Mmm, books!

Thanks, shutterbugjones, for all the tasty literature you distributed yesterday! Yum, yum! (Just what I need - more stuff...) I am in awe of your ability to get rid of things.

Snatched from storm_dancer: Transformers: The Movie Live Action News I'm eager and afraid of this, by turns.

Saw Howl's Moving Castle yesterday. While it was definitely a bit different, in sevral elements, from Miyazaki's norm, I'm coming down on the side of really loving this one. I want to see it again already. I'll settle for digging up the book and reading it.

Because after hauling away a bagful of Shutterbug's cast-offs, I don't have enough on my reading list.

My mom's been pressuring me to go to the beach while she, Gary, his daughter, my cousins, and my aunt and uncle are there. Honestly, I'd be more interested if it was just me and my sister, and not a huge group of people. While the prospect of beaching appeals to me immensely, I never really enjoy myself in that crowd. I've got a Kaplan class starting on the 23rd, which has helped a little with my ability to say 'no,' but I finally had to tell her rather bluntly last night that there really wasn't much for me at the beach. My sister works all day, and all Mom really wants to do is hang out at the bar and drink. Which would be fine if I were hanging out with friends, and not my mother, but ... yeah. Drinking with Mom? Just not much fun. And put me in a large group of my relatives, and I feel like (and am mostly treated like) the out-of-place child who sits and listens and is Seen And Not Heard.

I really would rather stay here, house-sit, job-hunt, and spend time with my friends. Fortunately, she finally seems resigned to letting me do that.

Congratulations!

Everybody warmly welcome my dear friend and surrogate brother liggphys, who has turned to the Dark Side and begun a LiveJournal. <3 <3 <3