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June Gloom

Do you ever let the blue bug get a hold of you? When it does nothing seems right or fun. I got the blue bug late last week. It's hard to let it go when you get it. I know fretting doesn't do any good but all the same the blue bug is not a reasonable bug. I feel like I have reached a point where I need to make a change but I am not sure what that change is or how to do it. That is what is so depressing..knowing you have the power to change something but being to cautious or lets just say it, afraid to do something about it. This morning I seemed to have a break through and found a spark of excitement but then it was ripped away. Afterward, I knew I wasn't blue anymore but just bored. Oh June Gloom I don't like you. When will the sun come back as I am always a sunnier person when the sun is shining. It's easier for me to be a Pollyanna when I am surrounded by sunshine.

Anyhoo, now that I am bored and not depressed I am trying to conquer the boredom bug. I decided last night that perhaps I should lose myself in a book. So I researched online and according to some "fun beach reads" lists and some "books you should read this summer" lists I have come up with the following books to try and read this summer.

1. Dead Until Dawn aka the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris (there is 10 of them)
2. The Lost Daughter by Daralyse Lyon
3. Can U Keep a Secret by Sophie Kinsella
4. Talus by Ozan
5. Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks (Wasn't this a Kevin Costner movie? hum not sure on this one)
6. Any Dan Brown book
7. Sorbonne Confidential
8. Water for Elephants
9. Time Traveler's Wife (the lists promise its better than the movie
10. When You Are Engulfed in Flames b David Sedaris

I might also check out the Eagle Rock library. Today I was reminded that libraries exist when the girl who works for me asked if she could leave so she could return some books. I used to remember a time when I had a Burbank library card and I actually used it. So yes, maybe just maybe I will get out of the house and go check this library out because God knows my fried egg of a brain needs some nourishment. Now lets see how many of these books I read. I hereby challenge myself to read these this summer.

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