Category: Meanderings

5 hours to go and I am sitting almost like my skin in buzzing with the things I am completing.  Its all going well and currently Coffee Cup and I have just sat down to do a few blog visits while the laundry is going, the chicken is baking for one of the suppers I am leaving Al for the week, and the coffee cup is brewing a pot of Chocolate Covered Cherry blend as I ran out of my standard Folgers.

I feel good.

I stayed in bed a little later today to finish the last few pages of  The Help.  In a word?  Delicious.

Well… I have much to do.  I will be in Texas tonight (late night) we should get to or hotel anout 11 pm.  If not totally wiped I will pop in (I am attempting to bring lap top with me but not sure I will be able to use it in Honduras where we are staying or not.  They have a computer there but internet connection can be iffy.  We will see…

Couple more posts yet today and of course the sticky post to tell you all the exciting things that are going to go on for the next 8 days!

I think at this point I need to start documenting how far I have got on my lists to do before I leave Friday afternoon.  Coffee Cup and I have made lists (large post it notes stuck to the kitchen counter of lists to pack, to do, and to buy….

Lets see….

Suitcase packed:  2%

Malaria Prescription picked up:  0%

To do list before I go:  45%

I will get there… I work well under pressure 🙂

So… today briefly I want to talk about book covers – I just love them!  I f I could figure out a way to use the covers as framed prints in my reading room without destroying the books, I would.  I think that would be fun to have them all hanging up – my favorite covers.

As I blog hopped the other day I found a new (to me anyway) blog called Jacket Whys.  I somehow linked to this blog by finding the post on the Best Jacket Covers of 2008.  I loved the one they featured called Triskellion.  I had not heard of this book but I wont forget it now because of that cover!  If you have a minute click on over to Jacket Whys and see this blog.

Have you seen this one for Wild Things?  (yeah – it is fur covered…. I dont think I like this one…. )

How about this one for Shadowlands:  The Immortal?

Or this one called Gateway?

When you think covers… what one comes to mind for you as a great cover?

I feel completely relaxed for a person who is about to venture into a pretty heavy office day.  We are switching data management software at Church and I am going to help review records and make sure everything transferred the way it was suppose to – all the names, info, etc… we have 24 hours to find any corrections that this new company will fix – after that we sign off on it tomorrow and anything beyond that is ours to fix.  I am hopeful that things look just lovely today and it wont be a large project.

Other than that, my day isn’t too bad.  I do no hopping around the blogesphere last night.  None.  Nada.  In fact I didnt turn my computer back on after 5 pm.  I was tired from the root canal thing and I am so deeply into this book The Help by Kathryn Stockett that I read it most of the evening.  There truly are days when I know I am too tired to look at a computer screen… heck, there are days I know my eyes are too tired to read.  Ever get that way?

Tonight I hope to catch up on the computer end – do some blog surfing (ahhhh… surfing would be great!) and write my posts for next week.  Leave me a note here and I will be sure to stop your way later today.  🙂

Have a great Tuesday everyone!

I only have a short time this morning as I have a dentist appointment.  Ugh!  I know right?  I have to have it looked at before I head to Honduras on Friday as I really do not want to have any “tooth like” issues while in Honduras.  I am holding my breath here that Al (hubby) will still  be able to go.  The weather here has been rainy and miserable and that has put him behind on the jobs ( we have an excavating company).  I told him I had to know by this morning as I have to call in any changes to the lady we work wit on our trip planning.

When I am home today I am working on The Word Shaker on line Book Club review of The Help by Katherine Stockett.  As the responses have come in I have held off on reading them as I am still enjoying the book and will finish up with it today.This is going to be a review that you are not going to want to miss!

What book have you read lately that has been the “dont miss review” for you?

Up most the night with the Read A Thon and so not sure it really feels like morning.  🙂  The Read A Thon was a lot of fun and I had many visitors that were new who i will have to visit in the next couple of days and see their blogs as well.  I am tired…. and will probably go lay down and take fulla dvantage of the 30 minutes I can rest before I really need to be up and moving.

Thanks everyone who put work and effort into the Read A Thon… for my first one it was a blast and it fun to see how things were done.  I finished 4 books and am currently reading The Help which is where I had planned to end up.  I have receiws to write yet and a great one going live today so watch for it!

Have a great day everyone….. and g night to me for at least 30 minutes… maybe 45….

I shouldn’t be here….

We have a huge project at work today and we were all going in early to get a jump start on it.  Yet here I am with Coffee Cup, still in PJ’s trying to get through emails this morning before I go in.

So what can I share today?  Well… I think I had some interesting spam overnight.  New stuff that actually were comments that almost made sense… but didn’t make sense you know what I mean?  I had a few of them that were actual sentences but they didn’t fit the post and that is how I caught them.  They were:

“So chickens have nothing to do with financial downturn”.    (On my Featured Book Club post of the Bookies)

My thoughts:  “Uhhhh….. no.  I dont think chickens effect finances either way.  Have an egg.  relax”.

“I can remember being bored stiff until it was my turn to get behind the camera”  (On my guest post of Sold)

My Thoughts:  “Maybe you wouldnt be so bored if you had a hobby – or a pet.  Maybe a chicken”.

I don’t really get spam.  I mean, does it actually work?  All of mine go into a spam folder that I have to approve so they never actually touch my blog and they never make enough sense to fool me into thinking they are actually comments…. although these two above did have me looking at my posts and going “huh?”

Have a delightful spam free day everyone!  ♥

Ahhhh… the email.  It can be dangerous.  🙂

I am sure I have given my take on the Kindle in the past.  In fact.  I know I have.  I like a book…. I like the feel, the shape, and the smell.  I like to see them all pretty and colorful on book shelves.  I scoffed at poor Jodi in my book club who had went to a Kindle.  I would go down arguing pro books on this issue in a pile of beautiful hardcovers… but I would go down fighting.

Yup.  That’s my take.

Then in my email…. comes the nook.  What is this?  It is slim…. it actually kind of of looking…. if you go for sleek, easy to pull out in a moments notice, information at your fingertips day or night…

Its like the hot looking bad boy…

of books.

While I LOVE LOVE LOVE my reading room,  while I always know I will favor a “book book” over an e book….

I have to admit I am having visions of boarding planes without lugging 5 or 6 heavy books along.  Visions of being stuck in traffic and able to take this little baby out of my purse and read a bit without people freaking out because I am that crazy girl behind the wheel of a car reading a book… again.  I am also having visions of blow drying my hair without having to prop my book open with the squeeze bottle of hair product to hold my place….

Oh…. I think I may be crushing on the nook.

What are your thoughts on this topic?  To e read or not e read…. that is the question?