Happy Birthday!

Sunday, November 9th, 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Happy Birthday to Ava Grace.

She was born in Melbourne yesterday - making me an Aunty for the fifth time! Wishing I could be down that way right now to give all of my family a bloody big hug.

Additionally, I met up with the original Engineering Girl yesterday - and she’s patiently waiting to meet the newest member of her family. The baby is due TODAY, so I’m waiting to hear from them. We need to develop an ‘eject button’ for babes…

In other news, I’m trying to do a website for a friend - and thinking up new and different ways of procrastinating. Posting to a blog seems to be quite good…

Tags: birthday, engineering girl, family, procrastinating

Twilight

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 | Doyle Reviews, Fiction, Reading | No Comments

If a book can be as addictive as Stephanie Meyer’s “Twilight” series, then somebody should put a warning on the cover.

Warning: This book will take over your life, and will deprive you of sleep until you finish reading the whole bloody thing.

I’m rather alarmed at how far I’ve sunk into my addiction. If books were drugs, I’d be a librarian junkie.

Dude, I just need a quick fix. Just one more chapter, man…

The problem is that I read before bed. So, now I’m finding myself getting ready for bed earlier and earlier, JUST so I can spend some quality time with the characters. Tonight? Tonight, I was on a date and felt the compulsion to leave. Not because the date was going badly, quite the opposite, but it was eating into valuable reading time.

In addition to that, I’m sleeping less and less as it’s so hard to put the book down and turn off the lights! It’s literary heroin, dude.

I’m just off to get my latest hit.