Night # 2 with Ryan in the toddler bed was rougher than the first night -- he rolled out twice.   Once while we were watching, and we heard the 'thump', but he didn't cry or anything.   He rolled around on the pillows on the floor, and then onto the carpet, and just parked himself there.  I think he was tring to get comfortable there, so I went and put him back in the bed.

Katie said he did it again a couple of hours later, but cried when he couldn't get comfortable on the floor, so she put him back.  

So - we invested in a toddler bed 1/2 gate, so he can climb in and out, but there's still a little railing there to let him know there's an edge.


Movies:
Cloverfield -- I really liked this.  I'm a fan of JJ Abrams.  And just the dynamic of how it was put together and everything, with a fairly interesting story (while not really original) to go with it.   Didn't like the ending really, but after I did some reading about the movie, there's a TON of little hidden things throughout the story that hint at some forshadowing and possibly other solutions.   

The Day the Earth Stood Still (the new one) -- Eh.  Independance Day rehashed, but not as exciting or interesting.   The characters were boring, and the story generally moved too slowly.   In fact, I'm not 100% sure that I saw the last 10-15 minutes, because I was fuzzing out and starting to go to sleep.    Sorry, I had higher hopes for this.

Books:
Still reading my bible cover to cover, but have put it on a short break.   I've read up through 1 Colossians, and am somewhere in 2 Col.   Didn't do any reading in Sioux Falls or Myrtle Beach, and when I got back I have wanted to start the His Dark Materials books.   So, I started The Golden Compass on Tuesday.

Tags: books, ryan, the list

Last Week started out rough - I didn't get my BP meds filled until about Tuesday, so I'd been out for a few days - and I THINK it was causing me to have chronic headaches until I got it filled. Or maybe it was psychosomatic or something.   Got those filled, and now I feed normal again.  Whatever.

We got the Camry back, it looks really good.  There are a couple of nit-picky things I want to take it back to Bradly about, hopefully I cna do that in the next few days.

LodgeNet stock has gone up nearly 300% in the last week (making that 367% since I bought last year), thanks to positive first quarter earnings, so - I'm trying to decide if I want to pull my money back out now, or roll the dice to see if it goes up more.   Wish I'd have had more money to spend buying in last year - but oh well.

Dad was in town on Thursday to visit with family and Amanda before her tonsil surgery on Friday morning; he was bearing good news for us.

He'll be Santa at Northlake Mall (Tucker) this year (pending contract finalization) which is pretty cool - it means he'll be in Atlanta for Christmas.  Last year he was at a mall in Memphis - he really enjoyed being Santa, but really wanted to get a position in Atlanta, but none were abailable for his rookie year.   So, he's pretty excited that this slot opened up this year.
Santa's hours are pretty rough, he works from Mid November until Christmas Eve, with /only/ Thanksgiving day off.   So, he's basically there from a bit after the mall opens, until right around closing - every single day that the mall is open.   Last year we celebrated Christmas with him the weekend after, since he was travellling from Memphis to ATL on Christmas day.
So, we'll actually be able to take Ryan to Santa, and he'll very likely not have the 2-year-old fit in Santa's lap (we hope).

Amanda's tonsil surgery went well, short and smooth and she's recovering well now - we went to visit on Saturday morning.

We had Date Night last night, Ellen babysat Ryan while Katie and I went to Ted's Montana with a $25 off $50 order (thanks 70% off restraunts.com coupon that cost $3).  While it didn't make our bill less than it probably would have been without a coupon, we ordered things that we wouldn't normally have.  we got their super yummy Onion rings as an app, Katie got Beef Fillet steak, and I got Bison Ribs, plus a dessert, it hit $54, so we got our coupon to discount it.   Bison ribs are really good, but the portion is pretty small - you can get a full rack of pork ribs for that price anywhere eise, vs the 8oz portion of Bison at Ted's -- but they were REALLY good.   I don't know if I'd get them again just because they're so expensive for such a small portion, but we were both super stuffed after the app and dessert with our meals.
Then we went to see X-Men Origins: Wolverine -- which we both loved.   

There are another 10 movies or so coming out this summer that we want to see in the theaters; hopefully we'll actually get to some of them.  I need to lay that schedule out for my calendar.

Ryan's getting to be more and more of a ham, doing summersaults and doing this wierd rolling twist flip deal on our bed that just makes him laugh like a madman.   He's also started climbing himself in and out of his booster at the dinner table -- jeez :)   He's getting so big so fast!

