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I don't think these two will ever be camera shy.
( Two more pictures. )
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I've had a slight increase in hours at the warehouse, which is a blessing. I'm hoping to get even more, but I'm very grateful for what I have. Sometimes going to work feels like treasure hunting. I never know what I will come across, and more often than not I come home with bits of papers or exciting finds that were going to be sent to the 'penny stack' (meaning the book was not valuable enough to be listed on the website and was going to the physical store). Here are some of my 'treasures' that I've recently found:
An old sheet of paper that said 'Private Wire Telegram' on the top, along with the company associated with it...and written in pencil on the paper someones grocery list
Laying on the ground was an old book spine. Leather, in old German. I can translate all the words but one, and it's too worn with age to look up to figure it out
Confession: I love old science fiction books. So I snatched up an old magazine with this title: Astounding Science Fiction. The date: January 1948. It would have listed for 1 cent
Another penny book I brought home had the best title: The Life and Times of the Greek Alphabet. It is essentially a history of each of the letters of the Greek alphabet.
This will take some explaining. Picture a small notebook, not wirebound. The first half of it was filled with Danish stamps and a date on the inside of the cover dating it at 1917. Now, picture this book in front of you and flip it over. Starting from the back half someone had filled the second half with notes on words and phrases translating Danish-English. That one went to be displayed at the store
Occasionally I'll come across a book that time has worn the title from the spine and someone has penned in the title. Once I came across a hardcover book that it was clear that the dust jacket was homemade. Out of curiousity I pulled the dust jacket off to see the hardcover's face. Underneath was a different title and author. Further research- the title that was on the dust jacket, no such book exists. Only a Twilight Zone episode of the same name. Even odder, there were two of these homemade covers on the book, both with the same made up name, both looking like it had taken someone a while to make.
Normally, I try to get to work 15 minutes early so I can go to the store first and say hi to Amber and browse before I head over to the warehouse, which is down the street. The only problem with this system, combined with my job, is I'm going to run out of room for books.
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happy - Music:'play that funky music'
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sleepy - Music:all is quiet...even the mouse...
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- Music:'many the miles'- sara bareilles
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excited - Music:'into you'- jennifer knapp
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good - Music:'same'- snow patrol
Go see this movie. No really, go see it.
Generally, every time I see a Pixar movie I wish I had half the creativity as the guys who make those movies. This time was no different. The image of the house floating through the air attached to all the colorful balloons is one of the most whimsical things I've seen at the theatre ever.
I'm getting ahead of myself. The midget and I went to see Up early this afternoon. We arrived at the theatre 30 minutes early, and made a very rare trip to the concession stand. Even rarer- we bought more than a box of candy. While the midget was ordering (I paid for the tickets, she paid for the food), the manager came over and said that with ordering a combo we got any box of candy at a discount. The midget picked out a box of skittles. The manager handed the midget her box of sugar and a small (empty) water cup along with the advice that he finds it easier to eat the skittles with a small cup to pour them into. He then asks us what movie we were there to see. We told him Up. 'You girls want posters?' was the reply we received to that and he gave us two huge Up posters. We picked a good day to visit the concession stand apparently.
Back to the movie. Somehow at the same time Up brings attention to how an ordinary life is an adventure, and flying a house to South America is an adventure. And that no one is too old to have an adventure.
Favorite parts:
- 'Cone of Shame'- really, that is what it will be called from now on.
- 'Squirrel!'
- When the house first takes off. You know its coming, you've seen the trailers and posters, and yet it still just brought a smile to my face
- The beginning. Hardly any dialogue in it, but it isn't needed, the story tells itself without a narrative. The ending was amazing too, the look on Russell's face was priceless.
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content - Music:'pray for me' - plumb
While I was at work Tuesday night, my books were listed on amazon.com marketplace. =) Books self-published through lulu.com are now listed on amazon. Which comes to the reason for this post- if you've read either of my novels in the past, I would really appreciate it if you rated and/or left a review for me on amazon. Thank you!
A side note, it is still cheaper to order my books (or anyone who has published through lulu) through lulu.com. Amazon adds a charge to it and therefore the price goes up. But...it so exciting to be able to say my books are on amazon.
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- Music:'bring it on'- steven curtis chapman
...that have nothing to do with each other.
1) I think these are adorable.
2)
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soulspire graduated from CSUN last Tuesday (woot!)...on the steps of the Star Fleet Academy. The lawn that she graduated on is in front of the steps/building that were used for the front of the Star Fleet Academy. So no, it's not in San Francisco, it's in Northridge. 3) Last night at the warehouse I listed two books that had me staring at them for a while. Both were the same book, but one both the front and back cover had completely come apart from the book (a former owner had taped it back together), and outer spine was completely missing. As far as I could tell, all the pages were there, but most of the pages had notes on them. The second copy of the book looked barely used. I opened it to find that the title page, copyright page, all of that had been cut out so precisely that if I hadn't had the other copy I wouldn't have known it was suppose to be there. This one also had notes written it in, but not as extensively as the first one. What were these two books? Greek New Testaments, written for a German audience (the covers were in German, hence my deduction)...but all the hand written notes were written in English.
I like my job.
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pensive - Music:'up up up'- kerli
Saturday afternoon, about 30 miles north of the Mexican border, found Amber and I here:
At a Jim Butcher signing. (Amber to the left, I'm behind the camera)
The second most whirl wind trip I've ever taken to San Diego, but totally worth it for Amber to meet her favorite author. And now excuse me, I want to start the process of staying up too late while I read Fool Moon.
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calm - Music:'candycoatedwaterdrops'- plumb
This photographer/artist is amazing. My favorite albums at the link are 'Pure Pleasure' and 'Underwater Fairytale'
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impressed - Music:'undo me'- wow 1999
* The display at our theatre. I was shown how to get the pictures off my cell camera to my computer and making good use of it.
Last April when the first Star Trek trailer came out, I emailed my dad from Germany and informed him we were going to see it opening day. I think I've only reminded him of this a dozen times in the last year. I bought us our tickets Wednesday afternoon and tried to plan it that we'd be going to an opening day showing that would be least likely to have long lines.
Needless to say, I was a little excited.
We 'only' got to the theatre 30 minutes before our showing started and the theatre was all but deserted. We couldn't find someone to tear our ticket for us. Only two people were in the theatre when we went to find our seats and before the lights went down I down 30 people were in the room! And it was all 'old Trekkies' (as my dad said when seeing we were surrounded by his peers and not mine). It was awesome.
My expectations for the movie weren't high, my excitement wasn't for seeing a quality movie, it was for enjoying my favorite father-daughter tradition (watching Star Trek). But even if I had gone in with high expectations I think they would have been blown away.
Somehow this movie was able to take everything that is so familiar about Star Trek and make it fresh. But without losing the very recognizable Star Trekness of it. A few times I was amazed at how new the Enterprise looked, without being unrecognizable. There were scenes that even had my dad saying out loud 'that is so cool!'. When the movie ended, I was ready to make plans to see it again.
( Spoilers behind cut )
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geeky - Music:'death of me'- red
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dorky - Music:'the promised land'- veggie tales
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blah - Music:'the fallen'- franz ferdinand
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I sit and think about Easter and why we celebrate. And I sit and think how I get to celebrate with my family and my friends.
....and that's even more amazing than that I spent last Easter in Paris.
Happy Easter my friends.
*Yes, that's a baby saint bernard and a bunny. soulspire forwarded me the picture and it was too cute not to share
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grateful
In the process of switching servers from bravenet to godaddy. Got my website over, but right now all files on livejournal that were hosted through bravenet are red x of doom.
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