tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71113722024-03-13T22:45:18.550-05:00Story of My LifeAnnabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.comBlogger2405125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-12219527419397918912024-01-01T21:27:00.001-06:002024-01-01T21:27:14.935-06:00Year in Review 2023<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1. What did you do in 2023 that you'd never done before?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Won a national Scrabble tournament! Placed 1st in division 4 and won $3000.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Still don't make resolutions. I would like to travel more. Am getting to do a bucket list item during spring break - a train ride up the west coast.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">3. Did anyone close to you give birth?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My textbook clerk had a baby and unfortunately decided to stay home so we are trying to fill that position soon.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">4. Did anyone close to you die?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Not that I know of. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">5. What countries did you visit?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; white-space: pre;">Mexico - cruise from Galveston to Cozumel but it was miserable because my gallbladder was in bad shape and I didn't know it!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">6. What would you like to have in 2023 that you lacked in 2022?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">New floors in my house.</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">7. What date from 2023 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">July 19 when I won the Scrabble tournament.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Winning the Scrabble tournament.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">9. What was your biggest failure?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Hardly read again this year. Didn't even make a good reads goal of 12 books - kind of sad for a librarian. Also didn't get new flooring yet.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">10. Did you suffer illness or injury?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Broke my wrist in February and had surgery early March. Had gallbladder removed in May right after a cruise to Cozumel.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">11. What was the best thing you bought?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Hopefully my new <a href="https://www.createroom.com/products/dreambox-2">dream box</a>. It is still in a box in the garage, but I spent my Scrabble winings on it and will set it up once I get new flooring.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">12. Whose behavior merited celebration?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My grandson Jameson is amazing and is finally walking! I love seeing him grow every time I get to visit.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Not so much behavior, but I really thought the Spurs would be a better team this year since they got the number one draft pick.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">14. Where did most of your money go?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Trip to Vegas for Scrabble nationals. I got it back through my winnings but spent that on a Dream Box.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Winning Scrabble Nationals</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">16. What song will always remind you of 2023</span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I'm Still Standing - Elton John</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">17. Compared to this time last year, are you:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">happier or sadder?</span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> About the same - not sadder, had some exciting moments and a lot of mundane ones.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">- richer or poorer?</span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Not sure - had to buy a new roof so I don't have enough for flooring, but then won money at nationals - then spent it on furniture... so probably poorer but not poor overall.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">- thinner or fatter? </span><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fatter but not by a lot I think. Back up to pre-hysterectomy weight I think.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">18. What do you wish you'd done more of?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Reading & Travel</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">19. What do you wish you'd done less of?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Procrastinating & hurting myself - broken wrist and toe this year.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">20. How did you spend the holidays?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">New Years 2023 – Played Scrabble at Maybe at Mariah & Robert's.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Valentine’s Day – Went to dinner - think my dad was in town and he went as well.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Easter – Visited Jameson in Houston.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">4th of July – @Home but went to Amarillo shortly after for neice's Quinceanera.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Thanksgiving – WIn Houston to celebrate Thanksgiving & Jameson's birthday. My dad got to see Jameson for the first time..</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Christmas – Spent it with Josh, Emmalee, Jameson and Emmalee's parents.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">New Year's Eve (yesterday) – Went to Spurs game and then came up and watched t.v.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">21. Did you fall in love in 2023?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Still in love with Matt but my new love is my grandson Jameson.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">22. How many one-night stands?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Oh please.... I really should just delete this question.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">23. What was your favorite TV program?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We started watching Only Murders in the Building this year. Also enjoyed Reacher season two, final season of The Crown.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Not really</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">25. What was the best book you read?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Running Grave (Robert Galbraith) and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">26. What was your favorite film of this year?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I enjoyed Oppenheimer and Barbie.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">27. Whom did you miss?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">some of my teacher and librarian friends that left, retired, or had to move on.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">27. Who was the best new person you met?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Met some nice new people at Scrabble nationals</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">29. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2023.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial,sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Getting old sucks and my body is definitely feeling the age!</span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-cb9564ce-7fff-0740-ce85-d383b88ba6e3"><br /></span></p>Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-26349207200409351262022-12-31T21:36:00.003-06:002022-12-31T21:36:52.140-06:00Year in Review 2022<p> Well, here's my yearly post.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">1. What did you do in 2022 that you'd never done before?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">I became a grandma! And I got to open a brand new library in a new building. And I traveled to Europe!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Didn't really keep last year's resolution. I lost weight but that was mostly because of my hysterectomy in March. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">3. Did anyone close to you give birth?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Yes!! I have a new grandson - Jameson!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">4. Did anyone close to you die?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">No family that I know of. </p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">5. What countries did you visit?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Italy and Greece! It was an amazing two weeks in July. Flew into Venice, then went to Florence, Rome, and then several places in Greece!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">6. What would you like to have in 2023 that you lacked in 2022?