This morning, I woke up at 4:30 a.m. to feed our new cat, Amelia Bones (10 points if you can tell me where I got that name from!), because she just would not shut the hell up. So, I fed her, shut our bedroom door and went back to sleep. At 6 a.m., Amelia decided she wanted to join us, so she pawed at our door for a few minutes while whining loudly. I opened the door to let her in, but as she has demonstrated thus far (and why we shut our door at night), she just continued to whine and jump all over the place. So…defeated and not wanting to disturb my husband’s first night of decent sleep in about four days, I grabbed my pillow and drug myself to the couch to tuck into The Lace Reader, which I picked up yesterday and am really enjoying so far. Of course, the cat lies down next to the couch and promptly goes to sleep. I have never had a cat before, but SHEESH….are they all this annoying? I can’t stay mad at her though, she’s too cute:

When I “finally” switched on my computer around 8:30 a.m., I found I had received an email from Rebecca of Readerville, entitled “You Won!” Well, it had her name there, so I wasn’t sure who it was from and what it was about until I opened it up and found out that I won her ARC contest for the Gargoyle!! Sure enough, I checked her blog, and there it was. SUPER STOKED!! I have already expressed my enthusiasm about reading this book on this blog, and I really was tempted to steal DevourerofBook’s copy while at her house, but I just couldn’t do that to her, not 3 days before her wedding, anyway. Maybe some other time, Jen. I must add as side note, thought, that with all the awesome reading I’ve been doing lately, and all the books that I keep adding to my Amazon wish list, and all the amazing bargain books I keep picking up at book sales (9 practically new books for $3, anyone?), I am SUPER BUMMED that school is starting in just about a month. And I really should be spending more time reading for my lit review. Stupid thesis and school, ruining all my pleasure reading. Oh well, I guess I’ll have to keep living vicariously through all the book blogs. Although I’m currently reading The Lace Reader, I will not post a review since it’s been reviewed many times by many people. I suggest the aforementioned blogs (Devourerofbooks and Readerville) for a good review.