A WHALE OF A READ

Finally, after a little over a year, I finished reading Moby Dick. I am so glad a group of 6 women read this book together. It lends itself to wanting to share quotes, questions and parallels with others. Beautiful read.
My blogger won't let me add any more photos till I pay up so I've got to get that worked out before catching up photo wise.

a bit behind

Last day of the Thanksgiving break.
Speaking of Thanksgiving, yesterday Sue B said I say Thanksgiving like no one else she has heard. I stress the thanks not the giving like most people.
Interesting.
I pointed out that at our current church, Elevation, the stress the Je not the sus in Jesus. Also interesting.
I got up and let the dogs out this morning then promptly went back to bed with my Bible to catch up on my reading plan.
Now I'm making coffee to enjoy while catching up on Facebook and Pinterest then start blog rolling while I get a move on cleaning the studio.
A little CBS Sunday Morning playing in the background.

Cookie Exchange RWS style!

Headed out early to the Rock Warming Society cookie baking day...
Now back home relaxing by the Hallmark movie A Carol Christmas. It's awful.
Cleaned up. Again.
Started laundry. Again.
Finally in the studio
Finished listening to Revolution by Donelly. It was ok. Dragged on for me.

Recharge

Ahh... the day after Thanksgiving. The boys are gone on a little fishing trip and I'm left to gather it all back together. Kicking it off in bed with the laptop catching up on facebook, pinterest, blog roll and relaxing for awhile.

Alrighty time to get to work.
strip the beds
put clothes away
put things back in place
start the laundry
lunch
watch Christmas Angel while cleaning the kitchen
get cookie exchange together
watch Twelve Wishes of Christmas
make tea
straighten and refill fridge
talk to mom on the phone
put the kitchen and living room back in place
do all the dishes
fix dinner
let the dogs in and out a million times
go to bed.

Favorites

The frost this morning was gorgeous. yesterday was one of those mondays when i wished i could work from home so the frost and the deer cheered me up considerably.

Fav movies
You've got Mail
Day after tomorrow
Jurassic park series
Deep blue sea
Fugitive
Pink panther
Hitch
The Holiday
Knotting hill
Mr beans holiday
Mr and mrs smith
National treasure
The rundown
Sabrina
Two weeks notice
Ask boys

Indian summer?

Is this what they call Indian Summer. November 11 and 70 degrees?

One last October pic... the pregnant lori from Walking Dead

 Love the outfit not the blurry pic or the pathetic hair lately

 Hubs makes popcorn balls

Kicked off November diet with a pepsi and a cake ball. Delicious cake ball made of animal iced cookies. 

 a house party where I made these cuties

 Marolyn's home studio makes me want to be more organized.

 and should make my husband stop complaining about the amount of space all my goodies take up

 Me and Yo outside Marolyns

 the new way to gather recipes

 Hubs the baby whisperer

 the babywhisperer jr.

 Grandma Bunch has us and the Smiths over for dinner and makes mac and cheese muffin pots. Delicious.

 Attended a funeral of a friend younger than we are. Sad but theraputic. 

 Hubs at his college baseball field.

 A student pimps my pumpkin.

 Bub's basketball season has started and that means me standing here till 6ish.

 Foreboding ... all those political naysayers beware.

 We welcome veterans.

 Some pinterest projects... 

 Last day for the football mantle. 

Random

Theory of a deadman
Iced chiffon
Fat sick and nearly dead
Bill Cunningham

Ending October

Sipping Twining's Classics Earl Gray tea
Watching Bill Cunningham a documentary and Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead
Pondering why people who aren't on Facebook always have an opinion about how no one wants to know what your eating, drinking, and watching....
I ENJOY IT!

Getting excited for the upcoming Pinterest party I've been invited to. Made a board for it and all...

Boys went fishing today, then returned the boat apparently not agreeing it was warm enough to fish.

Lunch with another coach and his wife. He complained she plays games on her computer all evening and she replied, "What else am I supposed to do? There's nothing to do."
I've never uttered those words....
clean my house, scrapbook all my pics and memorabilia, organize my books, read all my books, make more crafts, paint, sew, make more cards, make jewelry, pinterest, facebook, blog crawl...

More from the math department bow tie Tuesdays. This one hand made by Hubs.

 Lovely Lorelei at Autumn

 Sauerkraut Festival crazy crowds

 Papaw 'watching' the purchases.

 Bubs enjoying the weather

 The girls enjoying the weather

 Books by the Banks Gillian Flynn author of Gone Girl

 Eating afterward. We went for the corned beef and pickles.

 I could take this picture a thousand times!

 Grandma made us some pumpkin roll up/whoopie pies. Delicious!

 I kept taking this from the girls telling them it was a decoration not a toy... finally letting them have it.

 Moving this upstairs so as to not further horrify the child in front of his visiting friends. Yes I painted it. I am human. And not old and crockety.

 The winner of last night's festivities... Napolian Dynamite!

 Oh were you sitting here? I thought you went to the RR and so I just...

 Fine. Go ahead. Take your seat back.

Commenting on Facebook in response to Cinci Enquirer's support of a candidate.

I don't understand why a newspaper makes a stance. I look to newspapers to report unbiased news not tell me how to vote. Give me facts and editorials written by reports and citizens. Either candidate you chose you are turning the other candidate's supporters off so how is this beneficial to a newspaper?

Walking Dead

From earlier....
Trying to squeeze in season 2 of The Walking Dead before season 3 premieres Sunday on AMC. Good stuff. Strange that I like it really. Zombies, violence, world is gonna end crap. But yeah I do like it. Jeremy told me to watch it so I try to placate him at times. I thought I'd turn it on and then work on the computer or something while I kinda followed along. No. I was engrossed. Now onto the season 2!

I did catch up and then last night I dressed up as pregnant Lori for the halloween party.

Enjoyed this NPR article...

A Lively Mind: Your Brain On Jane Austen

That's why I like her so much I guess. The distractibility. 

When September ends... October!

The weather brings us inside...

 Bubs dresses as a senior citizen.. his gym teacher.

 OOTD

 the leaves are beautiful this year

 Went to visit the pups before our art class.

 The art class was at Cheers to Art and was a 50 Shades of Gray class. The painting is still under wraps so laters, baby!

 Yo painted with her lips...

 Saturday me, mom, dad, Yo, bubs, and 2 of his friends traveled to Canal Days.

 Recognize...

 what's up with teens and cameras?