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1. Finally, per SmartBitches, someone who feels the same way I do about "Weddings"

For the record, if I were trapped in an elevator with Chris Evans and he tried to convince me to be his sandwich at a wedding, I’d refuse because weddings are super awful, especially when you’re in them. There’s, like, a lot of people and a lot of talking. And a lot of talking to people you don’t know. And sitting around waiting for stuff when it’s not polite to pull out your Kindle because you should be talking to people you don’t know. I might do it for Tom Hiddleston but only because I have suspicions about his niceness, and I need to stay on his good side.

Yep, pretty much. Although I don't find Chris Evans attractive. I don't. He's bland to me. Hmmm. So if you changed that to Hugh Jackman or Tom Ellis...

Feeling sort of validated by that comment. Now, if only I can find a rant about how horrible driving a car is ...

2.The State of the Union

So who is torturing themselves watching this thing? Or maybe you are watching for the unintentional comedic value?

The Mayor of NYC isn't attending. (Does he ever attend? He's the Mayor of NYC, really, does anyone care if he attends?) And various NY congressional representatives apparently are boycotting the State of Union Address by refusing to attend. Honestly, I get that they don't want to listen to the Doofus, but aren't the congressional reps sort of paid to attend? I thought that was part of their job description? This sounds like a lame excuse to get out of it to me.

Not that I'm watching it. But I don't have to watch it -- I don't work in politics. It doesn't matter if I watch it or not. Besides, you couldn't pay me enough to watch it. I can't bear to watch or listen to the 45th talk for five minutes in News Blurbs (without leaving the room or switching channels) and still can't say his name in correlation with the word President. So, I get why they might want to boycott it (aka not watch).

For the record, it's not like I've spent much time watching the other Presidents speeches. I did however watch Obama...mainly because he was a class act. I miss Obama.

3. "Name any fanfic that you regretted writing?"

Pretty much all of them. Not a fanfic writer. I don't like playing in other people's sandboxes. I prefer creating my own personal sandbox, where I can make all the rules and subsequently break them. (Well that, and former copyright specialist, who got a headache arguing the merits of fanfic and digital copyright in the publishing industry in the 1990s.)

4. Television?

I'm not liking the new doctor shows. Tried "The Resident" -- it doesn't work. Actually the only one that did sort of work is the popular one, "The Good Doctor".

5. Stressed at work, so I keep buying books on Amazon Kindle. Must stop. I need to figure out the library option.

I want to go to a beautiful island, with unlimited kindle charging, and just read on the beach all the time -- sipping cocktails, and eating fruit. Hmmm...maybe I should hunt down a Hawaiian vacation that will permit that? No, I know me. I'll get edgy. I can't relax and just read on vacations to exotic locals by myself.

Co-worker:So where's your next vacation?
Me: Well, I've no clue. I'll let you know as soon as I find something affordable. And preferably not with lots of other people.

Off to read one of the books I bought. It's called "Beyond the Highland Mists by Koren Morning" and yes, it's as cheesy as it sounds. Sort of reminds me of Outlander by way of the old Highlander Series and ahem, the smutty version of Tam Lin. Lots of creative adjectives that make me chortle with glee.

The set-up? The King of the Fairies and his best bud, the Fool, get annoyed when the Fairy Queen says a mere mortal is more attractive and better hung then they are. (She did it to get back at them for comparing her unfavorably to another woman. Such vain things these Immortal Fae. You'd think if you lived forever, you'd get bored of that sort of thing or over it, but apparently not.) Anyhow they decide to inflict vengeance on the poor mortal she compared to them as being far more attractive and sexy than they are. So the Fool, Adam Black, is ordered by his King to make this poor mortal's life miserable. (He can't kill him, because that would break the Fae/Human accords, apparently.) He does it by flinging a poor unsuspecting 20th Century heroine back to the 1513 Scotland. The heroine is currently on the run, after killing her abusive fiance...isn't that upset about this -- also having been born and raised in New Orleans, it actually seems plausible. She gets chosen due to the fact that she had a bad experience with a really attractive guy (the fiance she killed), believes in magic (the New Orleans bit), is an orphan (no one will miss her), and now hates beautiful men (nasty fiance). Because of course all beautiful men are evil. It could be worse, she could just hate all men in general. At least she's narrowed it down to the pretty ones. Which would be more helpful, if she wasn't an insanely attractive woman sent back in time and now, once again, surrounded by beautiful men. (I mean what are the odds?) She decides that apparently men just are more attractive in the 1500s. (She needs to get out more.)

Anyhow, Adrienne De Simone ends up getting flung backwards in time, so that she can be forced to marry Sidheach James Douglas...a Scottish Earl, aka The Hawk. (Who is a legendary womanizer that no woman on earth can resist..including our heroine, although she's trying really hard to at the moment.) Got to love these names. Did people actually have names like this?

I don't know why the Fae thought flinging a beautiful heterosexual woman who is clearly attracted to hot powerful men back in time would work? If I were them, I'd hunt a lesbian or bisexual with bad experiences with beautiful men, and fling her back in time. Then if he fell in love with her -- it would decidedly not work in his favor. Here? There's always the risk she might give in. (Which of course she does, it's a romance novel, hello.) In fact, they could have her fall in love with the woman he dumped, the gypsy, Esmeralda, who keeps trying to kill her. That of course would be an entirely different novel...

At any rate, I'm finding the novel hilarious (possibly unintentionally so, hard to tell), and a lot of fun. Even if I can't help but snark at the plot -- actually that's part of the fun.