At the beginning of January, I started tracking the books I read at Goodreads. Curiosity, mostly, and maybe to cut down on buying duplicates. Also because everybody else was. (Yes, if I wasn’t afraid of heights and water, I’d probably jump off a bridge if all my friends did.) So according to this non-scientific, probably [...]
Surviving Christmas break
by Shannon on December 30, 2010 in Uncategorized
Barely. Barely surviving Christmas break. But the Short Kid’s love affair with my iPad is helping. When he’s muttering “stupid pigs”, at least he’s not talking to me. So…anybody get anything fun for Christmas? Or do something fun?
The currently-reading pile
by Shannon on December 29, 2010 in Uncategorized
According to my Goodreads “currently-reading” shelf, I have five books going right now. Ouch. Especially ouch given that I have almost no time to read right now. What are they? Wild Fling or a Wedding Ring?, a Harlequin Presents Extra by Mira Lyn Kelly. I actually stopped reading this a while back. I’m not sure [...]
Mystery of the blizzard pool
by Shannon on December 28, 2010 in Uncategorized
I’m a little baffled this morning. Because my teenage son has yet to shovel the “kitchen yard” off the back door (and my husband made it known in no uncertain terms mom was not to do it), I had to take Mini out into the driveway to do her morning business. Now, besides my car [...]
Snow, toys and an intoxicated kitty
by Shannon on December 27, 2010 in Cats, kids or the dog, Gadgets
So they’re calling it the Blizzard of 2010. While I’m sure that’s true for the places that don’t have fleets of DOT trucks just waiting for the first snowflake to fall, here in central NH we’ve only got 7-8 inches, which is a fairly decent amount and would have merited a snow day were we [...]








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