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shadowkatMother: I got to go, besides it's time for you to go to bed, you have to get up early tomorrow morning.
I live in NY and she lives in South Carolina. Kind of the equivalent of living in London and Portugal? Or maybe Greece?
At any rate - it's a plane ride or 2 day drive away.
So, I can ignore her. And I do. Besides I'm 57, I can do what I want, within reason of course. Going to bed at 9, means lying in bed for an hour, and no.
More Memage
1. Let’s talk pillows: soft/medium or hard? Synthetic/hypoallergenic, memory foam or feather (duck or goose)? How many are comfortable for you to sleep on?
2 soft large pillows, hypoallergenic, not feather (allergic).
2. Have you ever traced your ancestors? How far back can you go?
Did Ancestry dot com, and my Uncle is obsessed with ancestry and genealogy. So too was one of my great Aunts on my mother's side. So as a result, Ancestry traced my family all the way back to the 1600s. No one famous. No one remotely interesting. Also I have Irish/Scottish and Welsh blood - and they kept good records - better than most. Mainly because everyone who got born, married, etc - regardless of class was recorded.
The Swedish, German, Spanish, French and Belgium is harder - WWII did a number on those records, as it did on the English records.
I'm skeptical on accuracy - mainly because it kind of gets sketchy past around the 1700s. According to Ancestry, my mother's family made it to the US in the 1600s from Scotland and England, while my father's made it during the 1800s.
My sis-in-law claims she went back via 23 and Me to Pochantus and the Neanderfals, but I doubt it. Mainly because the Native Americans destroyed their records to keep the US government from rounding them up and killing them. Actually, if you are a minority - it's harder to trace, because a lot of records were destroyed to protect folks from slavery, or being killed at various points.
3. It’s Hobbit Day - created alongside Tolkien Week by the American Tolkien Society in 1978. Are you a fan of the Hobbits?
Yes. I loved The Hobbit, and even did the play adaptation when I was in the sixth grade. I played the Great Goblin. I was 12. It was my first major theater role in front of a paying audience.
I've not however read it since the 1980s. Did see the Rankin Bass 1970s animated musical version, which I still prefer to the Peter Jackson version...in some respects. The Hobbit, 1970 Version by Rankin Bass Productions. I think I saw it on television in 1981? It's narrated by John Houston who plays Gandalf.
Also seen the Peter Jackson version. I like Tolkien. But I'm not a purist and I wouldn't call myself a fan? In that my obsession such that it was didn't make it past the 7th grade, when I found something else.
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Damn, SmartBitches tempted me into another impulse buy. I bought Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan for $2.99 as a Kindle Daily Deal. It was finally on sale. I had originally seen it and flirted with it at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore - so not completely an impulse buy.
Advertising Blurb:
This adult epic fantasy debut from Sarah Rees Brennan puts the reader in the villain's shoes, for an adventure that is both "brilliant" (Holly Black) and "supremely satisfying" (Leigh Bardugo). Expect a rogue's gallery of villains including an axe wielding maid, a shining knight with dark moods, a homicidal bodyguard, and a playboy spymaster with a golden heart and a filthy reputation.
Synopsis Blurb:
When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of her favorite fantasy series.
She wakes in a castle on the edge of a hellish chasm, in a kingdom on the brink of war. Home to dangerous monsters, scheming courtiers and her favourite fictional character: the Once and Forever Emperor. He’s impossibly alluring, as only fiction can be. And in this fantasy world, she discovers she's not the heroine, but the villainess in the Emperor's tale.
So be it. The wicked are better dressed, with better one-liners, even if they're doomed to bad ends. She assembles the wildly disparate villains of the story under her evil leadership, plotting to change their fate. But as the body count rises and the Emperor's fury increases, it seems Rae and her allies may not survive to see the final page.
It looks like fun.
***
Today's commute featured an old homeless woman (who is mentally unstable, so I gave her a wide berth), and at 5pm was camping out in the subway station complete with suitcase, blankets,pillow, and bag.
Ah New York...it never changes.
