Getting outside your comfort zone

How are all you fabulous people today? I haven't been around for a couple days and I have missed you guys. Hopefully one day you will talk back to me. :) As I type this the power is out. Apparently my family does not know what  to do with selves without all of their electronics. I can already tell you we will be lucky to make it through this without blood being shed. Too many personalty shoved in one place with nothing to do but annoy whomever is next to you. At least that is what seems like to me. Since I can't walk(yet) I can not run away. They tend to converge next to me. As I am typing this (pretending I am doing something uber important) I have five people staring at me. Plus I can hear everything that the other four are saying and doing. Along with the tick tock of the clock. Freakin' eerie.

   I caught a little of  the news this morning about Google G-Mail not being private. People are outraged. First off I just automatically assume that everything I do on the internet isn't private. I even use a prepaid card to make all of my online purchases. I learnt that lesson the hard way. The internet is a good thing in many ways. Its knowledge at our fingerprints. Keeping in contact of people that otherwise you wouldn't be able too. It comes in handy for those of us for whatever reason is barricaded in our homes. :) Then on the other side its a breeding ground for people with dubious morals. It makes it easier for those depraved individuals to prey on our children. It makes it easier to become victims of Identity theft. Its just like everything else, you get the bad along with the good.

  I find that also stands true concerning books. I have been reading a lot of Indie books lately. You can find lots of  them on Amazon ranging anywhere from Free to 3.99. I have found in the Fantasy genre there is A LOT of young adult books. I personally do not want to read about a 16 year old being in love with a 200 hundred plus year old "monster". Or how the fate of the world depends on an orphan girl who only wants to be with her crush. Insert eye roll here. I suppose it wouldn't be too bad if there wasn't a gazillion of the out there. Its mostly those that are in the Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Genre. I suppose the Paranormal Romance is full of them. I try to stay away from those in general.

 Sometimes I like to read something that is different from what I normally read. I have found some good books that way. The main problem with doing that is because I have to finish what I start. In everything. If I start a book I have to finish it,even if I don't like it. Although I do have an exception,if it makes reading the book to feel like a chore I quit. I think there has only been two or three that I simply could not finish it. What about you? When do you call it quits? Do you ever try to read outside your "comfort zone?"

 I am surrounded yet again by people and cats so I bid you farewell till next time.