Finally caught up on BBC's Robin Hood; so now I'm waiting for the weekly episodes.   Watched the last laft of the new Knight Rider series -- which I didn't really think was a /terrible/ series, and was entertaining for the first dozen or so episodes, but they basically rebooted the series at about the 13th (of 17) episode, and completely lost me.   I watched it out, but I think I agree at this point that this series needs to die.

In Books:  The new Sookie book comes out this week - yay!  I'll have to go pick that up.   I'm read through Ruth in the Old Testament, and just starting 1 Samuel.

Tags: books, date night, family, movies, ryan

No posts for April sofar...   So - this is what I missed, I think.

On April 1st, our car got attacked again -- Katie was pulling out of the pediatrician's office parking lot, and was deceived by someone signaling that they were turning, but was not -- so she got hit in the front left fender.   technically our fault, no big deal, nobody was hurt, everyone was going pretty slow, and we have insurance and stuff.   So, I filed 2 claims with the insurance people on 4/2, and had it sent over to Bradley's to have the work done.  Hopefully I'll get that back soon.   We went and bought a new car seat (same Britax that we already had) and threw out the old one (kind of, it's in a trash box in the garage) since you're not supposed to use an car seat after any kind of accident.  Insurance said they'd buy us anything we wanted as long as it was comperable to the old one, so - we got the same one since we like it a lot.

Amazon finally sent me all my refunds.   I'm so lost in the process, that I'm almost sure they sent me $300 too much back, but - I might just be miscalculating.   Those people were so confused by their convoluted process that I'm surprised I actually GOT the refunds.    They sent me 3 checks (in pounds, naturally) - which my bank evidently doesn't have any CLEAR process how to handle.   They have to mail the check to the corp office, who "verifies the funds with the foreign bank" and then deposits the money.  Process takes 7-14 days.  No big deal.   The checks came weeks apart - check 1 took about 10 days to post, check 2 is outstanding 14 days today and still hasn't posted - I guess I need to call about that, check 3 posted 24 hours after I took it in.   Thinking that was wierd, I called the bank, and the lady just couldn't explain the process to me, so I gave up.  

We finally caught up on Chuck and Life from the DVR, but now NBC's talking about not renewing both of them, which makes us sad.  I think those are our favorite shows on TV right now.   We've started catching up on Heroes, and are still way behind on House...

Crossed Max Payne off my list of movies -- it was pretty much the steaming pile of poo that I expected.

Amanda and Brian announced their pregnancy right before easter, so we're really excited about that.   They're figuring that the baby'll be due in December.   We went out to dinner with them and their families on Saturday night after Easter service (we usually go to the off-peak services around Christmas and Easter since we get so many visitors on Easter Sunday AM service, it gets crowded) - they announced it to their families then, Brian's mom was bawling, it was sweet.   She's had a Willow Creek figurine in her trunk (Pregnany Mommy) for "a long time, waiting for this day" that she was finally able to proudly present to them.   We'd known already for a couple of days, so Katie was semi-prepared to get some candid pictures of their moms getting the news -- it was pretty cool to be a part of that with them.

Then Easter - we had our Moms and my sister over for lunch.   Katie cooked Ham and veggies and devilled eggs and lots of yummy stuff.   This year was pretty fun, Ryan's old enough to understand his easter basket - he got a new firetruck (woo, woo, woo) with lights and sirens - but Ryan really likes making his own noises - a snuggly lamb, Gymboree bubbles (the best bubbles in the world), some new cars and lots of candy.  After lunch, we took Ryan out in the back yard for his first easter egg hunt.   He had a ball!  He did get a little hung up with wanting to OPEN the eggs and eat the candy, rather than finding more, but with a little encouragement, he rounded them all up.  

James and I took a long lunch (just 2 hours) last week and went to see Fast and Furious.   It was about as good as expected, since our expectations weren't high.   I put in on the rung with Tokyo Drift, which I wasn't a big fan of - but I liked the first 2 a lot.  

Went to Jump 4 Joey's on Friday since I was off.   That place is a lot of fun!   It's basically a warehouse that they've converted to a play yard for kids with 7 or 8 big bouncy houses/slides and stuff.   Ryan has a ball in them, and parents are allowed to go with their kids in them (I'm sure crowdedness becomes a factor at some point) but since it was a Friday at 11am, we pretty much had the run of the place.  My abs still hurt.

