After Christmas blues
I am feeling a little down today. I think I probably feel this way every year after xmas. I mean, there is all this build up.. months of anticipation over this one day. Family comes into town. Everyone indulges and laughs and has fun. Then, in one fell swoop, the day is over. Then everyone goes home. I have no family in town.. so when everyone leaves.. they really leave. No seeing them tomorrow or whatever. So it's kind of a downer. It doesn't help that it's a dang weekend and Ray has to work. So everyone left today AND Ray had to work. I guess I am just feeling sorry for myself. And I am a bit grumpy. Right now Trevor is outside with Daniel and his girlfriend (?!) and they are riding down the hill on their skateboards. Trevor attempted to be "cool" and take his helmet off but I made him put it back on. It doesn't help that Daniel doesn't wear one. I don't require helmets much of the time when he's just riding his bike up and down the street- but on a skateboard when you don't know how to ride it? Yea, helmet is required. Now Daniel is showing him how to actually stand on the board.
I've done a bit of tidying up today, done some laundry. I've found a temporary spot for the new toys. For a while it looked like a toy store threw up in our living room. Now it's not so bad.
jelazakazone posted that she read 42 books that year. It got me thinking about how many books I had read. And I thought I had read a pitiful amount. But really, I don't think I have. Now, a big amount of the books I read this year were YA fiction- either for my own pleasure or to the kids. I did read the entire Warriors series with the exception of the final two books, which I just put on hold at the library. So that's 14 books just right there. I also read two Dave Sedaris books. A Montessori book- The Secret of Childhood. I read a Dickens book for school- maybe Hard Times? I know I must have read at least one more for school, as well as shorter works. I read Swiss Family Robinson, The Witch Family, Ginger Pye, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, the entire Spiderwick Chronicles and the Wind in the Willows to the kids. I know I have read them more, but I can't remember off the top of my head. That's just what I have read since mid summer to now. I can't remember what I read before then. I think I will keep track of my reading this year.. both for my benefit and my childrens- so I will remember what I have read them. Can I keep track of it online in some online database thing? I know I have read more adult books than I remember- I know my mom loaned me a great book which I devoured, but I can't remember what it was called now. heh. This year I know I will read lots of American Lit 1 and 2. I also plan on reading the Sookie Stackhouse books since I like True Blood so much. I would like to finish Greenlanders, too. Maybe I will go buy books today. I'm depressed, I feel like spending money.
I've done a bit of tidying up today, done some laundry. I've found a temporary spot for the new toys. For a while it looked like a toy store threw up in our living room. Now it's not so bad.
jelazakazone posted that she read 42 books that year. It got me thinking about how many books I had read. And I thought I had read a pitiful amount. But really, I don't think I have. Now, a big amount of the books I read this year were YA fiction- either for my own pleasure or to the kids. I did read the entire Warriors series with the exception of the final two books, which I just put on hold at the library. So that's 14 books just right there. I also read two Dave Sedaris books. A Montessori book- The Secret of Childhood. I read a Dickens book for school- maybe Hard Times? I know I must have read at least one more for school, as well as shorter works. I read Swiss Family Robinson, The Witch Family, Ginger Pye, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, the entire Spiderwick Chronicles and the Wind in the Willows to the kids. I know I have read them more, but I can't remember off the top of my head. That's just what I have read since mid summer to now. I can't remember what I read before then. I think I will keep track of my reading this year.. both for my benefit and my childrens- so I will remember what I have read them. Can I keep track of it online in some online database thing? I know I have read more adult books than I remember- I know my mom loaned me a great book which I devoured, but I can't remember what it was called now. heh. This year I know I will read lots of American Lit 1 and 2. I also plan on reading the Sookie Stackhouse books since I like True Blood so much. I would like to finish Greenlanders, too. Maybe I will go buy books today. I'm depressed, I feel like spending money.