Am I Completely Deranged?

After picking up Crickles from school, we went to the NEX . . . to get plastic water bottles to bide out time waiting for my wonderful MIL to get them the aluminum ones (next week she said she would buy them each one of them and mail them out . . . she's a wonderful granny . . . I have had a devil of a time trying to find them; found them once at Old Navy and almost bought them on the spot, but thought I'd get them 'next time'. HA! I'm a loser, yeah?). I got the ones made by Thermos that are the "safe" plastic. Whatever. It's just temporary.

This NEX doesn't have sewing machines or anything crafty in it. I'm appalled! WTH? So, I could not find scissors . . . the tiny crafting ones I have don't cut the DMC very well so as I have to saw at it and the fraying is on my every last nerve. I'll be using cuticle scissors. I'm sure they are sharp enough and it's all I could find.

I also walked through the books. Here's the reason for the blog post title: I bought War & Peace. I love Tolstoy and thought I'd read this back in high school, saw the size of it and said "bury it". I cannot not read it; it's a classic! I really wanted Jane Austen, but . . . I'll take that leather bound collection book at Barnes and Noble as a reward for reading War & Peace. M'kay? I will need the book for all the waiting in the van that I'll doing . . . . otherwise there just is no excuse.

I read a book called Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Rigler. I thought, this should be a fun read. A 30 y.o. woman from our times somehow is transported into the body of a Jane Austen book/time. It's an interesting look into those times, for sure. She struggles with her liberal ideas and such whilst trying to stay true to the times she found herself in . . . it sort of totters here and there as to whether she is actually pulling off this acting stint. She does well. I did like that swearing was minimal and that even though sex was alluded to, it wasn't too blatant (except for one scene where a man tricks her into a garden house and they kiss and he exposes himself to her . . . she realizes the main point to her troubles: she realizes she would rather be alone for the right reasons that with someone for the wrong ones; she decides that being alone is better than always being with a guy just because she does not want to be alone; that she is tired of putting out and not getting anything in return - the love and affection and marriage she desires). So, it's not a book for girls or even high school girls. It's not a book for those who do not want to read Jane Austen wigged out with/by a modern girl. However, the fact that she finally sees herself as worth what she wants and will not be with a man that does not want to be with her . . . is redeeming enough for me. I did feel, and this holds true for so many modern books for me, the author was in a hurry to tie up loose ends and the book. It felt rushed, as if the author did not know how to make a longer book more interesting. Anyway, if anyone else has read it, comment and let me know what you thought. I give it a B-.

Off to more stitching!