Cold Pasta Salad Recipe

1 packet of 7 seas Italian salad dressing mix
1 packet of 7 seas garlic & herb salad dressing mix
Cooking Oil per salad dressing mix directions
Vinegar per salad dressing mix directions
Water per salad dressing mix directions
1 & 1/2 boxes of pasta (any pasta, although bite sized like bow ties, rotini, radiatore or shells work best,)
Approximately 2 cups of broccoli, cut in pieces, frozen or fresh is fine
Approximately 2 cups of carrots, cut in pieces, frozen or fresh is fine
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/2 – 1 cup Parmesan cheese
1 t of onion powder
1 t salt
1/2 t pepper
(these last 3, the measurements are approximate.)
mix 1 of the Seven Seas dressing packets, following package directions but increasing by half the oil, vinegar & water & stir or shake up, then add the second packet of dressing mix into the dressing & shake/stir again. (It’s tastier if you do this part a day or 2 before making the salad)
cook the pasta, broccoli & carrots,
cool pasta & veggies & mix well
pour dressing on pasta/veggie mix & stir well.
Add the onion powder, salt & pepper, (those measurements are a guess, I just add until it tastes right & for it to taste right, it needs to be just a little stronger in taste than you would normally want it to taste)
Stir in the mayonnaise & the grated Parmesan cheese (I use a lot of cheese, probably closer to a whole cup)
Chill in the refrigerator until you’re ready to serve, for best results, make the day/night before you want to eat/serve it.

Year in Review 2018

1. What did you do in 2018 that you’d never done before?
Not really anything
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn’t make any resolutions last year, I’m hoping to try to get up & move around more again this coming year.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?:
Not this year
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No
5. What countries did you visit?
I did not leave the country yet again, I did leave the state to go to NC to buy a car.
6. What would you like to have in 2019 that you lacked in 2018?
As always, more money.
7. What dates from 2018 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
None really, it was a pretty quiet year.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Nothing really
9. What was your biggest failure?
I didn’t lose much of any weight
10. What was the best thing you bought?
My 2000 VW Beetle (Purple)
11. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I’m proud of all my kids.
12. Whose behavior made you appalled and disgusted?
Trump, the republican enablers in congress & the senate, white supremacists
13. What song will always remind you of 2018?
Nothing comes to mind.
14. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Sleep or have more money.
15. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Eating
16. Did you fall in love in 2018?
No.
17. What was your favorite TV program?
Outlander again.
18. What was the best book you read?
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker.
19. What one thing would have made your year measurably more satisfying?
Not to sound like a broken record, but more cash would have made everything a lot easier, simpler & far more satisfying.
20. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2018?
This place right here again. They’re awesome
21. What kept you sane?
Who said I’m sane?
22. Who did you miss?
My mother, only a little though
23. Who was the best new person you met?
I don’t think I met anyone new.
24. Tell us a valuable lesson you learned in 2018?
Don’t talk to Cameron after he gets home from work.
25. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Nothing comes to mind yet again.

Books Read 2018

1. The Walking Dead Compendium Vol. 1 by Robert Kirkman
2. The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
3. Uprooted by Naomi Novick
4. The Alienist by Caleb Carr
5. The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston
6. The Last Days of Magic by Mark Tompkins
7. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
8. U.S. Blues by Ed Watts
9. Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream by David McGowan
10. Might as Well by Dean Budnick
11. A Sorrow in Our Heart, the Life of Techumseh by Allan W. Eckert
12. The Return of the Witch by Paula Brackston
13. The house with a clock in its walls by John Bellaris
14. Vintage Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball

 

Book List 2017

1. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2. Fireman by Joe Hill
3. North of Normal by Cea Sunrise Person
4. Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
5. The Ghosts by Antonia Barber
6. The School on Hearts Content Road by Carolyn Chute
7. Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves by Carolyn Chute