Saturday we helped Brian paint his upsairs and downstairs hallways and the 2-story staircase hallway.   Manuvering a tall ladder in a staircase to paint way up high...  not fun.    But, over the course of the day we DID end up having fun, though we were exhausted by the end, but I think it turned out pretty nice.   We met up with a couple of other friend of theirs afterwards for dinner and mini-golf at Monster Mini Golf over off Barrett.   It's indoor mini-golf, completely black light lit.   The theme is monsters, of course.  Mostly silly looking ones, but there were a couple that really freaked Ryan out -- notably the one that looked like a normal guy, until it reached up and peeled its face off...   That creeped me out a little too, but Ryan got really clingy after that.   They had good music playing - and Ryan was rocking out with it.   He REALLY likes Aerosmith "Walk this way"...   Too funny.    Arielle and Evan went off to do their own thing after that, but we found out later that night that they got engaged - so that was exciting.

It needs to stop raining on my days off so I can actually cut the lawn, it's starting to get rediculous.   I also want to do some kind of weed treatment - but not really sure what to do yet, trying to get motivated to do research, but I'm just not THAT interested in my lawn - even though I should be.  The Ants invading my kitchen also reminded me that I need to get out the DemonWP and do my spring insect treatment.   That stuff works wonders for a long time, it makes me forget to do it in the spring...

We got a new thermostat that I installed last night - one of those semi fancy $30 5-1-1 programable jobbies, only because I couldn't really justify buying the $100 touchscreen one with the remote, even though it was hotness.   So, we replaced our old manual mercury filled one, and now we need to paint.

Books - I finished the New Testament, which was really exciting to go through.  I wasn't going though studying, just reading the words and the stories.   The Gospels are really interesting to read back-to back, comparing how the authors told many of the same stories, but from different perspectives.   Acts is fantastic, it starts slow, but the story is amazing.  After that it goes into Paul's letters to the Romans, Corinthians, Collosians, etc - and Paul kinda drones a bit.   Those books make for good study material.   Katie wants to read Revalation with me, so I skipped that for now.   Started the Old Testament now.   It's really amazing the stuff that I /thought/ I understood, but really just never heard.   Genesis is so much more than JUST the Creation - it accounts for thousands of man-years and lots of stories.   Exodus is more of the same.  At some point, not sure if it's Exodus or Leviticus, God describes in great detail building the Ark of the Covenant, its coverings, the tabernacle, and lots of other stuff.   That kinda drones unless you happen to be skething what they're describing - that could be an intersting place to go back and study a little, or at least look at more research.  Leviticus is pretty dry -- it's laws.   A lot of them.   Hundreds of them.   Not Covenant Law style like on the tablets - but they're laws about clean/unclean animals, sacrificial offerings, how offerings are made, what offerings to make in what cases, different kinds of offerings, how to make oneself "clean" after handling something "unclean", etc.   So, I'm currently in the first chapters of Numbers...   Numbers - is, well, numbers - sofar.   It's an account of a census that Moses took in the land, just how many people are in the tribes.   It's brutal to wade through this part... 

Tags: books, fix it, lawn, movies, ryan, the list, work

Finished The Green Mile the other day.   I guess I haven't seen the movie in about 9 years, but from my recollection, I think the book and the movie were pretty close.   It was a fairly fast read, and the serial style was interesting -- I think I definitely would have been frustrated with it if I'd been reading the books as they came out; each one being about a 1-2 hour read...   Now moving to a more concentrated effort to read the New Testament.   I've always wanted to, and never made the time.   Then do the Old Testament later.

Watched Twilight with Katie this week.   That Stewart girl seriously needs to learn to close her mouth.   Her face hanging open 98% of the time was too distracting for me to hear what the rainbow glowing vampires had to say.   Seriously - glowing vampires?   I won't go as far as saying it was a bad movie, but it's not one I have any interest in seeing again, nor does it spark my interest in its upcoming sequel.

Ryan's been a bear for the last couple of days, ever since this weekend.   I think we kept him out too much, and fed him too much sugar.   Saturday we went to Angie's 2nd b-day party; Ryan had a ball playing with the kids that were there.  The closest to his age (other than Angie's 3 month old brother) was a little girl about 4 or 5 years old, then there were a couple that were maybe 6 and 10 or something.   So, lots of variety of ages, Ryan was the only boy, so he had a great time.   He ate a lot of cake, ice cream and candy, and then laid in bed for about 2 hours before passing out at bedtime.   He didn't really sleep well at all though, so we didn't either, and missed church as a result.

