Ramblings

• My ex-roommate that I had been having problems has finally gotten all of her stuff out of the house and cleaned up her room.  Now thoughts of how I want to use that room are rambling through my mind.  I would like to be able to rent it out but with all of our fur kids, I am not sure if I could find someone.  I have also been thinking about setting it up as a guest room and one where I could set up to take pics.  It gets hot in there in the summer but the light would be so much better then in my basement.
• I am so dreading Thursday.  We are closing early for Christmas Eve so I have to be at work three hours early.  I am so not awake at 7 am.  I am just glad that I don't have to drive into the office that day.
• We are changing our Christmas tradition this year.  Myself and my husband normally go out to a movie on Christmas but there really isn't anything that I want to see.  I know that everyone is hot about Star Wars but I ditched that series after it started going wanky.
• It amazes me how up in arms people get about the term "Merry Christmas".  I don't celebrate Christmas myself but I am not offended when people wish me a merry one.  It is just a sign of good will.  So why get offended when offense isn't meant?  It amazes how people will search out reasons to get mad.
• I know that I haven't been posting a lot of book reviews the last couple weeks.  I have instead been diving into some library books where I can just relax and read.  I finished up book of short stories based around Valdemer and the Heralds a couple days ago and am working on a fantasy called Updraft.
• I am also avidly listening to the Harry Potter series in audio.  I had only read the first four but am finding that I am enjoying them even more having them read to me.  After all, they started out as a story she was telling her children.
• I can't believe that 2015 is almost over and I still haven't figured out a word for 2016.  I have been pondering it for the last couple weeks too.
• Today is the 36th anniversary of when I lost my virginity.  Strange date to remember but hey my mind works in strange ways.  I still remember the look on my mom's face when she went into my closet to get a shirt for one of her friends and found my boyfriend.