so i really spent all my waking moments since...i dunno. deanne brought the boook (eldest) over on friday afternoon. i had to finish narnia/last battle first(which i also loved!)...but started it soon after, and it took me a bit to get going, because it's been a while since i read eragon...had to get back into the story! so, went out to watch pride and prejudice, came home and i think i slept...
so i guess saturday i did some cleaning, some more recuperating (oh yeah! wisdom teeth!)...and i've been reading furiously ever since. opened presents, etc with my family but kept eldest near the whole time, and when all the fun was over i sat there and read..haha... (christmas eve was fun--we borrowed some gourmet sets from my mom's friend and had a feast. small lesson in cooking. haha it was yummy---my first real food after thursday) and yesterday between church and having family over i read...and then today, i started reading at breakfast (which was right after i woke up of course) and i sat on the couch ALL DAY and it's now 4 30. pretty sad. :) (it's a really big book, FULL of stuff, and i do read fast.)
so there's the description of my lazy christmas weekend. haha i read a book all weekend--how boring!??!
no i LOVE it.
the thing is, what christopher paolini said is SO true--about the 'wave of emotion washing over you, sweeping away the mundane world for a moment'...it's like this whole christmas has been a mundane one, and i DON'T know why. but then, every 'christmas' has ended up a little mundane--it's all chocolate and presents and reading a book while also being expected to be civilized during all the christmas parties which are keeping you away from that epic aaaaaaaah so frustrating. the reading i did sure kept the mundane away (but not so far away that i couldn't eat chocolate while reading, even despite the huge gaping holes in my mouth) but now that i'm done the book, all the regular mundane-ness is more intensely mundane because it's also mundane christmas. and i have a huge stack of books that i want to read (they all look so promising!) but christmas is NOT mundane--first of all SO much to catch up on in that little bible over there in the corner, with my journal, and even a pen! (the only non-mundane part of christmas DUH)...as well as back to my beading which i started again and love...and i got a funky new tool box so i can put all my oil paints into it and clean them up--you know, once i clean them up (they're in a big mess in the basement still, haven't touched em since halfway through the summer) once i clean them up i might start painting again... and i'm actually tempted to grab my rollerblades and try some winter rollerblading, now that all the ice is puddles. might come back with a frozen concussion but oh well! (gotta get outside...can't sit on the couch anymore...should take up running again...)
elaine, thanks for lending me Eldest. i'm DEFINITELY going to go out and buy myself a copy though...of both books...and the new one as soon as it's out...:) i'm hooked! is C.P. still single? i'll move out to montana right now!!
PS---dad bought mom a kitchenaid mixer. i'm waaaay more excited about it than she is---the last time i baked chewy double chocolate cookies, there was smoke and a nice burnt rubber smell coming out of the last mixer. AAH now i can do more baking hahahaha
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