This is my story.

Choir concert was this weekend. It went very well. I think everybody was happy with how it went. It was a lot of work to get there, but it ended up being a lot of fun. Now we have two weeks off until we start rehearsing to sing at Metro-East Pride and St. Louis Pride.

Finished Tipping the Velvet and I'm starting The Mists of Avalon.

( Book List 2009: 50 Books In 1 Year )

Amy brought her dog, Odie, over for a visit this weekend. On Saturday we took the two dogs to the local dog park. They seemed to enjoy it. Odie made a couple friends. There was dog in particular that I think was an Australian shepherd mix that seemed to take to Odie. The two of them playfully chased each other a couple times. There was also a male mini schnauzer that Odie got a little fixated on and tried to mount a couple times. Poor little thing was the smallest dog there. I wonder if that's what got Odie so interested. Tasha was a bit less social than Odie. She seemed more interested in just sniffing the area. There was also one point when two women walked by outside the fenced off-leash area, and Tasha whined and showed more interest in them than she did any of the dogs in the off-leash area. It was the first time Tasha was around other dogs off-leash besides our neighbor's chihuahua and Odie, so maybe she'll be more social next time we go.

The funny thing is that this morning Tasha seemed genuinely sad that Odie wasn't here anymore. Last night she only ate half of her food, and her full meal now is half of what we used to give her because she used to eat half of the full meal and leave the rest sitting for two days until we threw away the old food. That was wasting money, so we switched to giving her half as much food. Anyway, back to her depression. ;) We give her a Denta stick every morning for breakfast and she didn't eat that right away either. She truly seemed to be moping around and she wandered over to Amy with this forlorn look on her face like she was saying, "Why'd you take my boyfriend away?" Too cute. At least I know that if we could have a second dog, Tasha would probably like it.

I took Amy to work this morning because she had to take her car to the shop. When we went to the park on Saturday she discovered that she couldn't get her key out of the ignition and then her gear shift got stuck in park. We managed to get it out of park and she found a place that could look at it before they closed. They figured it was something with the electrical system but said they would need a full day to diagnose and repair. So we took her car in this morning. The real worry is how much this is going to cost because nobody around here has a whole heck of a lot of money right now. Hopefully it won't be too much.

Last night I finished The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. It was okay. I didn't enjoy it as much as Affinity or Fingersmith. I think I had a little bit of a hard time feeling for the characters. They're living in London in the time of World War II, and you'd think I would sympathize, but I had a hard time getting in their shoes, I guess. The writing was still excellent, but the plot dragged a little.

I got Tipping the Velvet through PaperBackSwap, so that's next on my reading list. Then after that I am going to get back to the three books I have started that have just been sitting around waiting for me to finish them--Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins, and Smack by Melvin Burgess.

( Book List 2009: 50 Books In 1 Year )

Finished Death's Daughter, the first solo noveling venture by my favorite celeb, Amber Benson. It was pretty good and fun. You can read my full review on Amazon. I gave it 4 stars. Impalicious, I think you would like it. BTW, if any of you do read it, post a review on Amazon when you're done. Amber said once she gets 85 reviews on Amazon, she'll videotape herself doing the Macarena and post it on Youtube. :op

( Book List 2009: 50 Books In 1 Year )

Not a lot going on here, which is why I haven't updated much. Helped my brother get a washer and dryer through Freecycle so he doesn't have to come over here to do his laundry anymore. I'm really hoping to get a call from Interface tomorrow for a 2nd interview. Fingers crossed. There was also a job I sent my resume out for on Friday. It was to be the secretary to the principal of an elementary school and I'd kind of like that one, too. If not those, then something. I'm nearing the one year anniversary of losing my legal secretary job. It's time for me to get hired, dammit.

For the past couple years I've been trying to read 50 books in a year. So far I've been unsuccessful. My best year was 2006 during which I read 20 books. I hope to succeed this year. In fact, I think what I will do is instead of listing books as I finish them, I'll list 50 books I plan to read this year and strike them out when I've finished them. Here goes.

1 / 50 (2.0%)

( 50 Books In One Year )

There you go. We'll see what happens.