Katie's mom took us to a Japanese steakhouse on Sunday for Katie's [early] birthday, so Ryan got more cake, and again bounced off the walls for a couple of hours before bed, and then twitched in the bed for another couple of hours after bedtime.  

Monday and Tuesday he was just generally grumpy and whiney ALL DAY, which really tested our nerves.   He finally slept ok on Tuesday after a bunch of orajel and Motrin, so maybe he's teething his i-teeth in...   Today was much better, he was his happy self as far as I could tell.

He's the absolute authority on Yo Gabba Gabba now; he can pick the commercial out from across the house, and then run into the playroom to watch the commercial until its gone.   he ran in earlier tonight saying "Gabba Gabba!", and I said - "No, That's not Gabba Gabba, that's another comm...  Oh, so it is, nevermind"   What do I know?

Looks like Jack Black is the next big thing on Gabba Gabba though, he's on the show season premier in April, and they're playing the commercial for it about every 10-15 minutes.   DJ Lance and Jack Black...  That should be interesting.  

Crossed off the list:
Song of the South - Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Uncle Remus, Br'er Rabbit and the Tar Baby, and all that...   I guess I don't understand why Disney banned this movie's release to home video in the USA.  The movie was cute, pretty stereotypical Disney family movie for the time, had some lessons to learn from it, and was generally a good movie.   I know it's because of the potential racial undertones (it's a post civil-war plantation setting), but I kinda thought Gone With the Wind would have caused more uproar - yet it's not banned.
I bought it imported from the UK on VHS (mainly for my Disney collection), knowing it was PAL and I wouldn't be able to watch it.   I downloaded a version I /could/ watch.   I'd like to find a PAL/Multisystem VCR so I can convert it to a NTSC DVD, but I may never get around to that.

Tags: books, ryan, the list

Looks like the 2.5mg of Lisinopril has brought my BP down to about 130/80; so I faxed in my results this morning, doc will likely call me back about it tonight or tomorrow to let me know if I need to change doses - I'd expect not, but I'm no doctor.

Katie and I went out on a mini-date (with The Boy) on Friday out to Macaroni Grill (which we don't do often because it's expensive by the time we're done there) and then We watched Burn After Reading on Saturday night.  I'm just not sure what to say about that movie.   It was funny, and I enjoyed it, but at the same time, the movie had a pointless story, and a general "Well that was wierd" ending...

The rest of the weekend was pretty quiet; we relaxed at home.   Katie went and volunteered for the All 4 Kids sale at the fairgrounds on Saturday for the afternoon while I hung out with Ryan; she sold a bunch of Ryan's old stuff too, so that'll be a nice little chunk of cash to have around to offset his current season's wardrobe.

Ryan's new favorite TV show is "Yo Gabba Gabba" -- I don't know what it is about the show, but his attention gets GLUED to it when it comes on.   It's sorta funny...   "GabbaGabba" is now part of his vocabulary of ever growing words.  

He's endlessly amused with the oddest things nowadays.   I flair my nostrils at him, and he doubles over laughing!  Then he comes up blinking his eyes like crazy (I guess he thinks he's copying me) and giggling like a mad mad.   I love the way he laughs.

He's got more "Looks" now too that are impossible to catch on camera.   He does "What'chu talkin' bout, Willis" eyes out the side of his head [while scowling], and his new favorite "If I close my eyes and mouth super tight and look way up in the sky you can't see me to make me eat" -- and then it's just priceless when he open one eye a slit to see if you're still there with the fork...

Mealtimes are a consistant battle now.   He will eat his vegetables (corn, peas, carrots, green beans, whatever), but when it comes to the meat - whatever kind, doesn't matter, he just doesn't want to eat it.   He hides it in his cheek while he eats other stuff, and waits til you're not looking to sit the meat back out.   He /eventually/ eats, under his terms -- but it's frustrating...

Victory with Amazon today.   They sent me an e-mail to let me know that they're processing the final chunk of my refunds (for my missing $400) and that I should expect a check from them in about 3-4 weeks.   Ugh.   Well, I guess I'll have to take that - as long as I get it back, right?   So, they're putting about $100 back on my credit card, and two checks for 200 and 400 within a month to square me back up.

Confirmed with Verizon that the ETF credit had been applied to my account (they didn't lie to get me off the phone) - so that's square too!   now I just need to get the old VZ Blackberry SOLD, and we'll be back where we started with T-mobile.

