Help The Tittle Family!

Taking time out of my usual blog posts to make a special announcement and plea to you all:

A girl I know in Arkansas was killed, along with her father and sister, in a tornado this week. Now her mother is left alone to care for the remaining 7 children. Their home was completely destroyed and ripped from it's foundation in the storm, and all of their belongings are now gone.

If you would, please consider donating to the family's relief fund, Here.

If you can do nothing else, please at least share this post and keep the family in your prayers.

Thank you! 

Book of the Week: Horseradish

  A number of years ago I was having a rough day. I was near the end of my rope; then mom came home from the thrift store and handed me this book. It totally made my day, and this has since become one of my favorite books to show people. I absolutely adore Lemony Snicket's witty quotes!

 

 

Title: Horseradish

Author: Lemony Snicket

Synopsis:

Lemony Snicket's work is filled with bitter truths, like: 'It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself.' Or: 'It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.'

For all of life's ups and downs, its celebrations and its sorrows, here is a book to commemorate it all – especially for those not fully soothed by chicken soup. Witty and irreverent, Horseradish is a book with universal appeal, a delightful vehicle to introduce Snicket's uproariously unhappy observations to a crowd not yet familiar with the Baudelaires' misadventures.

I'm back! - Meanwhile At The Library...

I seem to go through phases. I write, I play guitar, I draw, I quilt, I do photography... My hobbies seem to cycle through. Clearly, I was out of the blogging phase for a while there. Now for the time being, I am back on the blogging train!

What has gotten me inspired to come back again? Partly, being there again today. I've had very limited work days this month (6, to be exact) due to my nursing home job taking up a lot of this month's otherwise available days. Then, I was supposed to work last week and I got sick. So, my 6 days went down to 5. At last, today I made my return!  After being away for a little over a week and then returning, I realize just how much I missed carrying around armloads of books. It felt good to push the cart and look at the expanse of stories, recipes, projects, and information packed into those bound stacks of parchment. Maybe I am a little too attached to "my" books?

By the end of my shift, the library was closed and the librarians, with a chuckle, told me I should head home. Yeah, I was told to go home from my job. Not too many people can say that, and fewer people can say they were slightly reluctant to obey the order. I like paging way too much :-)  Really though, what's not to like? On top of getting to handle 100+ books, I also came in to discover that there apparently is a holiday called National Library Workers Day. It happened on the 15th, and they gave me a gift card to Baskin Robins to celebrate!

So, I said "partly" the above was my reason for getting back to my library blog. The other part was this video I stumbled upon on Youtube that gave me a good laugh: