the kind that's flawed

I'm meeting with a buncha girl strangers to discuss books tonight.
yep! always excited to talk with people that've "lived a thousand lives".

I was gonna wear my book boyfriends tshirt, but figured that this is a "first date" (heh!) some bookish gals are skittish and I'm (admittedly) a little much to handle in my excitement sometimes. So I'ma tone it down a little ....or try to anyway

Also I'm saving Jamie the add to his "nerd wife tales" for a later time.

watched the golden globes - Meryl Streep's perceived insult about football and mixed martial arts "not being an art" bothered Jamie last night. He thought it was elitist to say it "like how she did".

I guess I kind of get it ...and especially reading the twitter responses he wasn't the only one.

What baffles me is, that pissed people off but

• someone mocking the disabled 
• Trump U fraud settlement
• Russian hacking
• saying a woman should be punished for making choices regarding her body, 
• calling most Mexicans that come into the U.S, rapists and murderers, 
• bullying the Scottish out of their land to build a golf course...
• your president-elect being proud of not paying taxes and not showing his tax records

etc. - doesn't really get the same outrage?
Well...hmmm.

Finished
Elder Races #1 - Thea Harrison - I learned long ago that I'm not much of a "dragon story" person but this one wasn't bad. I think I'll take a look at the second one in the series.
Re-read - Wallflowers #1- Lisa Kleypas - all i remembered was the shoe part. Down on her luck girl tries to lock down titled husband but then comes Simon *sigh*. I forget how much I like Kleypas stories.
Matchmaker #1 - Candace Camp - I skipped some but there's potential here I think as it moves forward.
Catch a Falling Heiress - Laura Lee Guhrke - nope. I think this was my second time trying this one. My kindle read 3%. I just couldn't get into it. 
Magnate - Joanna Shupe - not bad just not all that great either - she reads kinda fringe for me.

Old 97's! - Tell me that you like the songs that tell the story of real love, the kind that's flawed

most accurate description of love

One of the book sites I'm following asked for opinions on the most accurate description of love -
people posted lovey-dovey/tender stuff like from "Fault in our Stars"... and Pride and Prejudice - which admittedly is great  - “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”"

but so I of course said:
Not to negate the importance of sentimentality ('cause it's absolutely important) 
but additionally,  for me (and mine), this line just does it for me 
“She may be an evil bitch, but she is my evil bitch , and I'll have no other." Kresley Cole - Kiss of a Demon King. 
It's just so ...right...to point out that absolute love (in my opinion) is acknowledging the good and the bad about someone and still loving them for it. Plus it's freakin' funny...and that adds to it all too!

I wish that "beginning of in-love" feeling on everyone....what a great thing to have and remember. 
Can't say the same about the bad/worst parts...oy ... just awful hollow yucky-ness.

Moving on - I've loaded up my kindle for this weekend - around packing up Christmas stuff and the W's shrimp boil.

It's supposed to maybe snow tonight!!! yay

Totally in a 80/90s Country music mood lately. Tracy Lawrence and George Strait and The Judds!
Did lovers really fall in love to stay     
And stand beside each other come what may?               
Was a promise really something people kept
Not just something they would say and then forget?...

who is this person in my room

We did our usual NYE dinner and bar and home by 9.
Our open house NYD Sunday was good as usual, people started coming at 10am lasting through the night -  and yes again made for a long day. oy...
Didn't help that I've been battling a cold/allergies - I up and went to bed by 10 leaving Jamie to handle the last two holdouts - his friends since childhood.
I didn't feel bad about it either.

Then one of their girlfriends showed up and convinced Jamie to walk them into our room to wake me up out of a dead sleep cause she "wanted to meet me".

I can't see shit and she's telling me I'm so beautiful and I don't know what else she's saying bouncing around...
Needless to say Jamie and I had words after I got home from work yesterday.
Seriously...w.t.f.

Anyway, I'm trying to be optimistic about 2017...when really, in deep recesses, it feels like I'm on constant watchfulness...
I'm not really liking this "newer" me....it's like I've aged 10 years in 10 months.
Hopefully I'll grow out of it....being so serious is so stereotypical adult...and so boring. 

Again (as most always) reading is a relief.
Finished:
Alex by Sawyer Bennett - a hockey-ish story. Dad issues - he's cold and hates everyone/thing until he meets her. Sexy times, she admits her love, he breaks up with her changes his mind - didn't do much for me but I finished. eh.

Almost finished: First Star I See Tonight - SEPhillips - definitely like the girl lead more than most I've recently read. Pretty good!