I had an e-mail from Amazon.com touting several “best” lists of books for 2004. I took a little time to browse through the Editor’s top 50 for the year, and then I looked through the customer’s top 50. Of course, there were books that appeared on both lists. I was surprised to find that I had just two of the books from the lists.
I’ve culled a few of the books from both lists that interest me, to share with you.
Daily Archives: January 21, 2005
Hooray!
This week I FINALLY finished the quilt I started last January! Correction….I finally finished the quilt TOP! I was sure that I would have the top done before garden season last year, and when I didn’t, a number of things conspired to keep me from getting back to it.
Shopping No Nos!
Don’t EVER go shopping on an empty stomach!
That’s rule number one. Every woman knows better, and when we are conned into the impulse buys that the grocery store features on the end caps of the aisles, and at check out, we excuse it by saying…..”I didn’t have my breakfast, or I would have known better!”
Today is just glorious. The skies are clear, the snow on the ground is a clean, untouched white, and the sunlight glinting off that pristine snow is dazzling. With all that beauty around us, the weather forecasters are saying that we’re in for quite a snowfall in the next two days. We are right on the dividing line between an area slated to get 6-12 inches, and one that they think will get 3-6 inches. Looks like we’ll get six inches, don’t you think??
So, we’ve gone to exercise, and we’re in the car on the way home, thinking about what we might need “if we are snowed in.” For gosh sakes…..it’s just going to be six inches! What’s with the “snowed in” thoughts??
We have plenty of meat, and cheese and eggs. I have bacon and lunch meat, and all the canned goods I could possibly want. There’s both canned and dry soups for lunch. I have enough romaine for salads for about three days of hearty salads. There’s coffee and soda pop and all kinds of tea, plus a half gallon of skim milk. Why in the world were we thinking about stocking up, just in case we were snowed in?
I bought a bag of California navel oranges, because they were running a “buy one, get one free” special. With three of us eating the oranges, they should last all week. I bought yeast and bread flour for the bread machine, as well as two loaves of bread. I found a 10 for $10 sale on pork chops, and I think we’ll save those for Tuesday, when my niece and her boys come to dinner. Mother bought beef for Swiss Steak, and I got the canned tomatoes she’d need to make that meal. My real downfall was the jar of salsa and chips for my husband, and a bag of chips for me. I subscribe to the “Don’t buy it, and you won’t eat it” philosophy, and I really fell down here.
Do you suppose there is something genetic in us that makes us prepare for coming storms like this? Most of the excess purchases I can freeze and dole out over the next month, but it seemed really important that we “STOCK UP” to be prepared for this storm. Watch…..we’ll get a inch of snow, and wonder why we had to be so prepared. Maybe we should blame it on the weather guys who insist on building mountains out of molehills.