overslept

Overslept this morning! Yikes! Busy day ahead...the book reviews will have to wait!!

Happy Tuesday :)

monday, ugh part II

The sirens started at about 10:30 last night and lasted until close to 11:00. Ugh. The storm blew through in about 20 minutes and luckily I was able to fall back to sleep in short order after that.

Had a good weekend. I read three books...yes, three. On my Nook. I'm totally addicted to this device.

I will do short reviews on those titles tomorrow.

For today, I need a large cup of joe and the morning paper. Pronto.

Happy Monday!

the ball is rolling

Big meeting tonight for our fair town. The feasibility study conducted by the consultants hired to determine whether or not we could create our own municipal school district and leave the county wide system is now complete.

The ball is rolling.

All two hundred pages of it are available online. No, I haven't read it yet, but I did skim the table of contents. Of course the big city newspaper is having a field day with this. Lots of articles over the past week and two big ones in today's edition, front page, above the fold.

Our vet, great guy, seems to have taken this opportunity to become a force for change in our community and gather like minded folks together in hopes that if/when our town does this, it is done right. He's young, owns a business and has small children. He is a stakeholder.

I hope tonight that a lot of other stakeholders are there for this meeting and our local government gets the reassurance they need to take the opportunity and run with it.

the fae on syfy

The oldest and I watched a new series on Syfy yesterday. "Lost Girl" is about a young woman named Bo who is a succubus. Yep. She sucks souls/energy out of folks and leaves them dead, but with a big old grin on their faces.

Of course, in the first episode, Bo doesn't know exactly what she is. But things become clear pretty fast when the leaders of the Light and Dark Fae kidnap her. See, you can't be wondering around Toronto (this is a Canadian show and that is where they shoot all Canadian shows, right?) without being on one team or the other. Having a freelancing Fae just isn't allowed.

Provide Bo with a cute, scrappy human girl sidekick, a possible Fae love interest who is also a cop and some kick-butt black leather clothes and you've got a show.

The oldest and I loved it! Not great writing, not great acting, but great fun. I wondered when the TV writers would tap into the Fae for story fodder and base an entire show around them. Didn't take too long.

back at it

Off to work I go today! Short week, only three days in the office and then three days off.  Nice.

I didn't get as much reading done yesterday as I'd planned. Instead the girls and I ended up watching a few shows we had recorded on the DVR. We also got our cleaning completed and I took care of a bunch of odds and ends that I needed to handle.

Well, my morning solitude is now being cut short as the oldest is up and moving with a purpose. Seems she forgot about an assignment....hmmmm, senioritis striking a wee bit early? Or perhaps it was chocolate overload from the huge slice of cake she had for dessert last night?  I had key lime pie, it was amazing...as was the whole dinner.

Off we go! Happy Tuesday.

holiday

The kids and I are all home today for Martin Luther King Day. My office observes all federal holidays, which is a lovely bonus in my mind. Which means I'm ensured a four day weekend on a fairly regular basis. Not that my usual three day weekends are unwelcome.

Today we need to clean the house before I release them to go do as they wish. Tonight we are going out to dinner to celebrate their first semester grades...straight A's for the lot of them.

We spent some time this weekend putting together a spread sheet to compare colleges. The oldest is closer to making a decision, and if we told her she had to decide right this moment, I think she would be able to do so. By month end we should have this all figured out and begin the process of sending money to our new favorite institution of higher education!

I'm still reading the Martin book, but I'm halfway through now. Yeah! Hope to add to the page count today.

Enjoy the day!

ta da........yawn

Ta da! Yep. There it is. Thursday. My last work day of the work week. This week flew by and I now have a four day weekend ahead after my 6  hour stint today. I have some Friends work to do, newsletter edits and website tweaks. I have a book to read on my Nook. I have household duties and chores to complete. The list goes on and on.

But, first, I have a stew to throw together and get into the crockpot for dinner tonight. One thing at a time, yes, I know that. But, for some reason my brain was working all night long instead of resting and I kept waking up and finally decided at 4:30 that it was time to rise and shine.

Not sure why some nights are so restless, but last night was not restful in the least.

Oh well.....off to chop some vegetables and brown off some beef.

Happy Thursday! Enjoy your weekend and see you on Monday.