"let's go out walking / you know, it's garbage night"

[hermionesviolin]

10 hours of sleep.  Oops.

I still got a good amount of packing/culling/reorganizing done, though.

As usual, despite all the culling (which is definitely not finished, btw) I still have way too many boxes.  7x11 shouldn't be that much smaller than 9x12, but my spatial sense is defective plus I boggle that all this stuff fit in my current 9x12, so I'm still with the worrying.

I did call the landlord.  (Voicemail, natch.)  OriginalRoomie said he hadn't been by to fix the windows yet.  Sigh.

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My parents came back from NH and we went to Friendly's for dinner tonight.  I ordered my usual -- the mushroom+swiss+bacon colossal burger with Gardenburger and (duh) without the bacon.

watress (handing us our food): "I told them no bacon, and then they took the bacon off.  Is that okay?"
me: "Yeah, that's okay."
[later]
my mom: "And Elizabeth's feeling gracious -- to the shock of her mother."
me: "I've grown as a person."

I generally insist that no meat touch my food (or utensils that are used on my food) but I'm more relaxed about it when eating out.

It occurred to me only later that there's almost no way I would have known about the bacon just from eating it (unless I have a physiological reaction against it -- is that even possible with bacon?) and that was really wonderful of her to ask me about it.

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free to good home, part two

let's go down to the east river
and throw something in
something we can't live without
and then let's start again

Seriously, anything you want, just let me know.  No charge.  This is all going to Goodwill.

- A bumper sticker that says:
Next year, why not vacation in the millions of worlds of a used book store?

- assorted magnets

• a waist is a terrible thing to mind
  
• more fun / less stuff
  
• Live simply that others may simply live.
  
• Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty.
  
• Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

YA softcover

• That Was Then, This is Now (S. E. Hinton, 1971)
  
• The Black Stallion (Walter Farley)
  
• Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson, 1977)
  
• The Summer of the Swans (Betsy Byars, 1970)
  
• Out of the Ordinary (Annie Dalton, 1988) sff
  
• Pigs Don't Fly (Mary Brown, 1994) [ex-library] sff
  
• Behind the Bedroom Wall (Laura E. Williams, 1996) Holocaust
  
• Beyond the Divide (Kathryn Lasky, 1983) Amish, Gold Rush, etc.
  
• To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
  
• Old Yeller (Fred Gipson)
  
• Heidi (Johanna Spyri)

YA hardcover

• Bright Days, Stupid Nights (Norma Foz Mazer and Harry Mazer, 1992)
  
• Belonging (Virginia M. Scott, 1986)
  
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
  
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
  
• Ludie's Song (Dirlie Herlihy, 1988)
  
• Friends First (Christine McDonnell, 1990)
  
• Lassie Come-Home (Eric Knight)
  
• Jack and Jill (Louisa May Alcott)
  
• Space and Science-Fiction Plays for Young People (ed. Sylvia E. Kamerman, 1981) [ex-library]
  
• Heidi Grows Up (Charles Tritten)
  
• The Trumpet of the Swan (E. B. White)

adult softcover

• Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)


• The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Anne Rice writing as A.N. Roquelaure, 1983)
  
• Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
  
• The Face on the Wall (Jane Langton, 1998)
  
• A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
  
• A Dog Called Bethlehem (Sam Morse-Brown, 1978)

adult hardcover

• An Anthology of Spanish American Literature (1946)

nonfiction

• Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Keith Topping, 2001) [softcover]
  
• When God Was a Woman (Merlin Stone, 1976) [softcover]
  
• Touched by an Angel (Martha Williamson and Robin Sheets, 1997) [hardcover] tv show
  
• What Can I Do To Make a Difference?: A Positive Action Sourcebook (Richard Zimmerman, 1991) [softcover, ex-library]
  
• The Roald Dahl Quiz Book (Richard Maher & Sylvia Bond, 1994) [softcover]
  
• God's Precious Love (Joni Eareckson Tada, 1990) [hardcover]
  

(auto)biography [softcover]

• Almost a Woman (Esmeralda Santiago, 1998)
  
• Woman of Independence: The Life of Abigail Adams (Susan Provost Beller, 1992)
  
• The Road from Corain (Jill Ker Conway, 1989)
  
• Are You Somebody? (Nuala O'Faolain, 1996)
  
• Growing Up Native American (ed. Patricia Riley, 1992)
  
• The Story of Helen Keller (Lorene A. Hickok, 1958)
  
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

on writing

• The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Writer (Janet E. Grant, 1995) [softcover]
  
