Tag: Morning Meanderings

Good morning!  Wow, I have been up since 6:30, filled the stove, completed some laundry, cleaned the kitchen and have listened to some audio.  Later I have some more house cleaning to do, a few errands to run and then later afternoon I am looking forward to a little quiet reading time.

Tomorrow… is another story.  I am signed up for the Permit To Carry Class.  This is a gun training class that has been on my bucket list for a few years now.  As much as I do not want to spend 8 hours in a class on a Saturday (my FAVORITE day of the week!), this is something I want to complete…. so there it is.

A friend of mine is coming over later today to let me use her gun for practice today and for the class tomorrow.  All of this cracks me up a bit because it even seems funny to me that I am doing this, but the bottom line is I want to know how to handle a gun, and the best way to do that is to go through the proper training. 

Anyhoo…. that’s whats happening here.  😀   I have a post or two I want to write and am going to work on that now before I get busy on this house. 

Hope your weekend is going to be AWESOME.  What are your plans?

Good morning!  Thursday already…. honestly I don’t know where the week went.  I have had something going on every night this week and it seems like I have run from the house in the morning, to home in the late afternoon, to errands, to evening commitments, to home in the later evening….

only to do it all again the next day.

Tonight though is a free space and I am looking forward to it!  I am once again in need of an unwind day and this should be it. 😀

On Monday I went in for a little trim on my hair.  It was a little longer than shoulder length and I told my stylist who has cut my hair forever (seriously…. I think it has been like 14 years!) that I was feeling radical and I needed a change.  I gave her free rein to do as she will…

and she did:

Mmmmm hmmmmm.  When she took that first cut of more than the “radical” one inch I was thinking, I thought… “Ok, let’s do this.”  So yes, currently my hair is a bit shorter than I wanted but my hair grows fast and in about 5 weeks I should be happy. 😀

I don’t hate it.  It’s just really REALLY short. 

Really short.

Really.

Around here in books I am making progress on Forgotten Road.  In audio One Second After has made me cry twice and really think about how much we (yes, you too!) rely on electricity to do life.  In my car I am listening to Mad River by John Sanford and holy smokes Kathy, you were right.. good… but wow. 

So that’s my update.  What are you reading/listening to today?

Wait!  Don’t go!  It’s me, Sheila!  There just have been a few ummmmm… changes around here this weekend.  Truly it was unintentional.

Here is what happened.

My old template had only certain colors you could use with it.  While I loved the layout, I didn’t LOVE the colors.  On Sunday evening I decided to pay for the upgrade that would allow me to make the colors what I wanted, plus keep Book Journey ad free for a year (always a plus!).  BUT (and I really don’t like that word), once I put in the upgrade not only did some of my color changes not happen when I put them in the template, my blog was tweaked, no longer centered in the page and honestly – flat-out annoying.  I thought maybe it needed time to change (I don’t know why, I am from Brainerd, I think things take time) so I logged out and thought maybe in the morning all would be lovely.  Like magic.

Nope.

SO I changed out the whole template, went with a different color theme then I have ever used before and well, here we are.  I actually – really like it.  I like the sidebar links and I love the quote marks.  I love the little Facebook and Twitter links tucked into the header.  AND speaking on the header, I love that too.. crisper, cleaner, dare I say more sophisticated?  😯

And here we are… a new day, a new look, but I tossed my face (that sounds funny!) up there in the right side bar so hopefully you know it is still me, just a fresh paint job.

Good morning!  😀

Who’s up?  Who’s shopping?  Who’s sleeping?  Who can’t move off the couch or recliner?  😀

My son and I did the Thursday evening shopping thing but with a bunch of snow that was dumped on us yesterday it was cold and windy and wet and we decided we were not going to wait in lines and freeze for a good deal.  We didn’t really care if we got the items that were on out list or not as there was no “MUST HAVE!” item this year on our lists.

A friend of mine got to Wal-Mart at 5 pm and waited for the sales.  We walked in at 5 to 8 (when the sale started) and got the same sales that she did 😀 

We then went to Target and walked in after the doors had opened at 9 pm and walked right to the TV I was looking at for our cabin and the Blueray DVD player I have been considering as well.  Justin got a dvd player and we both picked up an assortment on movies.  BOOM!  😀  We were done with both stores and home by 10 pm.  😀 

We did not see any big draws to pull us back out this morning so I am enjoying a nice quiet morning with my Jasmine tea.  Justin is sleeping, Al left at 4 am to move equipment to the next job.  Later today Justin and I will go see Breaking Dawn II (yes I have already seen it… do not judge!  😛 )  This will be a beautifully quiet day and I am so glad for it. 😀

As far as new things I mentioned a week or so ago the shakes that my son has been doing and has me on now too.  So far I have been inconsistent with them as life has again been busy and I have had many food related events as of late.  This week though looks to be a better one to get started on, I will be posting an update today on what I am doing and what I know so far. 😀

I hope you all enjoy your day.  I would love to hear if you went shopping and if you did how was it and did you get what you were looking for? 😀

Good morning all and Happy Thanksgiving!  I had an unintentional drop off this week from the blogesphere which amounted to awesome company stopping by, a change in a Tuesday agenda, Wednesday shopping for today and well.. here we are.  I have posts to write and just have not done them. 

Our Thanksgivings are pretty quiet around here and that is just the way I like them.  College son will be here around 10:30 and he will help me prep food.  Hubby is so not a cooker so he has to stay out of the kitchen. 😀  We will have a big dinner, I am planning turkey and mashed cauliflower and broccoli, cottage cheese, and corn bread stuffing, and carrots, and dinner rolls, shrimp and later pumpkin pie and or pumpkin bars.

We spend out afternoon and evening traditionally watching movies and playing board games and grazing on left overs.  We may go see Breaking Dawn 2 later today as Justin has not seen it yet, or we may wait and do that tomorrow.

Tonight – yes, we are going to go see the crazies that shop the sales , which I guess by going out there makes us crazy too but it is fun and you never know what goodies you may find. 😛

BEYOND…

This weekend I have posts for you… a late Bookies Book Review one on the Language of Flowers which is fab and fun, a couple of audio books, a great discussion coming up, a movie review, and who knows what else. 

Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving everyone.  😀