Daisy-Head & The Single Life

Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas by Chuck Klosterman

My Review: 1 of 5 stars
This is now the 2nd of Klosterman’s books I have forced myself to read. I didn’t care for the 1st one, and now, less than 100 pages into this one, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s Klosterman, himself, that I don’t like. He seems just as shallow as his writing, and, while he talks a lot, he doesn’t have much to say.  I’m done with him.

Kick the Clutter: Clear Out Excess Stuff without Losing What You Love by Ellen Phillips

My Review:   3 of 5 stars
This book has some good ideas in it for managing clutter, but regurgitates them over and over to turn what could have easily been a ~100 page book into a whopping 450+ pages of repetition. At least is it a pretty quick read, and the chapter titles and index make it a decent resource if you need to refer back to something.

• The last time I had to go to the dentist on Saturday morning, I spent Friday night roger-rabbiting on command. That was a good night. #

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So many things have happened in the past month, even the past year, but none of them will ever come close to the devastating loss of my best friend.  I know I need to write about it, to preserve my own memories, and perhaps as a way to help exorcise some of this pain.

I’m just not ready to do that yet.  I have entirely too much anger in me right now….which turns into guilt, which turns into overwhelming sadness, which turns into anger again.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

My Review: 4 of 5 stars
I waited forever to read the conclusion to the HP series, presumably because I didn’t want it to end, but more accurately, because I had been waiting so long for it to come out in paperback that I forgot about it!

While it appears to be a very thick, very long book, I sped through it in an evening and a half. Like the HP books before it, once I started, it was hard to put down. A great story and a nice conclusion to the series.

• just realized today is the first day I’ve made it through without crying. Hope I didn’t just jinx it…still 18 minutes to go. #
• On page 135 of 285 of Blaze by Stephen King http://bit.ly/7MOuZY #

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• “We’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroys us.” #

• Even hockey has lost its charm. #
• If one more person tells me, “Heather would want you to….” do this or that, I’m going to punch them in the throat. You’ve been warned. #

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Today I found out that one of my very best friends, Red, died of an overdose while in Italy.  Of what, I don’t yet know.  I got the news via a rushed text message from her (estranged) husband who was about to board a plane to go bring her home.  I was able to talk to him for less than two minutes before he had to get off the phone.  I don’t know all the details, only that I refuse to believe this was intentional. 

She was in Italy, on her dream vacation, as a way to cope with spending her first holiday seperated from her son.  She had been posting happy updates to facebook chronicling her adventures in Tuscany and then Florence. 

And now she’s gone??  I can’t fucking believe it.

I am in shock.  I am confused.  I am pissed.  And I am heartbroken. 

I keep hoping and praying that her husband will call me when he gets there to tell me that it was all a big misunderstanding and that she is fine.  I don’t want this to be true.

• wishes the car would unload itself. #
• I can’t say anything nice so I’m not saying anything at all. #
• my Dr seriously just prescribed massages. Screw that, gimme some drugs! #
• cannot think of any news worse than the news i just got. please tell me this is a sick joke. #

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