Daily Dose of Cupcakes

2 Comments / Cupcake Toppers, Daily Dose, Love or Sex /

lovenote.jpgHappy Love Note Day! (How marshmallowy of me to know, right?) So what can you do with a cupcake topper for Love Note Day? You could obviously write tiny love notes, fold them like a love note and stick a corner in the cupcake. You could run out to your local craft store and buy some foamies or better yet some “shrinky dink” plastic and write mini love notes that would hold up better on a cupcake. Or, try and track down a dozen or two of these love note charm necklaces. You used to be able to find them pretty inexpensively at Claires but that was years ago (and I’m so glad I haven’t been in a Claires in years.)

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An Abundance of Katherines

1 Comment / 2007, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Young Adult /

Remember when sassymonkey raved about An Abundance of Katherines? I sort of ignored her gushing over the book because she has this Brotherhood/John Green thing. Like she’d marry him. Which is wrong ’cause of the patriarchy but tells you just how strong her John Green thing is. People with that strong of a thing for someone tend to see greatness when the rest of us see uh less than greatness. But in this case, sassymonkey was right.

An Abundance of Katherines is good. It’s great actually. One of the best YA books ever. I hope it becomes a legend, a classic must read for teens in generations to come. It’s just that good.

TW and I listened to it on audio and that was fun. I’m going to pick up a copy of the book so that I can see the appendix and the footnotes – were the footnotes read out loud in the audio version and we didn’t realize they were footnotes? Were they the “asides” Colin shared? I am not sure but I think they were. Regardless, the book deserves a place on our bookshelves. Yours too.

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Live at Union Hall

Melissa Ferrick, Sights & Sounds /

Before I ramble about Melissa’s new cd, I have to rant about Goldenrod Music. Again. Afreakinggain. When will I learn NOT to pre-order Melissa’s cds from them? I’m betting if you click my Melissa category and scroll back over the years you will see that I have ranted about them before. If I EVER say I’m going to pre-order music from them, can you shoot me and put me out of my damn misery? Because once again, I do not have my Melissa cds and I cannot get anyone to answer email regarding my order.

So – screw them. I went to Melissa’s myspace and downloaded the tracks for $1 each and am happily listening to an awesome live album. Awesome. But, and there is a but, be forewarned, if you do not already know Melissa’s music you probably will not like this one. And if you like Melissa’s music but do not enjoy her shows because she rambles through her songs and tends to change them around or make up new words then you will not like this album.

I, however, love nothing better than to attend Melissa’s shows and listen to her have fun with her songs – and with her fans – and with the person/people she’s playing music with. Some people complain about Skinnier, Faster, Live because they just can’t listen to her talk about getting her hair cut over and over again. I, however, never get tired of hearing Melissa talk about getting her hair cut. So, I love this album.

Love it.

Also, Lyra the bird likes it – and she’s never attended a Melissa concert. Maybe I don’t hate this bird as much as I originally thought. Maybe.

Update: 3 hours later I received an email from Goldenrod letting me know that they just received the CDs and are processing orders. I do appreciate it when folks answer their email.

And another update 1 day later: Another email letting me know they are shipping CDs today.  And also you should know that I’ve only listened to the CD about 50 times in the last 24 hours and have already worn out the cd I burned the mp3s to.

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And She Was…

2007, Books in Bed, Feminism, Fiction, Women /

And She Was… what? That’s the question, what was she? Who was she? Why in the heck did I spend almost a full week trying to read this book? The answer to the last question is the easy one – because Staci and TW both recommended it. While TW has steered me wrong in the past, Staci has not, so I stuck it out.

Mostly I’m left with, “huh?” But the last half of the book DID interest me and I had high hopes. Unfortunately, once I was finished, I just felt let down. It could have been really good. In places it WAS really good. Aleut mummies, women power, Alaskan bars – what’s not to love? Unfortunately, a lot. It could have been SO good. But it wasn’t.

(Don’t feel badly Staci, I’ll still read what you recommend in the future.)

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