Next book

So I hopefully start Advanced Financial Research tomorrow.  Yes, it sounds as boring to this accountant as it does to you.  But cross your fingers, that I can force add the class.

http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9805/04/see.rockcity/

"Rock City Barns: A Passing Era"  I liked this book.  It had nice pictures.  The author was right that the barns that haven't been painted in 30 years you can still see the logo on.  I like the stuff about the old tourist attractions.  I don't know if I'd like driving on all the back roads, but it sounds romantic. 

Sunday

Yes, the show is sappy, but I love to see how these people's lives are changed by a new house.  And you can tell that the design team is really moved by what these people are going through.

Went to O'Charley's tonight.  Saw Jillian a couple years ago she was one of "my freshmen" that were always in my car, group, et cetera at youth group.  But life changes and now I saw her working & about to start her senior year of high school.  Wow!! Time flies.

I finished Marty by Elisa Bialk.  It was written in 1954.  Marty is like what Nancy Drew would be as a journalist.  And she says things like "boys of that station are wont to do" or "Marty may have been a journalist but more importantly she was a woman so she did as all women do at that point in time: she passed out"  It's things that would never even be thought of now.  It's cute in an archaic way.

Below is the author's obituary.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5D91E3DF934A35750C0A966958260

Sunday morning

So it's Sunday morning and I'm trying to get odds and ends tied up before the week starts and I start a crazy 4+ months.

Last night, Robyn, Laura & Jessica came over.  We got so busy talking that we didn't watch the movie I had rented.  Oh well, and it seems everyone wants a new job - but - Me first.  Oh has anyone seen "The Prince & Me"?  It's what I rented, but I haven't heard much about it.

http://www.judykbaer.com/

I just finished reading "Be my neat-heart".  It got better after the start.  I like Christian romance novelsl, but some of the them just fall into this description I read on Amazon "So you want to read a Christian novel, but you're not a pre-school teacher dating a cop in a small town with 1 church where everyone always loves everyone"  Yes!  And this one she eventually loves the trip to the spa and does some normal things.  And the guy is really sweet most of the time.  But I'm sorry I don't think I want my wedding night to be spent watching my poodle (yuck who wants one of them) and hairless cat (ditto) eating a cottage cheese and tuna wedding cake.

It's an hour before we leave for church and my parents just got up. 

More Books

http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/kelly.html

So I like to give you a link or a picture with each entry.  This one's about the author of the book.  I told you I'd comment on books - and I finally read one for my age group or okay for an adult.  "Best Little Stories from the White House".  It's an interesting book and an easy read, but both my aunt and I found it to be long, you thougt it should be going quicker than it was.  For example it tells what the mood was like as on president left and the next moved in.  Johnson's kids left ice cream for Ford's kids, for example.  And this I just found funny.  Jackie Kennedy requested a wheel chair since she had just had a C-section prior to the tour the first lady takes in between the election and the inauguration.  Mamie Eisenhower arranged for one, but had it placed behind a curtain.  After they finish the tour, Jackie is about to collapse so she asks if they got the message about the wheelchair.  Mamie tells her yes, it was over there behind the curtian if you would have asked for it. 

Books

Picture from www.amazon.com

I like dumb stuff - sue me.

So today was the interns last day.  So I go back to doing all my work.  She was very perky, so it was nice to have a cheerful influence.  BTW, applied for a new job - pray for me.  And today I used all those useful skills from high school, I helped the 20 year-old intern sneak a picture of the 49something with an 18 year old daughter hot computer consultant.  See I did use something from high school again.

Speaking of high school, I finished reading Sweet Valley Senior Year "The It Guy".  Okay, so the whole Conner - "I might be an alcoholic" thing would mean I have to care about the whiny stoic slacker rocker.  Oh that's right - I don't care.  Really - why is Liz wasting her time with him?  And Maria "Oh no my boyfriend is now the star of the football team."  Sheesh, he could have some new pressures.  It's so all about her.  I know they are supposed to be a super-couple but she seems to think she is so superior to who in all the books has been a pretty sweet guy.  But then he falls for Melissa - please this girl could inspire several phsyciatric studies.  And I've wasted to much of your time telling you about this book so I'll end here.

Alaska where Men are Men and Women win the Iditarod

Actually, I though thoughtful was a mood choice.  I probably told some of you that once upon a time my Dad played at dog sled racing.  That and owning huskies made it exciting every March to watch the coverage of the Iditarod on Wide World of Sports.  I remember Libby Riddles, Susan Butcher and the moose attack.  Then the next year Susan came back and won.  And won and won.  Inspiring the t-shirt that is quoted in this subject.  Yesterday, she died from leukemia.  She had two young daughters.  It is a horrible disease.  But this entry is to be a tribute to a woman who inspired little girls everywhere.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003178716_butcherobit.html

 

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2D71F3DF93BA25750C0A966958260

 

Saturday

It's Saturday.  You know Saturdays are good for shopping.  Actually this week so are Thursdays and Friday.

http://www1.macys.com/index.ognc?bhcp=1

Good Sale!