pira

Today it is 13C (55 F) with periods of sun and sprinkles of rain all mixed up with a light breeze.....and I am feeling FINE!

It's June, but we are finally getting MY kinda spring (not to be confused with the climatic spin-the-bottle Mother Nature has been playing February ~ May this year)....*just loving breathing in that fresh, clean air instead of the lung-clogging smog of last week*

The heat-rats are in a funk, but I am tickled by the mild temperatures that mean I can sleep with the windows open and the A/C off. :)

I finished book 3 of The Immortals ~ ordered the concluding 4th, because I ...okay...I admit... I'm addicted. :P

Left hanging 'till that volume arrives, I continued on with House Lust and tried to put my finger on what it is about this particular book that is bothering me ~ and it's probably the fact that it's too easy to read.

...okay that sounds silly, considering I've read 3 Tamora Pierce novels in a week but hey...I do expect a bit more substance from my nonficion. The book is just a tad too *chatty* , although that does make it easy to graze on ...and that IS all you really do, graze. Unlike Michael Pollen's tomes, where the reader is actually forced to digest the information (after all...he is a thinker-author), Daniel McGinn merely spews opinions and observations like a talk show host (a.k.a. reporter-author) ~ Hmmm is that the difference between a writer for the NewYork Times and one for Newsweek? *@__@!!?

Anyway ~ as I was lying abed reading about *the cult of HGTV* and it's minions (which is most of the American Middle Class it would seem) I catch myself thinking that ....I am so not surprised. It's like having a great big secret revealed to you, except you have known about the insanity (and mocked it to everyone that would stand still long enough to hear you) for well over a decade, and have been fighting an uphill battle against The-keeping-up-with-the-Jones, for longer than that. The weird thing is that I don't know if I am enjoying reading this book that basically tells me that I've been right all along about a whole LOT of things.

I don't need to be vindicated on stuff that just strikes me as common sense. Maybe my discomfort is born from the fact that I just don't get the way these people think (and by these people, I mean the ones in the book and those in my real life that have similar aspirations)...it makes me really uncomfortable. I just don't know what to say to them any more than those who are habitual namedroppers. I draw a complete blank 0__0 ~ it's as though I am reading about pod-people...very crazy pod-people I might add.

Not that I've never been struck by the silly-stick ~ heck knows my hobbys are hardly more realistic, but at least they aren't causing the world economy to flatline....

On that note...howza about that rain?


















































I do love peonies...too bad my head can't stand the fragrance. I would be out there cutting them by the armload to plunk into vases indoors if my brain wouldn't threaten to exit through my ears from their scent. >D