So it's been a while....

I could make excuses - my internet at home is too slow, i was too busy and then sick, I'm lazy. Whatever.

Lots of stuff has happened in the last week that I could talk about. I told so many people all that happened that I am really bored of talking about it now. I have been listening to the last Harry Potter book on CD for the last week. I only have a few chapters left. A nurse at work let me borrow her MP3's of Harry Potter so I could put them on my IPOD-knockoff and they wouldn't convert. And they won't play on my CD players, so here I am - stuck at my computer with headphones on crying because Hagrid just got carried away in a storm of giant spiders. My roommate is definitely NOT interested in the book, so I try not to subject her to it while she is home. Now it's all I can think about. That drives me nuts. I love getting into a book - it takes a lot for me to take the time to actually delve in - but it makes me crazy when I don't have the time to finish it. It'll be Thursday at the earliest before I can get back to it. I have to get groceries this morning before I end up eating Brenda's food and getting more sick than I am now! I can't put it off anymore. That, and I need to renew my car registration before I get a ticket. It's been only by the grace of God I've not had one thus far.

The last book I read was When the Heart Cries by Cindy Woodsmall. VERY good book. I'm recommending it to everyone I know (and to those of you I don't know!). I read the first two chapters and it hit me hard enough that I had to put it down for about 6 months. If you read it - you'll understand. I read the rest of it in one night. I couldn't put it down. The end of the book left me wanting more, so I googled the author. It is the first of 3 and the second one isn't released until September 4th. The third comes out in 2008. Had I known this - I wouldn't have finished reading the book for at least another year. It's been 2 months now and my excitement has not diminished one bit!

I had forgotten how wonderful reading is. I love to learn and I read for that purpose quite often, but it had been a long time since I had just read for pure enjoyment. I missed it. At one time I would have shunned the Harry Potter books and told you all you were going to hell for reading them. Now I can't get enough. That's another whole subject that I am just WAY too tired to get into.

Just a short note to the other bloggers I read about - thanks. I enjoy reading them. One of these days I'll take the time to discuss things with you - but I wouldn't hold your breath!