Not all of us can be winners...

...some of us have to lose.

I have lost at my fair share of things, sports, video games, and now... the CFA exam.

Well I guess you can't call it losing in a technical sense of the word, but as the loser I think I can call it what every the hell I want. I think the most amusing thing to me is the girl who had a hard time with stat and an easy time in econ, failed econ and passed quant (stats). I am also a very ethical person, having my highest category in ethics.... fun stuff!!!

Anyway, I know I shouldn't be bitter and upset, but as I clicked on the get results link I couldn't help but get my hopes up. But let us not dwell on that.... after all things happen for a reason, and maybe i should start pursuing a masters instead of a silly designation.

So much for a raise.

Approval.

So this weekend I started a new book... anyplace i can hang my hat. it was ok. not the best book ever but interesting story about family and belonging. Today i am reading a memoir caled glass castle very interesting and sad so far.

the reason i didn't read too much was that bill and i spend part of this weekend starting a home search... we went and got apporved for a loan, the amount of which explains the question "how can people afford these homes?!?" the answer being "they put less than 5% down." we looked at a condo being built next to the train station, and then we drove down south and looked at some older 2-3 br homes that we could posisbly afford (obviously not what the bank says we could afford... because if we did that we would be paying out the nose forwever). anyway i forsee many weekend similar to that... driving through windy streets with no map and stopping at open houses where the basments smell like the walls were paved with cat litter. hopefully though it will not be in vain. and some time (sooner rather than later) i will be hosting a house/townhome/condo warming party.

Lied to

I was excited to get harry potter yesterday, only to find out that I was lied to by the advert in the paper two weekends a go for the grocery story. the paper back doesn't come out until the 25th according to amazon. of course when I asked the uninformed person at BAM he told me that the book wouldn't be out until october.... maybe he had it confused with a series of unfortunate events which comes out on friday the 13th in october... either way the double lie still leaves me with no harry.

I did get some books to read, mostly by authors i had never read before... the memory keepers daughter, the glass castle, the alchemist, emma and me, and any place i hang my hat. They all sounded interesting to me, though in reading reviews on line some are much better liked than others... we'll see.

Today is a rain rainy day. It's been raining since yesterday... and things are pretty wet out there now. As i type lightening is cracking through the sky... and the only other thing i hear is the ssssshh of cars on the street... lovely.

Books!

Lately I have been reading a lot. Some times silly dumb things (girls in pants, everyone worth knowing, three cocktail club, undomesticated goddess) sometimes moving stories (zorro, light on snow) and many by an author Jodi Picoult. I like most of what she writes, though i wasn't as impressed by the pact, I really enjoyed plain truth and vanishing acts. The book that brought me to her was my sister's keeper. Maybe it's my love of the law and order type shows that attracts me to these as they all have cases in them, maybe it's the multiple point of view writing that i enjoy... but either way they're pretty good books.

I really enjoyed Isabel Allende's Zorro. Allende wrote Daughter of Fortune, but before that she had written House of the Spirits and Eva Luna and after Portrait in Sepia and Zorro. I wish my grasp of Spanish was better, as then I could try my hand at the originals.

I didn't like Everyone worth knowing... Devil wears Prada was just more exciting and you feel something for the character...

This is the second time I read undomesticated goddess, and it makes me want to go out and get can you keep a secret as i think i would enjoy re-reading that one as well. I actually enjoy Sophie Kinsella's (Madeleine Wickham) stand alone books better, and I would be interested in reading more of Madeleine Wickham's books, as the three cocktail club was pretty good. Since the genre is similar i wonder why she has switched to the pen name.

ok well today i am reading in the company of cheerful ladies which will mean the only new book i have left is the biography of Ben Franklin... lucky for me i think i might pick up the paper back of harry potter and the half blood prince and re-read that.

oh and as a public service announcement the first animaniacs dvd the first pinky and the brain dvd from their respective tv shows are coming out this coming tuesday. fun stuff!

United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama...

blah blah blah

so I tried to post this weekend with a few pictures from the fourth... Bill with a rummy drink enjoying the pool.... children in flippers children with fish... but the evil blogger posting engine hated me. so now you get sarah's sour Monday morning post.

over all this weekend was lovely... saw the baby gorillas at Brookfield zoo (and brette and jason as well) washed the car watched the incredibles.... i also went though my "save" box that i brought back from Cleveland... I am missing my Disney autograph book, most anything from high school and may baby doll... i found my journals from kindergarten (which i dictated to someone to write for me and i am so surprised people thought of me as "gifted") my iowa basic scores and many dumb religion projects that I seemed to have done very well on.

hopefully this work will move swiftly and soon it will be Friday and the start of the Nordstrom anniversary sale. now even with everything on sale I can't afford much more that socks from the store, but I love looking at all of the shoes, and they always get their fall shoes right before the sale, which means boots!!!

the program i need to re run is still running, but I have run out of things to talk about so TTFN...