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">More time to read.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">7. What date from 2022 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"> November 23, 2022 - date my grandson was born!</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">I did get Covid in April but stayed healthy most of the year. Getting a hysterectomy may not be an "achievement" but was one of the best decisions I've ever made. Don't miss it at all!</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">9. What was your biggest failure?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">I didn't read as much as I should have this year. Changed my goodreads goal to just 12 books and barely made that.</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">10. Did you suffer illness or injury?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Got Covid in April. Hysterectomy in March. Flu in December (in spite of getting the flu shot.)</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">11. What was the best thing you bought?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Paying for the trip to Italy/Greece this summer.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">12. Whose behavior merited celebration?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">My daughter-in-law Emmalee made it through a tough birth.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Trump as always, Greg Abbot.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">14. Where did most of your money go?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Trip to Italy/Greece - (but it was worth it!)</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Going to Europe</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">16. What song will always remind you of </span><span class="s2"><b>20</b></span><span class="s1"><b>22</b>?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Vacation.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">17. Compared to this time last year, are you:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">happier or sadder?</span><span class="s1"> Happier. Have a new grandson to dote on.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">- richer or poorer?</span><span class="s1"> Maybe richer. Spent a good deal on the trip, but then have a loan for new flooring and paid off several bills.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">- thinner or fatter? </span><span class="s1">Maybe a little thinner after the hysterectomy (Uterus and fibroids was around 4 lbs)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">18. What do you wish you'd done more of?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Reading</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">19. What do you wish you'd done less of?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Procrastinating</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">20. How did you spend the holidays?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">New Years 2022 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– Maybe at Mariah & Robert's playing scrabble?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Valentine’s Day – Went to dinner probably.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Easter – Went to church</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">4th of July – Home</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Thanksgiving – Was in Houston until Jameson was born on the 23rd. Took my cousin and one of his daughters out to dinner on Thanksgiving.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Christmas – Spent it with Josh and Emmalee and Jameson!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">New Year's Eve (yesterday) – Staying home watching t.v.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">21. Did you fall in love in 2022?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Still in love with Matt.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">22. How many one-night stands?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Oh please.... I really should just delete this question.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">23. What was your favorite TV program?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Enjoyed the new Reacher series on Amazon.</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Not really</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">25. What was the best book you read?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Enjoyed the Inheritance Games series.</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">26. What was your favorite film of this year?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Enjoyed Glass Onion</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">27. Whom did you miss?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Not sure.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">27. Who was the best new person you met?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Met some nice new people on the Italy/Greece trip.</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">29. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2022.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">I need to travel more.</span></p>Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-77738128767587682552021-12-31T23:23:00.000-06:002021-12-31T23:24:21.294-06:00Year in Review 2021<p>Well, here's my yearly post.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">1. What did you do in 2021 that you'd never done before?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">I got to ride a few new roller coasters when we went to Florida for Thanksgiving. I also stepped foot in the Pacific ocean for the first time.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Well, I did meet one of last year's resolutions to get the Covid vaccination - have gotten all three shots so far. This year I would like to lose some weight and get in shape before we go to Italy this summer.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">3. Did anyone close to you give birth?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Nope - but still hoping Josh and Emmalee might start a family soon.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">4. Did anyone close to you die?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">No humas related to me, but I know a few people that did die of Covid this year. Upset that Betty White didn't make it - she was the glue holding everything together. My cat Lucy who was 22 died in April.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">5. What countries did you visit?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">No countries but did drive to Florida for Thanksgiving. We went to Houston for Christmas and then had to make a last minute trip up to Perryton to get a copy of my birth certificate. I did go to Canyon in July for band camp this summer. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">6. What would you like to have in 2022 that you lacked in 2021?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">More time being a librarian rather than a computer technician.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">7. What date from 2021 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Best moments were playing in Director's band again at band camp this summer and riding two awesome new coasters at Universal in Orlando.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Again not getting Covid (that I know of). Just really surviving the year and staying employed.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">9. What was your biggest failure?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Since I couldn’t do much I guess there wasn’t much to fail at. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">10. Did you suffer illness or injury?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">No - even got the flu shot this year. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">11. What was the best thing you bought?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">I bought myself a new Apple watch. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">12. Whose behavior merited celebration?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">All the teachers that survived last year and are pushing through this year. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Greg Abbot and Ted Cruz</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">14. Where did most of your money go?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Trip to Florida during spring break</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Riding roller coasters</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">16. What song will always remind you of </span><span class="s2"><b>20</b></span><span class="s1"><b>21</b>?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Maybe "I will survive" - I kept thinking things would get better but Covid kept rearing its ugly head. Maybe next year.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">17. Compared to this time last year, are you:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">happier or sadder?