Lazy Day-sies

As the title implies, I'm somewhat at a loss at what to do. Make that, too lethargic to do anything. Plus, a slight migraine has completely ruined any appetite to gallivant outside.

It's a holiday today, a welcome treat following so closely on the heels of the Holy Week. I've been looking forward to this day for some R&R, but you know what they say about all the best-laid plans, and all that.

Howl's Moving Castle (Dianna Wynne Jones) beckons but I'm adamantly searching online for re-upholsters in the neighborhood. We are woefully out of chairs. B has managed to maul all but 2 of our dining chairs (further proof of a need to diet :-) ). The one he didn't wreck, my cousin C took the honor of doing it in on his first visit to the house. I'm using the remaining chair in my study area.

I had wanted to have two storage benches customized for the dining area, but the price quotation of the furniture maker we asked last week had me gaping in incredulity. So right now I'm weighing the relative merits of just having my poor dining chairs re-upholstered.

Later, maybe I'll have time to travel with Sophie in her adventures with Howl. Much later, I'll go back to reading Fruits Basket online, the first manga I will ever read. I was tempted to read the Inuyasha manga, but then the anime is so much fun. I'm in withdrawal though because the series ended just last week.

I'll be having a book fair at the office come Monday and I can't wait to get my hands on Hunger Games and Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins). I've read both in B's iPod but I am a confessed book fetishist: I'd rather be holding a book than reading the story from an eBook gadget. B said, though, that our local bookstore has an ongoing promotion, and why not just check it out if all I wanted were discounts? Speaking of Hunger Games, both of us are doing a countdown to the release date of Mockingjay, which is coming out this August. Proof of our excitement: B was insisting last week that the books were in the local warehouses already because how then could our bookstore have a price for it already when it's just April?

Might try to read Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver next. I'm dragging my feet though because I've had my fill already of werewolves and vampires. But Shiver's list of awards is making me curious about it.

That's it for now.