Many Monday Plans 10/28/13 Meme

Many Monday Plans. My Monday Meme. What the heck am I going to do this week? Time for a plan. Oops, I should have done that last night – make a plan I mean.  You can participate in Many Monday Plans - Monday Meme.

• List 7 planning to do items. (It is a seven-day week)

Share with your friends.
List one TIP to share.
Enjoy your week.

1. Finish Review.
2. Errands. Blog. Post review.
3. Take pictures for my Craft Blog! So Many Crafts. http://somanycraft.blogspot.com/
4. Create Cone Trees for craft fairs.
5. Read. Update Santa pattern and select fabric. Sew.
6. Read. Write review. Crafting.
7. Read. Pack boxes and move to garage.

My Tip for the week. Do you have an item that has an odor but can't be washed? Place a small bowl of vinegar and the item in a container.  The vinegar will remove the odor. If you have musty smelling furniture drawers, you can use a bowl or vinegar saturated newspapers.

My silly tip. A nap can cure anything for and hour or two. My tip is take a nap.

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Many Monday Plans 10/7/13 Monday Meme

Many Monday Plans. My Monday Meme. What the heck am I going to do this week? Time for a plan. Oops, I should have done that last night – make a plan I mean.  You can participate in Many Monday Plans - Monday Meme.

• List 7 planning to do items. (It is a seven-day week)

Share with your friends.
List one TIP to share.
Enjoy your week.

1. Give my sad heart some care. Clean bonus room. Finish review.
2. Errands. Blog. Post review.
3. Take pictures for easy peasy wreath #2.. New Meme coming (and I don’t mean this one). Get With the Craft Blog! So Many Crafts. http://somanycraft.blogspot.com/
4. Write a Review. Read. Update Santa pattern and select fabric. Sew.
5. Read. Prepare for craft show. Sewing & more.
6. Read. Pack boxes and move to garage. Take a hot bath.
7. Design new craft show display. Take a nap. A girl just wants to have fun.

My apologies for not completing my reviews.  My dog Jelly Bean was sick and I spent time with her before I finally took her to the vet to ease her pain.
Book reviews are still awaiting my brain and fingers.

My Tip for the week. Use old socks on your hand to dust.

My silly tip. Sorry, not feeling very silly right now.

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Many Monday Plans - 9/30/13 Weekly Meme

Many Monday Plans. My Monday Meme.

What the heck am I going to do this week? Time for a plan. Oops, I should have done that last night – make a plan I mean.

You can participate.

• List 7 planning to do items. (It is a seven day week)
• Share with your friends.
• List one TIP to share.
• Enjoy your week.

1. Read a book. Read another book. Read another book.
2. Blog. Plan to blog 3 times during the week for six posts or more. Schedule the posts. Review blog. Doggie Blog. Craft Blog. – Oh yeah, take pictures for craft tutorials. New Meme coming (and I don’t mean this one). Get With the Craft Blog! So Many Crafts. http://somanycraft.blogspot.com/
3. Write a Review. Write another Review. Write still another review.
4. Bathe some of the dogs. Hmmm, who is stinkiest?
5. Shred paper in the office. This could take a while.
6. Pack boxes and move to garage. Pack more boxes. Take a hot bath.
7. Take a nap. A girl just wants to have fun.

Book reviews awaiting my brain and fingers:
The Morac
The Starlight Chronicles
Crime Bites - finish reading.
600 Hours of Edward
Edward Adrift


Craft Projects for So Many Crafts

• Another Easy Peasy Wreath
• Paper Stitching
• Products and coupons
• New Earrings

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It is Monday. What are you reading? 9 /23/13

 

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading is a meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. It’s a great way to see what others are currently reading?

 

 

I finished 600 Hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster. Marvelous!

 

  
 



Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishugiro.
If you read Unwind by Neal Schusterman, you will like this book.  If you haven't read Unwind - read it.

This 2005 dystopian science fiction novel was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for The Remains of the Day), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. TIME magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.




The Insanity of Zero by Michael Offutt. When an unforeseen event brings about the end of the world, a powerful artificial intelligence is born. Its task: save humanity from extinction. To understand those it must rescue, the computer decides to assimilate human emotions. But what happens when an omnipotent computer begins to fear its own death.