</span><span class="s1"> About the same. Had ups and downs. Getting really tired of covid ruining everything and idiot people who refuse to get vaccinated and are perpetuating this disease. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">- richer or poorer?</span><span class="s1"> Richer briefly until I had to spend all the money we saved on a new fence and new air conditioner. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">- thinner or fatter? </span><span class="s1">About the same. I gained weight and then lost some. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">18. What do you wish you'd done more of?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">I don't know... just living in general. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">19. What do you wish you'd done less of?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Wearing masks. I still wear them because it is the safe thing to do, but I'm getting tired of them and I don't know if I'll ever get rid of the nose acne.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">20. How did you spend the holidays?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">New Years 2021 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– attended Josh and Emmalee's wedding. (I made the drinks as well.)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Valentine’s Day – We went to out to dinner, then the winter storm hit and all the highways got shut down. Took us an hour and half to get home taking back roads.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Easter – Went to church for the first time since the start of the pandemic so it had been over a year.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">4th of July – Played in a 4th of July concert with my community band in Seguin.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Thanksgiving – Went to Florida with Josh and Emmalee and went to Universal and Busch Gardens. Spent Thanksgiving with my sister and her boat partner. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Christmas – Spent it with Josh and Emmalee.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">New Year's Eve (yesterday) – stayed home and watched t.v. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">21. Did you fall in love in 2021?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Still in love with Matt.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">22. How many one-night stands?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Oh please.... I really should just delete this question.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">23. What was your favorite TV program?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Binged on Cobra Kai this year. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Hate is a strong word but was disgusted with Abbot's handling of the winter freeze this year.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">25. What was the best book you read?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">I enjoyed The Midnight Library and Project Hail Mary among others. I didn't quite reach my goal of 32 books as I was 6 short. I did reread the Harry Potter series</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">. Here’s my Goodreads list for this year: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/25328470">https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/25328470</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">26. What was your favorite film of this year?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">I only went to the movies once and saw the new West Side Story. It was good - music was awesome, but the story is still pointless.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">27. Whom did you miss?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">My cat Lucy.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">27. Who was the best new person you met?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;">Can't think of anyone - only met a few new teachers and admins but nobody that has stood out this year.</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">29. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2021.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1">Get the damn vaccine or we will never get rid of this disease.</span></p>Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-46805575007779972672021-01-01T12:05:00.001-06:002021-01-01T12:05:51.420-06:00Year in Review 2020<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px;">Here's my annual post.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px;"> </span> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px;">I really should have spent time blogging last year with the quarantine time but just didn’t get around to it.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">1. What did you do in 2020 that you'd never done before?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Wore face masks, made masks, quarantined, tried new recipes, got tested for COVID...</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">No resolutions but did manage to achieve my Good Reads goal - mostly because I started rereading the Sue Grafton series. Only resolution I have is to get vaccinated for COVID as soon as I’m eligible. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">3. Did anyone close to you give birth?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Nope - but hoping Josh and Emmalee will consider it at some point. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">4. Did anyone close to you die?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Yes - my aunt Barb died in the spring. Thankfully even with my family in Amarillo getting COVID this year, they all recovered. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">5. What countries did you visit?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">The only travel I did was to Albuquerque twice, Canyon (for my aunt’s) burial, and Houston for Josh’s wedding. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">6. What would you like to have in 2020 that you lacked in 2020?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Enough toilet paper? Clorox wipes? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Just kidding. Never ran out but had to resort to cheap TP at one point. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">7. What date from 2020 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Probably spring break when my cousin and I went to ABQ just as COVID was becoming a concern. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Not getting COVID (that I know of). I had a cough as things were breaking in the spring, but never had the other major symptoms. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Got almost 800 laptops/Chromebooks checked out to students within 2 1/2 weeks. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">9. What was your biggest failure?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Since I couldn’t do much I guess there wasn’t much to fail at. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">10. Did you suffer illness or injury?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">No - probably the mask wearing helped keep other things away. Had a cough during spring break but it went away after a few days so I’m guessing it was more allergy related. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">11. What was the best thing you bought?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I had a caricature of Josh and Emmalee commissioned for their wedding. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">12. Whose behavior merited celebration?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Joe Biden and Kamila Harris. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Donald Trump</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">14. Where did most of your money go?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Amazon, Joann’s, Josh’s wedding </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">My son getting married!!!! </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">16. What song will always remind you of </span><span class="s2"><b>20</b></span><span class="s1"><b>20</b>?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Any COVID-themed song such as Don’t Stand So Close to Me, U can’t touch this, etc</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">17. Compared to this time last year, are you:</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">happier or sadder?</span><span class="s1"> Now that 2020 is over and my son got married - much happier</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">- richer or poorer?</span><span class="s1"> Surprisingly, richer. Put stimulus relief money, tax refund, and acadec stipend into savings to save for a new fence. Since we didn’t travel for Scrabble Nationals this year, it was easier to save. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">- thinner or fatter? </span><span class="s1">About the same.