I’m back!  And have been shamelessly playing Persona.  Or at least I was… I blew a fuse I beat a boss and got through a million cutscenes and the power just blew I had to do the fight all over again… luckily it went well and I was able to skip through the cutscenes pretty quickly.  Turns out there were even more cutscenes after them.  They were funny

Ummm so I mentioned I started listening to “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”  Well, I got through about a half hour of the audio version when I had the sinking feeling that this book was not intended for my age group.  The character in the book was 14 and a freshman in high school.  Clue number one.  I hadn’t looked up anything about the book, so then I did and found out they sell it as young adult fiction.  Ahhh.  I got through a third of it, anyway.  I’m considering just finishing it.  But unless someone barges in with a glowing review, I think I will abstain and assume that Catcher in the Rye is a better coming-of-age story.

Even though it was Christmas gifts and all, I took my cousins out shopping for some books the day after Christmas… and refused to buy them any young adult crap.  The youngest is 17 for god’s sake.  I was reading plenty of adult fiction years before then.  Christmas or no, I will not be held responsible for their dumbing down of literature.  Bah humbug.  They got me back by then picking out stuff from the Romance section And then they told me they hadn’t read 1984 And then I found out that they were sold out of it So I got them Love in the Time of Cholera and some romance stuff and called it a day.  And promised to ship 1984.  I swear I have a copy but I think I’ll just buy a new one.

I have new baking pans as a gift They are beautiful and I hope to be baking lovely things in them.  I also got to pick out some knee-high socks from my favorite sock store.  Most are respectable argyle.  ONE pair is a horrid green with black stripes design.  I cringe when I see it So great.