my girl gets an outfit

I received a Kindle Touch for Christmas and since then, I've been looking for the perfect cover.  I'd recently acquired a $10 gift certificate for Amazon for doing some allergy panel discussions. So, I thought I'd hop over to the big web store in the sky to see what they had.

My girl, Kindle, needed something cute!

I found THIS!  I instantly loved it because it was a flip top cover instead of the book cover type cover.  Best of all, it's pink!!  The mail at work just came, and this arrived today!

Check out what she can do in this....

And look, she's all ready for travel!

Happy February

Found Books

• Have you ever read a random book left in a waiting room or on a park bench, etc., and did you like it?

I have never done this or can I really recall ever just "finding" a book.  One of my aunts use to live in a gated community type place that had a community room.  She said that there was an area where people could leave books and other could take them, bring them back, etc.  Sortof like their own little library.  I remember her telling me that she'd read some great ones that way. 


What about you?

clumsy me

So, last night I was at one of my gym classes when my natural ability for clumsiness took over.  On Thursday nights, I take a class that is a cardio/weights/balance and core-one stop shop type of deal.  Anyway, for our cardio, we use a step like they do in the step aerobics class.  The entire class is choreographed and this particular routine I'd done many times before so you'd think I knew what I was doing.  Well, we are in the middle of our second track and I'm in my own little world when all the sudden...wham..I'm lying on the freaking ground.  I have no idea what happened.  Did I trip over my feet, did I become tunnel visioned thinking about the Auntie Ann pretzel I was going to get afterwards and miss the step, did I twist my ankle??  Who knows???  I'm betting on the pretzel drool.

I landed on my left side and I think I reached out with my hand/arm as I was falling.  Honestly, I don't even remember the fall, just that all the sudden I was on the ground.  I was afraid I'd hurt my ankle initially but after I assured everyone I was fine and got up, I felt just fine.  My thumb was a little sore but that was it.  I finished class, lifted weights, pushups, abs and went home (yes, I got my pretzel too and it was GOOD).

Later after getting home, my left hand starts to hurt a little and then my shoulder.  Fast forward to this morning and OMG, I can hardly move my arm.  I spent most of the morning at work with an ice pack on my hand.  It's beginning to feel better and I've gotten to where I can type some now.  But, wow what pain that was.  I'm such a clumsy dork.

Writing or Riveting?

What’s more important: Good writing? Or a good story?
(Of course, a book should have BOTH, but…)

Wow, I sat here for a bit before answering this one.  I initially wanted to say "good story" but the more I thought about it, someone must be a good writer in order to have a good story.   Unless the question is really meant to examine grammar vs. substance.  Then again, anyone that would have bad grammar mistakes has a really crappy editor.  So, I'm going to say "good writing" because it's the path to "good story".  You can have a really great idea but if you don't know how to tell it through writing, then it's just lost.  

What do you think?

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a little redecorating

I asked my mother-in-law if she would make me some arrangements for my mantel.  The ones I had I really liked but they had been there for several years and I wanted a fresh change. 

Here's a before picture I took around Halloween last year.

Here is an after photo (taken with my phone so pardon the quality) of the mantel with the new arrangements.

  It took some getting use to but I really love them now.  It just really freshened up the room.  I have a lime green chair the color of the pot used for the arrangements and the same color is in an area rug in the room.  It makes me long for Spring!

Skipping

This week's Booking Through Thursday

• I saw this article the other day that asked, “Are you ashamed of skipping parts of books?” Which, naturally, made me want to ask all of YOU.
  Do you skip ahead in a book? Do you feel badly about it when you do?

  You know, I have been guilty of doing this before.  One case in particular was when I read "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson.  I didn't skip for the purpose of it being boring or anything.  Instead, I skipped passages of description (or rather skimmed) because I wanted to get back to the dialogue between Bill and his friend Katz, which was hilarious.  
  
  I know I've been guilty of skipping long description passages in other books but I can't recall any others specifically.  Sometimes, you really just get the idea of the setting and it's unnecessary for the author to go on and on about it.  In my opinion...