Bits of Life

How the heck did I get a 14-year-old in the body of a 4-year-old? It is amazing really. I thought it would take years to perfect the tone of frustration and angst that one can inject into the word, ‘fine’. Apparently I have an over-achiever or is she just amazingly gifted? Dunno.

Pretty sure I didn’t win the Forrester.

Got my Harry P. It sure is dark. I’m only 80 pages in so far, but wow. Not really a kid’s book. Brilliant, though.

I missed the Farmer’s Market today. That is disappointing. At 8 I was ready. By 9 (when it started) I had already forgotten about it until 2 (ended an hour previous). DANG! No fresh green beans for me. You know, if I were incredibly rich (I’d have to be to justify the expense), I would have my own cook. I wouldn’t have to cook or grocery shop every again.

And I wouldn’t miss it.

And they could make me a coffee with chocolate and whipped cream–everyday!

And I would have acne for the rest of my wealthy little life.

See, coffee, it seems, gives me acne. Not really, fair, is it? I finally get a hankering for it, and it gives me zits. Okay, okay, not really a hankering for coffee per se, more like all the sugar and fat I put in it. Oh yes, yummy, yummy. Offer me a little coffee wit some chocolate in it and a little shipped cream and I’m like, “Let’s see…wonderful, warm, cozy drink that is sweet and yummy and delectable or…give me that damn drink already!”

I got a ‘gift’ card with my Harry P since I ordered it from Chapters. You can win $5-$1000 if you spend more than 50 bucks in store in August. I am such a sucker for contests lately. I even almost entered a contest for Coke. (That icoke thingy, and then I realized that more than likely, I would have to give out personal info that I am really not that interested in sharing and I wouldn’t win anyway.) But back to Chapters. I am a sucker for books. SUCKER! But, I hate to spend so much on them. But that card is so tantalizing. What if I won $1000! Could you imagine all the books I could buy! Oh my god! It would be heaven! I spent over $800 in Chapters in two hours one day. Okay, it was for work. But it was SO much fun!

Anyway, if I won that, I would buy all of Meg Cabot’s books (or at least the adult ones). I’d even buy hardcover. I love Meg’s blog. I’m not much of a blog reader, but I read hers. I’d love to meet her. She’s got a crazy cat, Gem, that she has dubbed, ‘Slutty McSlut A lot’. That is just too funny. That is something that we would do. I mean, we do have a cat named ‘M’. Not from James Bond, either. As in ‘LMNOP’. Yup, and they let us name a PERSON!

New Books!

Finally remembered to cancel the insurance on the Golf. We are getting lots of calls on the Golf from Auto Trader. They said they could mark it as sold–which obviously they haven’t. They even called last night to ask if we wanted to continue the ad. Crazy. At least it isn’t on their website.

We went to Chapters yesterday to buy a book for a friend for his birthday and we bought a ton of books. No wonder we are broke all the time! We spend! We did save a lot of money. I got four novels for the price I would pay for used ones. (And they are new. It was a buy three, get the fourth free. (And they averaged the prices of all four to give you money off instead of you getting the cheapest one for free.) Plus we got to use our Chapters coupon for $5 off, plus our irewards! So, basically, I paid about $6 a book instead of $10. I like that!

Here’s what I got:

The Nanny Diaries ~ Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Everyone Worth Knowing ~ Lauren Weisberger
Careful What You Wish For ~ Lucy Finn
Swapping Lives ~ Jane Green (I love her! I’m saving this one for the cottage!)

Let’s hope that today is Yaris pick up day! Cross your fingers for me!