General Happiness

You may have noticed that I am slowly (meaning at a snails pace) updating my blog. I'm not posting a whole lot, but I keep adding links and such- things that I find useful. My blog is not so much for public consumption, but more as portal for me to surf the Internet.

I recently signed up for a book sharing service called Bookmooch. It's great- because I list all my unwanted books for others to request, and as a result, I get to mooch books from others. The way it works is that for every book I post under inventory, I get a 1/10th of a point. For every book I send out (with postage usually at $1.59 or less), I get 1 whole point. So far, I've sent out 8 books- and received 8 books. The only catch is that you have to list books people are willing to mooch from you, which isn't actually all that hard if the books you are posting are not that obscure. I really recommend signing up for this if you have a lot of books to get rid of, or if you don't enjoy spending a lot of money on new books.

On the knitting front- I finished the Dad's Christmas Socks, my Christmas Socks, and I started my very first sweater, with yarn ordered for the next sweater. I do have intentions of posting pictures, but well, that requires me taking the pictures first- then getting them off the camera, and then resizing them to proper web page size. So it might take awhile.

Things I accomplished today...

• Wrote Out Christmas Cards. I only sent out 18 of them, and totally missed the Quast Side, but I have to start somewhere- next year I hope to get everybody. I'm also hoping that the cards get to where they are suppose to go, but I've got a week before they are due, and my guess is the cards will start arriving by Wednesday.
  
• Made Christmas Cookies. Orange-Coconut for those who want to know. The recipe is good, although next time, I'm doubleing the amount of Coconut extract and orange peel. Right now there is just hint of flavor, but I want a little bit more stronger taste.
  
• Wrapped Christmas Presents (almost) - I've got one present to wrap yet, but otherwise I'm set to go! I spend a lot of time wrapping presents. I've only got a few, and I like to make sure that they are beautiful. So far, no one has commented on the packages, but someday... I'm hoping.
  
• and Last but not least, I payed my bills. So now I don't have to do it the day or so before their due, like I normally do (and no, I've never receieved an overdue notice- Thank Goodness for automatic deductions, and online bill)
  

On other news, you may have noticed that I added reviews to my list of books I'm reading. After much thought, and deep consideration, I've decided on the Yeah! Eh! and Neh! rating system. Where a Yeah! rating means highly recommened, will read again. Eh! is: well, I Finished it, it was interesting, but not something I'm going to go around telling people how great the book is. and a Neh! reading is Unreadable, dry as chalk, why did they waste paper on this book! I thought about doing the smiley face system, like Em is doing, but realized that copying her might be in sort of bad taste, plus I really didn't want to have to code the stupid smiley faces in my blogger template. I'm lazy. I like keeping things easy.

P.S - If you havn't bought me my Christmas Present Yet, and Happen to have $66.00 I want, really really really want one of these.