After being criticised again for my footwear, i found a website on the bottom of them : www.crocs.com . Seems I'm not alone in absolutely having to have a pair as soon as i saw them, and finding them really comfortable!!!! Am just into The Almond Pickers by Simonetta Agnello Hornby. Saw Good Morning America's Friday show when i woke up, and the practice of the ball dropping in Times Square, so feel like have celebrated already. LOL.

I'm constantly amazed at what Sudoku can do, in terms of awareness of concentration and other mental capacities. I had tried Tuesday's unsuccessfully 3 times, and then after getting Wednesday's out, using set procedure, I got it out no trouble. Reminds me of biorhythms in that certain days are more emotional/intellectual/physical than others.

Staying home today, even from the pub : reading two books concurrently : Meant to Be (Edie Claire) and Huna (Enid Hoffman) which reminded me of a paperback hanging round for decades that is essentially the same topic (bought secondhand; Secrets of Kahuna Magic, Brad Steiger) which i'm interested in for its links to hands-on healing, maybe only to convince myself it has merits. This is after watching 6 dvds in time to get 8 back to the shop yesterday. The fiction one is easily read, with digestible chapters and sparse effective descriptions. The non-fiction is one of those books that almost needs a pen and paper handy to put in a more self-designed digestable format, picking out salient points.

I sure hope the delivery van remembers to come today! It's quiet and peaceful, apart from the lady arriving for work in her big powerful blacked-out windows car, and me cross from last night when after discussing work in detail with a colleague, hurled her fast-food carton out the window before driving off. I think i got the point across, but the carton was under the car. It sure is a powerful car but; car noises being the only slightly abrasive part of the day!

Read a book by Scott Russell Hill today - his fourth. The toothache seems to get worse if i go a walk, and it seemed - apart from cooking for tomorrow - an ideal occupation for today, along with a pain-killer, the prescription of which i've nearly finished and am practically convinced i need another tooth out. I found it funny when the typos began, sort of half-way through; it grounded it. Then they stopped again, so i'm presuming it was a part that was rewritten or something. It was light reading that i enjoyed; 'yuri' had a tooth out, when he was 'missing' - without anaesthetic... yuck! (Note : on 3/1/06, when the dentist re-opened, i was diagnosed with a dry socket, which i'd probably had for two weeks and the dentist was horrified that i had coped with the pain. On 14/1/06, by using a paddle-pop stick while reading, i managed to dislodge a small splinter of bone, either from the tooth or the jaw, so hopefully all pain from this particular procedure should cease)

The Secret River was a gem, even if there was a break in reading it because of a tooth extraction. I am glad that i did not have root canal therapy though - not just because of the money. Now i am wondering if finally my 'psyche' will 'let' me earn more money to pay for such things.

Woke up middle of the night and finished a little book of Irish Ghost Stories (Padriac O'Farrell). Coincidentally, a friend dropped by last week who'd come 'home' after trying to go 'home' to Cork.

Reading; finished and took back Jane R Goodall, The Visitor and Samsara and am now reading Kate Grenville (The Secret River, which i hoped was the one it is, 2005, because it was reviewed as capturing the silence of the beautiful bush that once must have reverberated with the sounds of people living in it) and Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber (When They Severed the Earth from the Sky).

Goodall's book put me - or kept me - in a good mood for reading. It reminded me of a popular forensics mystery writer, and dan brown's way of zooming the plot along at a racing pace. The magicky bits in it went well with the psychic book, in the description of claire's psychic-ness - and vulnerability - also different and successful forms of bonding, friendships, partnerships - as well as recognitions within them of things going wrong.

So far both these books are enthralling - with the myths one, two pages in and i'm wanting to make notes - why boch that in with those examples, it's different - i think that's when the three kings fought dragons - meaning that there would have been some hair-raising animals in that 100,000 years they say we've had the same brain power. Hmm, but 2 pages in i better not make assumptions!

the river - yeah, the only other thing i've read - not successfully - by kate grenville is the how-to-write book - maybe i should try to find it and read it with save the cat while i'm in the mood! lol. How cute, his wife and children getting transported with him due to kindly words to stop him being hung for stealing brazil wood.

i sat down - well, lied - [lay] - to think about how the 'guides' the psychic describe could best help my teeth! ... and instead read.

oh yeah, and last weekend i read diary of a psychic by sonia choquette. then i listened to the radio show ...

reading heaps : last week Lesley Downer's Geisha; this week Mad Mary Lamb (Susan Tyler Hitchcock) and Giles Morgan The Holy Grail .

Save the Cat by Blake Snyder will probably hold me up a bit; the other two, one on the realities behind myths and the other on the history of shakespeare's scholarship for a beginner were both more complicated than this, i thought, until i got to the assignments page. that stopped me reading for the day. all books published this year : i couldn't make my way around the novel section so went to new books to see if there were any in there. And i got one out for my Dad too; Keith Miller the cricketer.