remembering…

I remember it like it was yesterday and not 11 years ago.  I’m not going to copy and paste my post from 4 years ago. Just a simple link…

Where were you 9/11/2001

Thursday 13: 13 Kindle Books read

I am a reader.  I started with the Kindle App on my phone, but then I ended up buying a regular Kindle.  Not the fire, not the touch, just the regular bottom of the line Kindle.  I’ve got over a hundred books easily on my Kindle.  Several for my son and many more for me.  This list is 13 Kindle books that I have read, all of the very good.

1. 5ive Speed – A Novel; Charley Warady
2. Boyfriend From Hell (Falling Angels Saga); E Van Lowe (I JUST finished this one last night)
3. Cupcakes, Sales, and Cocktails; Pamela DuMond
4. Escape from the World Trade Center; Leslie Haskin (A very emotional book)
5. The Good Lawyer: A Novel; Thomas Benigno
6. Hal Spacejock; Simon Haynes
7. Melvin the Dry Cleaning Zombie; PJ Jones
8. The Mill River Recluse; Darcie Chan
9. Trial Junkies (A Thriller); Robert Gregory
10. Unlucky in Death; Dan Dillard
11. The Perfect Plan; Ty Hutchinson
12. You’ve Gone to Far this Time, Sir!; Danny Bent
13. Don’t Make me Come Up There; Kristen Welch

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Wordless Wednesday: before and after

Wordless Wednesday

Oye it’s been a while…

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything.  We recently bought a new camera.  A decent one, not a P&S camera.  One that I want to learn to use.  Here are a few pictures I’ve taken.  I guess this could be a FFF photo, though it’s not Friday…

I’ve got some learning to do!

Thursday 13: Christmas playlist shuffle

I did the Christmas playlist shuffle last year.  Here it is again.  165 Christmas songs on Shuffle, song title and artist..

1. “What are you doing New Year’s Eve?”  Clay Aiken
2. “O Come, All Ye Faithful”  George Straight
3. “Little Saint Nick”  Electric Mayhem (John Denver & the Muppets)
4. “O Holy Night”  Clay Aiken
5. “Little Drummer Boy”  Bing Crosby
6. “Christmas Island”  Ella Fitzgerald
7. “Deck the Halls”  The Muppets (John Denver & the Muppets)
8. “Joy to the World” John Berry
9. “We Three Kings”  Celtic Christmas
10. “Jingle Bells”  George Straight
11. “White Christmas” Louis Armstrong
12. “I’ll be home for Christmas”  Tony Bennett
13. “Warm & Fuzzy” Billy Gilman

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Thursday 13: Jingle Bell Run

I’m running in the annual Jingle Bell run…

1. I haven’t done any running in the last two weeks.
2. I’ll be doing a whole lot of walking.
3. I’ll be happy to finish with anything less than 36 minutes.
4. This will be my third Jingle Bell Run!
5. Second year being on a team.
6. The Jingle Bell Run is for the Arthritis Foundation.
7. It a cause near and dear to me.
8. My Grandmother had it.
9. I have it and Raynaud’s Phenomenon.
10. Winter makes my hands and feet hurt.
11. In the winter (and sometimes in the summer) I nurse hot water to keep my hands warm as well as use a heated mouse.
12. I’m sure everyone knows someone personally with Arthritis.
13. Please consider a small donation. 

I’m hoping you can help me reach my fundraising goal! This year, I have three different sized stickers. Small ($5), Medium ($10) & Large ($20). Make a donation for any of these amounts, and I’ll write your name on the sticker and stick it on me for the run.
small: arm/hand or shin
medium: upper arm or thigh
large: you choose!

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Thursday 13: Cubscout campout

Friday the 21st, my son’s cub scout pack had their annual camp out. Here’s 13 things about it.

1. All four of us went to the camp site.
2. Hubby helped set up the tent (but it was easy enough that he didn’t need to)  It’s a small two person tent that my step-dad used in Alaska.
3. Hubby and daughter left shortly after the air mattress was inflated.  The full sized air mattress filled up the tent.
4. We also had sleeping bags and three other covers.
5. It got down to 39 degrees Fahrenheit overnight.
6. It was a VERY clear night. Perfect for looking at the stars.
7. Nothing like having to put on tennis shoes and grabbing a flashlight to go use the whole in the ground at 2:30 in the morning.
8. We slept in our warm sweat shirts and hats.  For a little bit of the night, I had on mittens too.
9. One of the groups next to us was howling at the moon.
10. I ate too many roasted marshmallows.  We also had Jiffy Pop!
11. My teeth felt very fuzzy after a breakfast of pancakes and sausage.
12. On our nature hike the next morning, we saw a dead deer in the woods.  The boys HAD to go look at it…
13. Saturday night I fell asleep before the kids, at 8:00 and woke up Sunday morning around 7:00.

I could go on, but we had a lot of fun.

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