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Oct. 27th, 2016 02:05 pmAn interesting evening last night...We went to the central library for a book reading and signing for an author named Ami McKay who just released a book theday before called The Witches of New York. I had been hearing very good things about her for a long time and finally got round to reading The Birth House which I really liked. I found out she was coming to Halifax to start her new book tour so I read The Virgin Cure next. The Witches is sort of a sequel but not really, in that there is one character from The Virgin Cure that's in it but it's about a lot more than just her. Ms McKay said you could read them independently, without missing anything. The Virgin Cure takes place in lower Manhatten in the late 19th century, with the new book taking place about 10 years later. The Statue of Liberty was not complete and the arm holding the torch was set up in Madison Square Park for fund raising and an Egyptial obelisk was about to be delivered and erected in Central Park and everyone was going Egypt-crazy and many believed the obelisk had magical powers. If the first two books are anything to go by, this one will be very good as well.
In between her first draft and the second, the second of which was quite a bit different from the first, having more focus on magic, she did a bit of geneology and discovered that one of her ancestors was a woman that was accused, put on trial and hanged as a witch in the Salem witch trials!
G.met me after work and the gym and we went to have a bite to eat first, then met a person I had connected with on Goodreads recently and the three of us went in to hear the author. I also spotted two more old friends and had a chance to speak to them as well. The author read three chapters or passages, not altogether - she talked about other things in between each like her geneology research. She took questions at the end and then signed books. I had bought mine in the little bookstore in the building where I work already though they were selling them there as well. (for about $10 more than I paid!) I don't buy many paper books anymore and the only hardcovers I generally buy are either really marked down or are the ones that Diana Gabaldon writes. The prospect of getting it signed, though, made the difference.
I'm back to the gym finally. I can't remember without looking if i wrote about that recently or not. I was talking to my old trainer and he'd offered me a catch up session for free last week and another on Monday. Naturally, he was also hoping to try to get me to buy a package of training sessions so had put out the options. I did want to, I never would have given it up if I had been able to save up the money for it but that money went first on a wedding, then on immigration costs and lastly on the moving costs and I still owe some on that. Trainers aren't cheap. But I thought about it over the weekend and I can swing it, the cheapest package of 18 sessions, enough to really get me back into the habit again. Graham is giving me money towards it as my Christmas present and my mom will as well for whatever she was going to spend on a gift anyway. I get extra on my pay this time of year because the deductions for Canada Pension and Employment INsurance are done for the year since they have a maximum contribution. That gives me about 150 extra per pay which will go towards this as well. I warned him, though, I won't be able to swing another round after that. He's been very generous, though, three free sessions. He's a nice guy and though we don't see each other outside of the gym, it does feel like we're friends.
Shortly after I first started training with him, he started dating this guy, C. who asked him about me, he thought I looked familiar. Turns out C. and i were in the same year at high school and he was good friends with my cousin. They lived near each other and later on, their kids played sports together. Ok, I thought, he has kids so there's a mother in the picture somewhere. Apparently he was making his first steps out of the closet with this relationship with D. my trainer, I think, after being married quite awhile and raising a family. I got to meet up with C. because he worked out at the gym, too though I still really don't remember him at all from school. He mentioned my cousin and I told him that my cousin's wife had suddenly died, something he hadn't heard. I was to pass on his greetings and condolences next time I saw my cousin.
So anyway, next time I saw my cousin, I passed on the messages. I said C. was doing well, apparently and is dating D. (man's name), my trainer. Cousin raised an eyebrow. He's gay? He's gay, i confirmed. Right. says my cousin. I did not know that. I told him I thought it was a fairly recent development. He shook his head a bit, just to clear up the surprise ;) He said, ok, well, tell him I said hello and thanks for the condolences, too.
Que sera sera, you guys. They make a lovely couple. They've now been together 4 years.
In between her first draft and the second, the second of which was quite a bit different from the first, having more focus on magic, she did a bit of geneology and discovered that one of her ancestors was a woman that was accused, put on trial and hanged as a witch in the Salem witch trials!
G.met me after work and the gym and we went to have a bite to eat first, then met a person I had connected with on Goodreads recently and the three of us went in to hear the author. I also spotted two more old friends and had a chance to speak to them as well. The author read three chapters or passages, not altogether - she talked about other things in between each like her geneology research. She took questions at the end and then signed books. I had bought mine in the little bookstore in the building where I work already though they were selling them there as well. (for about $10 more than I paid!) I don't buy many paper books anymore and the only hardcovers I generally buy are either really marked down or are the ones that Diana Gabaldon writes. The prospect of getting it signed, though, made the difference.
I'm back to the gym finally. I can't remember without looking if i wrote about that recently or not. I was talking to my old trainer and he'd offered me a catch up session for free last week and another on Monday. Naturally, he was also hoping to try to get me to buy a package of training sessions so had put out the options. I did want to, I never would have given it up if I had been able to save up the money for it but that money went first on a wedding, then on immigration costs and lastly on the moving costs and I still owe some on that. Trainers aren't cheap. But I thought about it over the weekend and I can swing it, the cheapest package of 18 sessions, enough to really get me back into the habit again. Graham is giving me money towards it as my Christmas present and my mom will as well for whatever she was going to spend on a gift anyway. I get extra on my pay this time of year because the deductions for Canada Pension and Employment INsurance are done for the year since they have a maximum contribution. That gives me about 150 extra per pay which will go towards this as well. I warned him, though, I won't be able to swing another round after that. He's been very generous, though, three free sessions. He's a nice guy and though we don't see each other outside of the gym, it does feel like we're friends.
Shortly after I first started training with him, he started dating this guy, C. who asked him about me, he thought I looked familiar. Turns out C. and i were in the same year at high school and he was good friends with my cousin. They lived near each other and later on, their kids played sports together. Ok, I thought, he has kids so there's a mother in the picture somewhere. Apparently he was making his first steps out of the closet with this relationship with D. my trainer, I think, after being married quite awhile and raising a family. I got to meet up with C. because he worked out at the gym, too though I still really don't remember him at all from school. He mentioned my cousin and I told him that my cousin's wife had suddenly died, something he hadn't heard. I was to pass on his greetings and condolences next time I saw my cousin.
So anyway, next time I saw my cousin, I passed on the messages. I said C. was doing well, apparently and is dating D. (man's name), my trainer. Cousin raised an eyebrow. He's gay? He's gay, i confirmed. Right. says my cousin. I did not know that. I told him I thought it was a fairly recent development. He shook his head a bit, just to clear up the surprise ;) He said, ok, well, tell him I said hello and thanks for the condolences, too.
Que sera sera, you guys. They make a lovely couple. They've now been together 4 years.