2017 Year in Review

1. What did you do in 2017 that you’d never done before?
Researched & implemented (still doing so, actually) a new electronic health record for my job.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn’t make any resolutions last year, I’m hoping to try to get up & move around more this coming year.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My middle daughter, Valerie gave birth to a son in July of 2017
4. Did anyone close to you die?
My mother passed away at the end of May, we weren’t especially close (not physically or emotionally) but it has definitely affected me over the past year more in things about my history etc. which I want clarity on & I can’t ask her (just silly trivia like what was my kindergarten teacher’s last name? (I went to a hippie school, her first name was Sally, which is what we called her)
5. What countries did you visit?
I did not leave the country yet again, I did leave the state 2 times though, in May when my uncle called me to let me know that my mother’s condition was serious & that if I was going to see her again, I should go do so, we picked up & went to Mass mother’s day weekend & had a good visit with her. Then she passed on 5/29 & we went back the third week in June (she had already made a plan to be cremated so there was no hurry) for her funeral & to clean out her apartment.
6. What would you like to have in 2018 that you lacked in 2017?
As always, more money.
7. What dates from 2017 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
There were a lot.  Seeing my Mother in May, her funeral & seeing all my family, the day after her funeral when the kids & I went to the beach & my cousin joined us. My youngest child’s graduation from High School
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
As mentioned above, my youngest, Cameron, graduated from High school in May, which while it was his accomplishment truly, I am proud that all 3 of my kids graduated from high school & are happy, healthy & not (at least that I know of) on meth, pills etc.
9. What was your biggest failure?
I had hoped to have the electronic health record at work all set, implemented & up & running without the old system still in use by or before Thanksgiving, as it is, we go live on January 2nd. The news that our current system was sunsetting was coincidental with the news of my mother’s death, so I got a later start than would have been preferable to me due to not being at work for awhile while we buried my mother & packed up her apartment etc.
10. What was the best thing you bought?
I’m not 100% sure I bought anything terribly wonderful. I inherited a lot of wonderful things, I also was able to save via a Christmas club so that Christmas wasn’t a complete bankrupt as it often has been in the past.
11. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Cameron for his graduation from high school
12. Whose behavior made you appalled and disgusted?
Trump, his cronies, white supremacists
13. What song will always remind you of 2017?
Stressed out by 21 Pilots
14. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Sleep or have more money.
15. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Eating
16. Did you fall in love in 2017?
No.
17. What was your favorite TV program?
Outlander again, although I really enjoyed a lot of shows this year, Timeless, American Gods, Designated Survivor (I’ll gladly go on record here as wishing Keifer Sutherland was our president instead of the cheeto overlord)
18. What was the best book you read?
My favorite thing I read this year wasn’t a book, my mother had all of my grandmother’s historical/genealogical information including a book of memories which my grandmother’s cousin collected from all of their cousins about their parents & grandparents. Many of the stories I recalled from when they were collecting the stories (during a couple of family reunions which I helped my grandmother put on) but it was so exciting to see them written down & archived like they were.
19. What one thing would have made your year measurably more satisfying?
I wish my financial situation had been such that I could have stayed in Mass with my mother until she passed away, she was so remarkably happy to see us & sad when we left (as I said, we were not terribly close) both Lois & I wished we could have stayed & kept her company/comforted her.
20. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2017?
This place right here They’re awesome, I’ve got like 10 dresses from them so far & I just adore their clothes, so much better quality and style than the majority of the clothes I’ve purchased from other plus size sites. This place is also not just plus sizes, they’re size 0-36 how cool is that?
21. What kept you sane?
Who said I’m sane?
22. Who did you miss?
After seeing my family in June at my mother’s funeral, I’ve been missing them a lot. I wish they’d come see me though, I’ve been up there every few years for 20+ years, no one in my family has come to see me & the place I love yet.
23. Who was the best new person you met?
I met a few of my mother’s friends, none stand out as “Best” though, although I know she was close with most of them.
24. Tell us a valuable lesson you learned in 2017?
Too many to list.
25. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Again, not really any one specific quote comes to mind.

