I survived and there are no more peanut butter cookies

Because I ate the last of them.

So did everyone else survive?

We had a wonderful Christmas spent with great friends. I haven't made it "home" yet but I'm leaving sometime tomorrow. Do I have money to go home? Nope. But I'm going anyway. LOL. I'll be eating grilled cheeze sandwiches for a week. But I have lots of chocolate so that isn't too bad right?

Okay, back to Christmas. Christmas Eve we went to my friend Anne Marie's house who happens to be a tranplant from Boston. (She thinks she's lost her accent, and we let her think she has but she still sounds like she's from Southey...LOL) There were about 20 of us there, half of us being kids. We did some kind of grab Christmas gift thingy that was hysterical. Every one brings a grab and then once you pick a gift then if you don't like that gift you can steal someone elses. I had this great bag of coffee and needless to say I ended up with a Spiderman comic book and some tub crayons. (Gotta try those out)

Then Christmas morning we spent at home just with us. We wanted to have a Christmas with just family that morning. Later in the day we went back over to Ann Marie's for dinner. Ham, scalloped potato casserole, green bean casserole, cole slaw with raisins which was really good, and a bunch of other things that I can't remember now.
So all in all it was marvelous. Now, I'm getting ready to head down to Charleston to visit my parents. That should be fun. I'm hoping to score some goodies. (Not that I need any since quitting smoking again--no gum anymore even)

I'm currently reading a really lovely book so far called "The Book of Lost Things" written by John Connolly. I must have a thing for Irish writers these days because I keep seeming to run into them without really meaning to do so. By the way, hello to Orla if she is out there in cyber space. I'm still waiting for the Light Bearer's Daughter to make it to my B&N. Any way. I'm very intrigued with this book, even though I have just started it. It's promising. My favorite quote so far.

"Stories were different though: they came alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. They were like seeds in the beak of a bird, waiting to fall to earth, or the notes of a song laid out on a sheet, yearning for an instrument to bring their music into being. They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination, and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life."
----------------From The Book of Lost Things copyright John Connolly

(Hope I'm not breaking a copyright by posting. If I am somebody tell me and I'll take it down. But I just thought his words were so beautiful that everyone should read them and this book.)


I did read "Dark Fever" by Karen Marie Moning. And while I am a lover of her books, I'm not sure about this one. I hate when people try to pigeon hole writers but this book is SO different than her other books that it took me some getting used to. It is written in first person and sometimes that is hard for me to get into. There is so much left unresolved in this first book that it kind of confuses me. I'll read the next one and see what happens there.

After I finish The Book of Lost Things I'll be moving on to Cornelia Funke's "Inkheart" which looks to be a lot of fun.

Hugs,
Michelle