I am definitely

NOT pregnant. Yeah, I'm sad, but still. The UTI/being sick whatever and selling the house ... still need to work on them before we do get preggers I guess, so it's okay. *sigh*

I've been craving nutella for days so I bought some and am now eating it for breakfast. I guess it's my chocolate fix this month.

Adopting Alyssa was quite good. A fast read, but you still get an emotional connection to the characters. I did figure out the major plot twist before it was revealed, but that's okay. Because it's a Christian book, there is no sex and no swearing. So, a fun, clean, still emotional read, with good morals while eating nutella? What's better than that? Not much. ;)

ack... more cramps. later.

Book Tag!

The rules of the game:

1. Find the nearest book to you.
2. Name the book and author.
3. Turn to page 123.
4. Go to the fifth sentence on the page.
5. Copy out the next 3 sentences and post to your blog.
6. Tag three other people.

*****

Okay ... here's the thing. I'm at my desk and the book closest to me is Stedman's Medical & Surgical Equipment Words. It's not a "novel" and there are no sentences in it. It is well over 1000 pages. The other nearest books are 14 more specialty word books and dictionaries, all extremely dry work-related stuff.

So, I give you:

cannula (three of them, following the above instructions)

Hasson stable access c.
Haverfield brain c.
Havlicek spiral c.

Whaddya know? I've never used any of those words at work.


Ahem. Let's be a little less boring, shall we?

I just finished reading Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot. Yes, she wrote The Princess Diaries, but Disney's movies bear little resemblance to her books. Anyway. Sentences from page 123 (I'm not including the lyrics to an inane song as any of the sentences).

Maybe Patty's right, and the kids in the dorm--residence hall, I mean--are taking up the space in my heart where love for my own kids would be if, you know, I had any. Because I can't stop worrying about them.

Not that there can be that many more virgins left in the building--which I happen to be in a position to know. Ever since I swapped the Hershey's Kisses in the candy jar on my desk for individually wrapped Trojans, I've had kids stumbling down to my office at nine in the morning in their PJs--and if you don't think nine in the morning is early by college standards, you've never been in college--unapologetically plucking them from the jar.

(Fragments don't count, so I added another "sentence"). Tada!

I rather enjoyed the book, so if you don't mind some swearing, some murders, some sex, some colorful characters, and some discussions about condoms as above, you should get it from your local library and read it. Really. Man I love libraries -- FREE BOOKS!!!

Oh ... yeah ... tagging. No, I refuse to follow that rule, too. Tagging eventually fizzles out. But *if* you want to do this fun little project, do it! It's good free fun!!!