Kindle....the sequel

Today a special box came for me from http://www.amazon.com/. I assumed it was a book of some sort that James had ordered for Christmas or my birthday, but instead, it was the surprise of my life. In t was a brand new Kindle 2.0 wireless e-book reader. It was not something I would have expected in my wildest fantasies. And I knew that this had been in the works for a while (apparently more than 2 months) because the Kindle is so popular that they are always on backorder. James actually ordered it before they had announced the Kindle 2.0, but later received notification that the newer version would be shipped. I was and still am floored. I would have never bought on for myself, because I think that is an awful lot of money to spend. In fact, I was hoping that after the Kindle 2.0 was released that perhaps I could get a good deal on someone's used Kindle 1.0.

The Kindle is going to open up a whole new world for me. I absolutely love to read, and now I can have hundreds or thousands of books saved on one little book-sized electronic device. AND I can download each book in a minute or less, and wireless downloads at that! I've discovered a number of sites with free books in the Kindle format, plus I can transfer word documents or .pdf files to my kindle as well. I may try to see if I can store and view sheet music in .pdf format as well. I realize that the music will be smaller than I wish, but to be able to have all my music available at a moment's notice without having to carry around my expandable file full of sheet music would be a dream come true!

I'm sure I will review the Kindle more in the future, but I did have to share my current musings while I am still so excited about my new toy...

Down for the count....

For the past 1+ week, I have been sick with some respiratory bug. Until Sunday, I had a fever most every day, and stuffy nose, cough and just felt like dirt. Last Friday, I had gone to the doctor because after 5 days of a fever, James insisted I go. So, I went, and he gave me antibiotics (though I really think this was viral) and he gave me a wonderful cough syrup that helped me sleep. I only take it at night, though, because sleeping all day wouldn't be good. Now I'm mostly better, which means I have to take care of all the things that either didn't get done while I was in bed, or that should have been taken care of and weren't. Fun stuff!

People are ruining our world!

Julia inspired today's post. A couple of weeks ago, we were walking back from the park and she noticed a lot of litter and other things along the way. She was getting very upset. She has watched the movie Wall-e and trash is a big deal on it, so she's starting to become aware that it's not good to just throw things on the ground. I only wish her big sister Sarah were as aware! She throws trash on the floor at our home- disgusting!




One of the litter items seen on our trip to the park.


Yep, a cigarette butt. Julia almost picked that one up. NASTY!


Just another piece of litter that is ruining our world!

I like purple

Those who know me, know that my favorite color is purple. I think this happened sometime around when Julia was a baby. I was pretty disgusted that most baby girl clothing was pink. Well, then they started coming out with some more cool stuff, in lavender and purple, so I started buying that up. I really didn't like pink much at all, although I did and still do like pink a heck of a lot better than orange or yellow. So, when Julia develops her first favorite color, it was orange. Now what is it? Pink. Yep, she likes to pick the colors I don't have an affinity for. Sarah, though, she's my buddy. Her absolute favorite color is blue. After that, she probably would pick sky blue or purple. Her least favorite color is absolutely, positively, without a doubt, pink. If you wish to annoy her, just buy her something in that color. She hates princesses, too, now. Oh, and for the record, James has a favorite color, sort of, BLACK. He said he wished that during school, he'd been able to respond more smartly to the teachers who complained that black wasn't really a color, but really, black absorbs all the colors so it is a representation of all colors, therefor he likes all the colors of the rainbow. But don't tell him I said so, because he likes black, that's his story and he's sticking to it.