Ganked from mortifyd

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal...along with these instructions.

These two were equidistant:

"Let the music knock it." King Henry VIII, William Shakespeare

"The Kappa feeds on human blood but may be persuaded not to harm a person if it is thrown a cucumber with that person's name carved into it." Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, JKR/Newt Scamander

What does it say about me that these are the two closest books? Heh. Actually, even closer are a dictionary and thesaurus, but they wouldn't be as interesting.

Dispatches from the mall

Just went shoping. Bought a fall coat...still need a winter coat, though, but it's hard to find a nice coat for a plus size woman.

Saw a few funny things, though, so of course I had to share.

One store window had two headless mannequins in the window. The headless boy mannequin was holding mistletoe over the headless girl mannequin. Or rather, near where the headless girl mannequin's head should be. I just stared at it.

At the coat store they had bizarre Christmas clothing for babies, including little outfits that said "Santa's Little Helper". But the oddest one, by far, said only "Mrs. Clause" on it. I am not making this up. Apart from the highly questionable rationale that would have a six month old baby married, I must also protest the strange logic that would have this infant marry a portion of a sentence. I suppose the next question would be "independent or subordinate?"

More chai for me! And lovely bubble bath. Yum.

I bought another pair of shoes from Zappos.com and was tremendously delighted that this pair, 12 double wide, actually fit. I have nice dark brown boots finally! Hip hip huzzah! Thank you to the kind person who pointed them out...hmmm...I think it was webbapettigrew.

Want to start the new chapter...so many things to cram into it, so little time. Unfortunately some of it has to be done just so, and will take extra time.

All of you doing the Nano...you're insane! I can barely manage 4-8,000 words a month and still stay sane.