Hey folks.  I’m feeling my usual spritely self again today, so let’s get down to business.

It has snowed here.  This did not phase either Jessie nor I in the least because it IS late November and that stuff happens, right?  Apparently not in this area.  So it snowed an inch.  ONE INCH, and they canceled school, people were abandoning cars in the middle of busy streets and walking miles to get home for fear of the awful weather.  IT SNOWED ONE FUCKING INCH!  ARE YOU SERIOUS?!!?  Apparently only the idiots in the Seattle area have no idea how to handle an inch of snow.  A local paper was headlining about the “Seattle Blizzard.”  Severe human stupidity, as it turns out, knows no end.

If I have to look at the music video for “Lips of an Angel” by Hinder one more time I am going to combust.  Not only does that song suck major balls, the look on the face of the singer as he is singing is quite a spectacle.   It looks like the guy has been cornholed by a fence post and he thinks yelling like that will make it come out.  That song sucks…seriously.  I fucking hate it.

Another thing about this area and the inch of snow that pisses me off:  I am expecting a package from UPS.  It was supposed to be here Monday.  It got delayed.  It was supposed to arrive Tuesday, but because of the “emergency weather conditions that are out of the control of UPS” it was delayed again.  Same thing happened yesterday (Wednesday).  These “Emergency conditions” must be quite serious.  I mean, holy crap!  A full inch of snow!  We must declare a state of emergency!  These idiots out here all drive Subarus and SUV’s with all-wheel-drive just for looks and they don’t understand that an inch of snow is not going to cause their fucking cars to explode.  They drive 10mph in the rain as it is (which is maddening because HELLO!  This is Seattle, it rains all the damned time!).  I can’t decide if I should be amused over this or completely disgusted at the stupidity of these people. I’m leaning towards disgusted.  REALLY disgusted.  Idiots.

I’m ok though.  Not in a bad mood at all.  I just had to vent a little bit.  As I said before, I’m feeling quite bouncy today.  Just don’t talk to me about how much snow there is outside or I’ll be forced to kill you with my pencil.

I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving.  I sure did.  I’m going to be feasting on the leftovers for quite a while, but I don’t care.  Turkey is something I look forward to every year and I could eat millions of cold turkey sandwiches by myself!  I made quite a piggy of myself over the holidays, but I was prepared for it.  I think that I have finally resigned to the fact that I love to eat way too much to make myself be uber thin.  I’ll live my life, not in an unhealthy way, but in a “fuck you super skinny people who don’t eat enough” kind of way.  I’m happy for those of you who have enough will power to say no to that second plate of heaven, but I’m happier for me because I actually ate it all!  HA! HA!  Moving on…..

I put up my Christmas decorations last night.  I love it.  I always get giddy when there is a big lighted tree in the room.

I really missed my brother this year.  He wasn’t able to come see us for Thanksgiving.  But my mom and her fiance came up and they were pretty cool most of the time.

Has anyone ever had a real honest-to-goodness murderous rage?  Just wondering

I have nothing else.  Kinda blah today.  Have a lot on my mind, but not wanting to write about it.

I’ll be better next time.

I don’t think it will be any shock to know that I am quite an avid reader.  I like to read all sorts of genres.  Today, I’d like to yammer a bit about my readings.  Sit back and enjoy.

I just finished a book called “Bright Flows the River”.  It was writtern by Taylor Caldwell.  This was one of the best books I have ever read.  Seriously.  If you ever have a free moment, look for this book and read it.  It’s not exactly an easy read, but it was very moving.  Try Amazon.com to find it.  I didn’t get it in a book store, I got it from my grandmother’s stack of books after she died. It was odd to find that she was a bit of an intellectual.  Amid the hundreds (seriously) of romance novels was a peppering of really deep and wonderful books brimming with different philosophies and views.  I miss her like you wouldn’t believe, even though she died nearly 11 years ago.

Speaking of “not an easy read” books, when Jessie and I first started dating almost six years ago, he told me that he wouldn’t consider a serious relationship with me unless I read “The Hobbit” and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.  First of all, I thought he was a bit of an ass for forcing the books on me, but I didn’t think much of it since I love to read.  I was completely unaware that Tolkien was a long winded old fart who takes 100 pages to explain a tree.  Seriously, that was painful reading, and this was before the movies came out!  I knew then why there was such a huge nerd following concerning Tolkien, and when I mean “nerd” I mean the creepy kind that spend numerous hours playing “RPG’s” and avoiding a human social life at all costs unless it is to play D&D.  But I digress.  It turns out that I am a nerd among nerds because, even though I found the Trilogy to be quite a painful read, I loved the “Silmarillion”.  Again, this was before the movies, so I got to this before a lot of you nerds out there.  It’s really good actually.  I liked it much more than the Trilogy.

And now to explain the header to this blog entry.  I read “The Grapes of Wrath” many years ago and really loved the story.  I really liked Steinbeck’s style of writing.  So, naturally, I sought another book by the same author and came upon “East of Eden”.  Again, a really good book.  So I was at work one day and I was telling a girl that I worked with about the book I had just finished because she found it necessary to tell me about her stupid Nicholas Sparks book.  So I am telling her about all the characters and she asks the name of the book, and the conversation went something like this:

“Oh, it’s called East of Eden.”  I say.

“By Oprah?”  She inquires.

I stare at her for a moment and then reply, “Um, no. John Steinbeck.”

“Oh, no I meant from Oprah’s book club.  Are you in her book club?  Because that book is in her book club.”

“W-what?!?!”  I yell.

“Yeah, Oprah totally endorsed that book and said it was a great read.”

“Fucking Oprah.”

I swear that My version of the book did not come with the accursed “OPRAH BOOK CLUB” sticker on it, and since I have absolutely no interest in reading anything from that stupid book club, I was horrified that a book that I really enjoyed was also being read by bored Middle American housewives amid the thunder of screaming children and “Dora the Explorer”.  Kinda takes the beauty out of the story for me.  I also have a sick feeling about that book club because I seriously doubt Oprah reads all, if any, of the books she endorses.  She probably has a huge staff of people researching and reading these things for her.  Either way, I wish Oprah would stay out of the Classics and let me read with a clean soul.