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listening to Aimee Mann is sometimes like she is tapped into my head and is stealing my thoughts. So many of her songs talk about feelings and thoughts I feel and have but am to scared to talk about or even say outloud for others to hear, so it's good to be able to hear them without feeling very guilty.

I'm so lazy when it comes to school these days it's terrible. exams start next month and I'm far from prepared for them. I'm off from work tomorrow so I'm gonna try and do as much ...

I am currently reading Rebecca, and like many of my books my copy is a used copy which I picked up somewhere, I cannot remember now just what book store or sale I got it from, but I just happened to notice on the back cover it says:

For copyright reasons this edition is not for sale in the U.S.A.

And then under that it has the list of different countries, which I presume are the places it was sold, as it has a price after each one of them:

United Kingdom ...

So i've been very tardy with blogging in the last few months and never got around to blogging about my trip to Canada to see Kilted!

I got there late on the saturday and Kilted and his lovely mam picked me up from the airport. (Yep! I met his mother for the first time after hours of travelling and flying, tried, sweaty and cranky... she still liked me. ) We took a quick stop off in Orangeville for food in the Swiss Chalet (is that right?) and i had my first sloppy. When i saw ...

This started as a reply to a thread that I started a couple days ago. When I finished writing it, it had become a blog entry.

So here it is.

My parents divorced when I was in my early 20s. I was in graduate school. It was totally strange; up until then my family was fairly perfect, if traditional. My mom did her traditionally female hobbies: cooking, quilting, house care. . .and she had a bachelor's degree in modern language and taught high school full time. Later, ...

I watched an interesting programme on Friday night - The Monarchy, this one being about william the Conqueror's invasion of England.

William was a Norman, but the Normans were so called as they had been granted lands in Northern France to stop them attacking French villages. They were originally Vikings.

So eventually William invaded England and beat Harold at Hastings. They then took over the country, building wooden and later stone castles to control the population. ...