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">18. What do you wish you'd done more of?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Reading a bigger variety of books, cleaning/organizing the house. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">19. What do you wish you'd done less of?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Eating fast food (to go)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">20. How did you spend the holidays?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">New Years 2020 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– probably just rested after having the flu. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Valentine’s Day – I think I went to dinner with Matt. My friend, Kirsten, was in town for TMEA and the Teacher of the Year reception was on the 13th. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Easter – stayed home. We haven’t gone to Church since March. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">4th of July – with Matt – at home - we probably cooked out.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Thanksgiving – At home. Josh came by himself and my cousin joined us. We cooked steaks and had fettuccine. Josh and I taste-tested blue drinks for the wedding. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Christmas – Spent it at home with just me and Matt. Didn’t even decorate other than putting out a $5 tree from Target on the coffee table. Did Christmas with Josh and Emmalee on the 30th. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">New Year's Eve (yesterday) – Josh’s wedding!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">21. Did you fall in love in 2020?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Still in love with Matt.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">22. How many one-night stands?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Oh please.... I really should just delete this question.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">23. What was your favorite TV program?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Binged on The Crown this year. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Hate is a strong word but was even more disgusted with Trump for his handling of the pandemic. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">25. What was the best book you read?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I only read a handful of new books. Top of those were Dear Edward, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler, and The Warehouse. Here’s my Goodreads list: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2020/15978192">https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2020/15978192</a></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">26. What was your favorite film of this year?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">I finally got to watch Hamilton. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">27. Whom did you miss?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">My aunt Barb. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">27. Who was the best new person you met?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Have some energetic new teachers at Burbank this year. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20.3px;"><span class="s1"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold;">29. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2020.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1">Don’t take your health or a stable job for granted. In spite of much suffering this year, Matt and I came out ok. </span></p>Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-82486777012447027862020-01-01T21:45:00.000-06:002020-01-01T21:45:05.291-06:002019 Year in Review<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;">Here's my annual post. I did try to do more blogging this year but it still didn't quite work out. At least you can look forward to this post each year, right?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;" /><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">No resolutions and I didn't even meet my Goodreads goal this year. I planned to read 32 books and only read 21 books. Next year I'll try for 24 books. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nope - most people I know are still too old.<br /><br /><b>4. Did anyone close to you die?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My blog friend Jonathan passed away unexpectedly and it was devastating. I really miss reading his posts. I tried getting back to posting regularly but just couldn't keep up with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Still no countries but Matt and I took an extended road trip this summer. We drove up to Iowa for a Scrabble tournament, then over to Moline, IL to visit some of his family, then to Chicago to go to Six Flags, Marquette, WI to see his university, over to Cedar Point in Ohio for more coasters, then down to St. Louis, MO which was supposed to be more coasters but half of them weren't running when we were there. <br /><br /><b>6. What would you like to have in 2019 that you lacked in 2019?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My 50th birthday party. I told Matt that he had to throw me a party although I did most of the planning. Had about 35 friends show up for dinner at The Little Red Barn Steakhouse and Matt ordered me a cake in the shape of an Amazon package.<br /><br /><b>8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Getting nominated as teacher of the year for my campus. Voting ends in January so I don't know if I'll be the teacher of the year but this is the first year that our district has allowed librarians to be nominated.<br /><br /><b>9. What was your biggest failure?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Scrabble wasn't that great this year but I also didn't study much. <br /><br /><b>10. Did you suffer illness or injury?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Got the flu again (a week ago) and still recovering. I was supposed to rest last week, but we went to Houston to spend Christmas with Josh and Emmalee and her family and then I flew up to Amarillo to see my family. With all of that, I didn't really get to rest and recover so trying to make up for it this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My cousin's ex-wife. Appalled and depressed may be strong for me, but she made their split difficult and he's been living with me since April because of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Same places it always does - bills, eating out, Amazon, Walmart.<br /><br /><b>15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I won a giant 50 inch tv at a free technology conference.<br /><br /><b>16. What song will always remind you of 2019?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoDh_gHDvkk" target="_blank">Under Pressure</a> (Queen and David Bowie) - at least for the 2nd half of the year. I've felt like I'm permanently behind at work this year.<br /><br /><b>17. Compared to this time last year, are you:</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">happier or sadder?</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> About the same as last year – generally happy.<br /><b>- richer or poorer?</b> About the same – still getting a stipend for Academic decathlon. Working on a plan to be out of debt in 2 1/2 years.<br /><b>- thinner or fatter? </b>About the same.<br /><b><br />18. What do you wish you'd done more of?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Procrastinating, shelving books in my library<br /><br /><b>20. How did you spend the holidays?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">New Years – sick with the flu<br />Valentine’s Day – at Scrabble club since it was on Thursday. We went out to dinner on Friday at an Italian restaurant. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Easter – went to Albuquerque with Josh to visit my aunt Barb who developed pretty severe dementia this year. We came back though Amarillo on Easter Sunday and ate at Olive Garden so I could have pasta again after giving it up for Lent.<br />4<sup>th</sup> of July – with Matt – at home - we probably cooked out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Thanksgiving – At home - ordered dinner from Luby's and my cousin and Matt did all the food prep. We left to go to Houston for a Scrabble tournament the day after Thanksgiving and I eneded up getting sick the last day and on the way home. Missed two days of work due to stomach flu. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Christmas – Spent it in Houston with Josh and Emmalee and her parents. We went down on Monday and did an escape room that night. Tuesday we went to NASA. Wednesday (Christmas) was spent at Emmalee's parent's house. Thursday I flew to Amarillo to see my family since my aunt and uncle came up there for Christmas. Flew back (in a round-about way) to Houston on Sunday and took Matt to the Texans game (which was his Christmas present)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">New Year's Eve (yesterday) – stayed home in bed reading a book<br /><br /><b>21. Did you fall in love in 2019?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Still in love with Matt.<br /><br /><b>22. How many one-night stands?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Oh please.... I really should just delete this question.<br /><br /><b>23. What was your favorite TV program?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Still like Big Bang Theory and also enjoying Young Sheldon.<br /><br /><b>24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hate is a strong word. I still dislike Delores Umbridge.<br /><br /><b>25. What was the best book you read?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Some notable books this year: Midnight in Chernobyl, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral Hisotry of 9/11; The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (sequel to The Handmaid's Tale)</div>
