Morning Reflections
Well, it's almost 2:30 am, so technically that's morning. I woke up with intense pain, and I'm still not sure if this is a sinus infection or an infected tooth. I stupidly took two ibuprofen with a half glass of water and went back to bed, only to wake up 15 minutes later with intense intense stomach and esophageal pain. I am now eating something, which I should have done before I swallowed the ibuprofen. But then again, eating is painful because of the pain in the side of my face. I'm in a no win situation here.
Last night I took an antihistamine shortly after dinner, and was unconscious on the couch shortly after that. I can barely remember getting off the couch and going to bed, but remember it was a struggle to stay upright. This is exactly why I don't take a lot of medications: they're all far to strong for my system.
Take a weight loss quiz from ABC news (Australia), and find out how much you know about recent research into weight loss and fitness. I had a perfect score.
I kinda wanted to stay home today, but it's pantry day for us, and today the girls have eye exams. There's no rest for me today!
Went to the library yesterday and picked up a couple books. I wanted light, vacuous reading (brain candy) and did get ONE book like that, but the other is a more involved piece of Chicano literature by an author whom I haven't read yet. Sometimes I like to tell myself that I'm just keeping up on the genre, which I studied in college quite a bit, but the real reason is that I love the intense interplay between Catholicism and older religion and how they merge together in a culture that embraces magical realism in literature.
A glass of tea and I'll be back to bed for a couple more hours sleep.
and now for some reason I wanna know what you define as light reading :-)
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LOL when I'm sick or stressed, I read bodice rippers. I prefer stories that don't take themselves seriously. There was a branch of one romance novel publisher that published a series of novels under the category "A wink and a kiss", which meant that that particular novel was as much humor as romance, and not to be taken seriously. They were a lot of fun. I remember one in particular where a girl picks up a crapy piece at a flea market as a gift for her mom, and it turns out to be Aladdin's Lamp, complete with a hunky genie. If you can't laugh at it, it's not so much fun to read most of the time. I also like romances that involve time travel (people meeting across the centuries) and I'll read some really stereotypical tales of knights and ladies, as well as a few about goings on at the ton in London. I really do have low taste in literature when I'm stressed.
DeleteMost of the time I read contemporary multicultural American lit, I like hispanic lit, and I've been reading a lot of East Indian American lit as well as indigenous American lit. My reading has been expanding somewhat due to my book club participation, and the best book I've read in a LONG time is The Weird Sisters. It strikes the right balance between pleasure and serious reading for me.
Oh, I loved The Weird Sisters....also the best book I have read in a long time. Since I seem to stay in a stressed out, mostly worried over money state plus my depression often makes it hard for me to concentrate I like to read books that aren't too much for me to process so I read cozy mysteries (def of a cozy is one that does not have alot of explicit sex, vulgarity or gruesome details of murder). I like humor as well.
ReplyDeleteThinking of The Weird Sisters reminded me of their love of the library, which made me wonder...is the library in Santa Fe close to the apartment you hope to get or at least on the bus line? The library has been a part of my life from the time I was 6 and got my first library card. I worked in a library for 20 years. I can not imagine life without a library and have always thought I could live anywhere as long as I was close to a library and a Wal-Mart Supercenter.
ReplyDeleteCarol, I'm not sure where the CLOSEST library is to my new place, but I know the main library and a few of the others. I've often done the Zoo to You at the Santa Fe libraries, and have been to the Main several times... and I know how to get THERE by bus :)
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