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one more day
Had a couple days. Val came over and we packed up the upstairs books and CDs, and then P came over and hauled them into the attic for me — 15 boxes of books, and a bunch of other boxes of things like my Sega CD, a VCR, my stereo receiver, and a bunch of other semi-obsolete tech. Even my turntable! He was up on the ladder/stairs to the attic leaning down, and I kept passing him heavy boxes up over my head, then couldn't get them much past my chest after a bit, and eventually felt my arms about to give out. Work them to failure, right? Scary how little it takes.
Woke up so sore the next day! But went over to Mom's anyway to see if I could make some progress there. Managed to get my bedroom mostly cleaned up (she was using it as storage and her closet, so it was filled with clothes everywhere and all kinds of random stuff) and did a bunch of laundry and some other cleaning stuff. Moved the boxes of CDs over there just so I could feel like I've actually done something. Had dinner with P, made him drive because I was just so tired. Today I went back to Mom's, got the rest of the room adjusted, plus more laundry, dishes, etc. There's still some clothes that I will need to move out of the closet, and there's still a huge bunch of stuff all neatly folded that has no home. She has more clothes than any 10 people, and as she put it "I never go out!" so we really need to whittle that shit down to a manageable thing. I'm also going to have to replace the closet clothes rod, as it's now bowing in the middle. It needed a middle support a couple years ago when I moved out but I never got around to it. Now, alas, it is too late. So I'll have to measure and solve that very soon.
P texted me and suggested going to see Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol after he got out of work, so we did that and it was loads of fun. Jeremy Renner is just awesome, and even Tom was fun to watch. I thought in most of this franchise he was sort of too slick to be actually on screen without sliding off, but in this one he felt a little more, I dunno, interesting. Not that the plot was much more believable, but one doesn't go to M IMP for believable, right?
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In other news, can't wait to kick 2011 to the curb. I want to natter on and on about just how bad a year it was, but 1. don't want to remind myself, and 2. probably would screw it up and leave out a lot of it anyway, at least as far as current events goes, thanks to aforementioned fuzzy brain. Feel free to apply anyone else's crappy list to my mood. I remember the year started with canyons of snow, snow that had already been around for more than a month by then and already felt claustrophobic. Now it's ending with cold bare streets, which somehow seems very fitting.
I was also thinking about Christmas, and how it sort of is nothing since Dad died and Mom can't deal with it. Maybe I need to make new traditions, perhaps ones that involve travelling to somewhere exotic, or at least different. And maybe warm. Since I am childfree, I could make Christmas the time of year that I travel. I won't be able to do it next Christmas, as this next year has to be all about paying off debt and working as much as I can. But maybe Christmas 2013 will be the beginning of my new Christmas tradition. I will have to think on it.
So yeah. I'll probably do my year-end wrap up as usual, but my heart isn't really in it.
1. Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child (13th Jack Reacher book)
2. 61 Hours, Lee Child (14th Jack Reacher book)
3. Worth Dying For, Lee Child (15th Jack Reacher book)
4. The Monkey's Raincoat, Robert Crais (1st Elvis Cole book)
5. Stalking the Angel, Crais (2nd Elvis Cole book)
6. Lullaby Town, Robert Crais (3rd Elvis Cole book)
7. Free Fall, Robert Crais (4th Elvis Cole book)
8. Voodoo River, Robert Crais (5th Elvis Cole book)
9. Sunset Express, Robert Crais (6th Elvis Cole book)
10. Indigo Slam, Robert Crais (7th Elvis Cole book)
11. L.A. Requiem, Robert Crais (8th Elvis Cole book)
12. The Last Detective, Robert Crais (9th Elvis Cole book)
13. The Forgotten Man, Robert Crais (10th Elvis Cole book)
14. The Watchman, Robert Crais (1st Joe Pike book)
15. Chasing Darkness, Robert Crais (11th Elvis Cole book)
16. The First Rule, Robert Crais (2nd Joe Pike book)
17. The Sentry, Robert Crais (3rd Joe Pike book)
18. New York Death, Stuart Woods (1st Stone Barrington book)
19. The Troubled Man, Henning Mankell (last Wallander book)
20. Several TOR shorts: Overtime, by Charles Stross; Black Swan, Bruce Sterling; Firstborn, Brandon Sanderson; In the House of the Worm, George RR Martin; and First Flight, Mary Robinette Kowal.
21: Serial, a novella by Jack Kilborn and Blake Crouch.
