Regency Romance Novels

Memories collide at The 24 hour Church of Elvis…

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The 24 Hour Church of Elvis
The 24 Hour Church of Elvis

After leaving High School I moved to Portland, Oregon to study fashion design. I actually graduated (I understand only about six of us did), but I haven’t yet used my degree unless you count my time in a costume shop where after three Halloweens my love of dressing up was savaged into oblivion. I never expected to start my fashion design company until I was in my 40’s so techincally you could say I’m still on target…unless I fall on my head and forget I’m a designer or I die before I can prove to the world I’m as good as I think I am. Yes, my teachers loved me! Can you feel the sarcasm? During my second year we had to find and serve a short internship with an actual fashion design company. I dreaded the whole idea of finding a place so I put it off until one day I turned down this small lane I’d never walked down before [Read more…] about Memories collide at The 24 hour Church of Elvis…

One Jane Eyre, two Jayne Eyre…three Jayne Eyres more

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Jane Eyre 2007
Jane Eyre 2007

You know what I’m going to say. On Monday I went to the store and while there, trying to distract myself from the cookie ailse I went to have a look at the movies to see if there was anything new in and there was! There was a double box set for £6.99 that included the BBC version of Jane Eyre made in 2007 and the BBC production of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (she was a friend of Charlotte Bronte). I saw North and South on television and LOVED it. That was a really good deal for North and South (the story takes place in England about the heroine from the South of the country and the hero from the North). So having wanted North and South I bought it and since I’d seen it I thought, I’ll just watch Jane Eyre a little to see if I’m wrong. I could be wrong! It could be great! [Read more…] about One Jane Eyre, two Jayne Eyre…three Jayne Eyres more

Cameras and Cookies Don’t Mix!

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red stockings facing left
red stockings

Have I accomplished anything today? Not yet, not unless you count airing the house while I sat outside reading Lydia Syson’s Doctor of Love and eating chocolate biscuits to celebrate my forthcoming future mega-healthy eating plan. To the right you can see part of the outfit I wore to church yesterday. My favorite colour a la moment is red, but I LOVE red stockings. I waited years to find these and then I paid a lot for them. (They cost more then the rest of the outfit put together, though admitedly the shoes were second hand and I made the skirt from fabric I found at the market.) Red stockings bring to mind Louis XIV (one of my favorite dead-Frenchmen). He wore them for several paintings so I like to think of him parading about with red legs tout les temps, only his legs were covered with silk and mine with spun plastic…minor details. What you can’t see is how fat I am. [Read more…] about Cameras and Cookies Don’t Mix!

Beam me up Scotty, I’ve got the hat!

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Tonight I watched Star Trek the Next Generation on Youtube as I ate my dinner. There are some really cruel people in the world. You start watching an episode because it says 1 of 5 or 3 of 6 (I jumped into the middle) and then you can’t find the rest of the story! I searched…nothing. That’s heartless! I’ll now have to go buy the whole series just to watch the end of two episodes. My dad would be proud. Heck, I could probably call him up and ask him how the episodes end. He had a massive stroke about two years ago which means he can’t remember what he’s doing from one minute to the next, but he can remember important things like Star Trek story lines. I’d e-mail him and ask him, but he changed his e-mail address and then forgot to tell everyone…same with his phone number. I wonder if he wonders why no one calls?

Watching Star Trek used to be our family’s equivalent of a vacation (we almost never went anywhere together except for the rare visit to dad’s family up in Seattle which was usually traumatic. The trauma arose out of having to function in situations that required in depth social skills…skills neither of my parents possessed so couldn’t pass on.) Star Trek was like a vacation because [Read more…] about Beam me up Scotty, I’ve got the hat!

Which Jayne Austen Character Are You?

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I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t fall back to sleep so I eventually got up. I read the BBC news while I ate some uncooked oatmeal sans sugar (I’m so good). But after perusing it for a few minutes I decided I didn’t really need to read one more article about the English economy being driven into an economic black hole by the present unelected Prime Minister (at least by the general population…a handful of (aliens?) voted for him up in Scotland. Mr Blair stepped down mid-term and Mr Brown elected himself as leader and the Labour party let him take the big chair instead of calling a General Election and giving taxpayers a say. Anyway, I decided I’d had enough and went to check out Austenprose (If you love Jayne Austen’s novels this is a really good blog). Some of the comments mentioned a quiz called Which Jane Austen Heroine are you? [Read more…] about Which Jayne Austen Character Are You?

Cough Cough…getting better!

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I’m still recovering from an evil head/chest cold. For most of the last week and a half I’ve done nothing beyond sit here (I literally sat at my desk for nearly three days straight because I couldn’t lay down without drowning in my flem). So I sat here and read The Daily Telegraph and other online newspapers and visited numerous blogs where I’m afraid I left insane ramblings. So if you come to this blog out of curiosity to know what sort of psycho I am…I’m completely normal I assure you!

So I’m getting better which means my rationality is returning…yes I am rational. What? You don’t believe me? I assure I’m very logical, at least to me! Just because my professor in that Pascal logic class I took at University (because my friend told me it was easy) after he graded my final test he looked at me with a blank expression and told me he hoped I wasn’t planning on becoming a Logician – this doesn’t mean I’m illogical! [Read more…] about Cough Cough…getting better!