The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness (Shambhala Library) by Pema Chodron. It’s possible to say yes to life in all its manifestations, Pema Chödrön teaches—by embracing all the happiness and suffering, all the intelligence and confusion that are a natural part of our existence. Doing so opens a wellspring of courage and love within our hearts. In this gift edition of her first book, Pema presents traditional Buddhist wisdom that anyone can relate to.



Edward Adrift by Craig Lancaster. Sequel to 600 Hours of Edward.

It’s been a year of upheaval for Edward Stanton, a forty-two-year-old with Asperger’s syndrome. He’s lost his job. His trusted therapist has retired. His best friends have moved away. And even his nightly ritual of watching Dragnet reruns has been disrupted. All of this change has left Edward, who lives his life on a rigid schedule, completely flummoxed.

But when his friend Donna calls with news that her son Kyle is in trouble, Edward leaves his comfort zone in Billings, Montana, and drives to visit them in Boise, where he discovers Kyle has morphed from a sweet kid into a sullen adolescent. Inspired by dreams of the past, Edward goes against his routine and decides to drive to a small town in Colorado where he once spent a summer with his father—bringing Kyle along as his road trip companion. The two argue about football and music along the way, and amid their misadventures, they meet an eccentric motel owner who just might be the love of Edward’s sheltered life—if only he can let her.

It's Monday, What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading is a meme hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. It’s a great way to see what others are currently reading.

 
Shift by Madison Dunn. $8.99 from Smashwords.com
I'm not sure why it happens, but when I focus just right, I can slow time. Things around me become lighter somehow, and I almost feel the tiny particles of energy spinning inside of them. The thing is, having the ability to transform the world around you isn't all it's cracked up to be -- especially when you are running from the Valencia without any deodorant.

The Art of Process Improvement by Abdul A Jaludi. $7.99 from Smashwords.com
The Art of Process Improvement is a high level strategic book aimed at leaders looking to cut expenses, improve employee morale and maximize profits. This book focuses on managing the process and creating a culture where quality, change, and innovation are encouraged and rewarded.

For book review: Crime Bites and So Do I by Jodie Pierce. 
In this police paranormal thriller, people start turning up dead all over town completely drained of blood. Are the murders random or whom/what is the common link? Does a vampire have civil rights in a human court of law? When the lead Detective is placed under surveillance, how close will she get to the new man? How much does she even know about her own life? What twists & turns will it reveal?

For a book review, SeventhNight by Iscah:

"In a land where unicorns are common place, life can start resembling a storybook.  Everyone wants a happily ever after, but sometimes true love requires sacrifices..."

Banished from her village, a young shape shifter sets out on a journey to find her place in the world... The first of four "Before the Fairytale" stories, "The Girl With No Name" is told in a deceptively simple storybook style with the flavor of an original Grimm's fable, but don't expect your typical once upon a time scenario. This is a coming of age tale humorously interwoven with social commentary. 

This story is recommended for older children to adult readers (9 & up) but may not be suitable for younger children.

Stories for Nighttime and Some for Day by Ben Loory. Loory's collection of wry and witty, dark and perilous contemporary fables is populated by people--and monsters and trees and jocular octopi--who are motivated by the same fears and desires that isolate and unite us all. In this singular universe, televisions talk (and sometimes sing), animals live in small apartments where their nephews visit from the sea, and men and women and boys and girls fall down wells and fly through space and find love on Ferris wheels. In a voice full of fable, myth, and dream, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day draws us into a world of delightfully wicked recognitions, and introduces us to a writer of uncommon talent and imagination.

Duplex by Kathryn Davis. 

Mary and Eddie are meant for each other—but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all children, they exist in an eternal present; time is imminent, and the adults of the street live in their assorted houses like numbers on a clock. Meanwhile, ominous rumors circulate, and the increasing agitation of the neighbors points to a future in which all will be lost. Soon a sorcerer’s car will speed down Mary’s street, and as past and future fold into each other, the resonant parenthesis of her girlhood will close forever. Beyond is adulthood, a world of robots and sorcerers, slaves and masters, bodies without souls.  

 

For a book review and author interview, Order of Dimensions by Irene Helenowski: When Jane Kremowski first began her graduate studies in physics at Madison State University in Wisconsin, little did she know where her work would take her. Now, she is embroiled in a multitude of dimensions all leading to different outcomes. She and her colleagues therefore must act wisely in order to take and keep away the Order of Dimension from falling into the wrong hands for the sake of her loved ones.