Wow, this week really got away from me - and do I feel like I accomplished anything?  Hmmmm . . . . . . . gotta think on that.  It seems I never accomplish what I feel I need to in any given week not matter how organized I am going about it.  I'll get this wild hair every now and then, plan out the upcoming week on Sunday evening prioritizing the needed phone calls, errands and business etc. and jump in Monday morning like I'm doing a world class championship cannonball into a pool.  Problem is, those weeks it seems someone pulls the plug and drains the pool so I go SPLAT on the hard bottom!  And I'm left going, "What the hell just happened?" The rest of the week is spent trying to stay out of trouble, keep my nose above water and generally wrestling an octopus.

Then there are the weeks I say, "Alright then, I'm going to just wing it," keeping the priorities up front. What happens? Same thing.  Wrangle that damn octopus, stay out of trouble (which is haaaaarrrd to do when you live with a teenager!) and keep my nose above water.

I'd have to say, the first three days of this week I didn't think I was going to make it through.  That damn octopus was bigger, meaner and faster than ever.  So by Thursday I was in "stun" mode.  Today, guess I'm just driftin.  However, I do have to say to my credit, I did finish one of my children's stories and have great starts on two different query letters.  Yeah me!!  It's just a tip of the ice-burg I need to turn, but hey, I feel good about it.

In other news; I finally watched "The Woman In Black" with Daniel Radcliff aka Harry Potter.  I like a good ghost story and I liked this one.  Have to admit the main reason for wanting to see this one was to see if Daniel Radcliff can pull off anything besides Harry Potter.  Yes, he can act, but the problem is he still LOOKS like Harry. Will he ever be able to get away from that branding?  I can't say.  For my part, I couldn't understand why he didn't whip his wand out and blast that nasty old ghost, she didn't have nothing on the Dementors. The ending was a bit unusual but I liked it in it's different twistedness.  Out of a five, I'd give it a 4.5.

I also finished the second book in the "Fifty Shades" trilogy, "Fifty Shades Darker".  Best part of it was the last page and a half.  If it hadn't been for that I wouldn't even bother reading the final book.  I found this second book very repetitive - same old same old, page after bloody page, sometimes utterly unbelievable, and I found Ana's character unrealistic and boring (same as in the first book).  The bondage sex is pretty much gone, well, no maybe not.  The Dominant/Submissive aspect is gone, that's fine.  But I still don't get what the big deal  is.  These sex scenes are poorly written and unbelievably unreal.  This girl has an orgasm if her man even sneezes, what real woman out there has an orgasm every time she turns around?  It just doesn't happen in the real world.  Anyway, this is the best I can say about this book. Out of five - I couldn't even give it a one. Like I said, the best part of the entire book is the last page and a half.  That last page and a half gives me enough reason to read the next one.

So . . . . . . . . . Buntah is in the bathtub and having finished off this evenings worms is patiently waiting for her cricket desert.  However, Ginger is not so patient.  She is sitting on the floor beside me whining and crossing her legs, time for a wal I think.  Glad tomorrow is Saturday.  Will be even happier when Sunday afternoon get's here, we have a fun outing planned! 

“Fifty Shades of Grey”, the latest installment of erotic literary controversy.  Some folks call it liberating.  Other’s claim it is damaging, degrading to women (really, what isn’t degrading to women in our media?) – even dangerous.  Personally, when I read for fun I read mystery novels, not erotic romance.  For a while I tuned out the media hype surrounding “Fifty Shades”.  Then a few weeks ago, I heard it being raved as “every woman’s fantasy” and “THE book every man should read” by some expert in the media loop.  Really?  There is only one book every man should read to understand women’s sexual fantasies??  And this is Every woman’s fantasy??  I’m pretty broad minded, but what was I missing here?  Alright, so my curiosity was piqued.  I finished the first book of the trilogy last night.  WOW.  Not Hallelujah WOW.  Holy crap WOW. 

Is it EVERY woman’s fantasy?  It’s not mine.  Of course the idea of having a seductively handsome multimillionaire fall for you in a major way and lavish cars, clothes, the best food and a personal trainer on you is appealing.  In that regard, the author delivers.  Cha ching.   For the females, the element of ‘saving your man from himself or healing him from some horrific past’ is also there.  Again, on this thread, the author delivers, Cha ching, Cha ching.  And while it may be appealing to most women to have her man dominate in the bedroom, I don’t believe the majority of us fantasize about being whipped, beaten and tortured into submission.  I don’t believe we fantasize about living our daily lives according to the dictates of our man either.  We like choosing our own clothes, our own friends and our own schedules.  I don’t think the majority of us fantasize about binding ourselves to our man’s strict rules of personal conduct with severe punishment awaiting any minor infraction of his said rules.  And we don’t fantasize about being stalked and spied on.  Really people, being stalked is not a turn-on.  It’s creepy.  For the woman who determines her value and worth by her ability to please her man at all costs to herself (yes, these women are out there and a lot of them are our young daughters!), this book is definitely a danger to her personal well-being.  On the whole, I found the book more disturbing than anything.  I found it incongruent with my nature, sexual and otherwise.

Is it a book EVERY man should read?  No.  As a matter of fact, I can see how this book, in the hands of the wrong men, can be very dangerous.  There are men who already twist their perception of what they think women want and will gladly adhere to any ‘justification’ for their sexual misconduct against women.  This book has just such ‘justification’ potential.  The idea of this book being accepted as the ‘norm’ by our teenagers – male or female, who are already highly sexually charged and looking to understand sex and it’s place in their lives, is down-right alarming to me.  This is not a book for a sexual novice. 

For this book to be touted by anyone as every woman’s fantasy and THE book every man should read, is socially irresponsible.  It is a book for persons with a Dominant/Submissive, Sadomasochist preference.