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Here's my Goodreads list for 2019: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/14916584" style="background-color: transparent;">https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/14916584</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">26. What was your favorite film of this year?</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I liked the new Star Wars movie in spite of Josh's irritation with it. I also really enjoyed Knives Out. That was probably my favorite this year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My blog friend Jonathan/Andrew<br /><br /><b>27. Who was the best new person you met?</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Can't think of anyone in particular. Always meet new Scrabble people and teachers every year.<br /><br /><b>29. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2019.</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You never know when some of the people in your life are going to leave you or things happen to them. Cherish them while you can.</span><o:p style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"></o:p>Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-71463601535299426182019-08-26T22:08:00.000-05:002019-08-26T22:08:07.798-05:00Work, work, workI used to have a copy of a cartoon posted in my classroom when I was a teacher. It said "God put me on this earth to accomplish so many things. I'm so far behind, I will never die." I'm feeling like that at the moment. I don't think I'll ever catch up but at least as a librarian, it's not a tragedy when I don't get something finished for the most part. Last week I focused on getting ready for the escape room at the comic-con, which was a bit of a bust. The crowd was very small this year. We only made about $48. I should have just made a donation to the club and not do all the work I did. This week's focus is getting another 200 students to complete a technology survey by the end of the week. I thought that I was behind, but it turns out our school has the highest percentage of completion so far. I'm going to shoot for 95% and will be satisfied if I get there. Hopefully, it will be closer to 100%. <br />
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<br />Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-66009982456012872722019-08-22T23:02:00.001-05:002019-08-22T23:02:24.056-05:00My ApologiesSorry for the delay in posting. Too many things going on and too many nights that I've done other things and have come home exhausted. On the good news front, the air conditioning in my library has been fixed so it's much more comfortable now and I've been getting more stuff done. I was going to go back to Amarillo part of this week because my friend's mother just passed away and her memorial service was today. I made plans to come, emailed my principal, checked to see if I could stay with my brother and then on Monday morning I realized that there was an event that I'm involved in at my high school this weekend and I wouldn't be able to get it all done. A local public digital library is hosting a Comic-Con on our campus. My Harry Potter club will be having an Escape Room as a fundraiser. Tomorrow will probably be a fairly late night in getting everything set up. Luckily, I've already created this escape room. We had it for a spring fundraiser so it is just a matter of getting everything set up again and set. <br />
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I may try to go back to the Panhandle sometime in September but it just wasn't feasible this week. Next week doesn't look like it's going to slow down. I have to make sure all 1227 students have completed a survey about their Internet service. Sprint is going to provide either cell phones or hotspots to any students that do not have reliable internet. I'm the lucky one that will deal with the distribution and upkeep of all of this. I also have to get a book order placed. A former teacher from our school passed away in May this past year and his obituary noted that in lieu of flowers, he requested that books be donated to the school library. Since then I've received several books and about $1000 in donations. <br />
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Well, it's 1/2 hour past my bedtime so I better get to sleep. TGIFAnnabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-75977421200489875152019-08-14T21:42:00.002-05:002019-08-14T21:42:50.980-05:00No Air ConditioningOur district has made the local news because many of our campuses have air conditioning problems. At my school, several classes had to be moved to the gym or other locations because of the heat. They finally fixed part of the school yesterday, but my library still has no air. It hasn't been too unbearable because the upstairs area does have air and I guess some of it trickles down, but I have to sit with two fans blowing on me to make it somewhat bearable. My area was a different problem that wasn't a priority. I guess it will eventually get fixed but it's hard to stay busy when it's hot. I did make some progress today but then found out that we must have all 1250 of our students complete a brief online survey by the end of next week. I'm hoping that I'll be able to see my principal tomorrow to get the plan worked out. I can only usually see him by appointment so the secretary tried to squeeze me in. <br />
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On the plus side, I had several teachers come after school for a training I presented on creating seating charts using Google Drawings. Next week I'll be doing a session on setting up their web pages. <br />
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No daily three today - I'm just too tired and my brain isn't functioning very well. Thankfully I do have air conditioning at home. Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-83117802475209669362019-08-12T20:14:00.000-05:002019-08-12T20:14:05.391-05:00First Day of SchoolToday was the first day of school and it was a little rougher than some. I still wasn't feeling 100% today. Didn't sleep well and then discovered that the air wasn't working in my library. I pulled two fans and put them around my desk. I did not feel the least bit guilty about doing that in spite of the many parents and kids who were in the library waiting to register them for school. Most of them should have done that in April or at the very least over the summer. I spent most of the day at my desk working on my Library Newsletter and Library Resources page. When I felt a little better, I did start some work on some computer carts that I have to deal with. My to-do list seems never-ending but at least there's always something to get done. I did cut some vinyl on the Cricut machine last night to use on some surfaces in the library. I have a slender stand with three shelves that you can stand up books in for a display. I moved it right in front of my desk and labeled it with three categories. Today's daily three are my categories:<br />
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1. Fabulous Fiction<br />
2. Best Sellers<br />
3. Compelling Nonfiction<br />
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Maybe some of the titles will be tempting enough to check out. I wasn't able to open the library at lunch because there was still quite a few parents in here for registration. I wasn't too upset since I was quite up to par today anyway. I may have to keep it closed tomorrow, but hopefully, by Wednesday, the library will be open for the school year.<br />
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<br />Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-78895380176080213922019-08-11T17:57:00.004-05:002019-08-11T17:57:52.635-05:00Busy WeekSorry I haven't posted in several days. It's been a very busy week in getting ready for starting the new school year. Students come back tomorrow. My library is mostly ready though there's still much to do. It's at least presentable. Last night I starting feeling achy and miserable and wasn't sure why. I didn't have any other symptoms like a sore throat, coughing, or sneezing. Maybe my body was just telling me I've been doing too much and it's time to settle down. I took 2 Aleve PM and went straight to bed after getting home from dinner. Wasn't 100% today but feeling a little better but still pretty tired. I'm just now getting to my computer to get some work done before tomorrow. Here are three things I've got to get done tonight:<br />