22. The Quickie, James Patterson Incorporated and some guy
23. Dexter Is Delicious, Jeff Lindsay (5th Dexter book)
24. Every Dead Thing, John Connolly (1st Charlie Parker book)
25. Dark Hollow, John Connolly (2nd Charlie Parker book)
26. The Killing Kind, John Connolly (3rd Charlie Parker book)
27. The White Road, John Connolly (4th Charlie Parker book)
28. A Season In Hell, Jack Higgins
29. The Redbreast, Jo Nesbo (3rd Harry Hole book) (first two aren't translated into English yet)
30. Nemesis, Jo Nesbo (4th Harry Hole book)
31. The Devil's Star, Jo Nesbo (5th Harry Hole book)
32. 7th Sigma, Steven Gould
33. Changes, Jim Butcher (audio)
34. Rule 34, Charles Stross
35. Side Jobs, Jim Butcher (audio)
36. The Neon Rain, James Lee Burke (First Dave Robicheaux) (audio)
37. Ghost Story, Jim Butcher (audio)
38. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (audio)
39. Jar City, Arnaldur Indridason
40. Feast Day of Fools, James Lee Burke (third Hackberry Hollins) (audio)
41. The Snowman, Jo Nesbo (7th Harry Hole)
42. The Leopard, Jo Nesbo (8th Harry Hole) (I really love Jo Nesbo. Grim, but good!)
43. V Is for Vengeance, Sue Grafton
44. Angle of Investigation, Michael Connelly (collection of shorts)
45. Rain Gods, James Lee Burke (second Hackberry Hollins) (audio)
46. Falling Glass, Adrian McKinty (audio) (really great, esp in audio)
47. The Stonecutter, Camilla Lackberg (meh)(i am tired of kid murders)
48. The Ice Princess, Camilla Lackberg (better than The Stonecutter)
49. The Drop, Michael Connelly (seemed short, lead-in to next book probably)
50. The Dark at the End, F. Paul Wilson (So awful. Really. I got PISSED when I finished. Why did I give this series brain space ever?)
51. The Affair, Lee Child (16th Jack Reacher book) (ok) (gratuitous train sex)
52. AUGH! Didn't make it. Have one more day, probably won't. But see below!
I'm also partway thru Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King (got scary, had to stop), Move Underground by Nick Mamatas, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (a re-read), A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, and Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder. And probably others that aren't active on my kindle, like all the China Mieville. I get partway through his stuff and then have to stop, for some reason. The City and The City, for example. Perdido Street Station. Etc. And I pooped out on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, because it was heavy and not available in ebook. It is now, so I plan to finally finish it. And more Stephenson. Ugh! So much to read.
Woke up so sore the next day! But went over to Mom's anyway to see if I could make some progress there. Managed to get my bedroom mostly cleaned up (she was using it as storage and her closet, so it was filled with clothes everywhere and all kinds of random stuff) and did a bunch of laundry and some other cleaning stuff. Moved the boxes of CDs over there just so I could feel like I've actually done something. Had dinner with P, made him drive because I was just so tired. Today I went back to Mom's, got the rest of the room adjusted, plus more laundry, dishes, etc. There's still some clothes that I will need to move out of the closet, and there's still a huge bunch of stuff all neatly folded that has no home. She has more clothes than any 10 people, and as she put it "I never go out!" so we really need to whittle that shit down to a manageable thing. I'm also going to have to replace the closet clothes rod, as it's now bowing in the middle. It needed a middle support a couple years ago when I moved out but I never got around to it. Now, alas, it is too late. So I'll have to measure and solve that very soon.
P texted me and suggested going to see Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol after he got out of work, so we did that and it was loads of fun. Jeremy Renner is just awesome, and even Tom was fun to watch. I thought in most of this franchise he was sort of too slick to be actually on screen without sliding off, but in this one he felt a little more, I dunno, interesting. Not that the plot was much more believable, but one doesn't go to M IMP for believable, right?
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In other news, can't wait to kick 2011 to the curb. I want to natter on and on about just how bad a year it was, but 1. don't want to remind myself, and 2. probably would screw it up and leave out a lot of it anyway, at least as far as current events goes, thanks to aforementioned fuzzy brain. Feel free to apply anyone else's crappy list to my mood. I remember the year started with canyons of snow, snow that had already been around for more than a month by then and already felt claustrophobic. Now it's ending with cold bare streets, which somehow seems very fitting.
I was also thinking about Christmas, and how it sort of is nothing since Dad died and Mom can't deal with it. Maybe I need to make new traditions, perhaps ones that involve travelling to somewhere exotic, or at least different. And maybe warm. Since I am childfree, I could make Christmas the time of year that I travel. I won't be able to do it next Christmas, as this next year has to be all about paying off debt and working as much as I can. But maybe Christmas 2013 will be the beginning of my new Christmas tradition. I will have to think on it.
