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It's snowing, not very hard, but enough to keep the schools closed in our area. Well, I don't think hard enough to keep the schools closed but no one consults me. I remember my parents taking the glass out of the storm door so we could climb out and go to school, the snow was so deep they couldn't swing the door out--snow days were few and far between--I guess that was the olden days :)

It's probably just as well, Junior woke with a fever and is complaining of a stomach ache, a little toast, a little Motrin and so far so good.

The hubby, good man that he is dug us out, and the neighbors on either side--Mrs. B is in her 70's and had a knee replacement about 6 months ago, on the other side is Miss B and she lives alone. Both would love to pay a neighborhood kid to dig them out but the kids don't seem all that interested in making money.

I finally finished a couple of books--one romance, okay/good--one women's fiction/chick lit, very good. I'm finding myself somewhat disenchanted with romance. I'm thinking I need a major break from romance. In the last couple of months I have more INYIM DNFs than books finished. There can't possibly be a problem with that many books and the last two books I really liked weren't romances.

The Romance: Date Me, Baby, One More Time by Stephanie Rowe. To be honest, I wasn't all that impressed. Fun story, but rather innocuous. Katie MacAlister called it "A hilarious underworld romp." I don't know how hilarious I'd consider it. Kind of cute though. I vacillated between giving it a B- and a C+.

The Women's Fiction/Chick Lit: Good Things by Mia King (click on the title for a link to B&N and a blurb). Debut novel I discovered on the "New Release" table at B&N the last time I was in. The cover caught my eye and I liked the blurb and I still have gift cards burning a hole in my pocket so I figured what the heck, not what I'd normally pick up but worth a try--I'm glad I did. This one I liked a lot. A nice story about a 40 year old woman finding herself again when life throws her a curve, and she even finds love, but the romance isn't the thrust of the story. After having a pity party she basically decides when life gives you a lemon make "Peace of Mind Tea", you thought I was going to say lemonade, but Peace of Mind Tea is one of a bunch of interesting recipes included in the back of the book.

Junior has just announced he's feeling much better and wants to go out and play in the snow--it's going to be an interesting day.

Have a good one and happy reading.

No, I didn't drop off the face of the earth...

When I don't blog or blog hop for a few days I feel like I've somehow dropped off the face of the earth, or at least my virtual part of it.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day. My husband surprised me with dinner out Tuesday night.

Well, it finally snowed, and sleeted and then snowed some more. And now it's freezing. School was closed yesterday during the storm, and the darling hubby decided to stay home and have a family day--games, videos and a Lionel train set up in the middle of the living room--it was a rather nice Valentine's Day. It was a good thing he stayed home because I would never have been able to dig out the end of the driveway before he got home. We had 5 inches of sleet and 6 or 7 of snow. The sleet weighed a ton and add to that what the plow does compacting it and I'd have crippled myself trying to move it.

School was closed again today, which is probably a good thing because my mini-van is frozen in the driveway. The hubby has 4WD and pulled right out, I'm not even sure he used it, but I'm going to have to get out there sometime today and dig out the van, we assumed I'd be able to pull out and just clean up the rest of the driveway--wrong.

This morning the Today Show they had a news story about a Peter Pan Peanut Butter recall, it's been connected to 300 cases of salmonella. Guess what Junior and I had for lunch yesterday? I opened the new jar yesterday and of course the lot number matched the recall, but so far we've not been sick...

With the exception of rereading bits and pieces of Linda Howard's Open Season I've not read anything in over a week--okay that's not true I've been struggling through Erin McCarthy's High Stakes, apparently it doesn't matter who writes vampire humor I don't like it. Normally, I really like Erin McCarthy's writing style and voice, but this isn't working for me at all. I think it's going to be an INYIM DNF.

Got to go, I'm going to do some blog hopping before I head outside to dig out the car.

Have a good one and happy reading.