The Lovely Bones, really? Huh. I liked it well enough. That's an odd list.

I had a surprisingly good frozen mexican thing for lunch, which would have been better if I hadn't microwaved it, but now I wish I had Chipotle. The lunch wasn't actually enough, so maybe cereal for a snack before I go grocery shopping.

It is hilarious what the people I work with think normal people will think is important. Spoiler: they are not things normal people would think are important.

That's an odd list.

Yeah. Like if you read the first two Twilight books and regretted reading them, what would make you think reading the third one was a good idea?

I find the easiest way to pick or be sure of flights/airlines is go to the website of the airport.

I'm pretty sure VAT is just UK. Other countries have different rules. VAT applies to services, for instance, so it's not just a sales tax. I couldn't say if the same applies for all of the EU.

VAT is throughout Europe. I don't know about ordering online, but for purchases on-site you had to spend a certain amount in a specific store to get the refund when you passed through customs. The tax is pretty high though (I want to say close to 20% depending on the country), so worth asking about.

Oh, crap, I forgot -- reason #1 I have to go to the grocery store today is that I'm out of milk. And cheese. I'm afraid I'll have no snack at all.

I hated The Lovely Bones. It is an odd list, though. There are two Gor books on it. Not that I don't regret reading all of the Gor books I read (okay, so it took me almost as long to stop reading Gor as it did Xanth), but I wonder at the demographic that gets two of them in the top hundred. Also one a Christopher Tolkien-edited JRRT sequel.

Guess which series has the top three books?

The order changed between the first and the second time I looked. The Da Vinci Code has crept to 3. I haven't read any Meyer, but damn, do I regret Da Vinci. I wonder at the Color Purple people. I understand Beloved was difficult and confusing, but The Color Purple? Really? That was good reading!

Let me stop.

Someone must have signed the kids up for a magazine subscription. It's Focus on the Family's Clubhouse, Jr. I have no idea who gifted it but I'm sort of annoyed. I haven't read the content of the magazine yet, but the materials we got does say they include bible stories. If this was my MiL, I'm going to have to suck it up and deal. I may just have to chuck it into the recycling bin as soon as it comes in.

Like if you read the first two Twilight books and regretted reading them, what would make you think reading the third one was a good idea?

Maybe they aren't the same people. And never mind what I said about Gor and Xanth.

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VAT is throughout Europe

Do they tax services in all of the EU?

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Our copy writer put together a blog post for our holiday gift suggestions. [link] On it?

Big Damn Serenity model [link]

The Burbank airport is made of win and very close to home. So why do my parents insist on flying in and out of LAX? Yargh.