Here's a Seven on Saturday that's actually being posted on a Saturday!
1. Last night Matt and Mary went to the football game, Ellen worked, and Sean was (gasp) doing homework. So- I decided to watch a movie and rented Defiance with Daniel Craig. It told the true story of three brothers who led a resistance partisan group in the forests of Belarus during WWII. Very, very good movie.
2. I just started listening to Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth. Sooo good. Of course, I'm only on the third disc of THIRTY-TWO! (Ken - this is your audio book, by the way. Lynn said I could borrow it! Thanks!)
3. I pretty much always have a Scrabble game going with my Dad in Louisiana through the Pixie Pit. (I think it cost both of us about $15 for a year's subscription.) If I don't play at least everyday, he and Mom get worried and call me to make sure everything is ok. I can't imagine how many games we've played over the past year...I'd say we average three a week. I won today! It was close, though. :-)
4. My allergies have really been acting up this past week. I remember my grandmother (my Dad's mom) having sneezing fits when I was a little girl. My Dad started having them as he's gotten older, too. And, alas, it appears I'm going to have some similar struggles. It seems like every year the symptoms get a bit worse. This spring I really wasn't bothered, but the ragweed that's out right now is killing me! My nose is stopped up, my throat is raw, my eyes are goopy and itchy... I just feel generally like crud. Ick! Ok, enough complaining...Let's carry on.
5. Two new places I'll be visiting: A Circle of Quiet (a blogger in California/Oregon who writes about ordinary life beautifully) and The State of Things (from WUNC Public Radio).
6. Best quote of the week: "It just fell over all of the sudden and landed on top of my car." Teenage daughter on how the ping-pong table ended up on her hood. :-)
7. To Kindle or not to Kindle? What do you think? My sister says it's the best present her husband of 20+ years has ever gotten her. And now one of my best friends, a life-long book lover, is making the change too. I love the way a book feels in my hands, the way it smells, the way they look on a shelf. I just don't think I could do it....
Blessings, bloggy friends, and I hope you find some Sabbath rest tomorrow.
1. Last night Matt and Mary went to the football game, Ellen worked, and Sean was (gasp) doing homework. So- I decided to watch a movie and rented Defiance with Daniel Craig. It told the true story of three brothers who led a resistance partisan group in the forests of Belarus during WWII. Very, very good movie.
2. I just started listening to Ken Follet's The Pillars of the Earth. Sooo good. Of course, I'm only on the third disc of THIRTY-TWO! (Ken - this is your audio book, by the way. Lynn said I could borrow it! Thanks!)
3. I pretty much always have a Scrabble game going with my Dad in Louisiana through the Pixie Pit. (I think it cost both of us about $15 for a year's subscription.) If I don't play at least everyday, he and Mom get worried and call me to make sure everything is ok. I can't imagine how many games we've played over the past year...I'd say we average three a week. I won today! It was close, though. :-)
4. My allergies have really been acting up this past week. I remember my grandmother (my Dad's mom) having sneezing fits when I was a little girl. My Dad started having them as he's gotten older, too. And, alas, it appears I'm going to have some similar struggles. It seems like every year the symptoms get a bit worse. This spring I really wasn't bothered, but the ragweed that's out right now is killing me! My nose is stopped up, my throat is raw, my eyes are goopy and itchy... I just feel generally like crud. Ick! Ok, enough complaining...Let's carry on.
5. Two new places I'll be visiting: A Circle of Quiet (a blogger in California/Oregon who writes about ordinary life beautifully) and The State of Things (from WUNC Public Radio).
6. Best quote of the week: "It just fell over all of the sudden and landed on top of my car." Teenage daughter on how the ping-pong table ended up on her hood. :-)
7. To Kindle or not to Kindle? What do you think? My sister says it's the best present her husband of 20+ years has ever gotten her. And now one of my best friends, a life-long book lover, is making the change too. I love the way a book feels in my hands, the way it smells, the way they look on a shelf. I just don't think I could do it....
Blessings, bloggy friends, and I hope you find some Sabbath rest tomorrow.
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Hey B. I can SO see you in love with a kindle! It's the first thing I am going to buy once I am gainfully employeed again. Imagine....highlighting all your good words in a book and then being able to just scroll back through... or, when you travel, you can take hundreds of books instead of 10...or, creating some doodles while kindle reads to you....
just.do.it!
:-p
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