working for it.

i am determined to keep up with my book club book. the executioner's song by norman mailer. and, so far i'm doing alright! it requires me to read 50 pages a day (with a few built-in catch up or rest days built in), and i'm actually doing it. i usually get lazy, get to waybehind town, and quit. but now, i just keep picturing aho (friend and gung-ho club nazi) being very disappointed. that's a scary, scary image. and she knows it, damn her.

really, it's just an easy book to read. goes down real smooth. plus, kara said it took her three months to read and i respect her for her reading prowess. so. if i, with my speak-speed reading, can finish it in a month, i will feel like i really accomplished something.

however, it means that this book is my life for the month. i read all lunch and then come home, check email and lj, eat, read some more, and MAYBE have some time for a phoenix wright act before bed.

but april will pass, the book will get read, and, at the beginning of may i will get my ass hired to SAG. then that mandolin will be a double prize.

yeah. i'm still hooked on the mando, man. it will be mine.

and i'm making this book a path to it.

pretty! shiny! like the magpie, i want the pretty shiny!

there's a shop on etsy called adorapop and i love her necklaces. they all kind of tell a story or allude to one, and they all have a tiny crow mimble on the clasp.

here are a few i like: one based on the thaumatroupe illusion with the bird and the cage:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10771641

the princess and the pea? now you can be the princess:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10717794

here's one if you have problems making decisions:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10906362
(she has some nice "yes/no" bobbypin sets too!)

and, being english, i'll forgive her for jumping on the alice wagon with gems like this:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10890482

but i fell in love with a necklace tonight and made an impulse buy. it's the magpie's treasure. as you can see, the magpie likes shiny things, and he wants, he wants, he wants that bead.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9690042
delicious.