beware the quiet bookworm

GOOD MOOD friday! yaaasss! tick tock tick tock (...5:30?)

(....and I can't wait till we can break up outta here. oh oh oh. Here - (yes *I'm loving this song*))

and I'm feelin sassy and I've got my face on and I'm here to party (with the best of them)

...it'd been AGES since I've listened to mainstream radio. 

Lo and behold  I land on KissFM and heard this new(?) girl singing a story that i could so relate to (even now in my married years.)  Go girl....

"I'm sorry if I seem uninterested

Or I'm not listenin' or I'm indifferent

Truly, I ain't got no business here...."

*Except I do dance and I'm not always an "anti-social pessimist". Life lesson #43 - for your own sake (to make things easier for yourself) ya just gotta fake being interested sometimes - it's just part of adulting....
But really... as I've gotten older (and when I'm in the mood) I freaking love talking to people - ESPECIALLY the ones who surprise me. 

Like the bookworm in the corner by herself (who may or may not might be me) ....

Finished Stygian's Honor - the girl lead was very wishy washy - it got on my nerves. I liked him I guess. Really just kinda "eh" all around...

Got a weekend of going out planned...yay..tick tock tick tock.....

great American! (of MEX and CAN)

I feel a little bit of a poser being a facebook member of the Canada Club of North Texas
... but well... there's still a bit of nostalgia from living there through my elementary school years I guess?
I'm still interested - and what few memories I still have from growing up there are good ones.

Interesting too (now that I look back)
coming from El Paso - desert, Mexican-Spanish lilted English, where everyone had dark hair/eyes like me 
to Calgary, (T2K 2P8!)  90% light hair/eyes, prairie, clean air, and blessed, blessed snow.  (lord I think I miss the snow the most....) 

I was never, not once (that I can recall), made to feel like I didn't belong.
I guess kids in 1st grade don't notice those things.
Or maybe El Pasoan kids and Canadian kids in the first grade aren't taught that different = bad. 
So it was an easy transition  - and for that Canada will always be a special place for me.

(....now, coming back to El Paso for middle school with my mostly forgotten Spanish, Canadian-lilted English is another story.... ugh wretched year.)

Anyway...regardless....me! a FB member of the North Texas Canada club -  noticed when a fellow member posted the below video:

I think it should be a bit of an eye opener to see how other countries see us.
Us(A)...- my great nation that (i agree) needs help making it good again....

Reading Lora Leigh's Stygian story. Eh...just eh so far. 

Right now there are so many new books that have come out that I want to read, I chucked them all to fill in the (my) blank of the Breed series (yep still hanging onto it)

made me want to have a drink

looks like we're heading back to New Orleans next month for a friends 40th. wooo.

we tried a New Orleans restaurant up in Frisco over the weekend - not bad for what it was.
I forget the kids evvverywhere up there. lord.- all the exhausted mothers and chaos children made me want to have a drink for them. 

We also went to the lakehouse (ahh the quiet) and so I got to read.
Finished:

• the Nightingale - yep pretty much a minor sobfest the last 20% of the book. I knew it!
• the final Spindle Cove - not at all believable but I think my favorite of the series. Quick easy read. 
• the first of (YA?) The Others - took a bit to switch gears (and worlds). I don't really have much of a picture of who the lead really is and why everyone just liked her.   I guess that's coming...? Liked it enough to line for the next one though.

In a angst ridden Jack Ingram mood today:

The neon's burning both ends of another night

Everybody's living way to loud

Workin' hard to act like every thing's alright

Anything to keep from coming down

Oh fool, you're fooling yourself

Don't you know that closing time will tell

And if you think you're fooling anybody else

Oh fool, you're fooling yourself