I live in NY and she lives in South Carolina. Kind of the equivalent of living in London and Portugal? Or maybe Greece?
At any rate - it's a plane ride or 2 day drive away.
So, I can ignore her. And I do. Besides I'm 57, I can do what I want, within reason of course. Going to bed at 9, means lying in bed for an hour, and no.
More Memage
1. Let’s talk pillows: soft/medium or hard? Synthetic/hypoallergenic, memory foam or feather (duck or goose)? How many are comfortable for you to sleep on?
2 soft large pillows, hypoallergenic, not feather (allergic).
2. Have you ever traced your ancestors? How far back can you go?
Did Ancestry dot com, and my Uncle is obsessed with ancestry and genealogy. So too was one of my great Aunts on my mother's side. So as a result, Ancestry traced my family all the way back to the 1600s. No one famous. No one remotely interesting. Also I have Irish/Scottish and Welsh blood - and they kept good records - better than most. Mainly because everyone who got born, married, etc - regardless of class was recorded.
The Swedish, German, Spanish, French and Belgium is harder - WWII did a number on those records, as it did on the English records.
I'm skeptical on accuracy - mainly because it kind of gets sketchy past around the 1700s. According to Ancestry, my mother's family made it to the US in the 1600s from Scotland and England, while my father's made it during the 1800s.
My sis-in-law claims she went back via 23 and Me to Pochantus and the Neanderfals, but I doubt it. Mainly because the Native Americans destroyed their records to keep the US government from rounding them up and killing them. Actually, if you are a minority - it's harder to trace, because a lot of records were destroyed to protect folks from slavery, or being killed at various points.
3. It’s Hobbit Day - created alongside Tolkien Week by the American Tolkien Society in 1978. Are you a fan of the Hobbits?
Yes. I loved The Hobbit, and even did the play adaptation when I was in the sixth grade. I played the Great Goblin. I was 12. It was my first major theater role in front of a paying audience.
I've not however read it since the 1980s. Did see the Rankin Bass 1970s animated musical version, which I still prefer to the Peter Jackson version...in some respects. The Hobbit, 1970 Version by Rankin Bass Productions. I think I saw it on television in 1981? It's narrated by John Houston who plays Gandalf.
Also seen the Peter Jackson version. I like Tolkien. But I'm not a purist and I wouldn't call myself a fan? In that my obsession such that it was didn't make it past the 7th grade, when I found something else.
**
Damn, SmartBitches tempted me into another impulse buy. I bought Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan for $2.99 as a Kindle Daily Deal. It was finally on sale. I had originally seen it and flirted with it at the Barnes and Noble Bookstore - so not completely an impulse buy.
Advertising Blurb:
This adult epic fantasy debut from Sarah Rees Brennan puts the reader in the villain's shoes, for an adventure that is both "brilliant" (Holly Black) and "supremely satisfying" (Leigh Bardugo). Expect a rogue's gallery of villains including an axe wielding maid, a shining knight with dark moods, a homicidal bodyguard, and a playboy spymaster with a golden heart and a filthy reputation.
Synopsis Blurb:
When her whole life collapsed, Rae still had books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain that lets her enter the world of her favorite fantasy series.
She wakes in a castle on the edge of a hellish chasm, in a kingdom on the brink of war. Home to dangerous monsters, scheming courtiers and her favourite fictional character: the Once and Forever Emperor. He’s impossibly alluring, as only fiction can be. And in this fantasy world, she discovers she's not the heroine, but the villainess in the Emperor's tale.
So be it. The wicked are better dressed, with better one-liners, even if they're doomed to bad ends. She assembles the wildly disparate villains of the story under her evil leadership, plotting to change their fate. But as the body count rises and the Emperor's fury increases, it seems Rae and her allies may not survive to see the final page.
It looks like fun.
***
Today's commute featured an old homeless woman (who is mentally unstable, so I gave her a wide berth), and at 5pm was camping out in the subway station complete with suitcase, blankets,pillow, and bag.
Ah New York...it never changes.