 

Book List 2016

I began the year by finishing the Outlander series then moved on, back to the present.

1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
2. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon
3. Written in My Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon
4. Dietland by Sarai Walker
5. A Year on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball
6. At Home on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball
7. Love Letters from Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball
8. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
9. Revival by Stephen King
10. 11/23/63 by Stephen King
11. World War Z by Max Brooks
12. Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls

2016 year in review

1. What did you do in 2016 that you’d never done before? 

Our office moved this year,  I was in charge of much of this.  That was a challenge. I can not say I pulled it off flawlessly & with out a hitch but it was bumpy, rough & quite unpleasant.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

I didn’t make any resolutions last year & I probably won’t do so this year either.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? 

Nope
4. Did anyone close to you die? 

No,  not this year.

5. What countries did you visit?

I never left the state

6. What would you like to have in 2017 that you lacked in 2016?

As always,  more money!

7. What dates from 2016 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

I don’t recall the exact date but I know that it was in late August that I was told the office would have to move by the new owners of the building the doctors office I work for were in.  The office had been in the same spot for 12 years the whole prospect of moving was overwhelming to say the least.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Getting the office moved without loss of life or limb.
9. What was your biggest failure?

I bought a car in April,  the engine blew up 5-6 weeks later,  I got a new engine for the car but it’s still not on the road. Then,  in August the Toyota we had died too & I had no money for a replacement vehicle,  Cam had money saved & stepped up, found & purchased another car.

10. What was the best thing you bought?

Not that car! Probably felt to make felt food which is an obsession of mine now!

11. Whose behavior merited celebration?

Cameron is still,  for a 17 year old,  very helpful,  kind & patient with me & my issues,  from our move into our new place in March to his aforementioned saving of the day with the car purchase
12. Whose behavior made you appalled and disgusted?

I am still pretty damn horrified by how many people were fooled by Trump’s BS.
13. What song will always remind you of 2016 

If I Had A Heart (Vikings theme song)
14. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Read

15. What do you wish you’d done less of?

Been sick,  I had a horrible infection during March & April

16. Did you fall in love in 2015?
Nope.
17. What was your favorite TV program?
The Outlander series on Starz.
18. What was the best book you read?

World War Z by Max Brooks

19. What one thing would have made your year measurably more satisfying?
Money again!
20. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2016? 

Comfortable and mostly teal,  green,  purple or black.

21. What kept you sane?

Crafting

22. Who did you miss?

My uncle Howie,  my cousin Jen (not dead,  just 1000 or so miles away.) & Eric still.

23. Who was the best new person you met?

No new friends,  just acquaintances,  I’m a pretty dedicated introvert.

24. Tell us a valuable lesson you learned in 2016

Too many to list.

25. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.

I don’t really have one this year.

Book List 2015

This is late and short, but whatever, at least it’s here.
After viewing season 1 of Starz’s great take on Diana Gabaldon’s awesome Outlander series I decided it was time to re-read the books. That took up pretty much the whole year & I only got a little over halfway through the series as it stands now.

1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
2. A Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
3. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
4. The Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
5. Also Began the Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon but didn’t finish it before New Years day.

