Winter blues... BLAH!

Had a bit of the Winter Blues yesterday. Wanted desperately to book a vacation to someplace warm. Had enough shoveling this season. (Mike was nice enough to point out that I have done ALMOST ALL of the shoveling this season!)

Felt down. Felt as if we NEVER GO ANYWHERE. (Mike reminds me that we spent a weekend in the Dells... and I just went to my parent's house for the weekend.) Part of me just misses GOING PLACES. You know, like NEW ADVENTURES. Felt depressed about the near-constant reminders that WE DON'T HAVE MONEY.

Felt anxious about the thought of my little boy going to kindergarten in the fall. Anxiety-filled because a small part of me fears that we will get all of our ducks in a row, only to discover that we'll be uprooted before it happens. (You know, like the time I convinced Mike to upgrade our license plates from WI to MN, only for him to get transferred a short time later. We've always teased that we'll get our house the way we want it, only to move... we put a new roof on and installed many new windows last year.)

Discouraged by the checkbook. Wanting to do auto bill payments next time around... as my brain struggles with spending money while earning NOTHING. Plus, I am NOT a numbers girl; that hurts my poor brain! (Seriously, it is expensive almost every time I leave the house! Gas, groceries, cat supplies... I was relieved when I sent Mike & Silas to the store and he realized HOW QUICKLY things add up! Tell me about it... I feel badly every time I shop!)

I miss opening the windows. I miss the sounds of the birds singing. I miss the smell of grass. I miss picnics. (Silas keeps BEGGING to have a picnic; we've eaten on the picnic blanket a few times recently.) I miss being outside with the boys!

That settles it... I'm going to go light my Yankee GRASS-scented candle while I go read a book!

TWENTY-fourteen Completed Reading List

JANUARY 2014
None completed. :(

FEBRUARY 2014
1. The Round House  2.3.14 Noon Book Club - January selection
2. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (#1) 2.16.14 Noon Book Club - February selection

MARCH 2014

3. The Weight of Silence 3.2.14
4. Drama 3.13.14   Library Graphic Book Club - April selection
(** This was my FIRST graphic novel EVER. Heard about the library's graphic novel book club while attending the bi-monthly library adult book club. Read the whole book in less than one hour; thinking I might be able to get hubby to attend a book club like that!)
5. Stumbling on Happiness 03.27.14  Noon Book Club - March selection

APRIL 2014
6. The Supreme's at Earle's All-U-Can-Eat 4.7.14 Chow Bella Foodie Book Club - April selection
7. How to be a Woman 4.25.14   Noon Book Club - April selection

8. SMILE (graphic novel) 4.27.14
9. Forty beads 4.27.14

JUNE 2014
10. Fly A Little Higher: How God Answered a Mom's Small Prayer in a Big Way (The Story of Zach Sobiech) 06.08.14
11. All Gone 06.13.14. Chow Bella June selection
12. Little Mercies (advanced reader copy) 06.22.14
13. Mother, Daughter, Me 06.27.14


JULY 2014

14. The End of Your Life Book Club 07.04.14  Library Book Club - July selection

15. Crossing to Safety 07.26.14 Noon book club July

AUGUST 2014

16. An Abundance of Katherines 08.07.14
17. Infidel 08.17.14 Noon book club August selection
All Fall Down - Jennifer Weiner, started; did not finish.

SEPTEMBER 2014
18. What Alice Forgot Library Book Club - September selection  09.06.14

OCTOBER 2014
19. The Hundred-Foot Journey 10.4.14
      September Noon Book Club selection (Oct 4) 
      Chow Bella October selection (Oct 9).
20. The Rosie Project 10.23.14

NOVEMBER 2014

21. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake Library Book Club - November selection

The Call of the Farm: An Unexpected Year of Getting Dirty, Home Cooking and Finding Myself Chow Bella December selection

DECEMBER 2014

List titles here.