• The Writer's Handbook (Allan B. Lefcowitz, 1976) [hardcover, ex-library]
  
• Dreams and Inward Journeys: A Reader for Writers (Marjorie Ford and Jon Ford, 1990) [softcover]
  
• The St. Martin's Guide to Writing (Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper, 1988) [softcover]
  
• Writing the Natural Way: Using Right-Brain Techniques to Release Your Expressive Powers (Gabriele Lusser Rico, 1983) [softcover]
  
• Pain and Possibility: Writing Your Way Through Personal Crisis (Gabriele Rico, 1991) [softcover]

tarot

• The Light and Shadow Tarot
  
• The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (Arthur Edward Waite, 2000) [softcover]
  
• A Complete Guide to the Tarot (Eden Gray, 1970) [hardcover]

pocket-size quote books [hardcover]

• Women
  
• Quotable Women
  
• Witty Women: Wise, Wicked, & Wonderful Words

L. M. Montgomery [softcover]

• Anne of Green Gables (2 copies)
  
• Anne of Avonlea
  
• Anne of The Island
  
• Jane of Lantern Hill

And left over from the last time:

YA softcover

• Hey, Dollface (Deborah Hautzig, 1978)
  
• The Only Alien on the Planet (Kristen D. Randle, 1995)
  
• Letters from the Inside (John Marsden, 1991)
  
• The Pistachio Prescription (Paula Danziger, 1978)
  
• After the Rain (Norma Fox Mazer, 1987)
  
• Missing Pieces (Norma Fox Mazer, 1995)
  
• Wise Child (Monica Furlong, 1987) on hold for gishmi1ish (sorry I completely forgot about it last time you visited)
  
• The Eternal Enemy (Christopher Pike, 1993)

YA hardcover (ex-library)

• Saturday, the Twelfth of October (Norma Fox Mazer, 1975)
  
• Remembering The Good Times (Richard Peck, 1985)

adult softcover

• Daughter of God (Lewis Perdue, 2000)

VHS

• Il Postino (The Postman) (1995)

Comments

[pandorasboxes.livejournal.com]

OH OH OH


-Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty.
-The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty (Anne Rice writing as A.N. Roquelaure, 1983)
-Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Every Episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Keith Topping, 2001) [softcover]
-Almost a Woman (Esmeralda Santiago, 1998) (if this is about transgender?)
-Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl


i would love any/all of those. and have to think of a way to repay you.
<333333333333 <33333333333 <3333333333333 <333333333333

I need to know

[theatre-pixie.livejournal.com]

What did you think of Jane of Lantern Hill? I'm a major L.M. Montgomery fan, but so far I've only managed to read all of the Anne of Green Gables series and the one called The Blue Castle (at least, that's what I think it's called).

I'd lay claim to a few of those, but my bookshelves are over-populated as is. I have decided that I'm in need of larger shelves, not less books. 'Cause I'm a book whore like that.

[sangerin.livejournal.com]

If it weren't for the whole "Other Side of the World" thing, I'd be claiming A Woman of Independence, The Road from Coorain (I don't have my own copy of that) and The Story of Helen Keller (for the almost sole reason that it's by Hick!)

So many favourites on that list!

[hedy.livejournal.com]

To kill a Mockingbird?

[paper-crystals.livejournal.com]

Unfortunetly all the books that I want I already have and all the other books look like things I would take out of the library. *le sigh*

[laynamarya.livejournal.com]

Can I have Il Postino? I love that movie. :)

[sk8eeyore.livejournal.com]

I would love to have the "a waist is a terrible thing to mind" and "Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes" magnets. I could get them from you when I come to visit this summer.

Also, there's a book called Ludie's Song? It just jarred me to see that, because 1988 is about the same time I started writing and illustrating my own books about a character named Ludie and at that age was so convinced I had invented the name myself :)

Fribbles!

[carpdeus.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to Friendly's in years :( They closed the restaurant that used to be in Cincy and I live on the fringe of the current territory. I'm gonna have to go to Dayton sometime this weekend and get a Fribble.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

How wonderfully generous of you, Elizabeth. I'd like to claim the Tarot books and the SE Hinton. :)

I also have the lesbian erotica book all packaged up for you, and it's going out in tomorrow's post to your work addy.

[wisdomeagle]

I would like to claim:

The Pistachio Prescription by Paula Danzinger
Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott
The Trumpet of the Swan by EB White (assuming that, unlike my edition, there aren't any pages missing)


Thank you. I love you. And, I'm back. (At least for now.)