Found some more....

amazing vintage books.

These are by
Richard Yates

now comes the withdrawals

It is finished.
Now comes the withdrawals.









I truly believe that those who were disappointed with the end of this series.....
have no clue what they were talking about and were mistakenly reading a different book.

Dare I say that this series was better than Mrs. Rowlings?

So now that I am going through serious character withdrawals
I am filling my time with......

Baking cookies (Pecan Snowballs)...











Admiring my present from Tiffany
(a wonderful picture by Jude)...









Wondering where all the snow went...









And counting down the days till my vacation.
10 work days left!

Lost

Lately I have been somewhat lost.
Lost in wondering why the Fall seemed to fly by so quickly.
But with my days being swept up by the stresses of work
and the preparations for Thanksgiving,
I have been able to....

almost finish this book....
















dream of living on a houseboat...
(is this not the most wonderful living space ever?
I found it via her blog)




















cook meatloaf for the first time
(which made my husband very happy).....

1 1/2 pounds ground beef (preferably chuck)
2 cups cooked stuffing, roughly chopped
1 large egg, beaten
Kosher salt and black pepper
Preheat oven to 400 deg.
Combine beef, stuffing ,egg, and seasoings.
Bake for 45 minutes.


be introduced to the most wonderful snack ever.....






and have a much needed date night with Micah
(guess where we went to hang out).

Took a bit longer.....

but book #2 is finished.

















Now, on to book #3.

3 Days

I started this book on Wednesday......
And finished it on Friday.

That should tell you how good it is.

Thus, today I had to make a run to the bookstore to buy book #2 of this series.

Checked off

Here is another book
I can now check off my "to read" list.

Finished

I bought this book 4 years ago and began to read it when I was distracted. I was distracted by another book (which I can't remember what it was), but I ended up putting this one down and forgetting about it. Two years later I found it collecting dust in my bookcase. So I decided to give it another shot. Not that it was uninteresting the first time I tried to read it, I just tend to be a bit impatient at times and jump from book to book. Well, two weeks later guess what happened. That impatient personality of my came out and once again I was distracted by anther book. Skip another two years, up until about a few months ago when I was searching through my books for a good summer read. I stumbled upon it. The thorn in my side. The unfinished book. I was determined to finish it and prevailed.