Tag: Morning Meanderings

Mmmmmm good morning all.  I hope you all survived the holiday.  We had the best one here, for the first time in 4 years both boys were home.  We hung out all day yesterday, opened gifts in the morning, watched movies, ate ham and goodies, snowmobiled and enjoyed each others company.  I have been looking forward to this for months.

And I was sick. 😦

Mmmm hmmmm.  I felt myself getting a little tingly in the morning while we opened gifts.  I only ate a little bit of the dinner  hoping it would pass. When they went snowmobiling I caught a quick nap hoping it would pass.  No such luck.  I ached, I was cold, could not get comfortable.  Our tradition is that Justin and I stay up late and watch Harry Potter movies.  By 9:30 pm and after my third bought of throwing up – I had to give up.  Justin went to hang out with friends and I went to bed.

Crap.

On the upside… I feel good today.  I am drinking tea this morning, taking it easy and not rushing back into the straight coffee just yet.  When Justin gets up we will resume out Harry Potter tradition, we are late but we are not defeated. I have today with him before he will leave to go back to Mankato tomorrow morning. 🙂

We did (sickness aside) have a beautiful Christmas.  Justin is starting a fund for his move to Oregon after he graduates in May so we got him a piggy bank that keeps track of how much is in it and gave him a bit of a start to his savings.  Brad received a nice gift card to Walmart and they both received the usual things we get them – socks, Axe kits (deodorant, shampoo, body wash, spray all in a kit), Brad received a t-shirt of Breaking Bad and Justin a book as he is my reader buddy. 🙂

Al received a nice hoodie, gloves, new jeans, t-shirt and Justin gave us a nice gift certificate to Olive Garden and Brad gave us surround sound for our TV and hooked it up for us. 

I received an awesome candle, chocolates, a cool sign that spell out in large Scrabble letters R E A D and my hubby gave me a gift certificate to have an automatic starter put in my new vehicle so I can start it while I am still in my office at work on these cold winter days.  And of course, The Monster Series runs which the first one is next Wednesday.

This morning the house is quiet.  I am going to read a few blogs and listen to a little audio before things take off here.  Enjoy your Thursday everyone. 🙂  Next up…. New Years!

Sunday is here.  How ya’ all doing? 

Time:  8:15 am (funny that is exactly the same time I wrote this last week)

Place:  The recliner again… its cozy.

Eating/Drinking:  Just hazelnut coffee so far this morning

Reading:  Pffff.  Books?  Haven’t really had time to pick up a book this week.

Listening to:  Out of the three I had going last week, I am still listening to Parkland but will finish that one soon.  I just finished up Me Before You yesterday and now need to download another audio today from audible…. suggestions?

Blogging – staying steady. I am catching up on the reviews I had not written, and have been consistent on the Morning Meanderings

Happenings…. I listed about ten items on a couple local Facebook “garage sale” type sites and caused a bit of a feeding frenzy over a couple of them last night…. now I have a bit of anxiety as I need to connect with people now to either have the items picked up or meet up with them somewhere to complete the transaction.  A couple of them have questions on items that I need to answer this morning yet.

Anticipating:  Christmas.  I am really looking forward to the boys being here and just hanging out with them.

Hating:  I feel behind and I don’t like that.  Today I need to finish up shopping for Christmas (food included) because the next two days I am working pretty much 12 hour shifts to have the rest of the week off from Wednesday on (also causing me anxiety)

Loving:  That I did make a dent yesterday – gifts are wrapped, tree is up.  I am making progress. 🙂

Ok as I wrap up here after about 15 minutes of distractedness  between Audible.com and Facebook I  (its easy to get sucked into the time suck that is Facebook!)have downloaded Tell The Wolves I Am Home which I am pretty excited about.  Let the Listening begin!

Good morning everyone!  Midway through the week already!  I don’t know if I should be thrilled or panicked!  😀  Next week we as a staff have made the decision to put all of our hours and efforts into Monday and Tuesday and then we are going to close the office the rest of the week, probably working close to 12 hours each of those two days.  That means, I need to be ready for Christmas by Sunday night.  EEP!

Recently I had written a post about helping out with the Christmas decorating at our Local Library.  As a Friend of The Brainerd Public Library, we have our own decorations and we set up trees and lights, and wreaths and jazzed the place up the first part of December.  Someone at that time had commented that they did not know the friends did that – and while I am sure all Libraries are not the same, and all friends groups do not function the same… I wanted to put a plug in for joining. 😀

As books, (probably obviously…)are a big part of my life – I naturally wanted to be involved in my local Library.  When I signed up as a friend I really did not know what they did.  Two years later – I am still learning. 😀

The Friends Groups are a group that supports the library through fundraising efforts and we assist the library with purchases an needs that are not necessarily covered by the libraries budget.  As Dawn in our Friends group put it, we are the icing on the cake.  Our money raised goes for the little extras – our group personally helps with movie licensing so movies can be checked out at the library, we purchase additional copies of best-selling books (if you are from the area – when you walk in the library and see that white stand to the right that is our contribution of best sellers and these books and audio do not go on the wait list – if you are lucky and pop in at the right time you may find that coveted book!).  We assist in bringing authors in to the library (during June we bring in a Minnesota author each Monday), we assist in reading programs for children, the holiday open house and so much more.  We have two used book sales a year, and this past year added the Wine and Words event that was soooo fun we plan to do it yearly (mark your calendars – August 22, 2014).  This year we also have been working with a group of Teenagers to try to get books in their lives and create venues from their perspectives to make the teen area of our library something incredible.

My point in sharing this today is that I encourage you – Lover Of Books ( I say this in my best Narnia “Daughters Of Eve” voice) to inquire at your library about a friends group.  There is a yearly fee – ours is $5.  This goes directly into supporting our library and gives you the keys to the adventures of the Friends.  I can’t speak for all friends groups but I have seen some pretty amazing ones out there and have to say ours I believe is pretty awesome as well.

There it is.  My friends plug. 😀  Have a super day – I have a full one!  If you have any questions about Friends groups please ask – if I dont know the answer I will try hard to find out!  If you are a Friend of your library, I would love to hear about the things that you do!

Happy Tuesday ya’ all!  The fact that you are reading this means that we all survived Monday!  WOO HOO!

I had to share this morning that my KOBO win from Alison’s contest she had has arrived.  I am super excited to give it a try and am downloading the information now as I type to activate this baby!  😀

I love the size of it.  It looks to be about 7 inches tall and 5 inches wide.  A great size to slip in my purse!  I already ordered a little case for it to protect it. 

In other news I have been a baking fool…. I have made so many batches of caramels that they are everywhere…. and tonight I plan to make 3 double batches more.  Tomorrow is our office staff party and along with a suet holder and homemade suet for the birds (thanks Leslie for that recipe!) that is my gift of the year.  I have another gathering Friday morning, and a few gifts to drop off Friday afternoon as well as a Christmas Party Friday night.  *whew*  Tis the season…

Anyhoo… next question is.. what to download first on that KOBO?   

Ok… must get ready for work!  Have an awesome day everyone!