A Little Light Reading

I mentioned in this post how much I was enjoying the Kindle that WH got me for Christmas, along with the cheap and free books I've gotten through Book Bub and other services.

I've traveled a bit since that last post, and I was sick a couple of times (this has been the worst winter for bronchitis ever!) and so the Kindle has come in really handy.  I've really enjoyed being able to flit from one novel to another, or immediately read a sequel without having to leave the house (especially when I was sick!)  And when I'm traveling, I've really enjoyed how lightweight the Kindle is and how it fits in my carry on without taking up much room.

And it's kind of fun to keep a record of what I've read, too, now that I think about it.

Obsessed! Or how I got distracted by technology

I mentioned yesterday that I had gotten totally distracted by my new Kindle that the hubs got me for Christmas.  I never thought I really wanted a tablet, but I finally decided that for traveling and so forth a reading device would be nice.  He decided on the Kindle Fire HD.  It's a great little device.  Although you can't tell it from the photo, the resolution is wonderfully clear and sharp.


And then my friend told me about BookBub.  Have you heard of it?  All you do is go to their website, enter your email address and the kind of reader you have and the types of books you like to read, and it sends you a daily email of available books under $2.99.  Best of all, almost every day there are several free books to choose from.  Totally free!

 And it got me hooked.

Here are the books I've read so far this year...

Yup, I was kind of obsessed, I think.  Now we know why I almost gave up reading when my children were small...  I would have been accused of neglect.

And best of all, most of them were free or close to it. 

So now we know why I haven't done much sewing so far this year.  But I am going to start exercising a bit of restraint and get busy.

Good plan, don't  you think?

Distracted

I woke up yesterday morning thinking I would get busy in my sewing room and get some things done after more than a week of Christmas distractions - my son arriving on Christmas Eve (his birthday) to spend the holidays with us...

Christmas itself...

A week of movies and football and dates with my son and card games and just plain goofing off and bonding and having fun...

A midnight drive to New Orleans on New Year's night so he could catch a flight home to be at work on time since the snowstorms in the Northeast meant he had been called in to work a day early to deal with angry passengers delayed by flight cancellations and people unable to get home on time (he works for an airline - sounds fun most of the time, but NOT when the whole travel system is messed up by the weather)...

A sleepless night because of said drive that left me feeling as if I was going to suffer a relapse of the bronchitis I've been fighting for a month...

A room that was too cold to sew in this morning that allowed me to be distracted by the 100 or so emails in my inbox...

Which led to spending the morning catching up on blogs I love, that I hadn't had a chance to read in a couple of weeks (just until my room warmed up, you know)...

And really being blown away by all the truly thoughtful blog posts I read.  Plans for 2014.  People wanting to create.  People wanting to become better.  People wanting to learn more and love more and give more.  Words people chose to help them remember what they want to do and be and become.  Ultimately, people expressing their desire to become the people God wants them to be...

Which caused me to reflect on just what I want to achieve in 2014 - outside of the quilty goals I've already set...

Which left me feeling totally despondent and I decided to play with my new toy...

And I have to admit that I've read more books in the last 3 weeks than in the previous year.  And it's been great.

But now I think I'm refreshed and ready to begin again.

Here's to a gloriously restful, fun, and productive 2014.