Only 960 to go!

Look at this, you guys!

(1001 Books you must read before you die).

I just got it today and then I got home and I went through all 1001 books and checked of the ones I had read. (in pencil, because writing in books is...just...wrong).
I have only read 41 of them, I feel silly and dumb and unaccomplished. Think if I had spent my life reading instead of making friends and other silly things. Think how much I could have read!

That is it! No more social-life, no more fun till I have read all 1001. (not really)

There are a couple of books I missed on their, otherwise good, list though. Yet I have a fetish for checking things of on lists, so this book is perfect nonetheless.

Now back to my book.

Oh wait before I run; a friend asked me what the score was for bought vs. read, it's 13-8 and I am fighting myself on a daily basis. I want to buy more books!

Some people should not be allowed to write - 2012 Book Quest

I am sad you guys. Really, really sad.
You know how bacon makes everything better? How an otherwise boring dish suddenly becomes the best meal ever, just because you added bacon? And how beer makes everything better? How it can be sunshine and blue skies and all seems great, but the one thing missing to make it perfect, is a cold beer?

I know that feeling. And a fool I was for believing that there was another thing that could improve something already really good. Perfect it to a point where I would be laughing so hard no sound came out, and I just sat there, clapping like a retarded seal.
Yeah I thought it was like that with zombies. That a good movie or book could only become better with a sprinkle of undead corpses craving brains.

I was wrong! Not just a little wrong either. No, I was terribly mistaken. And I am ashamed. Ashamed I ever thought anything could improve Austen. How could it? Austen is perfect, and I was a fool to think otherwise.

All this is of course concerning the latest book I read for The 2012 Book Quest. A guy named Seth Grahame-Smith took it upon himself, to ruin the most wonderful book. He no doubt intended to be funny, but I am here to tell you, he failed tremendously.

He created the abomination that is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and he ought to pay for it.
He turned a beautiful, funny, well-written story in to absolute drivel.

I will not waste time by describing the story, it is Pride and Prejudice, we all know that story. I will only say this: adding zombies to a classical novel is a new and exiting idea that might have worked, had the author actually taken the time to understand the story. He seems to be under the impression, that  Pride and Prejudice  is just a love story that needs some action to make it exiting.
Wrong Mr. Grahame-Smith, Wrong in every sense of the word.

As I constantly have to explain to people, Pride and Prejudice is much, much more than just a romance novel. It is social commentary and satire.
With Grahame-Smiths additions, all of the depth of the novel is gone, erased by silly mentions of zombies and battles and warrior codes.

No, no more. I wash my hands of that book.

Transformations - 2012 Book Quest

The last couple of weeks and the next 6 months will be all about transformations for me. How appropriate I chose to read Little women, a book stuffed with transformations.

Essentially the book is about four girls becoming women and, though I am already a grown woman, I found inspiration in their quest to always do better. That is what I am trying to do in my life, do better, be better.

About a month ago I quit university, I was studying history, I realized it was not right for me and I quit. I don't like quitting and I will go a long way not to have to admit defeat. I will put up with terrible conditions or results and promise myself it will get better in the long run, just to not have to give up, I am stubborn and silly, and I should have quit a year ago.

Now I have quit and am among the scores of unemployed, I write applications and show up to when I have to, but the only valuable thing it has brought me, is a sense of having something that needs doing.
I talked to a guidance counselor who pointed me in the direction of an education that might be right for me, I have applied for it and there is a pretty good chance I will get in.
I went to a job interview yesterday and again today.
All in all; stuff gets done, which is more than can be said for the past year.

The stagnation has ended and I feel like I have awoken from a deep sleep and am ready to run a marathon.
What really helps is, I have decided two things:

1. I don't care.
2. I can do anything.

So whenever something gets in my way I just remember I don't care enough for it to bother me, and if I want, I can fix it, because I can do anything.

My doctor said, when I told her about this great sense of "nothing is impossible", that I had probably been depressed. I don't know if that is true, I don't really care either. 

All I know is that the world might be a tough place sometimes, but I am always tougher and whenever the world wants to prove me wrong, she can bring it on and I'll even drive her to the ER afterwards. 

So remember, if the world seems out to get you, kick her ass!

Geocaching - Sunday Sensations

I went out geocaching today. It has been so long since I last did that, more than a year and it was really nice. There are a lot of muggles (non-geocachers) around on a Sunday afternoon though, so I had to be careful.

Geocaching is like a treasure hunt, you get a set of coordinates, you type them into your GPS unit and when you get to the destination you try and find a cache with a logbook to sign it.
It is a lot of fun, and it is also a good way of going for a walk. I am not very good at walking around the neighborhood aimlessly, but when I have three caches to find I will gladly walk a couple of kilometers to do so.

Today I actually got caught by a muggle. I was standing with the cache in my hand, trying to be sneaky, when a woman and her 5 y/o daughter walks by. I hadn't even seen them coming.
The girl asks her mom "what's that in her hands mummy" and the mom goes "Oh that's just her lunchbox".
Thank god for people using Tupperware for cachecontainers!

The rest of the day I think I will read, I should really finish my book. I like it a lot, I have just been so busy lately, so all I am going to say is:

"To the comfy chair with a book and a coke!"