So yeah. I'll probably do my year-end wrap up as usual, but my heart isn't really in it.
1. Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child (13th Jack Reacher book)
2. 61 Hours, Lee Child (14th Jack Reacher book)
3. Worth Dying For, Lee Child (15th Jack Reacher book)
4. The Monkey's Raincoat, Robert Crais (1st Elvis Cole book)
5. Stalking the Angel, Crais (2nd Elvis Cole book)
6. Lullaby Town, Robert Crais (3rd Elvis Cole book)
7. Free Fall, Robert Crais (4th Elvis Cole book)
8. Voodoo River, Robert Crais (5th Elvis Cole book)
9. Sunset Express, Robert Crais (6th Elvis Cole book)
10. Indigo Slam, Robert Crais (7th Elvis Cole book)
11. L.A. Requiem, Robert Crais (8th Elvis Cole book)
12. The Last Detective, Robert Crais (9th Elvis Cole book)
13. The Forgotten Man, Robert Crais (10th Elvis Cole book)
14. The Watchman, Robert Crais (1st Joe Pike book)
15. Chasing Darkness, Robert Crais (11th Elvis Cole book)
16. The First Rule, Robert Crais (2nd Joe Pike book)
17. The Sentry, Robert Crais (3rd Joe Pike book)
18. New York Death, Stuart Woods (1st Stone Barrington book)
19. The Troubled Man, Henning Mankell (last Wallander book)
20. Several TOR shorts: Overtime, by Charles Stross; Black Swan, Bruce Sterling; Firstborn, Brandon Sanderson; In the House of the Worm, George RR Martin; and First Flight, Mary Robinette Kowal.
21: Serial, a novella by Jack Kilborn and Blake Crouch.
22. The Quickie, James Patterson Incorporated and some guy
23. Dexter Is Delicious, Jeff Lindsay (5th Dexter book)
24. Every Dead Thing, John Connolly (1st Charlie Parker book)
25. Dark Hollow, John Connolly (2nd Charlie Parker book)
26. The Killing Kind, John Connolly (3rd Charlie Parker book)
27. The White Road, John Connolly (4th Charlie Parker book)
28. A Season In Hell, Jack Higgins
29. The Redbreast, Jo Nesbo (3rd Harry Hole book) (first two aren't translated into English yet)
30. Nemesis, Jo Nesbo (4th Harry Hole book)
31. The Devil's Star, Jo Nesbo (5th Harry Hole book)
32. 7th Sigma, Steven Gould
33. Changes, Jim Butcher (audio)
34. Rule 34, Charles Stross
35. Side Jobs, Jim Butcher (audio)
36. The Neon Rain, James Lee Burke (First Dave Robicheaux) (audio)
37. Ghost Story, Jim Butcher (audio)
38. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (audio)
39. Jar City, Arnaldur Indridason
40. Feast Day of Fools, James Lee Burke (third Hackberry Hollins) (audio)
41. The Snowman, Jo Nesbo (7th Harry Hole)
42. The Leopard, Jo Nesbo (8th Harry Hole) (I really love Jo Nesbo. Grim, but good!)
43. V Is for Vengeance, Sue Grafton
44. Angle of Investigation, Michael Connelly (collection of shorts)
45. Rain Gods, James Lee Burke (second Hackberry Hollins) (audio)
46. Falling Glass, Adrian McKinty (audio) (really great, esp in audio)
47. The Stonecutter, Camilla Lackberg (meh)(i am tired of kid murders)
48. The Ice Princess, Camilla Lackberg (better than The Stonecutter)
49. The Drop, Michael Connelly (seemed short, lead-in to next book probably)
50. The Dark at the End, F. Paul Wilson (So awful. Really. I got PISSED when I finished. Why did I give this series brain space ever?)
51. The Affair, Lee Child (16th Jack Reacher book) (ok) (gratuitous train sex)
52. AUGH! Didn't make it. Have one more day, probably won't. But see below!
I'm also partway thru Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King (got scary, had to stop), Move Underground by Nick Mamatas, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (a re-read), A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, and Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder. And probably others that aren't active on my kindle, like all the China Mieville. I get partway through his stuff and then have to stop, for some reason. The City and The City, for example. Perdido Street Station. Etc. And I pooped out on Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, because it was heavy and not available in ebook. It is now, so I plan to finally finish it. And more Stephenson. Ugh! So much to read.
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