The downside of not having my desktop is that I am then tempted to go looking at desktops. Like the new Vaios. And Macs. I'm so broke.

Hubby is very much closer to having a job. Which means he's expecting a recruiter to call him with an official job offer in the next few days. He got an official one Friday, but the job doesn't actually open until September 19. We're hoping to not have to spend another entire month with no money.

So, anyway, too tired to write. Too tired for anything. Going to watch TV and sleep now.

From Writer's Digest:

You wake up in jail and have no memory of how you got there. As you pace around the cell, you find five items in your pocket from the night before. As you look at each piece, the night slowly comes back to you. Write about your night, why you have these five items and how you ended up in jail.

Keeping this for later.

I am emo about today. But I've pigged out on Twizzlers and pistachios and sangria, so we'll skip that part for now.

I have these vaguely nebulous plans in my head to start writing again once hubby finds a job and I have some time to myself around work. Right now there's really not much. And it's not like there's anything in my head demanding to be written. I just... want to make myself write. But not so much so that I'm going to piss hubby off by writing while he's wanting me to watch TV with him.

Yeah, I know I'm whining. It happens sometimes.

Someone tell me something that relates in some way to the real world. I feel disconnected.

Warren said to start a band.

And despite the fact that I don't have the time, energy, or resources... I still want to do it. Damn him.

I'll offer up some 5 minute drabbles to anyone that wants to drop a prompt on me. Make it as specific or vague as you want.

Today was my day off. So we went to see Dark Knight. First, though, I watched Dead Man's Chest. And now I am watching Batman Forever, despite the silliness.

I am in desperate need of a copy of Crooked Little Vein, now that it's in paperback. And more comics. And a notebook to write in. Also, was I the only one that didn't know that Jessica Biel and Chris Evans used to be a thing? (Yeah, right field, I know. Deal.) Heard something the other day about how she ran into him with current thing JT and she looked happy to see Chris. To which I ask, who WOULDN'T be happy to see Chris Evans? (Frank tells me to keep my opinion to myself.)

By the way, my main desktop is still kaput. On hubby's laptop now. If something doesn't change soon, I might get a tower from work. Or one of our very nice laptops, if hubby gets a job soon.

Oh, hey, did I mention that hubby came home? Yes, he decided that getting shot at for the rest of his life didn't sound like fun. I'm much happier that way.

Ok, that's enough blabber for one day. I'm headachey and have to work tomorrow. Blech.

So, it's official. Hubby has been accepted into the Border Patrol program. He leaves for the academy in two weeks. And then in October, we will be moving to Laredo. Most of you aren't in Texas and you don't follow the politics around here. Laredo is directly across the border from Nuevo Laredo and is a high violence area. Violence specifically targeted towards Border Patrol agents, often. Laredo is the one place to which I said I didn't want to move. And yet.

Anyway, now we know. Congrats to hubby and I have three months to figure out how to sell my house and move.

I need a drink.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading.
5) Bold and strike books you read but hated.
6) Reprint this list in your own LJ


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (only partially)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the WillowsChronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

You notice I didn't do any of the extra stuff. I'd like to say that I intend to read all of them, but I work full time and have 3 kids. Get real.

#529 - Talking politics of any sort with my family. Jesus.

I love my days off. That is all.