2015 review

1. What did you do in 2015 that you’d never done before?
I successfully taught my 16 year old to drive a stick shift.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I resolved to wear mascara more often, that has not worked out as I have found I’m much more prone to eye infections than I used to be.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope, still not a grandmother at 47 & that’s quite all right with me!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
my favorite uncle did, he had brain cancer & my best friend’s mom, of stomach cancer.
5. What countries did you visit?
No other countries, barely even any other counties!
6. What would you like to have in 2016 that you lacked in 2015?
Again, more money
7. What dates from 2015 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Getting to see my middle daughter & playing cards against humanity with Lois’ future in laws.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
We haven’t had a single week at work where we had to wait to cash our paychecks until there was money in the bank!
9. What was your biggest failure?
I lost my house, even with the lower payments I just couldn’t swing it with my reduced hours & pay rate.
10. What was the best thing you bought?
Really nothing, just trying to make it.
11. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Cameron has been quite kind, helpful and sweet.
12. Whose behavior made you appalled and disgusted?
Congress
13. What song will always remind you of 2015
Take me to church by Hozier
14. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Reading
15. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Worrying
16. Did you fall in love in 2015?
Nope.
17. What was your favorite TV program?
The Outlander series on Starz.
18. What was the best book you read?
Diet land
19. What one thing would have made your year measurably more satisfying?
Money again!
20. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2015
Warm when it’s cold. Cool when it’s hot.
21. What kept you sane?
Who said I was sane?
22. Who did you miss?
Still Eric.
23. Who was the best new person you met?
Other than patients at work, I haven’t really met or gotten to know anyone really.
24. Tell us a valuable lesson you learned in 2015
I got nothing this year
25. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
We are all of us in the gutter, some of us are looking at the stars

Grandma Laing’s Stuffing Recipe

By “Grandma Laing” I’m speaking of my grandmother, whose maiden name was Laing’s, great grandmother. So her father’s grandmother.      For a 20 lb bird

3 cups of chopped onion approximately 1/2 inch square pieces

5, 14 oz bags of common crackers ground to penny size

3 sticks of butter

3 quarts of milk

8 eggs

1 teaspoon pepper

6 tablespoons salt

6 tablespoons bells poultry seasoning

after you chop the onions & break up the common crackers, mix together.

Put butter & milk in a pan & heat on stove to scalding hot.

Mix salt, pepper & bells seasoning together in a small bowl and sprinkle over cracker & onion mix.

Break eggs one at a time into cracker mix and stir between each eggs addition.

once milk is hot & butter melted pour in 1/2 cup increments into the cracker mix until blended.

let cool (preferably overnight)before stuffing the bird. Or cook in a casserole with the turkey, if you like turkey neck meat it is also good to pack stuffing around the turkey neck and bake them together

 

1. What did you do in 2014 that you’d never done before?
Went to Massachusetts & stayed in a hotel instead of with Family. Although of course, I had Cam, Lois & Av with me in the hotel.

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I made a sort-of resolution to start wearing earrings daily again. While working at Dish, with a headset on my head all the time I was there, earrings were painful, I spend a lot of my free time making beaded earrings & it occurred to me that I ought to wear them since I don’t have to wear a headset daily.
This year, I’m planning to try to start wearing mascara daily again. My eyelashes are so light that my eyes disappear into my face with out mascara & I’d like to not look so washed out all the time.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope, still not a grandmother at 46 & that’s quite all right with me!
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Nope, not this year.
5. What countries did you visit?
No other countries, just Massachusetts for 4 days in July
6. What would you like to have in 2015 that you lacked in 2014?
Again, more money
7. What dates from 2014 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Nothing specific, obviously going to Massachusetts for a few days with the kids was awesome, all the holidays & multiple weekends visiting Lois & Av or having them over to our house were great. Labor Day weekend we put up the huge bookshelves that were my mothers & the main reason we took the trip to Mass. in the first place.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Work is getting smoother, we haven’t had a single week where we had to wait to cash our paychecks until there was money in the bank!
There is also the fact that I refinanced my house, decreased my mortgage payment by over $130. per month.
9. What was your biggest failure?
I’m not sure that there is anything specific, I did lose some weight, but I would have liked to lose more, we’re doing ok at work financially (which is the main focus of my job) but I would still have liked for us to do better.
10. What was the best thing you bought?
Nothing specific, I still have my house. So that’s good
11. Whose behavior merited celebration?
For the first semester of his Sophomore year at school, Cameron got all A’s & B’s in 2 out of 3 marking periods!
12. Whose behavior made you appalled and disgusted?
Politicians
13. What song will always remind you of 2014
Demons by Imagine Dragons.
14. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Gotten my Earrings out there in the public to be seen/purchased
15. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Worrying
16. Did you fall in love in 2014?
Nope.
17. What was your favorite TV program?
Sons of Anarchy, or maybe the new Outlander series on Starz.
18. What was the best book you read?
Written in My Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon (Part of the Outlander series)
19. What one thing would have made your year measurably more satisfying?
Money again!
20. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2014
Warm when it’s cold. Cool when it’s hot.
21. What kept you sane?
Who said I was sane?
22. Who did you miss?
Still Eric.
23. Who was the best new person you met?
Other than patients at work, I haven’t really met or gotten to know anyone really.
24. Tell us a valuable lesson you learned in 2014
I think I knew this one before, but I’ve had to put it into practice more this year than in past years.  You can’t always tell what people are going through in their own lives which causes them to act-react the way they do & so you have to sometimes cut them some slack even when they’re rude, unprofessional or mean for no obvious reason.
25. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Don’t mean to let you down, but I am Hell-Bound.

