News and sickness

Ugh. I seem to have caught a cold from someone (was it you, lady who took off her mask to cough in my face?) and it's progressing rapidly. I'm also not 100% sure it's a cold but we'll go with that for now.

In any case, I spent the day in bed, trying not to die. I learned that I can be incredibly stupid sometimes, given the three hours I spent shivering from the cold and it only occurred to me after an embarrassingly long time to actually shimmy under the blanket I've been sleeping on top of. Oi. And then I spent the rest of the day alternating between hot and cold, only sleeping for maybe half an hour at a time. It was not pretty. I cried a little when I realized I'd slept for two hours.

Anyway, that aside, if you haven't heard, on the AG front, new books have been found on Amazon. Release date is August 27.

First three are the new historical's:
Taking Off:
http://www.amazon.com/Taking-Off-Valerie-Tripp/dp/1609589858/

The Sky's The Limit:
http://www.amazon.com/Skys-Limit-Valerie-Tripp/dp/1609589866

The One and Only:
http://www.amazon.com/One-Only-Valerie-Tripp/dp/1609589610/

98% chance that we're talking Space and not just airplanes, just so you know. This is also not the black historical who is coming out next year.

Josefina's set to make her triumphant comeback (or at least catch up with everyone else finally) with her Journey book:
Song of the Mockingbird: http://www.amazon.com/Song-Mockingbird-My-Journey-Josefina/dp/1609589882


Hopefully this means she'll get some new outfits since she's gotten nothing since the BF launch, aside from a new meet outfit that's pretty close to her original one.

New girl: I'm gonna need you to not have the classic mold, k? Those protos we saw last year, I'm going to need them to be wrong. The doll, anyway. Redhead? Sure, but yank 61's wig color, k? And not classic mold. My needs are few. Unlike other people who are expecting/hoping for the world and are bound to be bitterly disappointed, I just have this one request: not classic mold.

That's it. The Sky's the Limit indeed.

Love for The Middle

Anyone else watch The Middle? I've been watching as they become available on ABC Family's lineup and we've finally cycled back to the one that made me realize I could love this show.

"Spring Cleaning" is pretty much the story of my life. The Hecks get called home early from their actual vacation when a neighbor brings their mail inside and sees that the house has been ransacked. She assumes it's a robbery and calls the cops as well as the Hecks who arrive home and realize that nope, that's just their house.
They then spend the rest of vacation trying to clean the house up only to watch it become worse and worse, no matter how much stuff they do manage to rid themselves of. It ends with the cops bringing back all the stuff they'd managed to donate to charity.

Yeah, I caught this for the first time when we'd moved into the last place and our landlady was freaking out because we weren't magically unpacked two days in.
I love that there's no magical music montage where the chores get done and everything is done by lunchtime at the latest. Nope, this thing rages for days and everyone is just as grumpy as they would be in reality. I love that Sue can't part with her curlers because they have feelings (they're not alive but they have feelings) until her mother points out that if Sue gives them to charity, someone else will find them and use them to better their life, so in reality she's just setting them free to do bigger and better things. Because I'm one of those people who gives inanimate objects feelings, no matter how stupid I know it is on any level.

Basically, if you want a show that feels pretty realistic, The Middle might be for you.

Also, I should probably double down on getting rid of a few more things when I feel better.