One Last Day of September

Wow, okay, I guess that Fall is really here, and the first of October clinches it...No MORE SUMMER until next year. Kids are back in the school mode, parents are on their semi-alert status instead of full-alert during the lo-o-ong summer weeks when "there's nothing" to DO (except for the kitchen cleanup,bathroom patrol,laundry that never ends,yard stuff that also never ends, and let's not leave out the trash that could be taken out, as well as the grocery and supply runs that likewise never end...) it's almost time to get serious about Christmas gifts and projects. The stores are already starting to put out Christmas stuff, and it's not even Halloween MONTH yet. So where did Fall go if we're already talking WINTER???

Book Club stuff

One of the enrichment group interests in our ward is a book group. We have a few loyal members and some that attend sporadically (that looks funny, maybe it is misspelled---and so does THAT) anyway, I digress...we are trying to read and suggest "good" books. (At least none of the members who attend are like some of the ones in Kristen's old group in Roxborough, who dissed the choices of others as being inappropriate, or violent, or too physical, but we are mostly reading non-controversial books, anyway.)

This month we are reading 1776 by David McCollough, and I haven't finished it yet even though we had all summer to do the deed. The discussion is tomorrow night, and I'll get it finished sooner or later, (obviously later), and then next month we are reading Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns. Kristen has gotten her dental wives' group together to read the Kite Runner, which she swiped from me. Someday I'll get around to that too.

The problem seems to be that I can read a book just fine if it's my speed and my idea, but as soon as it gets "assigned" I seem to have a disinclination to get to it. AND maybe I would just rather read mindless twaddle from time to time...

Oh yeah, K invited me to become her "friend" on a discussion web site where people talk about books they enjoy, and it is a great reminder of all the good stuff there is to read...I just wonder how many of the contributors "censor" the list of books they read, so we look more erudite and highbrow than we really are....Last Sunday's paper had the PERFECT comic strip for what I'm talking about, although I'll never tell everything I read...

BECAUSE I SAID SO: Adventures in Grocery Shopping#links

Kristen sent me a link to an ebay ad with a hilarious story of just why the Pokemon cards were for sale. I checked out the blog of the mother of six who had listed the ad, and it is a hilarious read--I even made a comment on her blog. (mom2my6pack)

I don't know if anyone read this, or tried to get to the funny lady's blog, but it makes my computer freeze, so I disappeared the link. She gets like a bazillion hits a day to her blog, and the ether is full...so I'll try to refrain from going there myself. besides, most of the readers are saying how funny she is, blah blah, and she doesn't have time to be a regular person now that she's famous.

It is much more fun to relive the hilarity from a distance, that way I don't have to have the sometimes agony as well. Other items she talks about are the common joys of motherhood, mixed in with stuff her very NORMAL kids do. ah, memories