I finally finished reading Stephen King's uncut "The Stand". I started it in March. It took me so long to read since it was my 'home' book. I don't read books nearly as much at home, since that's where I'm usually reading comics. I read them at work on break and lunch, but I usually only bring paperbacks there.
This is the second full Stephen King novel I've read. I can do his short stories, and enjoy them, but I've tried several of his novels and usually can't make it past the first hundred pages. I've been reading this one is short bursts because of that, and I think it helped.
I couldn't even get through the Gunslinger, and that's a small one. I was so fucking bored reading it. I ended up downloading the audio book of that one last year and listening to it while I walked and worked out. I got through it, but it was not that good. A girl at work just finished the whole Dark Tower series and told me that was the worse of the books, I should try the others. I told her if you can't hook me with the first book I'm not going to read five more on the promise that they are good. I picked up the Talisman at the used book store two weeks ago, so I'll give that a chance.
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In other news, I'm trying to finish up my portion of the thank you cards from our wedding. Jason used a picture from our wedding and made postcards out of it, so we're sending those out as the thank you cards. It still sucks writing these things. Some people at the wedding said they gave us gifts, but purposefully left their name off so we wouldn't feel obligated to send them a thank you card. These were all people that had been married and gone through this before. I thought that was nice, and I'll be doing the same.
Etiquette wise, from what we've heard you can get wedding gifts for up to a year after the wedding, and have that long to send your thank you notes. It's been 3 months now, which I think is long. One of Jason's sisters and her husband got us several very nice gifts. We really like her, but her husband is a total fake, a dick, and we found out has a gay son he treats like shit, so a hypocrite on top of all that. Anyway, from what we've heard though the grapevine he's been waiting for his thank you card. That sort of pisses me off.
I was raised to say "Thank you" whenever you're given something, etc. For those of you that have meet me you know I'm polite like that. So I really don't have a problem sending out the thank you cards. People bought us nice stuff, and I know it's my duty to say thank you. But to only give something for a thank you, well, that bugs me. It reminds me of the episode of Thundercats where Lion-o saved some village and was pissed that they didn't thank him in the end. He got an ass chewing from Jaga about it. You do something because you want to do it and it's nice, not for the thank you. That's just an added bonus.
This is the second full Stephen King novel I've read. I can do his short stories, and enjoy them, but I've tried several of his novels and usually can't make it past the first hundred pages. I've been reading this one is short bursts because of that, and I think it helped.
I couldn't even get through the Gunslinger, and that's a small one. I was so fucking bored reading it. I ended up downloading the audio book of that one last year and listening to it while I walked and worked out. I got through it, but it was not that good. A girl at work just finished the whole Dark Tower series and told me that was the worse of the books, I should try the others. I told her if you can't hook me with the first book I'm not going to read five more on the promise that they are good. I picked up the Talisman at the used book store two weeks ago, so I'll give that a chance.
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In other news, I'm trying to finish up my portion of the thank you cards from our wedding. Jason used a picture from our wedding and made postcards out of it, so we're sending those out as the thank you cards. It still sucks writing these things. Some people at the wedding said they gave us gifts, but purposefully left their name off so we wouldn't feel obligated to send them a thank you card. These were all people that had been married and gone through this before. I thought that was nice, and I'll be doing the same.
Etiquette wise, from what we've heard you can get wedding gifts for up to a year after the wedding, and have that long to send your thank you notes. It's been 3 months now, which I think is long. One of Jason's sisters and her husband got us several very nice gifts. We really like her, but her husband is a total fake, a dick, and we found out has a gay son he treats like shit, so a hypocrite on top of all that. Anyway, from what we've heard though the grapevine he's been waiting for his thank you card. That sort of pisses me off.
I was raised to say "Thank you" whenever you're given something, etc. For those of you that have meet me you know I'm polite like that. So I really don't have a problem sending out the thank you cards. People bought us nice stuff, and I know it's my duty to say thank you. But to only give something for a thank you, well, that bugs me. It reminds me of the episode of Thundercats where Lion-o saved some village and was pissed that they didn't thank him in the end. He got an ass chewing from Jaga about it. You do something because you want to do it and it's nice, not for the thank you. That's just an added bonus.