Tag: Morning Meanderings

Good morning!  How ya all doing this fine Tuesday?  I have been up and at the gym and home to my coffee and a quick post to you.  Tonight is our December book club meeting and Christmas party… always a good time!

This year, we decided for our gift exchange that we had to make home-made gifts.  😯  In true fashion, I have procrastinated on this until last night when I finally realized what I wanted to do was not going to happen so I went a completely different route.  Instead I made these:

I took one of our book clubs favorite reads through the years Same Sweet Girls by Cassandra King, and snowflake punched several pages.  I then put the flakes into the little Christmas bulbs here and decorated with ribbon.  Same Sweet Girls is the book that created our July Queen event… plus, we as the Bookies, really are the same sweet girls.  If time allows, I plan to try my hand later this afternoon at homemade caramels to “sweeten” the deal…. get it?  Sweeten?  😛

So hopefully none of the girls attending tonight read this post today as our gifts will be brown paper wrapped and we roll dice to see who gets what…. excited to see how it goes!

Are you in a book club?

If you are, do you do anything special for the holidays?

Good morning!  As I sit here this morning well into that first cup of coffee, still in my p.j.s, contemplating this meandering… all I can wrap my head around are deadlines.

Today I have an 800 word article due to a local magazine about my friend Connie and Camp Benedict.  I have a few details to tweak into the story so I reach my “time to go to work” moment I have a wee bit of “come on!  Get ‘er done!”

I need to get registered for the Monster Series races yet this week.  This is a series of runs that you sign up for as a group and there are some cool extras with that deal. This will be my gift for Christmas form my hubby and I am super excited about it as the Monster Series completion is on my bucket list.  Of course… I should have done this a couple weeks ago, therefore now having missed early packet pick up…. egads….  (sorry Belinda but thanks for checking for me!)

With all the “not so awesome” snow we picked up in the storm of the last couple of days… I also need to shovel decks this afternoon when I get home.

There are bookish things I could talk about… the Library Open House is this Saturday, I set the window for holiday reading last night and hope to build the book tree either this afternoon or tomorrow morning.

Ok speaking of deadlines… I must get ready for work.  Any “deadlines” hanging over your head this week?    And why do they call them deadlines? When you think about it – its a horrible name. 😀  I prefer…. opportunities for procrastination.  😉

Good morning!  Happy Wednesday!  We are half way through the week and I am looking forward to the weekend!  Last week was so busy I feel the need to get in a bit of chill time this weekend I hope. 😀

Recently I read a blog post that mentioned how book lovers like us rarely get books for Christmas as no one would dare try to guess what we have and what we don’t and what we want to read and what we do not want to read.  I apologize, I do not recall who’s blog I read this on. I do recall however, how true a statement I thought it was at the time.  Days later, I am still thinking about it.

It is true that I rarely get a book for Christmas or my birthday , or any gift giving scenarios.  And it is true for all the above reasons, people have no idea what book I would like to have.  It is the very reason why I put a wish list on this blog years ago and it remains there today so friends and family could see what I is on my coveted list. 😀

I thought today I would post some of the new items that have hit that wish list…

My new found love for all things Moriarty has brought this little gem into my radar.

Ever since I first seen this in Shelf Awareness I can not get it out of my head.

I love foodie books and memoirs of chefs.  This one looks delightful!

I adored Cinder and am looking forward to this one!

Ok, even though this cover almost seems to scream “self published!” it is not… and it is J K Rowling hiding under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, which makes me curious….

Any time a book is said to be “The next Harry Potter”, I am listening.  As of this date, the only series that has even come close IMO is The Mortal Instrument series and even that does not compare to the sheer brilliance of the HP books…. but, I am always looking. 😀

It shocks me as well that I have not read this yet after I have heard such great buzz.  Truth is, I have not picked it up yet!

