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1 - it's time to finish the last-minute to-do's!!
2 - I can start worrying whether anyone will show up
3 - do I have all the decorations? Can I set out the tables TODAY?!
4 - 'cause what if I'm missing something?
5 - Huh?! What then?!
6 - I could add something to my to-do list today. Tomorrow my brain might quit working.
7 - how many ibuprofen can I take at one time?
8 - what does that have to do with an event?
9 - it's time to read a book.
Phew! At least I can keep reading!! Which means Monday is awesome!
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Thx, Sheila @ Book Journey. It is my pleasure to celebrate this Monday regardless of what the week holds. (eep)
![The Deepest Night (The Sweetest Dark, #2)](http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1354895115l/16156293.jpg)
On my Nook, I finished Deepest Night a few days ago. OMG. What a hauntingly beautiful... OMG. This one ACHES with a sweet, sad... star-song. Shana Abe's writing is becoming a drug that I need periodically. How did I manage before discovering her last summer?
![In a Treacherous Court (Susanna Horenbout and John Parker, #1)](http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1308338501l/9961391.jpg)
![The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)](http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1371849682l/34.jpg)
I'm listening to The Fellowship of the Ring in the car while running errands. I checked out an old radio re-enactment of the book and recently passed a scene that was sooooooooo.... frightening-absorbing-harrowing-gripping that I forgot where I was. In fact, I was startled to realize I was driving the car. I could have sworn that the day was dark and gloomy and there were ring-wraiths on my tail and we were crossing a ford instead of sunny rush hour traffic just outside of the city.
Wow.
I had to drop off some books at the library yesterday and got sucked inside. (I was helpless to resist the vortex that is a huge building full of books.) I came home with a HAUL... Legend, Crewel, Etiquette & Espionage, Of Poseidon, The Assassin's Curse, & Partials. Some of these I've already read... and most of them (if not all) I don't have time to get to. But I like to encourage my library to keep stocked with good titles. Plus... once they're in my hand, it's really hard to set them down again. And I happened to have a nice carrying bag from dropping off so many books. It wasn't my fault I took more than I can read this week. Honestly. I'm innocent!!
(And maybe a little crazy!)
![Keeper of the King's Secrets (Susanna Horenbout and John Parker, #2)](http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1329850078l/12092923.jpg)
Being me requires AT LEAST three books simultaneously.
And with that thought... I'm ready to tackle this HUGE EVENT COMING UP THIS WEEK!!! AAAARRRGH!!!!!! (I sound like the ring-wraiths in my head, screaming down towards the water. No worries, I won't frighten the kids. They may see me laughing and think I'm nuts, but that's not new.)