Moving on...

Hey friendlies.

The post for The Thirteenth Tale is forthcoming.  I actually have (some) good excuses this time!

1.  I lost count of the number of times the word "ghost" makes an appearance.  Convinced that a ghost was indeed about to present itself on any next page of the book while I was reading, I did not allow myself to read it if I was home alone.  I am seriously the biggest wimp about anything paranormal, so this pushed my limits.  SPOILER ALERT:  I feel like a huge idiot now.

2.  Because I had to read something else while Kyle worked (see above), I decided to let myself read something sad (not that TTT, as we'll call the current read for the duration of this post, wasn't pretty sad) and wintery because it was kind of sad and wintery even here in SC.  I also wanted something familiar, so I broke out the perfect book to meet all criteria: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See.  I'll actually do a post about it after TTT, so be on the lookout because I finished it last night!  It's a reread, but one I've greatly enjoyed and I found myself wanting to read it instead of TTT even if Kyle did happen to be home to protect me from the 'g' word (to which he made the very good point: what the heck would he do to protect me from a ghost anyway?), though TTT was good.  I just needed the familiar sometimes.

3.  My sister's having a baby.  I'm pretty much 3000% sure I've mentioned this already because I'M GONNA BE AN AUNT and I'm kinda excited.  KINDA!  Yep.  I can't focus if I start thinking about baby projects.  And I am a total slacker because her baby shower was this weekend and I didn't have my projects done in time.  Umm.. I suck at life.

4.  I started a new Bible reading plan that my church is working through together.  It's called OWNIT365 NT+ if you want to look it up.  We read the whole New Testament in a year, one chapter at a time, with one Old Testament chapter each weekend.  I really dig it so far, but it is going to cut back my book club reading time some.

5.  I have been spending way too much time playing the SIMS on my kindle.  I blame being friendless.

Anyway, those are 5 of my top reasons for not posting on TTT yet, but I'm done with the book so it's coming soon!  If you're done with it, feel free to move on to Snow Flower and the Secret Fan.  I think you'll like it if you go in with an open mind expecting some very different culture than we are used to here in the good ol' USA.

Love and huggles.