Work has been amazing, and I LOVE my new job. Love love love. Can't imagine why I didn't start doing this sooner, but I'm glad I didn't wait any later! I've been very busy at work and trying to get used to the new routine, but it's a good busy and usually a fun busy. We never have a completely dull day, and the ladies I work with are anything but boring! I think what I love most is that I know everyday we have our routines, and even though our hours are sometimes long we're well rewarded and well appreciated. I love how thoroughly I was trained and taught, and how comfortable I feel with what I'm doing. I love that my boss actually cares about her job and her employees more than just if we show up for work and if we get all our work done; if we're having a bad day she wants to know why and if she can fix it. For the first time in my life I'm happy to get up and go to work every day, and I'm not just hoping the day passes quickly so I can get home. Definitely a great start to what I hope is a good long career.
Obviously, with the routine changing and longer hours and less weekend days, reading has taken a little bit of a backseat lately. Getting a little better though...I can take my Kindle to work on the slow days, and I have my lunch hour every day when I'm not running errands or shopping (working next door to the mall is bad tempting!). Most of my driving time is quality audiobook listening time too. It's more calming after a long day than trying to fight my shuffle! haha
September - October
Blood of the Fold - Terry Goodkind
Temple of the Winds
Soul of Fire
Faith of the Fallen --- I'm working through an audiobook CD series. So far, only on book 6 out of 11...slow going when you only 'read' thirty minutes in the morning and evening and at lunch.
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Silent Honor - Danielle Steel
Broken Laces - Rodney Walther
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Amy Tan
Extraction - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Fifty Shades of Grey - E. L. James
Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Freed
Before y'all hop on the judge train, I'll explain this choice of reading material. I have heard opinions from the scale of great to good to bad to worse about these books, and rather than just forming a blind opinion and saying either 'You're awful for reading those books!' or 'They're no worse than half the movies or TV shows out now,' or 'Whatever you read is your choice,' I decided to just read them myself. I'm pretty sure I'm old enough and mature enough to read them objectively and decide whether or not they're as good or bad as they're hyped up to be.
After reading them all through, I have to say that they're pretty out there in the adult content sense, but honestly when I read I tend to block most of that out and just focus on the plot of the story. Its like reading something with curse words; my mind sees them, reads them, and either registers them as unimportant in the context of what I'm reading or subs in a word I like better. As far as the plot of Fifty Shades goes, it's a pretty good little romance, with just enough drama thrown in to keep you reading. I didn't really like the story of the first book, but the second and third were written on a more lovey dovey romantic line, and I'm a lover at heart, so I liked them much better.
Overall, I'm not sorry I read them, and I can't say I won't reread them eventually at some time in the future, but I'm glad I bought them on sale via Kindle rather than spending more money for the real books.
Faith of the Fallen --- I'm working through an audiobook CD series. So far, only on book 6 out of 11...slow going when you only 'read' thirty minutes in the morning and evening and at lunch.
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Silent Honor - Danielle Steel
Broken Laces - Rodney Walther
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Amy Tan
Extraction - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Fifty Shades of Grey - E. L. James
Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Freed
Before y'all hop on the judge train, I'll explain this choice of reading material. I have heard opinions from the scale of great to good to bad to worse about these books, and rather than just forming a blind opinion and saying either 'You're awful for reading those books!' or 'They're no worse than half the movies or TV shows out now,' or 'Whatever you read is your choice,' I decided to just read them myself. I'm pretty sure I'm old enough and mature enough to read them objectively and decide whether or not they're as good or bad as they're hyped up to be.
After reading them all through, I have to say that they're pretty out there in the adult content sense, but honestly when I read I tend to block most of that out and just focus on the plot of the story. Its like reading something with curse words; my mind sees them, reads them, and either registers them as unimportant in the context of what I'm reading or subs in a word I like better. As far as the plot of Fifty Shades goes, it's a pretty good little romance, with just enough drama thrown in to keep you reading. I didn't really like the story of the first book, but the second and third were written on a more lovey dovey romantic line, and I'm a lover at heart, so I liked them much better.
Overall, I'm not sorry I read them, and I can't say I won't reread them eventually at some time in the future, but I'm glad I bought them on sale via Kindle rather than spending more money for the real books.
Thirteen books, grand total 103!!! If I was following regular Centurion Challenge rules, I would have hit my challenge quota of 100 books in a year this month, but since I'm just tallying how many books I read throughout the year, we'll just keep right on going.
Granddaddy update - Some of you know my granddad has been in the hospital in Memphis for the last month going through a bone marrow transplant and intensive chemo for his multiple myeloma. If you're friends with my mom on Facebook, she's been putting regular updates on there about his progress, but this week we've gotten super good news. He's moved out of the isolation unit of the hospital to their hotel room nearby, where he'll stay this week as they monitor his blood levels on an outpatient basis. If everything stays good through the week, he's looking at coming home!
He's very excited about this, almost too excited. Tonight he called me and asked me if I would bust him out of 'jail' and take him home to visit his cat. I told him the wardens (my mama and grandmama) might not like it too much if they caught us. He agreed, and said he'd deal with it then. He then said he was amazed that the same breakfast from the hospital that make him sick smelled and tasted so much better at Cracker Barrel, to which I told him 'Duh, Granddaddy, it was hospital food.' Yall, it ain't ever dull around here.
