to blog or not to blog

I suggested to both my mother and my sister that I stop blogging now. The blog has fulfilled its original purpose - to teach me how to use a blog so that I could show mother how to use hers better, so there is really no reason to continue. However, they both assured me that they want me to go on. Mother likes the pictures and recipes and Holly likes the book reviews and pictures as well. Plus she likes to keep tabs on me. Hmm...maybe that's a good reason to shut it down. Crazy, stalker-family members.

In the interest of keeping everyone updated on my ever-so-exciting life, here's what's new:

I am reading "A Short History of the Twentieth Century" for my book club at work. It's actually quite a good book...though a lot to digest, so I'm only reading 20-30 minutes at a time. Non-fiction reading is quite different from fiction reading. With fiction I get absorbed in the story and have been known to skip entire paragraphs to continue with the story's thread. With non-fiction I read carefully to absorb all of the details.

The non-fiction book I started yesterday is "Inkspell". Another young adult fiction book. This one is more fantasy than romance (like the Twilight series was). I only just began it last night, but I'm already quite caught up in the story, so I'm sure I'll continue on through to the conclusion of the trilogy.

Christmas is just three days away, and, in my family, we open presents on Christmas Eve afternoon, so I have even less time to finish things up. Happily, I am mostly done. I have made five of the six Christmas Goodies (there's a post below with details on family favorites). Tonight Kevin and I will make the Rosettes. I have just a few more presents to wrap. And one more trip to the grocery store to buy buns and butter and clementines...which I am bring to the Wednesday feast (along with the goodies, of course).

Tomorrow I have a follow-up appointment with the doctor who removed the mole by my eye. I am hoping that he will tell me I no longer have to wear the little bandage. It has been a long month of trying to keep that part of my face from getting wet. Plus, I haven't been able to wear mascara. Oh, the horror!

I work today, tomorrow and half of Wednesday. Also of note, I have my annual work review tomorrow...so I'll need to finish up that paper work today. I always have to come up with goals for the coming year. Every year I try to get something like "come to work every day and not kill any co-workers" on there...but, apparently, they expect that of everyone, so it can't be a goal. Sigh.

Personal goals for next year are also bumbling around in my head. I'll post more on those closer to the new year. Last year I set a goal to learn to make sushi. And indeed I do now make a wonderful batch of vegetarian sushi.

rj