Book List 2014

1.  A Clash of Kings, George RR Martin
2.  A Storm of Swords George RR Martin
3.  A Feast for Crows George RR Martin
4.  My Own Hearts Blood, Diana Gabaldon
5.  Nickel And Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
6.   A Dance with Dragons George RR Martin
7.  NOS4A2 Joe Hill
Wow, another year where I barely read 5 books. Admittedly though, they were all very large, thick books at least!

Seems Like Old Times

I don’t always miss blogging, but I do more lately than I have in the past few years. The past few weeks have found me at the computer for at least an entire day of the weekend (my weekends are 3 days again, but my new job is only 32 hours a week, so I get the 3 days off, but it’s paid for with lower income – especially since the new job pays about half per hour than the old one- ) The weather lately has been bad enough, at least one day out of the 4 I work, that I miss work & so make it up from home, some on the day I miss & some more on the weekend. 3 or 4 hours at a time isn’t so bad & once I’ve been sitting here that long, Pinterest or Facebook sucks out most of the rest of the day from me without my even really noticing or minding (much)
The new job is cool, medical billing & office management for a very small doctor’s office, the doctor, one physician’s assistant, a medical assistant, a receptionist, myself all work 32 hours per week & we have one part time billing specialist who comes in most weeks one or two days, but she lives down a mountain from the office so sometimes even rain will keep her home. She’s got 3 kids, all born at nearly the same intervals as my kids were but where my youngest is now 14, her oldest is 14, so she’s got to worry about day care & school schedules and so doesn’t come in or works from home quite a bit just for the convenience. I do like the new job a lot more than the old one (except for the paychecks- although they have their perks in that we get paid weekly instead of every other week at the doctor’s office- I do love money coming in every week- even if it’s small amounts!)
What is going on with me isn’t really what I had planned to blog about, it was more about how long it can take me to “gear up” to a blog post now, it used to be I wrote at least 2 or 3 paragraphs every single night before going to sleep. Nearly daily, if not daily, I’d write & save it to continue the next night. Now I’ve got drafts sitting which are 3-4 months old, I mean to finish them, but they give me more trouble, it’s like pulling teeth to get the right words out, I think it may be more that I’m choosing the words a little more carefully than before, and at least one blog post, an in memoriam for a friend who died last summer is just hard to write, I’d known him 20+ years, through many different situations and stages in both of our lives and it’s slow going to write about that. I still haven’t even decided if that’s going to be a public or a private post, because I do private stuff too, and it’s just as difficult to write those too. Even though it seems to me it should be easier, because I don’t intend anyone to ever read the private ones, unless I die of course, then heaven knows what will happen to them, or who may read them but it won’t be my problem anymore!
So I’m still thinking about writing, I’m feeling a bit more interested in it lately, I keep telling myself after over a year on this 32 hour a week schedule, I ought to be doing more than facebooking & embroidering with all this spare time I’ve got now!

