The Annual PBS Great TV Auction that is!! Woo hoo!!
So I will be busy all week watching the auction, seeing what I can bid on. LOL
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Kyle's first hair cut
So the pictures are finally here!! (I know, it's about time)
It's a month old already, but here is Kyle's first hair cut. I took him to my friend's house where we spent the night. She has a cosmotology license so I have her cut both my boys hair now. It was the best for Kyle since he knows her and he felt comfortable there with her. He ate some crackers and played with a comb while she did it.
And here's the after picture (below). He wasn't happy at the end. LOL But it looks good.
It's a month old already, but here is Kyle's first hair cut. I took him to my friend's house where we spent the night. She has a cosmotology license so I have her cut both my boys hair now. It was the best for Kyle since he knows her and he felt comfortable there with her. He ate some crackers and played with a comb while she did it.
And here's the after picture (below). He wasn't happy at the end. LOL But it looks good.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Ggggrrrrr
I was finally planning on writing a blog post tonight- all about Kyle's first hair cute (which btw he got a month ago already). Unfortunately I choose the wrong night I suppose. Blogger is having issues with uploading photos. Blah.
Makes me frustrated.
So there will be new posts soon. When blogger decides to cooperate. :)
Monday, April 07, 2008
My little obsession
I have a confession. I am addicted. Seriously addicted. It started way back when I was young. I would get one, enjoy it, then another, and another. In high school I loved the way it smelled, felt, even sounded. By college the addiction multiplied. It didn't help that each class I had required at least eight of them. After the classes I kept them. Even if I didn't like the class. Now, ten years later, my obsession has seriously gotten out of control. I not only have all those from back in the day, but I have tons more. I get one, and it's not enough. I need more.
I'm seriously addicted to......books.
I have three huge five shelf bookcases downstairs FULL of books. Books of all kinds....from children's books (mine from when I was little...I'm not including Ryan's and Kyle's books), to college textbooks, to the classics (Pride and Prejudice, A Christmas Carol, etc), to poetry, to books about pregnancy and babies, to biographies, to Women's Fiction. My husband's books are down there too...which include computer/technical books, sci-fi, comic books. In fact, those bookcases aren't even enough...they are overflowing. I have piles of books on the side too. I have one whole shelf dedicated to VC Andrews from when I was into her books. I have a shelf dedicated to reference books (grammer and writing books), a shelf dedicated to pregnancy and baby books (a great baby name book that I just love!), I even have my high school yearbooks on a shelf there.
I can't seem to ever get rid of any books. This past year I cleaned out the basement and there were many books I read and didn't care for, but I couldn't part with them. Why? Because I just feel it's a total shame to get rid of any books! It's hard for me to part with them. Unfortunately I had to...I was running out of room and hubby said I couldn't buy anymore if I didn't read/get rid of the ones I currently have. I got rid of the ones like some of my college textbooks (like finance and spanish) that I will never use again. And various others I read once and know I won't pick up again. But it was difficult to do.
I suppose I always had an obsession/love for books. I remember being in fifth grade and my teacher would read us a chapter of a book during the last fifteen minutes of class each day. I loved sitting there listening to her read. In fact, she was the teacher I credit my love of English to.
In high school I had more of an obsessin for writing rather than books. I still read, but because we had to read quite a bit in classes, I mainly wrote as opposed to read.
In college I also didn't read much outside of class. I majored in English and didn't have time to read outside of class! Each English class usually had at least eight books per semester. If I took more than one English class a semester (which is not really recommended btw), then I would be reading about 16-20 books a semester...and that's not including the textbooks from the other classes. I was in my room or the library a lot! Most people would probably be turned off by that, but honestly, I was in my element. I loved all of it. The poetry, the drama, the American Lit, the British Lit, Eastern Lit, even Shakespeare. (I really didn't like Chaucer though). It was also the way the professors taught too....they deeply cared for the works they were teaching. It was awesome to see that passion in the way it was presented.
And of course, I graduated with a BA in English Lit.
After college I stopped reading for a while. I think I was burnt out from all the reading! Plus, I had a job and had a social life and wedding to plan. But my books always went with me wherever I went. They traveled with me when I moved in with Bob when we got married, the moved with me when we spent a year and a half in Omaha, NE. They moved back with me to Wisconsin. They made each trip with me.
The last five years or so I have been back into books (and writing). When Ryan was little I would read to him every night before bed. I wanted him to love books just as much as I do. I want him to realize how amazing reading is. He loved it until he was about four and discovered TV is so much cooler. He won't read books before bed now, but he does pick out a book once in a while and look at it. I also make a point to read in front of him. I tell him mommy is going to read now. Many times he'll pick up a book and sit down next to me and read. Well, tell a story through the pictures anyway since he can't read yet. I hope someday he will become a lover of books too.
I love going to Goodwill, or rummage sales, or book sales, and picking up books for cheap. It's really inexpensive, and I've already found some really good ones there. I found the hardcover of Jodi Picoult's Tenth circle there. Rummage sales are awesome to find new and old books.