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1. Create a Google Classroom for Student Assistants<br />
2. Create my first Library monthly newsletter for this year<br />
3. Create a library policy and procedure guide for new teachers.<br />
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I'm going to get started on the most important one first and see how it goes. It won't be terrible if I don't get everything done, but I'd certainly like to get at least the first one done.<br />
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<br />Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-33354039680666375342019-08-07T20:02:00.004-05:002019-08-07T20:02:54.867-05:00Daily 3 - Library ChangesI finally got to be somewhat productive in my library today - in spite of the huge waste of time this morning that was convocation. It's a giant pep rally for the district that doesn't really inspire me. If they had decent speakers that might be something, but hearing a student, teacher, and the superintendent speak is the same old thing. Todays 3 are the changes I'm making to my library this year:<br />
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1. Table arrangments - I moved the group of tables that fits a class to another area where there is a blank wall that I can use to project on. Where the tables were before, I had to pull out a portable screen which was a pain. If I left the screen up, it blocked some of the shelves in the fiction section.<br />
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2. New side tables for comfy chairs. I bought either side tables or baskets to place books on/in near the comfy chairs in my library - hopefully to encourage students to pick up and read. <br />
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3. Office/Craft Room organization - I turned my office into a craft room of sorts last year, but the table I put in there was too big. I swapped it out for a smaller desk and table and then today I reorganized the shelves with the crafting materials. It's a work in progress but should be done by the end of the week.<br />
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Last year the big change in my library consisted of the addition of comfortable seating and reorganizing the nonfiction section to be more bookstore-like. Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-3520377378397040692019-08-05T22:16:00.003-05:002019-08-05T22:16:38.448-05:00Daily 3 - Food & DrinkToday's daily 3 are food and drinks that I didn't consume until I was an adult:<br />
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1. Shrimp - I tried it as a kid and didn't like the texture of it. I found later that I liked shrimp flavored ramen so I tried it as an adult and found it was actually quite tasty - especially in fettuccine alfredo.<br />
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2. Margaritas - I tried a virgin strawberry margarita around the age of 20 and I didn't like it at all. It wasn't until Richard introduced me to a well-made margarita with good tequila that I discovered they were quite yummy (and potent).<br />
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3. Bratwurst - I seemed to equate this with liverwurst for a long time and I knew that I didn't like it. It wasn't until Matt cooked them on the grill that I discovered how yummy they are.Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-42334548766935456602019-08-04T21:59:00.001-05:002019-08-04T21:59:13.644-05:00A Sad StateSo I went to church today by myself because Matt is out of town at the convention. I found myself choosing to sit in a pew that was relatively close to an exit door - you know just in case some crackpot decided to come in with guns blaring. After church, I had to go to Walmart because I was out of cat food and there would have been a feline uprising if I came home empty-handed. Before I went into the store, I sat in my car and made a list on my phone so I could get in and out without the usual aisle wandering, lest I find myself under attack in a public place. It's a sad state to be in when your thinking isn't about your grocery list or the to-do items for the day, but rather, what would I do if I found myself in a situation with an active shooter. At school, we have twice-yearly lockdown drills - just in case. My mind will be on high alert for the next few days and then when things calm down I probably won't be looking for the closest exits every time a go out. And in a few weeks or what now seems like hours another event will happen. I used to be proud of this country but now I'm ashamed that we've allowed these things to happen. I don't know what the solution is, but I think it is going to have to start at the polls. Thoughts and prayers are not the solution. It's not to say that I don't have the victims in my thoughts and prayers, but it's going to take something more.<br />
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<br />Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-18773516813219787242019-08-01T21:46:00.002-05:002019-08-01T21:46:47.999-05:00Daily 3 - ActivitiesToday was my first official day back to work. I made it by 8:10 this morning. Here are three things that I accomplished today:<br />
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1. Got more than a dozen laptop computers ready for the new teachers to our campus.<br />
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2. Taught my principal how to create a newsletter on Smore.<br />
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3. Informed my friend Mariah who is a new librarian in our district that her bookshelves were moveable. This was very exciting news for her. <br />
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<br />Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-58417738495459633722019-07-30T22:13:00.002-05:002019-07-30T22:13:43.567-05:00Daily 3 - To Do ListSorry I haven't posted in a few days. Been busy with workshops and final judging of a book award thing. (Will write more on that later.) Here are 3 things on my to-do list for tomorrow:<br />
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1. Get a haircut - I've gotten completely lazy about doing my hair which is why I've kept it fairly short for a while now. I grew out the pixie cut I had two years ago and for the first time in about 25 years I've also grown my bangs out. My hair seems to have gotten curlier in the last few years so I have a short chin-length bob and just let the curls/waves do their thing. I think I want to go with a more angled A-line bob where it's longer in the front and shorter in the back. <br />
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2. Put together the rest of my IKEA stuff at school. I went up to school after my workshop today and put together a couple of things but I have a few more items that I need to work on. <br />
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3. Clean out and organize the library office/craft room. I basically turned my office into a craft room last year but I had a giant table in there that was really too big for the space. I took it out and put in a smaller table and desk and now it's open in the middle. I need to sort through and organize my shelves and make it a workable craft area for teachers and students wanting to use our new cricut machine. <br />
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This all of course is AFTER I sleep in tomorrow. Wednesday is my last day before I officially report back to work so I'm not going to rush going in tomorrow. Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-49271974168817783862019-07-27T21:12:00.000-05:002019-07-27T21:12:14.870-05:00Daily 3 - Back to School ShoppingAfter paying bills I found that I had some extra money so I headed out to do some back to school shopping today. These are the three stores I went to:<br />
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1. IKEA (Again) - After putting all my other stuff together, I realized that there were a few more things I wanted so I headed back this morning and again bought too much stuff. Luckily I had a coupon for $20 off when spending over $150. Hopefully I'm done with that store for a while. <br />
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2. Ross Dress for Less - I mostly did a cursory walk of the store. No clothing interested me so I checked out the furniture. I'm looking for some smaller side tables or magazine racks but everything I saw was more than I wanted to spend. I did, however, find something I had to have. It's two sided chalkboard sign like you might see outside of a cafe noting today's specials. Since I have a coffee bar in my library, I thought it would be a nice addition and it was only $30. When I compared that to online prices, most were $70 or more so I think it was a good deal.<br />
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3. Kohl's - I did pretty well only buying three tops, a pair of black pants, and jacket (which was on sale for $4.80). I had a 20% off coupon which saved me about $20. <br />
