Okay Creepy Guy Standing At My Door

For some reason people have this tendency to come to my door to ask questions better suited to be answered by a landlord, like about decorations on the property or if there is a room for rent. I don’t know why anybody in their right mind would come to my door and if you saw this place you would totally understand why. My apartment looks like a shed, it’s hidden behind some bushes and is almost unnoticeable from the sidewalk and there is a giant obviously primary residence house next door. Let’s recap: my place = tiny purple shed, landlord’s place= giant purple house.  I don’t know, I’d go to the house before going to the shed, but maybe that’s just me.  This comes up because I just had a guy scaring the pants off me by standing at my screen door in the dark asking me if there were any spaces to rent. There aren’t as far as I know since there are only like 3 rentable apartments on my landlord’s property, but I sent him to the main house anyway.

That small rant aside, I’d like to announce that I started The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova as the first book in the Women’s History Month Challenge. It  was suggested to me by Care (who I may want to stop mentioning every post as it looks a tad creepy) and had been sitting on my shelf for quite a while since my dad gave it to me. Actually, that’s only partway true because I began The Historian months ago, like back before I went flying in Michigan. I just never finished it, so my goal was to pick it up again and actually do so, because it really was a good book, I just got horrifyingly sidetracked.  I’m not actually going to review it until I’m done otherwise I feel a bit like I’m cheating, but it’s still as enjoyable as I remembered. I have about a quarter of it left before I can really say how impressed I am by the ridiculous amount of knowledge required to write a book like that but I will get around to it as promptly as I can.

In between chapters I’m continuing on in my quest to finish The Southern Vampire Mysteries (Charlaine Harris) that I picked up a week or two ago. I’m on Book 5 now out of 9 I think. I actually finished book 4 last night and began book 5 at like 2:30 in the morning, which is why  I tend to get up at noon.  They are really pretty fun though. I found all of them at WalMart so I didn’t have to wait for them to come to my local library.  It’s a shame that I can read one of those books in a few hours and The Historian, which is really quite excellent, takes me months.

This was a perfect day to read too because it was in the high 60s and sunny, but instead I spent most of my day writing which I always need to do, and also picking up my car from the shop because it was vibrating a lot– something about differential mounts. Hey, don’t ask me, when it comes to cars I’m your stereotypical girl.  It seems to be fixed now though which is always a plus.  But since it was sunny I pulled my papasan chair out on the porch and sat in it for hours. I think it may have given me a headache which is the only downside to porch-sitting. I’m lily white and apparently have some issues with el sol.  Hopefully the Ibuprofen I just took will clear that up. Oh! speaking of porches my plants are still out there. Must fly before they freeze.