When it comes to books, I could just go on and on and on, but this is a small grouping of books that are on my radar to read, but at this time do not own.  Christmas… is coming. 😀

Readers, what books would you like to see under the tree this Christmas season?  And even if you do not celebrate Christmas, what books are you hoping and wishing for?

Mmmmmmm.  Good morning.  Our area in Minnesota was doused with snow the last 24 hours.  Our first real snow of the season.  We are in a winter storm warning, supposedly 8 inches has fallen so far and they expect a total of up to 14.  😯  Coffee.  Now please.

Because of everything I just mentioned, I skipped the gym this morning and slept in a bonus hour. 

In bookish news, while reading blogs Sunday and Monday of this week I found some particular books/audio that caught my eye/ear. 😀 

Kathy at Bermuda’s Weblog caught my attention with this audio she recently listened to.

Book Riot had a great post on bookish gifts for the Holidays and this snowflake one has me thinking ….

Jo at Captured On Film posted about this book which really has me interested.  I like memoirs and Sharon has had quite the life.  

Carrie at Books and Movies posted about this one in audio.  Now this would probably not be a book I would normally pick up but the raves I have heard, and then Carries review of the audio had me download it yesterday from Audible.com.

That’s what I found in my blogesphere adventures.  In other topics of interest…. what if you forgot the last ten years of your life?  Seriously.  Take a moment and go back 10 years.  Where were you?  What was your life like then?  Now imagine that you woke up this morning and your last clear memory is from 10 years ago.  You think you are ten years younger.  You are surprised at the age of your children, your spouse, and yeah…. you.  Or what if someone who was in your life ten years ago, now was not?

Join me later today when I post the review of What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty.  (Totally….. Sqqqquuueeeee worthy).  😛

Good morning!  I am back!  I believe I am back as my post yesterday evening stated.  It feels good to want to write again.  What was that anyway?  Bloggers block?  😛

So last week I had went to the opening night of Catching Fire (woot!  woot!)  I went to the 9 pm and was home by 11:45 pm.  I came in my house and dropped my purse and keys on the table walked into our bedroom to let the dogs out and came back out into the living room.  A man in a suit was standing on our front deck tapping on the living room window.  GAH.

I went to the door and opened it a crack.  He said he was wondering if Al was available.  I for one, explained to him that it was almost midnight.  Two,my husband was home but was asleep and had been for hours.  He said he had seen the lights on in our yard.  “Yes,” I said, “I have just come home from a movie.” He said he wanted to talk to him about a judgement, apologized, and then went away.

A little shook up I went back to let the dogs in from our back deck, turned around and he was in the window again.  Now… I was really annoyed.  I went to the door again.  He said his boss would not forgive him if he did not at least drop papers off with me for Al to look at.  He had a wad of cash in his hand too and said that he was trying to pay for a judgement my husband had filed.  I took the papers, not the cash and closed the door. 

I walked into our bedroom and asked Al if he heard any of that, he had not.  I brought him up to speed.  I said it was creepy and unprofessional for someone to be knocking on our door around midnight.  Al agreed.  We own an excavating company and Al occasionally has to file judgements on those who do not pay. 

The next day Al called the guy and found out he worked for some company where they buy judgements and then they go after the people who had it against them.  Al said that this particular judgement was settled so they were out of date, and that we were not interested.  So weird.

In brighter and funner (yes yes… funner is my word!) news, while traveling round the blogs this weekend I found a few books that really caught my eye:

At Tessa’s Reading Corner, she wrote a review on The Theory Of Opposites

At Library Of Clean Reads, there were several books that caught my eye: 

The Rule Of Thre3, Landry Park, Dangerous.  All look wow!

At Busy Hands Are Happy Hands, I seen a review for a book called Julia’s Chocolates that sounded scrumptious!

If you have some time, stop by and check these out.  Have you read any of them?

Ok, I am off for now.. just home from the gym this morning and I need to get moving towards work.  Stop in later for my review of Coreyology.  It was …. 😉