And there is no way I can go to a book store such as Barnes & Noble. I haven't been there in years. Every time I go there, I cannot walk out of there without at least one book in my hand. I could spend literally all day in that store.
I would love to go to the library one day. However, I have to wait until my kids are a bit older. Ryan is old enough now that I can take him...but he's a very loud and rambuncious child....he talks constantly, so he wouldn't be quiet enough to take him. LOL And Kyle...well, he's quite young yet. He loves to tear pages out of books! LOL
I will never understand the whole concept of ebooks. Yes, it's good that people want to read and can get it that way. However, for a book lover, it doesn't make sense to me. I love the feel of books, the texture, the sound the pages make when you turn them, the smell, seeing the words in print. It's so much warmer and homey. Reading on a computer screen can seem cold. I honestly hope that ebooks will never take the place of real books.
So now you know my true obsession. Now, I'm off to attempt to work on reading one of my bazillion books I have!
I'm seriously addicted to......books.
I have three huge five shelf bookcases downstairs FULL of books. Books of all kinds....from children's books (mine from when I was little...I'm not including Ryan's and Kyle's books), to college textbooks, to the classics (Pride and Prejudice, A Christmas Carol, etc), to poetry, to books about pregnancy and babies, to biographies, to Women's Fiction. My husband's books are down there too...which include computer/technical books, sci-fi, comic books. In fact, those bookcases aren't even enough...they are overflowing. I have piles of books on the side too. I have one whole shelf dedicated to VC Andrews from when I was into her books. I have a shelf dedicated to reference books (grammer and writing books), a shelf dedicated to pregnancy and baby books (a great baby name book that I just love!), I even have my high school yearbooks on a shelf there.
I can't seem to ever get rid of any books. This past year I cleaned out the basement and there were many books I read and didn't care for, but I couldn't part with them. Why? Because I just feel it's a total shame to get rid of any books! It's hard for me to part with them. Unfortunately I had to...I was running out of room and hubby said I couldn't buy anymore if I didn't read/get rid of the ones I currently have. I got rid of the ones like some of my college textbooks (like finance and spanish) that I will never use again. And various others I read once and know I won't pick up again. But it was difficult to do.
I suppose I always had an obsession/love for books. I remember being in fifth grade and my teacher would read us a chapter of a book during the last fifteen minutes of class each day. I loved sitting there listening to her read. In fact, she was the teacher I credit my love of English to.
In high school I had more of an obsessin for writing rather than books. I still read, but because we had to read quite a bit in classes, I mainly wrote as opposed to read.
In college I also didn't read much outside of class. I majored in English and didn't have time to read outside of class! Each English class usually had at least eight books per semester. If I took more than one English class a semester (which is not really recommended btw), then I would be reading about 16-20 books a semester...and that's not including the textbooks from the other classes. I was in my room or the library a lot! Most people would probably be turned off by that, but honestly, I was in my element. I loved all of it. The poetry, the drama, the American Lit, the British Lit, Eastern Lit, even Shakespeare. (I really didn't like Chaucer though). It was also the way the professors taught too....they deeply cared for the works they were teaching. It was awesome to see that passion in the way it was presented.
And of course, I graduated with a BA in English Lit.
After college I stopped reading for a while. I think I was burnt out from all the reading! Plus, I had a job and had a social life and wedding to plan. But my books always went with me wherever I went. They traveled with me when I moved in with Bob when we got married, the moved with me when we spent a year and a half in Omaha, NE. They moved back with me to Wisconsin. They made each trip with me.
The last five years or so I have been back into books (and writing). When Ryan was little I would read to him every night before bed. I wanted him to love books just as much as I do. I want him to realize how amazing reading is. He loved it until he was about four and discovered TV is so much cooler. He won't read books before bed now, but he does pick out a book once in a while and look at it. I also make a point to read in front of him. I tell him mommy is going to read now. Many times he'll pick up a book and sit down next to me and read. Well, tell a story through the pictures anyway since he can't read yet. I hope someday he will become a lover of books too.
I love going to Goodwill, or rummage sales, or book sales, and picking up books for cheap. It's really inexpensive, and I've already found some really good ones there. I found the hardcover of Jodi Picoult's Tenth circle there. Rummage sales are awesome to find new and old books.
And there is no way I can go to a book store such as Barnes & Noble. I haven't been there in years. Every time I go there, I cannot walk out of there without at least one book in my hand. I could spend literally all day in that store.
I would love to go to the library one day. However, I have to wait until my kids are a bit older. Ryan is old enough now that I can take him...but he's a very loud and rambuncious child....he talks constantly, so he wouldn't be quiet enough to take him. LOL And Kyle...well, he's quite young yet. He loves to tear pages out of books! LOL
I will never understand the whole concept of ebooks. Yes, it's good that people want to read and can get it that way. However, for a book lover, it doesn't make sense to me. I love the feel of books, the texture, the sound the pages make when you turn them, the smell, seeing the words in print. It's so much warmer and homey. Reading on a computer screen can seem cold. I honestly hope that ebooks will never take the place of real books.
So now you know my true obsession. Now, I'm off to attempt to work on reading one of my bazillion books I have!
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