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I changed out of my work clothes today and took out my new pair of jeans, which are spiffy and flared, and I wore my boots and my leather jacket. Boots and jeans and my leather jacket feel like fall to me, and it just makes me extremely happy to go clumping around in boots (it doesn't seem to make sense to walk around delicately with boots) and nicely flared jeans that fall just so over the boots and my trusty leather jacket.

Yes, I will shut up about clothes now.

After watching Good Eats, I also desperately wanted to eat cake. Alas, the boy does not miraculously procure cake out of thin air at my mere request, nor does he go out and buy cookies (butter cookies, with frosting, is what I'm craving). So I had to scrounge around in the kitchen. I toasted semi-sweet chocolate chips on bread and then glopped whipped cream on top. All in all, it was quite disgusting, and really, really good. I should remember to do this more when I want cookies.

I don't get it -- usually around this time of month I crave veggies and fruit and anything with no milk or butter or fat or oil. But it seems as though my body still thinks it's two weeks ago or something and it must stock up on sweets. I think it's because of the weather. Cold weather makes me want to grab comfort food instead of salads, and I have a sudden hankering for desserts and cheesy, heavy foods.

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I mentioned that logging all the books I've been reading has really been changing the way I read, and redredshoes wanted to know how it was changing. I don't know if what I do is actually reviewing books so much as blathering on about them -- they're just in seperate entries so I have an easier time keeping track of them.

***Lalalalala! I interrupt this post to say that the bookstore had Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and the person at the register was nice and let me have my discount! Lalalalala I have new books!***

(Addendum: And someone sold their Japanese history books or something and I have a coupon for 50% off for history books and so I will raid it tomorrow when the coupon is valid and buy out all the Japanese history books on Tokugawa Japan and samurai and oh, I am so excited!)

Now that I have totally geeked out on everyone, we shall return to the original post ;).

Anyhow, I was quite inspired by coffee_and_ink's year end review and decided it might be fun to keep track of what I read for an entire year. Mostly it's because I have no idea how much I read, or really what or when I read. And I thought it might be fun to keep track of my reactions to everything I read in my LJ, because too often, I read a book and forget pretty much everything except a sketchy outline of the plot and a vague inclination as to whether I liked it or not. Another factor was that when I finish a book, I'm still immersed in the world and I need somewhere to displace that emotion, or I'm mad at the book, or I loved certain bits but the ending made me roll my eyes. And since I haven't made many friends in the area, and the friends I do have are far away from me and so are not quite reading the same things, I don't have anyone to tell without spoiling the book. Ergo, book blathering began.

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