Resolution + my rockin' New Year's Eve with Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent!!!

First, my new resolution (see yesterday's post): The EGG timer!! It's running now, so I must be quick.

Rule 1: I get an hour in the morning to answer emails and do bloggy stuff etc, and then straight to work!

Rule 2: Once I am at work, I am using KB's suggestion of setting it for hour intervals where I go totally dark from email and online, and I can attend to pressing things during breaks. Of course this goes out the window if I have hot client deadlines. Thanks, everybody for your great suggestions. Oh, and if you have a Mac, google egg timer widget and you can get one, too. The bell is very lovely and satisfying, too.

Great Moments From Last Night's reading:

Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
Page: 54
Spoiler level: low

I am already so INTO this book. You know what I love in a book? Where I have lots to look forward to. I think that's part of the magic of these first 54 pages I read last night.

Looking forward to them getting to know each other!

The character array is super enticing: Sebastian is the debauched rake, Evangeline's the stubborn, determined, in-trouble, slightly naive girl, bent on a mission to escape her family. They're at odds, but I'm greatly looking forward to them understanding and really seeing each other. There was this lovely moment where he told Evangeline about losing his doting mother and sisters as a boy, and this chunk of understanding fell into place for her.

Looking forward to Sebastian going beyond his old boundaries

Can this book be any more well done? Sebastian and Evangeline are on this hurried, difficult carriage ride for two days to escape the family and elope (he wants her money, she wants freedom from her family, they're both up front about it.) Evangeline has been starved and maltreated by her family, and is really run down by the ride, and he's forced to go beyond himself and care for somebody else. People a lot of times rise to something greater when they're called to, and Kleypas paints this so beautifully!

Looking forward to the family finding out she eloped!

The family sounds so evil. It will be delicious when they discover what she's done. I hope Sebastian fights them.

Looking forward to you know what

They have only returned from the Blacksmith's. Like the newly betrothed couple, I was too tired for anything more last night.   

Confession: bell rang like 15 minutes ago! Uh oh. Quick: spellcheck.

Added later: Okay, on that too tired for anything comment, I meant I was too tired for more READING!