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My Little To-Read List

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For the past week or so, I’ve found myself struggling to get my reading in. Certainly not because of the books I’m reading, but because work and personal stuff continue to stretch me into a thin, cardboard version of myself. Sort of reminds me of Flat Stanley except that a bulletin board fell on him. That did not happen to me (thank goodness). You get the idea though.

So to keep it all straight.. here is my immediate “to-read” list:

1. The Terror by Dan Simmons (reading this now but it is 700+ pages.. will take awhile)

2. The Bone People by Keri Hulme (for my Feb book club meeting, on order from the library but not here yet!)

3. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad (For a One Book, One City discussion, on order but not here yet!)

4. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (I don’t even have it yet, but plan to buy it this weekend)

Ahhh. I feel better now. Somehow putting it down in writing makes it all better.

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Awww..To Be Young Again

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This is my daughter. All she cares about when she wakes up is what’s for breakfast, the weather (so she can decide on an outfit) and whether to wear her hair up, or down. These are the musings of a 4 year-old.

When I wake up, my musings are a bit different but probably not unlike yours (humor me). When I wake up, I immediately think about when I can go to bed again. Oh yeah, and there is all that other stuff in between like what’s for dinner, or what will the homework be today? Oh and of course I cannot forget the big question. What’s for lunch?

Where I work, lunch is time to socialize so we rarely eat in. The morning begins with a flurry of emails. Where will we go? Who is going? Who is driving? That sort of stuff. Today I am hitting the gym on my lunch break so I am not joining the lunch time festivities.

In addition to all this, I often think about my to-do list:

  1. Pay orthodontist
  2. Donate items to “last day of school” party
  3. Get gifts for the teachers (my daughter has 6 preschool teachers and my son has 3)
  4. Sign-up for swim lessons
  5. Plant tomatoes
  6. Finish reading Prodigal Summer
  7. Finish listening to Thunderstruck
  8. Pick-up prescriptions
  9. Make 11 STAR props for community theatre
  10. Laundry, laundry, more laundry

Of course..this is just a drop in the bucket. I can’t seem to remember any other items at the moment. I am going to try a knock a few of those off right now.