December 2006

It’s another one of those holidays…

1 Comment / Holidays, Pets /

You know, the kind when dogs eat chocolate and people surf the web looking for information about how horrible this is, how quickly their dog is going to die and how big the vet bill is going to be.  While Christmas isn’t quite as big for dogs and chocolate as Halloween, it’s been busy around here with the search engine folks.

There have been more cats ingesting chocolate and candy than in previous candy-filled holidays, (at least based on the numbers of people arriving here via search engines).  So far, none of our cats have had any chocolate.  Megan was eating a plastic bag that held chocolate but she always eats plastic bags, so that’s not really anything unusual. 

Also, it seems some dogs have been getting into the Christmas ham and this is troubling to some people.  It’s troubling to me to see TW tossing scraps to the dogs but I don’t really think a bit of ham is going to be a problem for most dogs (or cats).  It never has been for any of ours.  Jake will sometimes open the refrigerator door and nibble from the ham or turkey if it’s on the bottom shelf and not in sealed tupperware.  He’s still alive and well and here to nibble on RJ’s Christmas candy without any ill effects.

Happy holidays to all of you, and to your pets, too.

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Happiness Sold Separately

2006, Books in Bed, Fiction /

I reserved Happiness Sold Separately from the library because I really liked Lolly Winston’s Good Grief and then sassymonkey blogged about it and reminded me I hadn’t read it. I liked it but not nearly as much as Good Grief.

I’m lucky, I’ve never had fertility problems or faced infertility. And, I find I can’t relate well to stories about women who do have these issues. Not only couldn’t I relate, none of Elinor’s actions felt right to me – right in the, “that’s how I’d feel” or “that’s how I’d react” sort of way. But then again, you don’t really know how you’d feel or how you’d react ’til you go through it, right?

Anyway, I enjoyed the book but it didn’t grab me the way Good Grief did and I didn’t find the characters as likeable as sassymonkey did. I think the only character I really liked was Kat, the next door neighbor. .

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Courtney Love

2006, Books in Bed, Favorites, Non-Fiction /

I am a Courtney Love fan. There, I said it. My children aren’t thrilled about it, (they are in the “it’s all her fault Kurt is dead” camp and while they’ve all outgrown that a bit, part of them still believes it and part of them still blames her.)

I was really looking forward to Dirty Blonde and it didn’t disappoint me at all. I’m not interested in some traditional auto-biography, tell-all thing from Love. That would be out of character and a waste of everyone’s time. Let’s leave the tell-all stuff to Frances, when she’s grown up and ready. That would be the only Love/Cobain tell-all worth reading.

Dirty Blonde feels like Courtney Love – at least the Courtney Love that I know.

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

2006, Books in Bed, short stories /

Is everything written by Haruki Murakami a little odd? First Wind-Up Bird, then Kafka on the Shore and now the short stories in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. And what’s with all of the “zoo” stories?

I didn’t dislike any of the stories, though Crabs made me a little ill and I’ve suggested TW might want to skip that one, and some of them I really did like. They were all just a little odd, a little unusual, a little skewed somehow. Like all of Murakami’s books, I guess.

Did you like Kafka on the Shore? If you did, then you’ll probably like these short stories too. If you didn’t – then skip them.

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Daily Dose of Cupcakes

Cupcake Toppers /

grinch.jpgWho knew it was so tough to find grinch figures? Must be a run on faking the joy this year. You can get a 3 piece set w/Max here (of course they have the more traditional Christmas and Hanukkah cupcake toppers too, for you normal people). You might get lucky and track down enough of these Grinch nerds dispensers or maybe you can pick up a few packages of Grinch Trading Cards and call it a day. Happy whatever errr Holidays to all of you Whos down in Whoville!

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