By which I mean, so much for having high-speed Internet making me blog more often. I can't believe it's been over month. For what it's worth, I'm posting on TLU only slightly more frequently.
Nothing much new to report, to be honest. My money troubles worsen, alas, even though Mr Oro is now contracted for a job from his old employers. We're half living off of one credit card - while I pay the other one down (now only $1100). I refuse to bring money over from the UK, though. That's one nest egg I don't want to touch, in fact I'd like to forget it exists. On the plus side, I was able to pay off my electric bill in its entirety last month, though I'm still behind a month on the phone. And, for the next few days at least, it's only going to cost about $25 to fill my gas tank. (for my European friends, I, for one, would not mind paying more for gas if the extra bits were going towards taxes instead of oilco profits) Lessee, what else is going on...
...eh, not much. No plans to go digital with the tv, we've decided to stick with HULU and other, er, sources.
Ahem.
I find myself sitting here, wondering what the hell to blog about. So much has happened and yet when I sit down to write about it, I somehow find other things to do, like check out my bloglines, window (web-ow?) shop, read books I've borrowed from work, oo, here you go, here are some titles we like:
There Is No Me Without You - depressing and inspiring story about a woman who, after the death of her youngest daughter from AIDS, ends up running her country's first orphanage/adoption agency for children of AIDS victims as well as children with the disease.
The Unthinkable - fabulous book about who survives when bad things happen, and why. Highly recommended! I think i've mentioned before that when I was about 5 years old I was in a 3 alarm house fire? We lived on the bottom floor of this apartment building and my mother's car, a big old black Caddy, very Hawaii Five-0, was set on fire by someone. Her parking space was on the other side of her bedroom wall, where I just happened to be sleeping...and I remember waking up, hearing the crackling of the flames, the popping of the wood, the smoke drifting over my head. I did what all children do, I hid under the covers instead of getting my mom.
Anyway, my point is that I am hyperparanoid about fire. A smoke alarm goes off and what goes through my brain is GETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUTGETOUT. I have been in house fires and building alarms since, and it never ceases to amaze me, the people who chat and giggle and mosey on into other rooms to get coats and purses and stupid crap when, y'know, THEY MIGHT BE SECONdS FROM DEATH. Yes, I am one of those people who count seats to the exits - forwards and backwards - when I get on the plane. I do think about what I'd do in X situation. I do cross the street when I get hinky feelings...some think I'm paranoid, me, I just believe in being prepared. Over the years I've read many a suvival manual, but this book is great in that it really aims to get people to think about being in a certain frame of mind regardless of where they are, how they're dressed, or what they're doing. Frex, one thing I do when I go for a walk in the woods on an unfamiliar trail, or just bushwhack, is to look behind me to see where I've been, the logic being that I'm less likely to get lost if, when I finally do turn around, I see a 'familiar' tree that I've already walked by. I'm pretty sure I read that in Deep Survival, but it might be another title.
Right now I'm in the midst of reading:
The Book of Air and Shadows - so far, okay.
The Last Season - need a stocking stuffer?
All the Colors Of Darkness - yay for advanced reader copies sent to bookstores! So far, very good.
The Terror - I enjoyed it.
On the agenda:
Okay, gotta go...til next time - !
Oro
ETA: er, piccies next time.
Hey-
Thanks for your comment. It really brightened my day. And yeah, that hating pregnant women thing, hard to give that up even with one beautiful child...
Posted by: Anne | November 25, 2008 at 10:05 PM