For the last 3 or 4 days, I have been thinking I really have a lot to say. We’ve been busy with guests, outings, and happenings for a couple of weeks. In addition, I’ve been getting several projects and books going, which I am excited about. At the same time, I’ve been reading a book Hamlet’s Blackberry, about how all this stuff we say may be a bunch over unnecessary overkill and wondering if I really even need/want a blog. LOL. Just because I have it to say, doesn’t necessarily make it interesting to anyone else.
I’ve let my family down on the cookie front. Two weeks have passed without cookies. I’ve had other things going and just haven’t felt like it. Fortunately, I did not give myself some deadline, so I don’t have to make anything up. But I do need to get started again this week.
Books. K finished Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and is on to Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix, which means I am on to it as well. I love the later books. The first four seemed more formulaic to me, while the last three were more tied together. Oh they still have the big ending, but they are so much darker, important, suspenseful in an ongoing way I love them. I hope to read the rest by November when the first of the last movies comes out.
Finished The Probable Future and thought it was pretty good. Light reading, but fun. What I liked was that the wrong choice for the mother did not necessarily teach what the right choice should be for the daughter. I also liked the love between the widow and her doctor. Such a different kind of love, but important, you know?
Also started reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Am reading it for free in the store though, so that will be a slow go. Yesterday we went to the storage unit and I lost the lock–while I waited for Chantel to go get a new one, I picked up The Mother Tongue, a book I bought when I was an English major about the English language. Went ahead and took it home because I couldn’t put it down.
Am reading Northfield and some free Romance Novel on the nook. Gosh, romance novels have changed quite a bit. It’s pretty pornographic, really. Okay, I wouldn’t read it if it was that bad, but some of the covers themselves are a bit like looking at the cover of a porn movie! Am I just old or is it changing up a bit? And it’s like you can’t avoid them if you have a nook. 70% of the books are Romance Novels. Funny, they compartmentalize them in the store, so you don’t really have to see them, but I have read it is the only growing book market and they are all over the store.
What else? Hmmm. I’ll think.
Sewed two cute skirts with Kiki this weekend. She came over and we went shopping for material and a pattern. Then we stopped at B&N for a reading session in the cafe. (Are she and I kindred spirits or what?) Then we went home and sewed. Luckily I bought a pattern that said something about a 1 hour finish time and they weren’t kidding. They turned out so cute. Channi didn’t send me pics, though, totally breaking her promise, so I have none. Sigh.
Anyway, I’m back to work and looking forward to the 4 day weekend coming up. More sewing, reading, playing, etc. Have a good one.