Just for fun!

For those of you out there who appreciate the work of boy bands, you will appreciate this. For anyone else, it's just a good laugh! Enjoy!

My Own Summer Reading Club

Do you remember as a kid waiting for the summer to come because then you could spend every possible spare moment, reading as many books as you could get your hands on? The last day of school was spent anxiously waiting for the bell to ring so you could bust a move outta dodge and head for the library to sign up for the summer reading club. Okay...so maybe I'm only one of a few bookworm-y kids who really looked forward to spending the summer reading. But now that I'm a bit more grown up and have spent this past year reading textbooks and having very little time to venture into a world beyond the wardrobe, I am totally taking advantage of the time I have available to read. I don't really want to set a goal for myself to 20 or 30 books but I am still very much wanting to read as much as I can in the time that I have it. I did finish a book a couple of weeks ago and that was huge accomplishment for me. I have started many a book in the last little while but didn't finish them because I couldn't keep renewing them from the library or it was just not the kind of book I could get into at the time. The story I just finished was a book I've been carrying around for years. I think I got it as a gift one year for my birthday or Christmas when I was 15 or 16. I had started it several times but just never finished it. This time, I finished it and found that it had a surprise ending. It is the first in a three book series set in an Amish community but now I want to finish the series since I own the first and third books. I doubt that they will be ones that I keep forever but I imagine I will pass them along to someone else who might need a light read.

To my fellow readers out there, keep reading! And to those who don't read so much, keep trying...eventually you'll find a book you can't put down.

Winter

The great white north truly is very white! We just another foot of snow last night to add to the other 3 feet we already had.

Needless to say, I was very glad that our scenario is one where Jeff is home more and we're able to clear out our couple of parking spots together which always makes the work go faster. But we have had quite a bit of snow over the past few weeks and we had debated on whether to invest in a small snow blower or just tough it out for another winter. We had another sizable storm earlier this week (my school was canceled because of it and my school never closes!) that dropped a good 8 inches of light, fluffy snow so clearing out the driveway was not bad and didn't take long. Last night's storm, however, dropped a foot of heavy, wet snow. It was great opportunity to find out if our investment in a snow blower was really worth it. It was a little harder to push and pull around in the heavy snow but once we got a path cleared out, it was easier going. And it made what normally would have been a 2-3 hour job much easier. The shoveling has been challenging because the snow piles are so huge, you have to throw them really high and hope that it doesn't just come back down on you and end up down your neck. I had tried to make a snowman but there really is no ideal spot to build one. I did build one earlier this year but I built it in the front of the house beside the sidewalk and the sidewalk snow blower knocked him over. We didn't take any pictures of the snow mountains in our backyard and it is currently too dark outside to get any decent pictures. I will try and get some this week and add them to this post.

Stay warm out there! It's winter!