Gravity's Bitch

[cornerofmadness]

So it snowed a couple inches last night but I HAD to get my meds. Have I mentioned my parents live up a large hill? (My own road is even steeper but if I slip there so what, there's no one on it, here I'll skid out into the main road.)

So off I go, get halfway down, spin and now gravity is sucking me down the hill sideways. Well this is fun. Brakes don't work so well when you're going sideways. I did try to ditch it into the forsythia. Luckily I did get stopped before I was on the main road or in the hedgerow. Also luckily no one was coming. Other than that, the trip was fine and now we have the last do your goddamn job for 2025

1. I got pizza at our favorite place, XXL pepperoni (also not doing their job I did NOT check before leaving) Want to know how much pepperoni there was? NONE (I fixed that in post)

2. I get to CVS. They have my meds NOT my needles. Why not? oh we can't tell you that here we cant see that information in this system (it's a lie. I know they can. Mine has this system and they can but this place is huge so they don't want to waste time). I get in the 'we can tell you why we fucked up' line, takes forever. I said maybe you didn't transfer it. No we did. Then WHY isn't it filled? She shrugs, doesn't answer and says can you wait 15 minutes? yes I can. (I know why, everyone is doing what I'm doing, using the last day before the deductibles reset tomorrow and they're swamped.

I get my damn needles, I go to Home Goods, clean up on the Christmas discards (they're all over valentine's day which isn't too bad. Dollar Tree has all the gardening stuff out. yeah sure.

What I Just Finished Reading:

Poorly Made and Other Things - Horror anthology by one person set in his Edenville series. It was pretty good.

To Die Once - a Maisie Dobbs mystery which I haven't read one of these in a while and this is...slow. It's way more about the effect of war on the English people (who were still recovering from WWI) than it's a mystery

Tell Tale Treat - another paranormal mystery with another protagonist ripe for being bitch slapped, wasn't a bad mystery



What I am Currently Reading:

Keeping the Secret - a short thing about the WAVS in WWII

Murder Made Her Wicked - historical mystery set in Wellsley, really good so far

The Witching Hour - by Heather Graham. Missing children but no one will do a search of the woods because there's no proof other than the FBI things its there (a paranormal FBI team) eye roll. might DNF this arc (but this is the series that did what I tried to do in the early 90s with paranormal mystery and I was laughed at)


What I Plan to Read Next: It's a bunch of new reading challenges time so that

Speaking of that kingstoken is having a reading challenge and you can find it here.

I forgot to mention I finished evil_little_dog's book challenge this year



1. Has a POC main character - Ghost Roast by Shawnelle & Shawnee Gibbs
2. Is a graphic novel - Lackadaisy vol 1 & 2 by Tracy J. Butler
3. Is the author's first published novel - The Seance Society by Michael Nethercott
4. Tells history from another POV- Carmilla Volume 2: The Last Vampire Hunter by Amy Chu
5. Is a space opera Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis
6. Is part of a series Silent Evidence by Clea Koff
7. Has a really cool cover - Minstrels in the Galaxy: Stories in the Key of Tull, Volume 1 edited by Sam Robb
8. Was recommended by a friend A Twist of Murder by Heather Redmond
9. Is considered a Young Adult book When the Bones Sing by Ginny Myers Sain
10. Is considered a Middle Grade book- The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon K. Garrity
11. Has a dragon on the cover - The Tea Dragon Society by Kay O'Neill
12. Is a retelling of another story - Anima Rising by Christopher Moore
13. Is nonfiction about a woman - The Witch of Mansfield: The Tetched Life of Phebe Wise by Mark S. Jordan
14. Is a book your parent(s) might have read - Bodies and Battlements by Elizabeth Penney
15. Takes place during a holiday - The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (Winter Solstice thru New Years)
16. Has been sitting on your to be read pile for a while - Warchild (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #7) by Esther M. Friesner
17. Was published in the last decade (2010 — 2019) Verses for the Dead by Preston & Child
18. Has an insect on the cover - Hormones, Hexes, & Exes by J.C. Blake
20. Is an autobiography or 19. Mentions time travel Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus by Stephen Graham Jones
biography - The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained by Stanley Milford Jr
21. Takes place in a country other than where you currently live - The Tomb of Zeus by Barbara Cleverly
22. Is a mystery - To Slip the Bonds of Earth by Amanda Flower
23. Is something you normally wouldn't read - Blue Lock: Episode Nagi volume 1 by Kota Sannomiya (sports manga)
24. You checked out from the library/got from a Free Little Library - You Must Not Miss by Katrina Leno
25. Is something you know you would have (or should have) read in high school H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P Lovecraft and manga adaptation by Gou Tanabe
26. Is written by an author who has at least ten published novels Under This Red Rock by Mindy McGinnis


Alternates:
A. Is an Urban Fantasy - The Smoke in His Voice by J.V. Silver
B. Has a title taken from song lyrics or poetry - Trouble the Water by Wendy Vogel
C. Is legal fanfic (i.e., a book that takes place in the Star Trek or Disney universes, etc.) Murder by Cheesecake by Rachel Ekstrom Courage (Golden Girls)
D. Takes place in the winter - The Lost House by Melissa Larsen
E. Has an animal as a main character - - Feral, Vol. 1: Indoor Cats by Tony Fleecs
F. Is a book you would've snatched up to read when you were younger - The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix




And have December's reads

Wytches, Volume 1 horror graphic novel

Ripped Tide mystery

Haunted Cemeteries of Ohio nonfiction

Death at the Door paranormal mystery

To Die But Once. historical mystery

The Poorly Made and Other Things



Happy New year's my friends

We're spending it playing cards and watching it snow more.

Comments

[aien_hime]

Oh yikes, that slip sounds scary. Glad you are okay!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks. It's not too unusual here. It's hilly and snowy

[spikedluv]

That sounds like some trip down the road! o_O I'm glad you were able to stop your slide and didn't meet any traffic or the hedgerow.

Ugh, pizza place and double ugh to CVS because they are always screwing up!

Happy New Year!!

[cornerofmadness]

Yeah to be fair I'm often gravity's bitch going down an icy hill sideways but like I said at my place, there's very unlikely anything to hit. Worst thing would be I end up in the creek and have to get towed out.

And this is a different CVS!!

And I know to check my take away. I usually do (how many times has KFC/Popeye's given me a thigh instead of a breast?)