Life is a Scavenger Hunt

This week:

Every year of my childhood, we'd have this on the TV on New Year's Day while we started taking down Christmas decorations.

"Barra Barra" and "The Minstrel Boy"...still one of my favorite albums ever.

This blog is a hoot.  I dig her and her method of delivery.

I love me my Fred Meyer olive bar.  Yay for stuffed grape leaves (not my photo).

AWESOME!!!

I choked on my coffee.

 I've got mine up and running.

Brilliant idea to keep track of life and its memories.

Monkey #1 Achievement:  Managed to entertain himself without destroying anything noteworthy.

Monkey #2 Achievement:  Shared her room with her brother for a week (family visiting) without killing him.

My Achievement:  I learned to make handmade paper.

2013 in books...

In 2013, a friend of mine and I started a Facebook group called 52 Pickup with the goal of reading (you guessed it) 52 NEW (to us) books throughout the year.  I'd say I had a successful year, even with not being able to concentrate on reading for about 6 weeks after my surgery.  We've  revived the group for 2014...I'll be sure to tell you all about it.

Happy reading!

      

 Angie Sage has created something absolutely delightful!

     

I love me some Jamie Fraser

  

 I love Chuck...he's another one of my heroes.

  

 I LOVE Greek mythology...this guy is my new hero!

  

 These were so much fun I had to read them twice.

 

 I discovered the books after seeing the movie...SO much fun.

  

I love the mythology of vampires...this is a new and different take. No sparkles.

 

I'm loving my dystopian fiction this year...

   

I love these books...never quite know what to expect.

   

I started with an audiobook...interesting series. I kinda stalled out though.

Yup...I went there.

Brilliant, funny, insightful, and helpful.

I fell in love with Middle Earth after watching LOTR...I visit often.

I listened to this while going to the gym...and loved it.

 

We've all wondered what it would be like to never suffer emotionally...here it's illegal to feel.

 

She's taken the concept of reality TV to a whole new level...and I like it.

  

I love, love, love this trilogy.

LOVED this book.

I first heard about Grace O'Malley from Robin Maxwell...this was awesome to round out the story.

Insightful and well written.

I enjoyed this...I had to remind myself the narrator had suffered a TBI when he kept going over the same things over and over again...but I loved it.

Waiting for the next one now...

 I love me some Betty White.

I listed to this as a full cast audiobook...and LOVED it! Absolutely incredible.

These books are SO much fun...waiting on the last one to come out later this year.

Even though they used adults to voice all the characters, I loved every second of it.

These aren't the vampires of Anne Rice or Twilight...I LOVE it.

I had so much fun listening to this.

I don't know how I missed this one until now...intriguing.