I removed the old crappy showerhead from my shower today and installed my brand new one. All by myself. Okay, so it's incredibly easy to do, but I'd never done it before. I bought myself a 14" pipe wrench and everything. Although I think I could have done it with just my regular old adjustable wrench, 'cause it really wasn't that big of a deal. But I'm happy about it.

That was the only thing I actually accomplished today. The rest of the day I spent in kind of a funk. I did find the one Gemma James/Duncan Kincaid novel I was missing at Logos. Or rather, the one Deborah Crombie novel I was missing. Gemma and Duncan are the two protagonists. I really like the series. Of course, I'm a big fan of well-written detective novels anyway, but these have the other elements I like in a detective novel: likable protagonist(s), a basic story that continues and develops from novel to novel throughout the series, some romance, and enough actual mystery that I can't always guess whodunnit. And also, I think, enough attention to detail and police procedure.

I think I also figured out what was another thing that was really bugging me about Gone With the Wind: There are no redeeming relationships in the whole thing. Even Ashley and Melanie are doomed, although they come the closest to "true love" in the flick. And everybody else is abusive in some way, or so completely dysfunctional.... okay, I know I'm making too much of this; I think I'm still just pretty sensitive to crappy relationships. And if I'm going to watch a love story, I want it to have good love in it. I can tolerate fairly crappy movies, even adore them, if they have good love. If anybody feels like answering, I'm curious: what're some of your favorite love stories? And why? Even if they're poorly written books or bad movies.