Finished reading The Stand last week -- that was fantastic.   Gripping until the end.   Started The Green Mile, and am already about 1/3 of the way through that.   That movie seems to be a pretty good adaptation, actually.

Tags: books, movies, ryan

Ryan's having fevers off and on for the last few days, and being grumpy in the night -- we think its that his canines coming in...   Stupid teething.
Both my mom and my mother-in-law's computers putzed out last week, so I spent parts of my 5-day weekend fixing/replacing stuff in those - but I think I finally have both back in working order.   Now I just need to get them back to their respective homes.

We went and saw the Shopahilic movie on Sunday for Valentine's (Yes, a day late - we didn't want to hassle with the crowds on Saturday)...  It was cute, and I actually found it funny at times too.

Work's been increasingly busy, which is good.  We had a scare (self inflicted) when we heard that some SVP's were coming to Atlanta Weds and Thursday.  Seems like the last few times they've come down they left behind a few pink slips.   So -- I got panic'd last night, and started looking for a job again.   Made my Monster profile, and a few others.  Sent in a few resumes...   Makes me nervous - I have never really had to look for a job in my field before.   I had a foot in at my current workplace, and all my growth/promotion has been internal - so I just haven't been put through that ringer yet.   I got a cold call this morning from a recruiter that found my Monster profile.   I didn't have time to call him back from work today, and then forgot later.   Not good, I guess.   I think I know what job he's calling about, and it's neither up my alley, nor is it even paying what I've even making now.   So, I'll try to give that dude a call tomorrow.   I think as a manager that's always getting cold calls from recruiters pushing to get people hired, I have a personal annoyance with them.  I guess I need to get past that. 
Anyway, sidetracked...   It was a false alarm, they were in town for a big sales meeting with our whole sales force.  Guess flying 3 down here was cheaper than sending 7 up there.   The job hunting ball is rolling now - it's probably time anyway.  I'm getting tired of not knowing if they're going to close my office.   I realize another company is just as risky, so I figure at this point in time I can afford to be picky, and hold out for something that's worth the risk to take.

Started reading The Stand on Wednesday or Thursday or something last week.   I'm back in an old school Stephen King trend.  Got The Green Mile queued up after that, but it will probably take me a while to finish the 1200 whatever page tome.   Though, it's quickly sucking me in, so maybe it won't be too long...

Tags: books, date night, geek, ryan, work

On Saturday a few of our neighbors were outside with all their kids playing in the cul-de-sac. When I went out to get the mail, they invited us to bring Ryan out to play -- us being the unsocial neighbors that we are, we've lived here 3 years and don't really know our neighbors or their kids at all...   We brought Ryan out, and he was immediately fascinated with the big kids on their new bikes, and the tricicle of a little girl that's about 6 months older than he.   We don't have a trike or anything for him yet -- he has ride-on toys and a fisher Price car that he likes to play in outside, but no bigwheel.   Our neighbor actually gave Ryan a bigwheel that her son had outgrown.   Pretty cool, Ryan was super excited, even though he's not really big enough to pedal.   We hung out out there for a while, they have some pretty cool kids.

Sunday we went to my sister's church out in Buford, as she and her boyfriend Nick were getting baptized!  It was really awesome, and I'm glad we could be there with them.  Lots of our family was there - my mom, Lala, Uncle Steve and Aunt Jane, Laura and Stephanie, and of course Katie, Ryan and myself.   We joined Amanda and Nick and his family for lunch, and then headed home.   Driving to Buford is FAR, jeez.   The church is over near the Mall of GA -- it was a really nice service and the music and the pastor were great; but it's so BIG, it had literally a stadium setup.   The crowd was chaotic, and the parking lot sucked.   it took us 20 minutes just to get out of the parking lot, and then it's an hour and a half back to our house.   Regardless, I wouldn't have missed it.

Was off on Monday, so we did some shopping.   Target and Walmart in the same day is too exhausting for me.

I finally bought my Harry Potter bookset that I've wanted for a while.   Gonna take a week or so to get here from the UK - but they just don't sell this edition here.

Today was my deadline for input on a sucky task at work.

Work was actually semi busy today - was diving back into some VMWare stuff that I've let fall by the wayside due to no budget at work.   I still have no budget, but I have a few weeks to play with some extra licenses that I have before I have to surrender my hardware to the mothership.   Their tech support is awesome - but I had to wait an hour on hold for nearly an hour to get there.   Course, they had my issue fixed in about 20 minutes, where the tier 1 outsource to India just wanted to point me to the online documentation and get me off the phone before his 10 minute quota was up.   so - an hour and a half later, I had everything working, which was cool.

