Sunset

I noticed the sunset last night right before supper, so I squelched out into the soggy front yard and took some pictures. It was just beautiful!

I can't take it!

These things had better be heading elsewhere soon because I don't know how much longer I can take finding them all over the house! I just opened my sewing box and found one clinging to a piece of paper. :(

Icky, icky, nasty little bugs!!! The only thing good is that at least they can't hop anywhere, and they're not slimy or anything. *shudder* They're just impossible to kill apart from flushing them down the toilet.

Earwigs

Ah, they like moist areas...okay, so we either get earwigs, or we keep our house horribly dry all winter. I guess I'll have to deal with the earwigs. *sigh*

"There were ninety and nine"

We sang this at church last night, and I just love it.

Here it is, but excuse the cheesy video, I couldn't find a different video or a plain mp3:

Ninety and Nine ~Andrew Peterson


Or here's the lyrics and an mp3 of just the music: There Were Ninety and Nine

More book talk

Last week...I think...(maybe the week before, but it doesn't really matter) I went to Goodwill and found three books.

Murder Must Advertise ~Dorothy Sayers
Let Me Be A Woman ~Elizabeth Elliot
The Hobbit ~Tolkien







I already have a really cool copy of The Hobbit....this one I believe (lovely green cover and case!), but this one I found was pretty nice too and a very good price so I picked it up. Colin can have it maybe, or if I want to read it but don't want to carry around the super-nice copy I can read this one.

Then on Wednesday this week I went to the used book store, Edward McKay Books and More...I hadn't been there before and it was really cool! Anyway, I found three nice hardcover classics, and two CDs that I'd been wanting for a while:









The House of the Seven Gables ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Tale of Two Cities ~Dickens, Jane Eyre ~Bronte, and Paul Simon and CCR CDs.

And finally, I used the points from using this search engine and got two $10 Barnes and Noble gift certificates and with that got myself two books and a calendar. (I always end up getting a calendar so late that I hardly see the January page...)

A nice hardcover copy of Persuasion ~Jane Austen, Commentary on Romans ~Martin Luther (that should be good!), and a Winnie-the-Pooh mini calendar, because I'm all grown-up and sophisticated like that... ;)







I also on two different Goodwill trips found myself two black skirts...one a nice tailored knee-length wool skirt (something I've been wanting for a while), and the other one a long, swishy, black skirt that's five sizes too big for me, but that I'm going to do a little alteration on to make it work. It already had an elastic waist, so it shouldn't be too hard to get it to fit...although I do need to make it shorter too. But yay for cheap skirts from Goodwill, even if they do require sewing! :D

And certainly yay for inexpensive hardcover books!!! :) *grins happily*

And I'm going to a sleepover tonight, so that should be a nice end to the week...and make up for a stressful day at work yesterday.

Books read in 2008

I've been meaning to post a list of the books I read last year, but haven't gotten around to it till now. I thought about jotting down a quick summary review of each book, but instead I just rated them 1-5, 5 being the highest. If you want to know more about what I thought of a book just ask me. :) (Keeping in mind I read some of these a year ago!) I have the feeling I left some out too...forgot to write them down.

5-I REALLY liked it!
4-Also very, very good
3-Good
2-Okay, but not necessarily worth the time
1-Wouldn't recommend it

Really the fours and fives aren't far apart...I had a hard time deciding how to rate those...I should have gone for a 1-3 rating perhaps, but I'm done now. :p

January:

Our Mutual Friend ~Charles Dickens ~5

Love, Work, Children ~Cheryl Mendelson ~1

Anything for Jane ~Cheryl Mendelson ~1

Vegetables Rock! ~Stephanie Pierson ~2

William Tyndale: The Smuggler's Flame ~Lori Rich ~4

Raising Demons ~Shirley Jackson ~5

February:

Surprised By Joy ~C. S. Lewis ~3

The Daffodil Affair ~Michael Innes ~4

Strong Women, Strong Backs ~Miriam E. Nelson, Ph.D ~3

Home to Holly Springs ~Jan Karon ~2

The Paper Thunderbolt ~Michael Innes ~4

Full Moon ~P.G. Wodehouse ~4

Summer at Tiffany ~Marjorie Hart ~3

The Heart of a Goof ~P.G. Wodehouse ~4

I Kissed Dating Goodbye ~Joshua Harris ~3

Cranford ~Elizabeth Gaskell ~4

Boy Meets Girl ~Joshua Harris ~4

Ivanhoe ~Sir Walter Scott ~5

April:

The Man from the Sea ~Michael Innes ~4

In Tune with Wedding Bells ~Grace Livingston Hill ~2

Found Treasure ~ G. L. Hill ~2

A Peaceful Retirement ~Miss Read ~3

Blue Ruin ~G. L. Hill ~2

A Light in The window ~Mary Roberts Rinehart ~4

Under a War-torn sky ~L. M. Elliott ~3

Marigold ~G. L. Hill ~2

Mary Poppins ~P.L. Travers ~2

Mary Poppins Comes back ~P.L. Travers ~2

Celebrations at Thrush Green ~Miss Read ~3

Keeping Chickens ~Jeremy Hobson & Celia Lewis ~3

The New Sonia Wayward ~Michael Innes ~4

June:
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook:Holidays ~Joshua Piven ~1

