A New Blog, Halloweeny Things, and Gilmore Girls

This is my new blog. 

Last week, I read Lauren Graham's Talking as Fast as I Can.  I could have finished it all in one night, but at some point I had to go to sleep.  If you haven't read it, or even if you have, I'm not about to go into the details of the book, but I will comment that her writing style had me completely hooked.  

In my opinion, it's all about how a book is written.  It's all about style.  If I don't like the style, I don't read the words.  Her style made me never want to put the book down, and her style is kind of exactly how I write, or at least how the words always sounded in my head, and what made me want to start this blog.  Crazy, right? Who knew a book would have such a powerful effect.

Also, I would have never picked up a book written by an actor, any actor, because biographies aren't really my thing.  BUT, I'm a die hard, yes, die hard Gilmore Girls fan, not a groupie, and that woman is a complete goddess.  Plus, Chapters had it on sale for $8.

Lexis had been feeling a little better by Saturday morning.  Rain was in the forecast, and because she wasn't feeling great, just better, we cancelled our original plans that involved spending quite a bit of time outdoors.  So, in the morning, we headed up to Michaels (north, that is).  Actually, we were going to Party City to look at birthday party themes for her, but we stopped into Michaels afterwards because I needed some double-sided tape.  Hubby had expressed interest for some time in making this the first Halloween that we decorate the outdoors with "scarier" things, going beyond my usual pumpkins and chrysanthemums from Costco.  I was cool with that when I found out that Michaels was having a BOGO sale! We scored a three-foot skeleton to hang from the porch, a three-foot ghost to stake in the dirt, webbing, and a spider that's apparently mechanical but I haven't seen what it does yet.  In the next week or two, we'll go back to Party City for some grave stones (and birthday party things).

Back to Gilmore Girls, I haven't restarted the series on Netflix in about three months.  That's crazy long for me.  Now that I've read the book, I want to watch it again because it's shed so much light on the person that Lauren is.  Like what? Who knew that she moved three times in the first few years of her life or grew up without her biological mother.  Shoot, I am going into details now.

The Lukeisms are my favourite, and frankly, without a Luke, the show it would not make.  Did I say that right? But I can go on for hours on some of my favourite lines, so here are just a few...

"You cannot gather here...you cannot gather here...you cannot gather here."

"Oh, I'm pretty sure you do.  You know what, Kirk? Go ahead.  Sue me.  Crash into my diner, make me lose a week's business, make me pay for the repairs, and then sue me for damages - for brain damages! That sounds fair!"

"Jess, are you a gigolo?!"

Lorelai had some good ones too, but that my friends, will be another rambling when I start the series again for the 9th time...