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( What you're missing if you're not planning on reading 'Project Blue Rose' )

Amazon.com order

This is what I ordered with the Amazon.com gift certificate I won from the Seventh Sanctum Beauty COntest:

Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
You Higiri, Cantarella Volume 1 (Cantarella)
Sarah Monette, Melusine

These are all books that people on my friendslist have squeed over that I was curious about. Cantarella's been out for a while, but my local store seems to have only volume 2 and no volume 1s, so this seems to be a decent way to get it.

Minor kittyspam

The cat has a new favorite spot.

( Can you spot the kitty in this picture? )

*snerk*

So I'm currently mildly addicted to this automatically-generated daily Chinese horoscope, not in least because my birth year, instead of being Rooster, or even Cock, is translated as Chicken.

And it has this lovely really untranslatable chart:

Hour	Day [ You ]	Month	Year
Male Wood	Male Earth	Male Fire	Female Earth
Green Rat	Brown Tiger	Red Rat	Brown Chicken

You are Brown Tiger, born in the year of Brown Chicken. The upper character in DAY column represents the person. So you are equivalent to Male Earth. The symbols in the upper row of birth chart are called Heavenly Stems. The animals in the lower row in are called Earthly Branches.

Anyway, it claimed that today I'd get money, and woo - a friend just sent me some he owed me. But Tuesday's prediction is a thing of beauty, because although it says money will go out, it also says:

Pig and Tiger have an attraction relationship and appear in your birth chart and cycle. When they are together, the hint of your fortune is "Money goes, then career comes." This relationship is to do with your career. You might have to invest some money on your career on this day. Or you need to hire people to take care of some trouble.

I am ALL ABOUT any horoscope that tells me I might have to hire "people" to "take care" of "trouble."