July:
Do Butlers burgle banks? ~P.G. Wodehouse ~4

More Five-Minute Mysteries ~Ken Weber ~2

The Coming of Bill ~P.G. Wodehouse ~4

New Pioneers ~Jeffrey Jacob ~5

Sweet Tea, Fried Chicken, & Lazy Dogs: reflections on North Carolina life ~Bill Thompson ~2

August:

Sarah Morris remembers ~D. E. Stevenson ~4

Still glides the stream ~D. E. Stevenson ~4

The Baker's Daughter ~D. E. Stevenson ~4

Katherine Wentworth ~D. E. Stevenson ~4

The Great Gatsby ~F. Scott Fitzgerald ~1

Mere Christianity ~C.S. Lewis ~4

September:

To Serve Them All My Days ~ R. F. Delderfield ~4

Celia's House ~D.E. Stevenson ~4

October:

Do Hard Things ~Alex & Brett Harris ~4

Emma ~Jane Austen ~5

November:

A Clergyman's Daughter ~George Orwell ~1

The House on the Cliff ~D.E. Stevenson ~4

The Alchemist ~Paulo Coelho ~2

The Citadel ~A.J. Cronin ~4

Fahrenheit 451 ~Ray Bradbury ~5

The Red Badge of Courage ~Stephen Crane ~1

December:

The Silver Chalice ~Thomas B. Costain ~5

A Lantern in Her Hand ~Bess Streeter Aldrich ~3

My Antonia ~Willa Cather ~3

1984 ~George Orwell ~4

Jane Eyre ~Charlotte Bronte ~5

I'm not sure how I somehow didn't read any books in March or May, but perhaps I wrote them down wrong. Probably...since February and April are awfully long lists. :p

What's that white stuff?

Hey, it actually snowed! Not as much as they were predicting at first, but still snow. It started snowing about 9:15 or so last night, but then it stopped so I wasn't expecting to see snow on the ground when I woke up this morning.

But we got maybe a 1/4-1/2 inch or so. :p

They started out the forecast by saying that we'd get just under an inch, and then increasing amounts further south, but they revised that to being about two inches at the southernmost point. Seems strange that there would be more snow further south...not fair! :D

And it's cold! 25 degrees. Brr...

Lazy blogging

1. What is your occupation right now?
Nanny...and homemaker in training.

2. What color are your socks right now?
Um....black w/snowflakes and penguins :p

3. What are you listening to right now?
Right now...Open Arms by Journey...thanks to Pandora radio.

4. What was the last thing that you ate?
Ham sandwich

5. Can you drive a stick shift?
Haha...you've gotta be kidding...

6. Last person you spoke to on the phone?
Um...Mom.

7. Do you like the person who sent this to you?
Well, I stole it off a blog...but sure! :D

8. How old are you today?
19

9. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV?
Baseball.

10. What is your favorite drink?
In general? Er...water? Tea?

11. Have you ever dyed your hair?
Yep, dyed it red.

12. Favorite food?
I like lots of food!

13. What is the last movie you watched?
North By Northwest

14. Favorite day of the year?
*shrug*...my birthday?

15. How do you vent anger?
Find someone to listen to me complain. hehe...

16. What was your favorite toy as a child?
Oh wow, I'm not sure....I liked my Polly Pockets...and not those kind they make now! The tiny little ones that were probably a choking hazard.

17. What is your favorite season?
Fall!!

18. Cherries or Blueberries?
Blueberries

19. Living arrangements?
With my family. :)

20. When was the last time you cried?
Ah...a month ago? 2 months? I don't know....

21. What is on the floor of your closet?
What isn't??

22. What did you do last night?
Knitted and watched TV.

23. Plain, cheese or spicy hamburger?
Cheeseburger with just mustard.

24. Favorite dog breed?
German Shepherd

25. Favorite day of the week?
Oh, Tuesday or Friday probably.

26. How many countries have you lived in?
One

27. Diamonds or pearls?
Diamonds I guess....small ones.

28. What is your favorite flower?
Pansy

Nice...

Hmm...someone apparently doesn't realize that we have a subscription to the paper. But as it is, if they're going to send us articles from it we might as well cancel the subscription!

Well, the important articles anyway:














I did go rather OCD over the way the clippings were folded and the crooked stamp....but I thought the typewritten address on the envelope was a nice touch.... :p

The fairy shoe person

Hey, that'd be awesome...to be able to just magically get shoes. :D

It's funny anyway....Neil Patrick Harris plays the shoe fairy on Sesame Street...he's wonderfully snarky...oh, except he is apparently rather fairyfied in real life...heh. :/

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