Yay.

Yay!

Look what I just found.

What a nice surprise.

I should open my eyes a little wider.

I might see fun things like this a little more often.

To see where it came from click on this link.

If you don't want to click over, here is the text from "The One-Minute Writer."

One-Minute Writing of the Week: the mrs.

I choose one of the daily winning response from each week and feature it as the One-Minute Writing of the Week. This is for the week of 11/14-11/20.

One-Minute Writing of the Week:
Writer: the mrs. (Sunday's winner)

Prompt: Books. How do you treat the books that you read?

If the book I am reading is delicious, I eat it. Quickly. Late into the night, I'll be exhausted the next day, read until my eyes won't stay open anymore gulps.

If I start in and don't like it. I read a few bites and then it sits like leftovers on my dresser gathering dust.

Congratulations, the mrs.! You're welcome to put a One-Minute Writing of the Week Winner button on your blog. Click here if you'd like to snag it.

Posted by C. Beth at 6:39 PM Labels: One-Minute Writing of the Week, the mrs.

Book Report

This came in the mail after I'd finished my summer reading.

It didn't help my state of mind.

It didn't help because all this summer/early fall, I was reading young adult dystopian or apocolyptic novels.

And they made me nervous.

It all started with

and then of course, I had to read

and then I needed to know how it ended. So I read

(Images from here.)

And, just to let you know, when I read, I tend to really empathize with the characters.

I kept asking myself, "what would I do? what would I do?"

And I didn't know the answer to that question.

I was bothered at how close to our society some things in this made up world came.

I do know a very young lady who totally could be the main character.

She rocks.

I'm totally counting on her if times like these ever come around.

Then, because I hadn't stressed myself out enough in the genre (because for me, I lump the two genres together), I read two more books.

Photo from the author's blog.

The first two shown.

I am too freaked out to read the last one.

All I have to say is we all need to get prepared.

We need to have a plan for food, shelter, warmth & safety.

And this is why I freaked out & gave my friend a lecture when I saw they took their wood stove out.

They now have a new one.

I am glad.

I will never look at the moon again without thinking "what if?"

I do not know when I will read the last book.

Probably after I bolster our food storage and have a plan to heat this house without using our modern ammenities.

(We will never own another house without a wood burning fireplace, my mr. Agreed?

If you don't agree- I'm making you read these books.)

And now you understand why the flyer we got in the mail got to me.

Needless to say, I was thankful for the invitation, but I did not attend those services that were advertized.

Here's what I washed my brain out with.

It is one of  my go tos after I've read something I want out of my head.

You can find it here.

I save it for when I really need it.

Because if the end of the world comes, it will be good to be studied in compassion.

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So I've read a lot of other books since I last posted about books.

These are just a few.

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I do have to apologize, because once I said, "let's do a book club." And I didn't follow through.

So, as I will probably never do that post on a discussion on "The Help,"

I will ask the question here.

If you read it, how'd it make you feel?

Have you had Help?

After reading it, did your feelings about having Help change?

Very Important Hygene Lesson Having to do with a Razor

This is not the razor I use. But this is the website the picture came from.

This weekend, I learned that razor blades placed facing the correct way on the razor handle will do a wonderful job.

That was a good lesson to learn after a very hairy & confusing month.

May your blades always face the right way.

And may we (and when I say we, I mean me) please stop knocking mine off the rack in the shower.

The Buzz

Are you aware of the buzz about LDS (Mormon) women who blog and the people who read them?
Apparently there is a buzz.

And now there is a call for people who are not LDS, who obsessively read these blogs to tell a reporter from the Wall Street Journal why.

Oh, what a buzz.

I realize I am not a typical mormon mommy blogger- crafting gives me the willies and none of you are obsessively reading here, but if you'd like to check out the call, here it is on Mormon Mommy Blogs.

And here's a link to the article that started it all "Why I can't stop reading Mormon housewife blogs."
It's from salon.com.

Sunday School - Do you know who you are?

For the text of the entire address go here: "The Reflection in the Water."

Emoticons don't translate well

I learned that if you type a less than sign and a 3 on facebook, it will turn into a heart.
On blogger comment, it won't.
Now we know.

Very Unexpected

I have a friend, who has a blog, who knows how to connect with other people in this cyperworld we're in right now. And because she is saving my hide this weekend by doing a huge job that I was supposed to do only I couldn't do myself &I'd tapped out most all of my other folks I could delegate to - I will not hide my head under a blanket because what she did slipped me back into my weirdo neurosis of 'oh my heck people really read this thing/I can write, I really do want people to read this thing - argghh what a conundrum.' I will graciously say, thank you. And follow the directions.

She sent me this! OOOLALA.

I think she really likes me because I baked her bread one time

or maybe because she loves the dog more than I do.

It can't be because I'm stylish.

But, I am grateful

Because of her some of you came to visit

and I like it when you visit

(as long as I'm not in my head under the blanket neurotic place.)

Thank you Crazy Writer Girl.

So, here are the directions that come along with the award:

List 7 things most people don't know about me & Pass this onto 15 more blogs-letting them know I've passed it on to them.

Here goes:

List

1. I don't ususally do chain letters or pass things along.

(But I will make an exception this time-because of the giver-to the best of my ability.)

2. I am so busy lately, I hardly have time to sit down to pay our bills and check my email, let alone get on here and blog.

3. I have blogs and a 'community' I like to visit, but, just like in #2--my time has been taken up elsewhere & I miss visiting them.

4. Making banana bread actually scared me today. It's been so long since I baked anything besides my wheat bread - my stomach did nervous flips as I was getting all the ingredients out and mixed it up. (So weird because I used to make the best banana bread ever. Today's turned out ok.)

5. I use a sonicare to brush my teeth and I like love it.

6. My closet is a mess.

7. This week two people I know surprised me by telling me they've been here and read. (Ok, that might have been part of the swirling neurosis, I don't know. I just hope that I am good enough and don't make people regret the time they've spent here.)

Passing it along:

Ok, my list is going to be short. I am sorry. I'm not good at things like this. I wish I could nominate all that are on my list, because they're awesome, but I'm going to limit it to the blogs I was able to visit today--the not super, super famous blogs--just the ones that I went to in the very limited time I had (they should be super, super famous-they are super).

--my mr's sister's blog, which I am not going to link to, unless she tells me it's ok
(I'm having a hard time with this because a lot of the one's that I might list are family one's and I don't know if they'd really appreciate my sharing their personal stuff.)

--this next one because she's awesome and has great information & is super inspiring

 

--This one because when I was trying to decide what to call my blog and my children were complaining about something, it's a name I looked into. I am very glad it was taken:

(ok, I tried to follow the rules and contact her to tell her about this, but my internet security won't let me get to the page her email address is on and I tried to grab her button, but my computer is being slow and I am tired, so here's the link)

The Meanest Mom

And, honestly, there are a few other awesome smaller blogs that I love, but I can't list them all. I am sorry.

I will try to make time to make a list and post it sometime.

Thank you Crazy friend!