Summertime summertime sum-sum-summertiiiiiime
oh, and reading. Can't forget that....
So, we're about 2 weeks away from summer vacation. *sigh* Not really completely looking forward to that (not that big a surprise to those who might know that I never really looked forward to it when I was actually IN school myself...) But I am looking forward to spending the first couple of weeks visiting my hometown (Look in your atlas, in Virgina, for a little town called "Wise"--if it's not there, look for Norton. It'll be near Kentucky.) and seeing old friends while I'm there. It's weird, it's one of those tiny towns where people whose families have lived there forever all know each other's business, but if you're an outsider...maybe not so much. I went through all of high school there (5 years, 'cause at the time, they had 8th grade at the hs) and my sister started Kindergarten there, and yet, I never ever see anyone I know when I go back for a visit. Unless I plan it, that is; somehow I don't just casually accidentally run into people at the grocery store or McDonalds or where ever.
Of course, there's plenty of people I know but wouldn't necessarily recognize unless they said something. And I don't know if many people paid enough attention to me that they'd know who I was if they saw me on the street. And that's ok. Overlooked works for me--the people who love me know that I can be funny and snarky and fabulous when I want to be, and most of the others were only interested in my brain if it could benefit them, and nothing else.
So I'm looking forward to going home and seeing my little core group of friends again. I'd kind of like to do the whole "class reunion" thing sometime, but really, the only people I want to see are on my friends list, and only about maybe 4 of them actually graduated the same year I did. The rest were all a few years ahead of me, or a few years younger...
Anyway, the other great thing about summer...birthdays! Jacob (my baby) turns 6 on 30 May, just days after he graduates kindergarten. And Jessica, (my oldest) turns 11 just 29 days later (do the math. I got all my pregnancies over with in just under 5 years.) Also, Jessica shares a birthday with her Daddy.
Aaaaaand...on to the reading. Somehow, I'm just having a hard time concentrating. Even on old favorites! I find that I'm reading new books in snack-sized bites, and old favorites I'm just jumping through to find the best bits (this is both easier and harder on the eReader, oddly enough. Easier because it's much easier to bookmark bits, but harder because I have to go through the bookmarked pages and decide which ones I'm in the mood for.)
And it seems like there's a TON of books coming out over the next couple of months that I've been eagerly anticipating for a while now. But I'm being very strict with myself on how much I'm allowed to buy. And that makes it difficult--especially when many of the books are digital-only (or POD) and thus Never Not Ever going to be available at my local hide-bound library. Also 'cause many of them are very NOT mainstream which means even if they WERE traditionally printed, they *still* most likely wouldn't be in my hidebound Bible-belt local library.
*sigh*
One day, it would be nice to have a job just so I could buy all the books I want to read. Of course, then I wouldn't have time to read any of them...
So, we're about 2 weeks away from summer vacation. *sigh* Not really completely looking forward to that (not that big a surprise to those who might know that I never really looked forward to it when I was actually IN school myself...) But I am looking forward to spending the first couple of weeks visiting my hometown (Look in your atlas, in Virgina, for a little town called "Wise"--if it's not there, look for Norton. It'll be near Kentucky.) and seeing old friends while I'm there. It's weird, it's one of those tiny towns where people whose families have lived there forever all know each other's business, but if you're an outsider...maybe not so much. I went through all of high school there (5 years, 'cause at the time, they had 8th grade at the hs) and my sister started Kindergarten there, and yet, I never ever see anyone I know when I go back for a visit. Unless I plan it, that is; somehow I don't just casually accidentally run into people at the grocery store or McDonalds or where ever.
Of course, there's plenty of people I know but wouldn't necessarily recognize unless they said something. And I don't know if many people paid enough attention to me that they'd know who I was if they saw me on the street. And that's ok. Overlooked works for me--the people who love me know that I can be funny and snarky and fabulous when I want to be, and most of the others were only interested in my brain if it could benefit them, and nothing else.
So I'm looking forward to going home and seeing my little core group of friends again. I'd kind of like to do the whole "class reunion" thing sometime, but really, the only people I want to see are on my friends list, and only about maybe 4 of them actually graduated the same year I did. The rest were all a few years ahead of me, or a few years younger...
Anyway, the other great thing about summer...birthdays! Jacob (my baby) turns 6 on 30 May, just days after he graduates kindergarten. And Jessica, (my oldest) turns 11 just 29 days later (do the math. I got all my pregnancies over with in just under 5 years.) Also, Jessica shares a birthday with her Daddy.
Aaaaaand...on to the reading. Somehow, I'm just having a hard time concentrating. Even on old favorites! I find that I'm reading new books in snack-sized bites, and old favorites I'm just jumping through to find the best bits (this is both easier and harder on the eReader, oddly enough. Easier because it's much easier to bookmark bits, but harder because I have to go through the bookmarked pages and decide which ones I'm in the mood for.)
And it seems like there's a TON of books coming out over the next couple of months that I've been eagerly anticipating for a while now. But I'm being very strict with myself on how much I'm allowed to buy. And that makes it difficult--especially when many of the books are digital-only (or POD) and thus Never Not Ever going to be available at my local hide-bound library. Also 'cause many of them are very NOT mainstream which means even if they WERE traditionally printed, they *still* most likely wouldn't be in my hidebound Bible-belt local library.
*sigh*
One day, it would be nice to have a job just so I could buy all the books I want to read. Of course, then I wouldn't have time to read any of them...