Friday, February 22, 2008

Amazingly enough I am still alive. Surprising to hear I know but it is true. I have been pretty much gone from blogging for a month now. Haven't even been stopping by to read any since the beginning of the month. Too many things have gotten in the way lately. But here's a little secret: Not all of the reasons for my disappearance are bad. Our old computer took a dump last month so we were down to one computer. Summer needed the laptop for school so I was out of a computer for awhile. Luckily we did our taxes and got a really nice return so new bought a new one. I love it! Windows Vista isn't nearly as bad as I heard it made out to be either.

I have also refound some old past times as well in the last few weeks. I have started fishing on the weekends with the boys while Summer has been at work. We haven't had much luck but we have had fun all the same. Then at the very beginning of the month I got pretty sick and bored. So I found another favorite past time of mine. Reading. I figured that I have already watched the first three movies of Harry Potter that I didn't need to start from the4 beginning. So I started at book 4 on the 3rd of the month. I finished that book and actually liked it so then I watched the movie. Then went on to the next book and movie the following week. Long story short I finished the last book last night. Did I mention that I started to read it on Tue night? That was a record for me. First off reading 4 books in less than a month, and secondly reading a book in 3 days. There was a downside to reading these books though. i have a tendency when I get into a book to REALLY get into a book. So that was what I was spending all of my waking hours doing. Reading. I was staying up till 2 or 3 in the morning reading. I would read at work instead of working. It would just consume me. I would find myself dreaming about the book but not what I had read but what I thought would happen next. The most surprising thing about reading these four books and the amount of time it took to read them was how interested I was in them. Especially since they were, in thew beginning a kids book.

Enjoy your weekend!

4 comments:

cinnamon girl said...

I was surprised at how much I got into those books.

When the last one was released I was in a non-English speaking country. I couldn't find it anywhere. It drove me mad! I had to stay away from the internet too in case I saw a spoiler.

Good to know you've been doing some enjoyable things.

Hugs to you and Summer.

for a different kind of girl said...

Glad to come here and find that you've been doing some things for yourself! Hope you'll continue to enjoy some of your renewed hobbies, but not be so much of a stranger!

Phyllis Renée said...

Hello . . . don't I know your from somewhere?

Anonymous said...

I loves me some Harry Potter! You might want to go back and read the first 3 if you ever have some extra time... they leave a LOT out of the movies!

Nice hearing from you, btw. : )