Tag: Morning Meanderings

Good morning!  For a while there I wasn’t sure if I would get this post up or not, but by doing things out-of-order this morning actually led to this post title so you know… all good things and all that. 🙂

I woke up a little later than usual, I usually pop awake by 6:45 – 7ish every morning but today I got up at 8.  I have been knocking out deadlines all week and started a new project yesterday that I think left me feeling a little exhausted.  I am also a combination night owl (go to bed around 11-midnight) and an early bird.

Anyhoo (sooooo easy to get off subject!), my plan was to write this post, answer emails, look at job proposals, hit my downstairs gym, clean up, and head up town by 11 am where I would complete all my tasks, be home by 1 and finish a book I am enjoying and later work on the Friends website.

In actuality it has gone something like this…

Up and started looking at emails. Responded to those I needed to and then went on to my book email (this is where it all went south)… my book email is where I communicate with authors and publishers and bloggers.  I have neglected this email for a couple of weeks now as I just have not had time to go through the requests.  For some reason this morning I was in the mood.  I not only responded to all the emails, even letting them know if the book was not a fit for me, I also wrote the questions for an author I am interviewing later this month, and looked up author websites, wondered if I should sign up for Edelweiss and then wondered if perhaps I already was signed up with Edelweiss …. and

well you know how it can be…. I got stuck in a bookish time warp.

The one funny that came out of this was I agreed to read a new YA book coming out (a sequel) and the publisher said that if I would like they would send the first book “Control” along with so I could read both books.  I agreed to both.   The publisher than responded that the books would come in separate packages as their office was currently out of CONTROL.  I found that to be funny and responded to the email,

“I had to laugh when you said your office was out of CONTROL!”

Ahhh good Friday morning humor.  SO now, this post is done and I am behind on my plan for today but that is ok.  It is Friday!  Glorious Friday and maybe I will hit the gym a little later than I had planned, but it will happen. 🙂

Have an awesome start to your weekend!  My weekend will mainly be catch up on all the projects I have going so going into next week will feel a little smoother. 🙂

Tuesday and this week is already off and running.  I spent most of yesterday at the library in meetings and setting up the new window display.  The sun was shining, it was warm out, and it was time to take down the display of red background paper that looked a little “Christmasy”.

And then this morning I woke up to this:

Yes winter is back in Central Minnesota and it is still coming down.  There is a good three inches on the ground now.

Poo.

To think that the library display window I put up over Christmas had scarves and gloves in it and the weather did not call for scarves and gloves… now the window has spring flowers in it and a springy backdrop and…

it snowed.  😯

I must have some sort of seasonal disorder.

Looking at the upside of this, I am cancelling my 1:00 pm today and instead after a coffee date with a friend I think I will read (yes read!) this afternoon.  All of my time lately has been spent on projects and websites and I just want a day of hot tea and a good book.

Really, is that too much for a girl to ask for?

Enjoy your day!

Good morning!  Sunday is here!  End of the weekend and we are on the verge of a new week and already starting a new month.

I think I mentioned last month that some would look at the big old agenda book as pretty old school when you can not put all of your appointments in to your phone but I love to see the month of what I am doing as a whole like this.  Almost like a diary. 🙂

February was a fun month.  I had a birthday.  I went to the Gatsby Party.  I ended the month by jumping in the lake.  I read 5 books, I listened to 10 audio books.

Ok on to books.  It was a good book week and here is what came in the house:

The Forgotten Girls by Sara Blaedel (audio)

The Food Babe Way by Vani Hari (audio)

The Love Song Of Miss Queenie Hennessy by Rachel Joyce (audio)

A Tough Of Stardust by Kate Alcott (audio)

The Winners Crime by Marie Rutkoski (audio)

The Cake House by Layifah Salom

The Doomsday Equation my Matt Ritchel

The World Within (a novel by Emily Bronte) by Jane Eagland

The Daddy Diaries by Joshua Braff

Pleasantville by Attica Locke

Today I am catching up on emails form the last two days and trying to get ahead on some projects so the week will be a little less tight.  Hoping this afternoon I will have at leats a couple of hours of undiluted book time. 🙂

Happy Wednesday!  Does anyone else feel like your days just fill up to the brim?  I love the diversity in all that I do but some days just thinking about the day ahead makes me have heart palpitations.

This morning I have been on the phone making last-minute arrangements to pick up donations for the Polar Plunge this coming Saturday.  I have a coffee date at 9:30, working on a project for my husband and our business, and then back home.

Home means I have two assignments to get moving on for my Freelance business.  I also need to get in my hour work out which I was going to do early this morning but being on the phone and chatting on Facebook eliminated that.

I need to find one more female author for Wine and Words to complete the 2015 line up and then I will get to work on updating the website.  The Friends of The Library email needs to go out this morning about the meeting on Monday.  I need to write invoices for work I have done.  I need to connect the Camp Bike ride to Minnesota Bike Ride sites to get the word out.

I need to buy bananas.

Tonight is the City Library Board Meeting.

I do not have to do all of this today.  I hope to do a lot of it today.

Anyhoo…. I didn’t mean to write about all of that but that is what is in my head right now. 🙂  Hopefully the rest of you have a bit of a mellower Wednesday.  It is all good 🙂

Happy Happy Sunday!

It has been another fast paced week and a good one.  I was able to have lunch with a friend, take a yoga class (my first ever!), and went to the movie The Duff yesterday afternoon.  (More on the movie later)

Books came in this week:

Dove Arising by Karen Bao (audio book)

The Lake Season by Hannan McKinnon

The Status Of All Things by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke

As Good As Dead by Elizabeth Evans

The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell

A Fireproof Home For The Bride by Amy Scheibe

SEEKER by Arwen Elys Dayton

The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson

Today I will be working on a website for camp and a bike ride event for July.  Hopefully this afternoon I will get a little much needed book time.  Seems like I have been real good lately filling up every little moment with projects.

Enjoy your Sunday!  Any fun plans?