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First day back at work not as stressful as I feared. Also have a bit of respiratory ailment that may or may not be allergy related. Doctor or allergist? Maybe both? Don't want to see either...but over the holidays learned sisinlaws mom had stage 4 lung cancer and has maybe a year to live. Outside of shortness of breath there were no real symptoms or so she claims. She also refuses to get insurance, claiming it's cheaper without it.

Outside of my cousin who thought the season finale of Dexter was awesome....and one online friend who liked it, everyone else I know of...hated S6. Making me think I should skip and just rent Homeland instead.

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Learned the hard way that the video game The SIMS is dangerous for one's pocketbook. Note to self, do not plant pumpkins and do not give in to prompts. They want you to spend money. It's like Echo Bizarre in that way. Sneaky. If you don't spend money, you can't move forward. The other dangerous item is the kindle where you can purchase books instantly for no more than 3-6 bucks. If I'm not careful the combo of the kindle and the iPad could become wickedly expensive. Wish I could figure out how to borrow books from the library on the thing.

With all the best of the year lists going around...I've realized I can't do one for movies, books or music...because haven't really read anything published in 2011, and most of the movies I saw I can't remember. Music? Everything was created prior to 2011 as far as I know. Or I just can't remember.

So...have a sort of meme?

* What was your favorite song or album of 2011? Or what song or album or singer would you rec for 2011?
* What was your favorite movie? What film would you recommend?
* What was your favorite book? What book?

Mine are:
1. Mumford and sons
2. Crazy,stupid, love
3. Graceling by Kristin Cashore - a YA fantasy novel about a young woman born with the ability to fight, not what you think and oddly the most vivid of the books I read last year, even if I read it last Jan.