Singular Scene

So Singular in Each Particular

And So it Continues

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For background to this story see the original note
And the video response
So I came home the other evening to find every last parking space within reasonable walking distance from my home taken, with just one exception, a small block between two driveways which will fit my car from nose to tail.
I’ve parked here before and been objected to in person as apparently one can’t just swing into the driveway ‘willy-nilly‘ with my car there. I’d like to point out that I’m not encroaching on the driveways at all… but I am close to the edges and having been objected to before, I left this [admittedly, virtually illegible] note on my dashboard to cover my butt…

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Clearly they didn’t see it… this was under my windshield wiper when I got in the car the next morning.

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Next time I’ll just put a piece of paper under my windshield so everyone thinks I’ve already been barked at… Until then I’ll keep posting these notes…
It makes me feel better.

A Midnight (or later) Meme

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Books in bold are ones I’ve read.
Any in bold with an asterisk (*)before them are ones I’ve tried to read but failed so far.
Books in italics are ones already on my to-read list before today.
Books in normal print are ones I’m not interested in (perhaps some of you can convince me one of these is a must-read!)
1. The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. The Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According to Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timoth Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97.White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

iBroke*

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It would be lovely, wouldn’t it, if the reason I was iBroke was because I’d spent the requisite fortune on a new “Precious“…

What Bad Luck: I was fine, then I put my shoe on and then…

… I Broke.

So the day started rather inauspiciously with one of those awkward moments wherein you roll off the sofa and onto the floor and then spend a good 5 minutes trying to establish exactly how it is you’re going to get yourself. Off. The Floor. Let alone in To. The. Car. Through. The. Traffic Out. Of. The. Car. and In. To. The. Chiro’s. Office.

What Good Luck: The Chiro had space to fit me in as soon as I could get to his office.

What Bad Luck: He charges me $60 for him to hurt me even more.

What Good Luck: I baby sat on Saturday and could thus afford to pay his bill.

What Bad Luck: The prescribed treatment was cold packs, not hot ones – and it’s winter.

What Good Luck: It feels better – this is largely, I believe because of all the lovely dr*gs.

What Bad Luck: It’s been 7 months since I got back from North Carolina (I KNOW) and my beautiful big bottle of Ibuprofen liquid caps is nearly empty… sobs.

What Good Luck:I got to go home early because I was ‘in Pain’.

[Ed. bored with this game now, what else is news?]

Hmm news.

New Boy Action: VB man came back for a visit the other day bearing gifts. Not VB this time, which, as I’m sure you’ll appreciate is disappointing. But this time he came with a DVD. A documentary about birds [now, now… birds – the feathered kind]. I guess the perceived value is a little lessened by the fact it was one of those free with the Sunday paper DVDs… but to his credit he was A Whole Day Early… given that he gave it to me on Saturday evening… [Reader Poll Please]… The OC said the last time ‘Nothing says I love you like a bottle of VB’ – gentle reader, which would have more weight with you? The VB or the DVD???

Oooh, and he came back this weekend and asked me for a light. ‘Apparently’ his brother had nicked off with his lighter… but we know better, right?? THAT’s a line… Seriously, if it wasn’t for the fact he was off his face and smelled like a [VB] brewery I’d have thrown myself at him there and then… I mean, we all know… nothing says ‘I Love You’ like asking for a light..

*Apparently apple is now a verb. as in I Broke becomes iBroke when you ‘Apple’ it. I’m a woman of the 21st century, I’m hip to Google becoming a verb… But for some reason… Apple as a verb? That’s going to take some getting used to.