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I see blue skies!

We get so much rain in Oregon it's depressing. We don't play in it (normally). Or take pictures of it. Lol. We do things like... see how far we can get without purchasing an umbrella. 'Cause Oregonians grudgingly resort to umbrellas. They are like admitting defeat. Like the rain won. It's not like they work anyway, 'cause of the wind. It'd take a bodysuit to stay dry. And rubber boots. That would be even worse defeat. So we dress up and head out in it with cute hats on. Lol. We put up with droopy hair styles 'cause no one protects their hair from the moisture in the air. It's very bad to show up at a destination looking like a drowned rat, though. I suppose that's also defeat. Lol.

I'm not very good at conquering the elements without looking like it business-style, yet. There are more umbrellas downtown and there's some of those itty bitty compact ones that fit in a purse. Lol. I've been eyeballin' 'em 'cause I don't really have a hat or hood on my coat. It's like I need 5 different coat weights and I'm trying to make do with 3 and it's not working.

I need an umbrella. Darn it.

In other news...  I found these deals for Nook - did you pick them up, yet?  Click the cover to go to B&N and pick 'em up - only $1.99 each!

  

I've read The Dragonriders of Pern too many times to count, but I didn't have this version, yet. I compare every dragon I ever read about to these dragons... and Lessa totally rocks.  I haven't read A Breath of Eyre, yet.  Have you?

From NetGalley:

            

I had to grab a couple titles at the library, too:

  

Since I'm reading about one book a week, this is rather... obsessive-compulsive action. I like having so many books available to read, I guess.  If I had to choose ONE, which one should I read?! 

Live a Little, even if there's a Tear!

"I had grown accustomed to my father's abandonment..." Pg 151

I'm wiping away the tears on my lunch break...

Just in time to be interrupted by a Minion asking me a question to which they had already pre-determined the correct answer. My job, therefore, was to find the Correct Answer with "hot" and "warm" and "getting colder" responses until I arrived at where the Minion was directing me and then announced it as Policy as if the Correct Answer was my own.

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I'm not always a good Gru, but I try.

Just add boots,  and this is me today!!   :-D

I suppose the tears are a good indication that the answer to yesterday's question - When I was offered the position of one of the most respected people I've ever known in the work force, I:

C) Burst into tears

Carpe Dium, smell the roses, live each moment to the fullest, that's my policy. If it involves some extra emotion at really awkward times?  Well... then... *cough* you have more stories to share, right? Or more secrets. 

In my defense... In that moment I realized I would be gone from home 40 hrs/wk - 50 counting travel time. OMG. I also could not believe I had asked for so little per hour. *sputter*  You know you have asked too little when they don't even negotiate. I would've felt better if they'd've haggled a minute. Still. I couldn't believe I would be making that much money, either. Plus.. I could not believe they would hire me. I mean, I've been a stay-at-home... uh... self-employed person for some years. About eight. I'm still not sure why they hired me, but that was smart of them. Lol. 

It is always wise to remember that 

"Pride comes before a fall", yes?

Which brings me of my Most Humiliating Day. I had been working three weeks successfully and was thick in the middle of that honeymoon season of "I can do no wrong!"  It felt like everyone thought I was amazing and the rosiness was threatening to blind me with Awesome.  That morning I noted in my journal, "I hope it is not all too good to be true!" 

I must've felt a storm brewing behind the wind of my glory. I could never have predicted the size of my humiliation. So here's another multiple choice question for you.

Did I:

A)  Forget to wear clothes like the Emperor?B)  Plan a party for 400 people on the wrong date?C)  "Reply All" with confidential information for my boss regarding one of the recipients?

*shudder*  If you guess the right answer on this one, my humiliation will be complete.  

Or will it?!   Muahahaha... Oh, there's more. There is definitely more!

First, a moment of "oh no!"  from pg 151 of Edenbook:

"I closed the door and crossed the room to look out the window, fighting to keep from my heart the truth that had been thrust upon me. I may as well have been trying to blot out the sun. There was no escape from being unwanted. And that was the truth that struck me the most deeply. Nobody wanted me - not my father or my grandmother or the Wyndhams. Not Louisa. Maybe not even Cecily. And certainly not Philip... 

I felt like I did the fist time I had been thrown from a horse, with the reins yanked from my hands and the ground rushing up at me. Then, as now, there was nothing I could do to prevent the pain that was coming."

Oh... how well I know the feeling. That moment of... here it comes! and nothing to break the fall.

Christmas on the Square

Life has gotten a bit hectic for me b/c I'm working... just a small matter of NO TIME.  For much of anything. At all. I breathe.

There are tons of perks though...

1 - I work on Pioneer Courthouse Square and this is my view every night while I wait for the train. (I had no idea my phone took such rotten pix. *raspberry*)

2 - One of my duties is to coordinate a Christmas Party.  Lol. Ok!!!!!!  I have 384 RSVPs. *fist pump*

3 - I get 45 mins twice a day to just READ while riding fore-mentioned train.  :-D

4 - Moments with family are precious... like gold [or diamonds if you watch Gold Rush. (Nut jobs.) What? They are all crazy... or going crazy. We're cheering Parker on, but he's getting snippy and doesn't care, which doesn't look nice on him. And those glory hole goofballs?!  Fix. your. hole. You don't arrive at your goal and quit. Duh.  Don't even bring up the dingalings in S America. Seriously. They continue to make decisions using the power of enthusiastic hope instead of tedious things like Research. Or Planning.]

5 - Prism Book Tours is still going... thanks to Tressa of Tressa's Wishful Endings who offered her organized brain to the mess and continually makes sure everyone gets their posting materials while I randomly check in and throw confetti.

I think that's it. If I try to think of any more perks to suddenly working full time and basically losing 10.5 hours of every day while still trying to do the same amount of other things I did before (like laundry) (and eat) I'll start slippin' down that slippery slope of whining.  And really... someone is paying me to throw a Christmas Party... and I'm right at that sweet spot of just getting to know all the other co-workers so everyone is super-nice and friendly and rather vague shadows of "who are you again?" and I'm not ticked off at anyone, yet.  Perfect.  No complaints. At all.  So there.

My building, the living postcard.