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I also stopped at Walmart on the way home (for more cat food and some other items). The only other store that I really need to go to before school starts is Skechers.Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-54906573555938274382019-07-24T20:19:00.001-05:002019-07-24T20:19:37.004-05:00Daily 3 - Best FriendsSo I've never been one to have a lot of close friends. It was easier in high school but as an adult, I've found that becoming close friends with someone is more difficult - especially after moving to a brand new city. I developed many acquaintances but no really close friends that I call up and shoot the breeze with. One of my Scrabble friends, however, just moved from Austin to San Antonio and we've been doing stuff together so there's a closer friendship in the making. Today's daily three are my three closest and longest friends.<br />
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1. Kirsten - I've known Kirsten since we were probably toddlers. My aunt and uncle were friends of her parents. I spent many summers visiting my aunt and got to know Kirsten. Starting in 7th grade we were in the same school and have been friends ever since. She is a music professor in Nacogdoches and probably the smartest person I know.<br />
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2. Kim - Kim and I met in the 9th grade at Valleyview Junior High. She commented on my suspenders I was wearing and just started talking. She was also in band so we became fast friends. She moved away after (or maybe during) our sophomore year, but we stayed in touch through letters and phone. I visited her in Mississippi during college and was in her wedding. She was in both of my weddings. <br />
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3. Pam - We met while working my first teaching job at Valleyview. She sent me a very nice thank you note for something at school and we chatted after school in the teacher's lounge one day. We commiserated with each other about relationships, raising kids, teaching, etc. She left Valleyview the next year but I encouraged her to take a job at another middle school doing yearbook and speech (which is what I taught) - she has been there ever since. She's had a rough life - her daughter had cystic fibrosis and died several years ago. Her dad died in a car accident before then and she had a nephew that was killed in a work accident. I don't know how she has gotten through it all but I've tried to be there for her. <br />
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All three of these ladies were in both of my weddings along with my cousin, Amanda. The only person that was also in my first wedding was my former best friend Robin. I wrote a <a href="http://coasterlover.blogspot.com/2004/07/my-former-best-friend.html" target="_blank">post </a>about that several years ago. Still never figured out what went wrong there, but I've moved on from it. <br />
<br />Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-9871678817773789322019-07-23T20:29:00.000-05:002019-07-23T20:29:57.325-05:00Daily 3 - IKEAYesterday I spent about an hour and a half at IKEA getting stuff for my library this year. I'm hoping that I'll be better organized this year and won't get buried under paperwork and stuff. Here are three things I got at IKEA to help me in this process:<br />
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1. <a href="https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30326177/" target="_blank">Three shelf drawer unit</a> - Planning on using this to store printer paper under my side desk so it's easily accessible but also out of the way.<br />
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2. <a href="https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20280207/" target="_blank">Storage Boxes</a> - I found a variety of boxes that I can use to store dry erase markers, pencils, and other items as needed.<br />
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3. <a href="https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20011408/" target="_blank">Side tables </a>- Not so much for organization but to put in my seating areas near my comfy chairs where I can put books that students might pick up and read. Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-4366077159253682622019-07-21T23:43:00.000-05:002019-07-21T23:43:06.195-05:00Daily 3 - Three DaysSorry I've bailed for a few days. Josh and his girlfriend have been here and just let today. Today's daily three will be three things I've done the last three days.<br />
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1. Thursday - I met with my district library coordinator to plan a digital breakout to do at our upcoming back to school library meeting. I then went to my campus and created the breakout and did some work that was actually productive. <br />
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2. Friday - Dropped Matt off for a liver biopsy. He's potentially participating in a research study for his fatty liver and had to have a biopsy done. I then did laundry and house cleaning in preparation for Josh and his girlfriend coming.<br />
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3. Saturday - Went to Six Flags Fiesta Texas and rode roller coasters with Josh and Emmalee. It was hot and some of the line waits were long. We got six rides in before we called it a day. We took them to dinner at a local Italian restaurant. <br />
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Josh and Emmalee headed back today so hopefully, I'll get back on schedule with blogging and other stuff I need to get done. Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-77081545686678425112019-07-17T22:23:00.003-05:002019-07-17T22:23:55.328-05:00Daily 3 - JobsI've been a librarian for 8 years now. It's one of the best decisions I've ever made. I actually enjoy my job and am looking forward to going back to work in a few weeks. Today's daily three are other jobs I've had:<br />
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1. Hostess at Denny's Restaurant - This was my very first job ever. My sister was a waitress at this restaurant and suggested me for the hostess job. I basically sat people dining in and ran the cash register. I only worked the job for a few months - it was a summer gig after my first year in college.<br />
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2. Snackbar Cashier at Walmart - This was my second official job that I worked briefly while in college. I made sandwiches, popped popcorn, and sold various snack bar items. I happened to get pregnant while I was employed there (no, not AT the store, just during that time period). I had pretty bad morning (afternoon, and evening) sickness for several months and I don't think the smells of the snack bar (like the BBQ or taco meat) really helped.<br />
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3. Yearbook Sales Associate - I did this after teaching for 5 years. I had enough of the students and wanted something different. My yearbook rep at the time was looking to hire an assistant and I got the job. I traveled to about 35 schools in the Panhandle and helped them in the creation of their yearbooks. I designed covers, pages, installed printers, etc. I developed a lot of my technology skills through this job. I did this job for five years until I had to return to teaching in order to get health insurance and benefits after getting divorced.Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-59329355446852810732019-07-16T23:04:00.000-05:002019-07-16T23:04:16.388-05:00Daily 3 - College ClassesI started college in the Fall of 1988 as a music business major. I tried accounting twice before I decided that the "business" part was not for me. I didn't want to be a band director and I didn't have the drive to practice and be a performance major. I got pregnant with Josh early 1990 and after having him I decided to switch majors to speech education with a minor in English. It took longer to graduate because of all of this but I did graduate Summa Cum Laude in May 1995. These were some of my favorite classes:<br />
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1. Band - even though I dropped music as my major, I stayed in band all 7 years (my last year was technically an internship). I'm still and will always be a band geek. I still play in a community band here in San Antonio.<br />
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2. Persuasion - This was one of my speech classes that I really enjoyed. We had to do a bit of persuasive speaking, but I enjoyed learning about the psychological aspects involved in persuasion. <br />
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3. Debate - I was dreading this class when I first signed up for it because I had never understood how debate works and didn't think I would do well with it. The first time I nailed someone during cross-examination, I was hooked. I loved the logic of debate. I think if I hadn't become a teacher I might have considered getting involved in law. It's hard to win an argument with me if you don't have evidence (or good logic) to back up your claims.<br />