Started Reading The Shining this morning.

Crossed off the movie list:
Lethal Weapon 4 -- They should have skipped the pansification of Riggs angle a long time ago.   This was just corny.
 

Tags: books, ryan, the list, work

Got my W-2, did our taxes last night.   Looks like I let the government borrow less money this year than last year - so my refund's a little smaller than I expected, but that's not that bigga deal.   It's all filed since I've gotten everything that I was waiting on now, and it's about time that federal e-files were free for everyone (I think) -- it was free this year anyway.   So I just had to pay to file GA -- when are they going to get on the free bandwagon?

Today's my day off this week, marking the beginning of a 4-day weekend, since Monday's my day next week.   No big plans - going to Gymboree at noon.

Work was busier this week, so that's good.   Got some tough decisions to make at work soon...   that's bad.

Finished reading the 8th book in The Southern Vampire Mysteries series by Charlaine Harris - the books that the HBO Series True Blood is based upon.   I watched the first season this past Fall, then started reading the books around the time that Katie started hearing about it from a friend -- so we read that series over the course of about a month, maybe a little less.   Katie's more critical about the differences in the TV Show than the books, but I kinda like the differences - it makes me look forward to a show that I don't completely know what to expect since I've read the books.   Book 9 comes out in May.  I hate waiting for new books in a series.
I can't decide now what to read in the meantime.  Katie thinks I should read the first Twilight book.   I have The Shining that I also want to read, and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.  I really enjoy novels in a series - but just don't know what's out there.

Tags: books, taxes, work

I started reading the books from book one -- just to make sure I didn't miss anything in the movies.
The Audiobook versions that I got were the original UK release, so they're slightly different than the books that came out here -- the Title of book on "The Philosopher's Stone" -- wasn't magical enough for the US publishers, so they changed it to "The Sorcerer's Stone"; other than that, the UK English and US English dialects clash -- I found myself having to decypher what some of the terms meant; but after the first couple of books, I really felt the UK English growing on me -- I think I might be moderately annoyed when book 7 comes out and I have to read it in its US conversion.   Not that bigga deal.

Books 1 and 2 are mostly identical to the movies, 3 and 4 start to differ slightly, and - I believe - really start to show the darkness of the stories.   As the books go on, they get longer, and get better; the stories intensify, and the characters realy develop through the years-  really fantastic, in my opinion.

Books 5 and 6 -- The Order of the Phoenix, and The Half Blood Prince, however, are where the characters REALLY show their true colors, and what they're made of -- the story twists and turns and the details become clearer.   I don't know how to describe it.   I see a lot of similarities to Star Wars, and the Lord of the Rings, in the story lines; it's odd -- I don't really want to comment, as even some small details would spoil some of the twists that come, for anyone that is just watching the movies.  Katie has made me not divulge anything, for the same reason.

Book 7 is supposedly due out 'sometime' in 2007 -- I can't wait.
It's NOT just a kids series, especially after the first couple of books.   Though the stories are geared to a younger audience, I havn't taked to many people that have not become completely lost in the series, young or old.   Though -- I'd say that the age range for reading it might go along with the age of the characters in the books -- by book 6, the subject matter is becoming more geared around older teenagers, and the stories have become quite dark.

This will be one set that I will be buying for my home collection --

Tags: books

I've had some books sitting around for a while that I've been wanting to read, but I have a hard time sitting down and actually READING them... My Self Diagnosed Fake ADD sets in and I just have to go do something else... So, I did the next best thing -- I decided to start listening to unabridged Audio Books to and from work. While being exceptionally entertaining, I make the ride less boring, AND I get some missed reading accomplished.
Started this new habit mid-March, and have read since then:

Stephen King - From a Buick 8
Stephen King - Cell
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (I'm reading the UK versions)
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner Azkaban
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Michael Crichton - Prey

I'm amassing quite a collection of other books to 'read' too -- Lord of the Rings Tril, Lemony Snicket's Unfortunate Events, Chronicles of Narnia...

I'd like to start journaling my thoughts after finishing them, but I'm not good at journaling, so i'll probably forget...
I'll probably write a little about the Potter books a little later; though I just finished Prey tonight.

Tags: books