberts was out so we didn't get hardly anything.  Out of ( Read more... )

Last month, at the recommendation of a friend, I started reading the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher, on which the Sci-Fi tv show is based.  I was immediately hooked and just finished the 9th and most recent book earlier this week.  The series is a light and entertaining read about a wizard who solves mysteries and fights evil in Chicago ( Read more... )

1. WHERE IS YOUR CELL PHONE? desk.

2. RELATIONSHIP? still single.

3. YOUR HAIR? brown.

4. WORK? 40 hours a week and really early mornings.

5. YOUR SISTER? only child.

6. YOUR FAVORITE THING? my library.

7. YOUR DREAM LAST NIGHT? don't remember, unusual since i often do remember.

8. YOUR FAVORITE DRINK? lemonade.

9. YOUR DREAM ( Read more... )

I dedicate this post to all our troops and veterans.  We should always remember and honor their sacrifice.

Last night I finished reading a mystery book I pre-ordered on Amazon last month, A Coin for the Ferryman by Rosemary Rowe and the ninth book in the Libertus series.  The series is set in Roman Britain around 180 AD and stars Libertus, a mosaic artist who moonlights as a dectective for his patron.  I say detective lightly since this is a modern term ( Read more... )

I love to make lists and this is a list of my favorite books.  These are a list of my personal favorites, not a Top Ten Best list.  I hate rating my books compared to other books so I listed them alphabetically rather than numerically, except for the top two which are both most definitely tied for my all-time favorites.  I also couldn’t whittle it ( Read more... )

When I was in school I used to love three day holidays.  I mean, who doesn't enjoy a day off from school?  But now that I work in a job that allow for them, it's no longer as fun anymore.  You know why they put a holiday on Monday; so that federal employees get an extra day off for no particular reason.  Most everyone else takes advantage of the ( Read more... )

A couple months ago I bought a grooming kit that consisted of a trimmer and several styling heads.  The idea was for me to trim some of my hair myself and possibly working up to cutting all of it.  I don't hate getting haircuts, but I do consider it a bother (shaving too).  If it were possible to genetically engineer people to stop growing head and ( Read more... )