All right, who did it!???!!?!?!?!?!??!!!

I got a book already!!!!

Annemarie Monahan in Greenfield MA

:blink:

You guys do realize that it's still July, right? And that I'm September?

And fudge! I'm not even going to be able to open them on the first, 'cause I'll be out of town. Good planning there, Pepper. :doh:

Books will be opened on September 5, when I return from Dragon*con

Books Received:
From zzz - arrived July 19
The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis
From camis - arrived August 2
Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh
From giz-angel - arrived August 6
Guardians of the Keep (The Bridge of D'Arnath, Book 2) by Carol Berg
From rebeccaljames - arrived August 7
Carnivores of Light and Darkness (Journeys of the Catechist, Book 1) by Alan Dean Foster
From geishabird - arrived August 24
The Second Summoning (The Keeper's Chronicles # 2) by Tanya Huff
From bluejazzyfish - arrived August 28
Falling Sideways by Tom Holt
From morsecode - arrived September 4 & September 19
The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman & The Wise Woman by Philippa Gregory
From sunlightbub - arrived September 5
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
From Krin511 - arrived September 14
The Scar by China Mieville
From wss4 - arrived October 16
The Well of Tears: Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles by Cecilia Dart-Thornton

:rofl:

It wasn't me, but I'm highly amused anyway...

Hmmm, actually...now, that's an idea... :whistle:

I wasn't me, I swear! :rofl:

Not me although I have sent yours....:giggle:

Nor me, although it will be on it's way soon :giggle:

Not me :D

:cool:
I'm not sure but it's probably me (as if you didn't know :grin:)

You are all very very evil. :whip:

no I'm not! I'm actually very, very good. I was hunting that book for you for quite some time and when I found it there was no time for wasting. You just have to wait a little bit, nothing more :whistle:

(FYI two month ago I received parcel that I'm suppose to open Oct 1st!)

All right people! I got another BallySwapper package... this on from Julie Bennett in the UK!

I know what I'm sending, but I haven't mailed it yet :D

Well that's good. It's difficult to reach my hiding place 'cause I can't stand on my tip toes due to my foot, and I can't hide them lower as the cats really would eat them open, so my Happiness packages have been on top of the refrigerator... and I see them EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!!!!!!!! :yikes: :wacko:

:giggle:

I know who that meany is!!!

I know what I'm sending too, but have't read it yet!!

Wow, that didn't take long!

Something will be coming to you from paperbackswap.com from Georgia.

No, Pepper, what'll be mean is if someone who's NOT a Ballyswapper sends you something for your month! :rofl:

Well, my birthday is October 1...

:innocent:

I'll keep an eye out for it!

Well, I'm definitely not sending the book out until the end of the month so it shouldn't be there early enough to drive you too crazy :D

I'm going to bold this note in the top, but I'm not actually going to be able to open anything until September 5. :(

I'm leaving for Dragon*con on August 30, and I won't be back until late September 4. There's a slim possibility I may open them on the 4th, but really, I anticipate going to bed pretty much right away that day.

Ms. Eleanor Thompson, your package has arrived. :D

This arrived today!

:P :giggle: it's THOMSON!

Sorry! I didn't have the package in front of me when I typed it (I hid it right away) and that's the way that I type it most often, so...

:blush:

I'm sorry.

No Pepper it's fine - I just thought it was funny you spelt Eleanor right, people normally get both bits wrong! :kiss:

There are other ways to spell Eleanor? :blink:

well yes there is Elinor but I just get many many variations and misspellings of it. It's a never ending pain! So most people actually call me El. Or Elle. Except here of course were even in RL people call me Giz!

First time when I wrote you spelling check marked as wrong your name... and that's how I found out that Elenor is not correct.
You know we (Serbs) have the simplest writing rule in the world (seriously) because we are writing exactly the way we are pronouncing and each voice has its sign. So that's why we say Giz's name Elenor (Tomson) just like we are writing Vanesa (Li).
Was this confusing?

PS
Just for records Serbian grammar on the other hand is way too difficult with its 7 cases and whatnot...

note to self - do not try to learn Serbian :giggle:

Good note :lol:
It's horribly difficult language thanks to its grammar. My aunt is German and lives here 30 years (she moved with 16) and still making grammar nonsenses. Actually I know bunch of foreigners who live here and can't speak without errors but worst thing is that my own compatriots are making errors.
On the other hand my sister in law is professor of Serbian language and literature and thinks that I'm such a language-puritan (which is actually not compliment at all :angry2:). I know this will sound stupid but my mother tongue is also one of my hobbies.

I really try to call Giz El in real life but somehow never manage!!!! I did introduce her to DH as El , but it sounded all wrong :wacko:

Before I got married I was Lee like Pepper :rolleyes:

And I am really pants at all languages..my littley is learning french ( she is 3 ) and she is already better than me :blush:

Language puritan or language police Milan? :giggle: I know no other languages really, I can read some french and say nothing in Russian, ok in Greek and small dog & potato in German. SO useful :blush: am thinking of trying more Russian. But it scares me a bit.

Well, we do learn languages easier as young children.

So logically, schools in the US don't start teaching other languages until high school. :rolleyes:

(Well, some start earlier now, but usually it's "Let's learn in pre-school/kindergarden and then not mention it again until high school when you'll have forgotten everything you learned! :lol:)

I got one definite Ballyswappers book today, from Tracy Kenderdine in Toronto...

And one that might be a BallySwappers book... I don't know.

It was sent on July 20 from the UK in a white bag that says "MailBag" on it... no return address anywhere, so I have no idea who it's from....

Okay, I'm assuming that the first package is geishabird... anyone want to claim the second package? Sunny? BJF? You are the only two in the UK I haven't gotten a package from... :erm:

Well, I only took mine to the PO today so if it's mine airmail is on the up!! :giggle:

Well, it may not be a BallySwapper package... but I wanted to confirm that before I opened it... :D

Mystery solved! The other book wasn't a BallySwapper book at all... it was a book Teachie owed me. :D

Did someone here send me something through Amazon?

I did not order anything through Amazon... and yet there is something here addressed to me...