Weekend over:(

Wow the weekend is over, wish it was Saturday, oh well. I finished Eleven on Top. When I was reading this book I kept thinking poor Stephanie, her life is so dismal. Even Lula and Grandma's lives looked a lot better than hers. Now I bet Janet E. just writes just one more, to make it an even dozen. What do you think?

Bob finished the siding on the shop, he only has the soffits to finish. Now there has been much discussion about how to put them up. But I think we finally have it figured out. We kept asking people if they knew how to do soffits and no one knows. So I guess it's safe to go ahead and put them up and no one will know if they are not done right. Right!

Next weekend we are going to Mississippi to visit my mom and dad. It will be good to see them. Bob, Kevin and I will travel on Thursday night, stop somewhere to sleep and then finish the trip on Friday morning. This will be the first time that Bob has made a trip down to the gulf. I think we will go to New Orleans and maybe swim in the gulf. Of course Bob may not want to swim with his broken ribs. So I guess he can watch or maybe look for shells, Ha Ha!

The next book I am going to read is titled Eventide, it is about a town called Holt, Colorado. The library director, Micaela, where I work ordered the book since I am a Holt and I am from Colorado. Clever huh! I will let you know what it is like. Now my new strategy is that I will read when I walk on the treadmill and at night when I can't sleep (except tonight I am blogging). Then the rest of the time I am going to really study for the GRE. I need to take this test before I can enter the MLS program at Emporia University. Now why am I doing this? Oh yes so I can go back to school and acquire a Masters of Library Science. What am I thinking!!

Bucket vs. gut!

I know I have not talked about loosing weight much. Wonder why. Oh yes I remember now, it is because I am in that place where I want to say enough. BUT I have made a resolution not to quit this time. So if I have a bad eating week that is ok. I will have a better one this week. I have lost about 15 lbs. but I keep thinking that this is just a drop in the bucket. I guess I just want the bucket to get smaller. Ha! No I think I meant for my gut to get smaller, yes I am still doing my sit-ups. I average about 30-35 every other day. Fun stuff!!

Bangkok Tattoo and Stephanie

“Bangkok Tattoo” was quite an "enlightening" book. The setting of the murder mystery was located in the unseemly side of Bangkok, Thailand. When I was reading the book I tried to think as a Thai would think. But I kept going back to the way of American thinking. The book did go into some detail about Buddhism and the influence that it has in Thailand. When I was in Okinawa last year I talked to a few of the enlisted men there. Most of them loved Thailand. Now I know why. Now I can say this with little conviction. After I finished the book I got to thinking that maybe Thailand is not as bad as the author portrayed. What I mean is that if someone in Thailand read a book about the unseemly side of America I am sure they would have a horrid impression of our way of life. So actually I suppose there is good and evil in all countries. It was one of those books that stay with you for a few days.
I am now reading the new Janet Evanovich book, “Eleven on Top”. I am about half way through. This is the 11th of the series. In this book Stephanie Plum has quit being a bounty hunter. But I think the “bounty hunter” has not quit her. The characters are still funny and after 11 books they are like family to me. In fact this morning as I read while I was on the treadmill I was feeling a little like Rex, Stephanie’s pet hamster. He was walking in his wheel and here I am on the treadmill. Well better go for now.
Love to all, Ronda

Busy! Busy!

The last few weeks have very eventful. Let's see, on a Monday poor Kayl hit poor Tristyn's head and his tooth fell out. Then on Tuesday my father, fell when a scaffold broke and thankGod nothing broke on him. He did have to stay in the hospital over night but he was only bruised inside. Then on Wednesday my husband Bob fell from a 8 ft. ladder and broke number nine and ten ribs on his left side. Then to top it off on Saturday I opened the top of my closet and it was full of mold. I thought this would make a great biology experiment. Whew! Then of course we had to clean it up with bleach water and repaint the closet with kilz paint. I kept thinking "thank you Lord, everything could have been much worse than it was". Isn't it funny how a person can have peace in the chaos.
The next week was much calmer, I did go to Overland Park for a conference at Johnson County Community College. We gave a presentation on our adventures with a wireless mobile lab. I went with the reference librarian. We had a great time. This was the first presentation that I had ever done. It was good experience. The title of the presentation was "Judy and Ronda's Excellent Wireless Adventure". We went with the theme of "Bill and Ted's ExcellentAdventure". We included mpeg files from the movie and all of our headings were pretty "Excellent".
So far this week has been good. We did go out and work on the shop and I am holding the ladder for Bob. I told him "Do not get on the ladder unless I am with you". Does he listen No! of course not. OH Well gotta love him.