Life In Bullets

• Things have been fairly good lately. I'm learning that sometimes you just have to throw things out into the universe and hope that things work themselves out. Not that life is always that easy. In fact, it's rare that life is that easy but it's nice when every now and then the universe throws something good back at you, isn't it? I guess what I'm learning more than anything is to recognize these things when it can sometimes be much much easier to notice all of the other crap.
• Charli has been coming around again! Not that she had disappeared for long, but she did disappear for about two weeks which I guess stray cats can do sometimes. But here's one for you....when she showed up again, she showed up with a pink collar on! Now I'm wondering if I've been taking in someone else's cat....I'm leaning towards no for a few reasons...she had her kittens out in the wild...she still roams out around the apartment complex...and I think someone actually may have gone and gotten her fixed during those two weeks that she was gone because she's been sleeping a lot when she comes over and looking like she's having healing time. The collar has no identifying information on it either. I think someone may have put it on her so that she doesn't get picked up by animal control. Even though she stays here most nights now, she's sort of the "apartment complex cat". It's really cute...I'll see her playing with all of the kids by the play area, she'll hang out by other people who are outside smoking. Everyone over here loves her :p 
• I've finally gotten some reading done! I've been focusing on Long Awaited Reads and even though my reading has been completely shitty this year so far, it's been quality shit. I started with A Cool Moonlight by Angela Johnson which was a beautiful little story about a girl with a rare disorder that doesn't allow her to be out in the sun. It's quite the magical little fairy tale of a story that's both heartwarming and bittersweet at the same time. After that I read a graphic memoir, Stitches by David Small, which I've been wanting to read for quite some time! What a great book! But what a heartbreaking book too. It tells the story of the author's childhood growing up with two parents with issues of their own leaving him severely neglected to the point where it affected his physical health, eventually leaving him without a voice, both literally and figuratively. Highly recommended. And then I literally just finished The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and wow! This book has a little bit of everything in it...I laughed, cried, felt angered, hurt and the whole story is so endearing. Told through the eyes of a young Latino girl in Chicago through short chapters, it encapsulates the experience and gives a voice to many that isn't heard enough. So many beautiful, poetic passages in this one. 
• I checked out Stitches along with a few other books from my local library. I'm telling you this because I finally, after living here almost two years, got a library card! It's ridiculous that I hadn't gotten a library card before now but there's a reason. I had intentionally not done so because my TBR is so huge that I didn't want to be deterred from it. But then Debi went and convinced me that I had to read A People's History of American Empire and seeing as no bookstores had it, I decided to visit my library and pick up their copy. All of the librarians there are WONDERFUL! And so very friendly! Not at all like the librarians in the parish I used to live in who, sadly, were just rude and seemed to hate their jobs :( So glad I discovered my library :) They seem to have some great programs too! So maybe it'll add to my social life a bit too! 
• Hmmm....I feel like I wanted to write about more stuff but that's all I can think of for now. Hope everyone is having a wonderful January! My local meteorologist says we have a chance of snow flurries Thursday night here!!!! While the mention of snow makes most of you groan I'm sure, it makes me super excited :p So keep your fingers crossed for me that I get the rare chance to see a bit of snow ;)