I finished "Waiting" by Ha Jin. It was good. I enjoyed it. I like the open-ended endings the best. That way I can make up my own ending of how I think everything should turn out. I'm now enjoying "The Eleventh Commandment" by Jeffrey Archer. It's a thriller and starts out with an assassination. Pretty cool so far! I've got quite a few books in line for me to read. I think I'm going to read "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink next. I saw the movie when it was in theatres and loved it. I hear the book is amazing.
This past weekend was a family weekend for me. On Sunday I went to my niece's first birthday party. Then that evening I went to my boyfriend's sister's birthday dinner, then Monday night was first night Passover Seder at my Aunt's house. It was all fun. I can't believe my niece is already a year old. She's getting more and more cute. And my cousin's baby was at the Seder, she's almost 2 years old. She's super cute and funny. She's now talking up a storm and is a little parrot repeating everything. But she's so much fun. We played for half an hour with these bead necklaces that she loves. She was having the greatest time taking them down, putting them on, then showing everyone, then taking them off and putting them away. Over and over again. It was fun for me watching her. She's such a little doll.
It's nice to have babies in the family that I can play with and be the fun Aunt or cousin. Maybe one day I'll have one of my own. But for now I'm enjoying playing with the ones I have around. I'm not ready yet and want to finish school and get myself a little more stable before I can be a Mom.
So, of course I'm still enjoying my Nano. Still the coolest thing around. I also bought an outlet charger so I don't have to keep plugging it into the computer just to charge. It's awesome. I went to volunteer yesterday at the library and was so loving having my Nano while cataloguing. It's the best. Some of my great finds yesterday was this cool kid's book in Swahili that was published around 1920s and some pamphlets published around the 1860s. So awesome. I love that I get to go back and work with them more too. How cool is that! Well it's all pretty amazing to me. It makes me so happy that Mayme collected all this stuff, so that years later I got to come in contact with it all. Wonderful. I'm thinking one day I'll do some sort of collecting myself. Maybe old dictionaries or something that interests me. We shall see where that one takes me.
I went to spin/yoga yesterday morning to a class by myself, which is awesome to have my own personal trainer and get my form exact. But it also really sucks in the respect that I had to work really, really hard since all eyes were on me. It's nice to be made aware of certain things you do that are not great for your form. So I can make a conscious effort to correct them and make sure I don't hurt myself. And I signed up for Sunday's spin/yoga at 9:30, but because it's Easter Sunday they are doing a special and asked if I'd like to go to an 8-9:30 class instead. It's going to suck so early, but I haven't tried their holiday hour and a half special classes yet (they are usually an hour) and they do a tag team with 2 instructors that switch with each song. Should be interesting and hard. I think I'll be dead by 9:30. Then I have Easter Sunday brunch to go to. I might need a nap on Sunday.
I have a quiz and homework due on Tuesday night in Statistics and am having a little trouble with these chapters. I think I need to reread the chapters again as I'm a little hazey on these z-scores and how they are used with the bell curve. Ugh, I'm not even in grad school yet and am already having complications with classes! Well, I guess the good news is that this prerequisite is getting me ready for all that in a way. And I have my Nano to keep me company while I figure it all out.
Grr has been sick off and on for the past 6 months or so. I think we are finally at the end of all the sickness with just an ear infection in one ear. We're on ear drops again. Monday we go back to the vet, hopefully for a clean bill of health since I'll be starting my Census position soon and she & I are both sick of trekking to the vet every week or every other week. It's a bit of a pain.
That's all I got for now. Over and out.
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