2013 The Year in Review

1. What did you do in 2013 that you’d never done before?
Lots of things, most relating to my job, I’ve learned a lot “on the fly” about medical billing, finances, payroll & multiple computer programs, all of which is useful knowledge.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Well I had said I would blog again more, that didn’t happen, the healthier thing, well I certainly feel better than I did last year, but I haven’t lost any weight so in the eyes of most, I’m not any healthier
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No one specifically close to me did but through work I see a few tiny babies occasionally now, which is always fun.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
yes, a friend of 20+ years died in August, I’m ok with it but his loss has popped out at me in a lot of weird ways since then.
5. What countries did you visit?
No other countries, I did leave Virginia, but only to go to North Carolina & pick my mother up at the airport in Charlotte, then to take her back there a week later after her visit in August, (the friend who died, did so while my mother was here which made for a very weird week in general)
6. What would you like to have in 2014 that you lacked in 2013?
Money again.
7. What dates from 2013 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
August 3 when Eric died, and the next day at Lois & Av’s for a cook out, with friends & family who knew Eric, plus my mother being there, that day was especially surreal. Also the holidays were memorable this year with Lois, Av & Cam of course.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
I don’t think I really had one, maybe managing all the new challenges at the new job without losing my mind?
9. What was your biggest failure?
I do wish the job was going better, a small family practice Dr’s office is a hard business to run in this day & age.
10. What was the best thing you bought?
I like  my new smart phone better than my old one, it was free with my bonus points from U. S. Cellular though, so I didn’t exactly buy it.
11. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I’m very proud that Cameron (now 14) did the school marching and concert band all through the fall very well.
12. Whose behavior made you appalled and disgusted?
Congress and especially the congressman for my own district Morgan Griffith of VA I truly hope 2014 is the year we get rid of the do-nothing obstructionists.
13. What song will always remind you of 2013
pfffttt….. “What does the Fox Say” lol.
14. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Read, received money
15. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Take verbal abuse, wait.
16. Did you fall in love in 2013?
Nope.
17. What was your favorite TV program?
Sons of Anarchy
18. What was the best book you read?
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (also loved the second book in the series & am awaiting the third & final book this year)
19. What one thing would have made your year measurably more satisfying?
financial solvency
20. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2012
I tried to balance the teal, blue, green trend I’ve been on for a few years with a bit more purple.
21. What kept you sane?
Melatonin, at the least, no matter what chaos was going on, at home, at work, in the world around me, at least I could guarantee myself a good nights sleep every night.
22. Who did you miss?
Eric who died in August, and sort of because of his death, my father more, they were both Capricorns & when I missed my father I would often talk to Eric because he was analytical & thought about interesting, abstract concepts like my father did. Now I don’t really have anyone like that to talk to in my life (Lois’ boyfriend Av’s dad is similar, but I’m a little intimidated by him still)
23. Who was the best new person you met?
I like Cameron’s newest & closest friend’s mom pretty well. We share a Sons of Anarchy obsession so that’s something.
24. Tell us a valuable lesson you learned in 2013
Keep your friends close because you never know when you’ll see them again.
25. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫ I got nothin’

Booklist 2013

1. South of Broad by Pat Conroy

2. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

3. The Casual Vacancy by J.K Rowling

4. All Souls by Deborah Harkness

5. The Templar Salvation by Raymond Khoury

5. The Game of Thrones by George RR Martin

6. A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin

Really? 6 books is all I read this year? That is crazy, it’s mostly a by-product of not working a job with a lunch, I eat at my desk & keep working through, it I didn’t I’d be at work until 6:30 every night & that’s just too long! There’s also the embroidery obsession of course, that takes up a lot of free time I might otherwise read during.  I think I need a New Year’s Resolution to read more this year.