Teaser Tuesday

Here's how to play.

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) 

This is from 12 Months to Live by James Patterson and Mike Lupica. After opening arguments in a major murder trial, the defendant's wife requests a private one-on-one with her husband's attorney, our narrator, Jane.

"Judge Prentice wasn't amused and, for the record, neither was I."

I feel myself biting through my lower lip hard enough to draw blood. I'm tired. I want to get outside, do my few minutes of standup, and then head back east.

But I'm doing my best to behave. A constant challenge.

"For the record, what I did today had nothing to do with your husband, or the judge, or the prosecutor, bless his heart. And it wasn't for you. I was only addressing the jury ..."

 

November Challenge -- Day 4

Find the challenge here

November Challenge: Bullet your whole day (Monday)

OK, let's see how long I do this before I get bored ...

•  Woke up on my own (no alarm clock)

•  From bed, caught up on the local news (a lot about the passing of Chicago's very own Quincy Jones) and then switched to Morning Joe

•  Did those twists the orthopedist taught me. 5 on each side. Roy Hobbs helped by grooming the top of my head. My left knee feels a little wonky.

•  Finished that bottle of water on my nightstand. (It's still cold!)

•  Tooled around the web -- Facebook, email, fellow bloggers, and my nephew's baseball column. I want to check out the Chicago Sun Times and New York Daily News online, but really, I've got to get out of bed sometime.

•  Fed the cats. No cats have ever, in the history of catdom, been as hungry as they were.

•  Checked my phone. The oral surgeon can squeeze me in earlier than expected! YAY! No, I am not happy about getting another dual crown lengthening. But I appreciate being able to use up my 2024 benefits.

•  Confirmed the dental appointment, wrestled with Dayforce, the scheduling app for the card shop. Apparently it works better for Apple than it does for Android. Unfortunately, I have Android. It took longer than I should have, but I requested the day of surgery and the following as days off.

•  Did last night's dishes. Watered the plants. 

•  Chocolate milk and meds. Only one prescription -- for my cholesterol -- but a fistful of vitamins and supplements. 

•  Icing my knee and touching up my pathetic pedi. Can't afford a new one until after the 19th. Hope I don't offend anyone at yoga tomorrow with my chipped digits.

I'm bored with this already and I haven't even gotten into the shower yet. Sorry.

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