Grasses by the shoreI took over 5,000 (that’s Five Thousand) photographs last year. Many of them were of Monster Cat, of course. I briefly toyed with the idea of putting together a montage of favorites, either of Tennyson or other subjects, and found myself daunted by the sheer number of photographs to review. Instead, here’s a photograph I never got around to posting.

It’s been a party week with New Year’s Eve at at Thomas & Marion’s and then a lovely housewarming party at Wendy’s last night. Serious fun on both occasions.

I waited in line today. Outside of Best Buy. I got there 15 minutes before the store opened and was still 25th or so in line. I wouldn’t even wait in line to get my iPhone, but today I waited in line and was rewarded with a Wii Fit. So far, it’s fun and I’m starting to get the hang of it. Sledding games are totally fun when you can play them with your butt!

I just finished reading my book of the year!* The Conjurer (Martha Beale Mysteries) by Cordelia Frances Biddle. I enjoyed it great deal for several reasons! I only noticed one typo - which either means there weren’t more or I was too engaged in the book to notice. Both options are good signs given the lack of editing running rampant lately. If you’re interested in mid-19th century mystery novels or richly detailed portraits of places in time, I recommend this book! Plus there’s murder, intrigue and psychics all depicted in glorious 1842 detail. Martha Beale, our protagonist, starts the book as a meek and weak girl of the day and gradually and believably grows over the course of the story into a stronger woman without becoming an unbelievable anachronism of the modern woman. I need to pick up the sequel, Deception’s Daughter (Martha Beale Mysteries), because I’m curious to see if Martha will continue to evolve over the course of time.

*Okay, so maybe I got a head start on this one… preloaded a bit of the reading in 2008… but still, hurray!

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