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<br />Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-52697224977360979032019-07-14T13:33:00.001-05:002019-07-14T13:33:27.055-05:00Daily 3 - MovingSo yesterday Matt and I went to dinner for our anniversary with some friends of ours that just bought a house. We went over to see the house after dinner and didn't get back until really late so I didn't have time to post a daily 3 as I pretty much just fell into bed and went to sleep. We are going over there shortly to help them with unpacking. Having moved a few times in the past 8 years, today's daily three are the best things I paid for in moving:<br />
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1. Moving guys and a truck. When I bought the house I'm in, I had planned to borrow a trailer from a fellow teacher but of course, it would RAIN the weekend I'm moving. I rented a U-Haul truck at the last minute. When I discovered that big guys (Matt and his friend Jason) don't necessarily equal strength, I called to see if I could get a couple of moving guys. They were by far the best money I ever spent. Even though I was only moving a couple of blocks away, they loaded up all the big stuff and my boxes and unloaded them in 2 hours. <br />
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2. Installing a pet door. I actually had to buy a door and the pet door and have both installed. The door to the back yard had a big pane of glass in the middle of it. <br />
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3. Garage door opener. I've been spoiled by being able to park my car in the garage. (Note that only 1/2 of the garage is clean) I don't really have to deal with frosty/icy mornings anymore, but it's nice to enter and exit via the garage. Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-15789861141235016372019-07-12T21:33:00.000-05:002019-07-12T21:33:36.047-05:00Daily 3 - Happy AnniversaryToday is my anniversary. Matt and I have been married 5 years now. It's not quite a milestone yet. Richard and I were married for a little over 5 years. I'm certain that this marriage will last quite a lot longer than my previous one. Tonight we went out for pizza as part of a social gathering with Matt's work. The problem was that the restaurant couldn't sit everyone together so we mostly just had a table to ourselves. It was crowded and took quite a while but pizza is Matt's favorite food. I don't really like crowds and waiting but that is part of my introverted status. Tomorrow we are going to a fancier restaurant for our celebratory dinner. We're going with two Scrabble friends of ours. They got engaged about 6 months ago and they just closed on a house today. <br />
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Today's daily 3 are things I love about Matt:<br />
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1. He's smart. He is an intelligent man and likes to read. He also likes that I'm smart which is a relief. I think that my brain was intimidating to other men I've dated.<br />
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2. He likes to play Scrabble and ride roller coasters. We actually met because of this. He had a profile on CatholicMatch.com that mentioned he liked to play Scrabble and go to theme parks. That intrigued me so I contacted him. He wrote back and then we emailed for a few weeks before he asked me out on a date. <br />
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3. He's oblivious to other women. Matt is basically the antithesis of my ex-husband. Richard seemed to need constant validation and ego boosts. He liked women that needed his help. He always had his eye elsewhere. It took Matt 2 months to kiss me. He is oblivious to other women and doesn't have a jealous bone in my body. I have no reason to be jealous of him or question his whereabouts. He has no interest in strip clubs, dirty magazines, or porn site. It's quite a relief. Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-75347694402619435782019-07-11T22:38:00.002-05:002019-07-11T22:38:34.714-05:00Daily 3 - My LibrarySorry I haven't posted in a couple of days. I left on Tuesday morning to drive up to Austin to attend a short library conference. I attended a meeting at 11:00, went to lunch with some people from SA, then found out my session after lunch had been canceled. I booked a hotel via Priceline so I headed up there to check in. I had dinner with Marty. (Yes, THAT Marty - ex-boyfriend, Marty) We had a nice time catching up and he even paid for dinner. Yes, I told my husband that I was having dinner with him and he was perfectly fine about it. On Wednesday, I attended two other sessions and was able to leave early and get back to SA by 2:30 or so. I woke up early that day so I ended up taking a nap. <br />
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This morning I headed up to my school to work in my library. I've been thinking about rearranging it (again) and wanted to get that worked out. Last year, I ditched the Dewey Decimal system and genrefied my entire collection. It's mostly bookstore-like now. If you want books on War, there's a section for that. <br />
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I spent a few hours there and today's daily three are the three things I love about my library:<br />
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1. It's spacious. There's a lot of room for a high school library with about 12,500 books, 15 tables, comfy chairs, and more.<br />
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2. My new comfy chairs. I got a grant last year for comfortable seating in the library. It was called "Seating for Reading" in hopes that it would encourage more students to curl up with a book. I got 16 new chairs in the grant and they are spread out in the library. Last year I had to be the "Chair Police" and kick students out of the chairs if they weren't reading. Now that I've submitted my grant results, I'll let them use them as needed. <br />
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3. Games. I have multiple games available for check out in the library. Some I bought with my own money, several came from a Donor's Choose grant. Students love to play games during lunch and I check out the games so it helps with my circulation statistics.<br />
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<br />Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7111372.post-70579592786164927432019-07-08T16:26:00.000-05:002019-07-08T16:26:01.790-05:00Daily 3 - Series BooksI'm a big fan of series books - especially those that are still being written and I can usually expect a new book at least once a year. I like the character development over the course of a series. Here are my top 3 favorites (with some honorable mentions).<br />
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1. Harry Potter Series - Still a favorite and I reread the series every year. I read the first book when Josh was in 3rd grade. He was reading one of the books and I started it and then had him check out the other books for me. I now have a Harry Potter Club at my high school library. <br />
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2. Sue Grafton's Alphabet Series - It was a great loss when she passed away before getting to "Z" but I still love this series and have reread them a couple of times.<br />
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3. Lee Child's Jack Reacher Series - I happened on this series <a href="http://coasterlover.blogspot.com/2010/12/still-unmotivated.html" target="_blank">around 2010</a> or so because I randomly had the book from a book club I once joined and was intrigued after reading. It was because of this series that I got my first Kindle because I looked at my bookshelves and decided if I was going to commit to another series that I really didn't have room for more books. I got Matt hooked on the books as well and now he buys me the books for my birthday since they are usually released in November. <br />
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Honorable mentions:<br />
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Miranda James Cat in the Stacks Mystery - this is a series I happened upon a couple of years ago that features a librarian as the main character who has a Maine Coon cat as his sidekick. It's a cute series.<br />
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David Baldacci's Memory Man series - I'm not sure how David Baldacci writes so many books so fast, but I've enjoyed this particular series by him.<br />
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Rick Riordan's Tres Navarre series - You might not know this, but Rick Riordan (known for the Percy Jackson YA series) used to live in San Antonio. He taught at a middle school here and at one of the universities as well. Before he began the Percy Jackson series, he wrote a series about a San Antonio PI named Tres Navarre. It's kind of cool to read a mystery about places I've become more familiar with. Annabelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195596975035514562noreply@blogger.com0