Done with work. With this H1N1 going around, I saw 20 patients in 3 hours... thus, only 5 minutes of reading done... On my way home, to read!
I was planning on listening to the end of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown during my commute, however it finished about 30 seconds into the trip. So I have added The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell to my listening list. It was the only audiobook on my Ipod that I hadn't alreay heard
Total Time: 1hr 5min
Total Pages: 59
Time listening to audiobooks: 36 minutes
I am getting excited about this. Starts in less than 24 hours. My husband on the otherhand is not so excited. We had some unexpected work come up for the weekend. This happens when you live on a farm.... So I have added some audio books from Audible.com to my list, so I can listen to books while working on the Morton Building. I have decided to read for 8 hours. Maybe next time, I can get the weekend off work, send my husband out of town (or better yet, maybe I will go out of town ☻) and commit to a longer period of time...
Plus I will throw in a few Medical Journals that I need to catch up on, and the Oh So Exciting! Hospice and Palliative Meicine Approach to Life-Limiting Illness, that I am currently studying for my upcoming board certification in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
I have to work on Saturday, so that means several hours of clinic, and with the H1N1 flu rapidly spreading through our community, I anticipate being busy. I plan to bring The Indian in the cuboard for some light reading between patients (fingers crossed).
I really have never been interested in reading the Twilight series, but I hear so much of it, and they happened to have it at the library, so I thought I would give it a try. I havn't known anyone that didn't get absorbed in the book, so this may be a good time for me to check it off my list.
What are you reading for right now? Any suggestions on what I could add to my list?
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I am really excited about this. I could possibly devote a whole 24 hours to reading? Thank You, I would love to. Unfortunalty my work does not agree with me. I will be reading at every oportuntity available, and you should to!
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That may be a little misleading. I am listening to this and an Audible Book. In my car. When I am driving anyways.
"Reading" a book this way is an acquired taste. I spent many years with little free time except when I was in the car. I yearned to read more, and it was killing me to waste my time driving. I was even known to pull out a book and try to get a few pages in during traffic jams. Then I discovered the loca library had free books on audio tape and CD.
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I went through several in the next few months, never looking back at the sad NPR war stories, and what is our world coming to breaking news. I could pretend I didn't live in that world any more, and instead live in whatever fictional world I had checked out at the library this week. I had drifted away from these auidobooks as I have more time for actual reading these days, however will still enjoy one now and then.
I wasn't one of these people that had a strong opinion about this book before it came out. I didn't eagerly anticipate it as advertised. I found out about it from a friend, who happens to be a freemason, and was reading it. I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code a lot. I despised Angels & Demons: A Novel (Robert Langdon). So this book could be hit or miss.
Did I like it? Yes
Was it plausable? No
That is really OK with me. I don't read books solely for fact, I read them for enjoyability. I did enjoy this book. In fact, I found myself looking for places to drive, so I could listen a little longer. The story was brought me in, and made me think. Both things I enjoy in a book. I would recommend it to friends, but I would not put it at the top of my favorite book list.
And darn it, I didn't learn any secrets about my Freemason friends that I didn't already have a good idea about.
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Inspired by A Year Of Slowcooking I have been using my Crockpot more recently. Today makes three dinners in a row. Read this as three nights of no fuss, minimal cleanup, delicious dinners! My husband has raved about them all. I am really excited to serve him dinner tonight. I have been home for about an hour, and cannot stop tasting the delicious spaghetti sauce I made. It was simple. While I was cleaning up last night, I set everything out for this morning. Before I left for work at 5:30 am, I spent 5 minutes tossing everything in the crockpot. Couldn't be easier, couldn't taste better.
I garden, and have my own tomato sauce, so I started with one pint of that. While it is fresh from the garden wonderful, it is honestly a little thin, and not so robust on flavor. So I spiced it up.
1 small can of tomato paste
1 tbls brown sugar
2 tbls soy sauce
1/2 cup of water
1 medium onion coarsely chopped
1 pound thawed hamburger
1 can of mushroom pieces
Italian Herb Mix from Penzey's
Quick shot of cooking spray, dump everything in, place on low, and let simmer for eight hours. I could not believe how great the house smelled when I walked in. I tasted it about 5 or 6 times, burned my lip once, and added 1/2 box of spaghetti noodles. Just broke them in half and poked them under the sauce. No water to boil. No greasy pot from browning the ground beef. No fuss. I might add a splash of some red wine, if we open a bottle, but it really does not need the extra flavor. This all day simmer left my already good homemade sauce tasting better than I could have imagined. Try the same with your favorite store bought brand, and you will never cook spaghetti any other way again. The secret ingredients are really the soy sauce and the brown sugar. And just because I love it so much I will probably sprinkle a little Fool's Salt, on top, and over the green salad I am serving with the spaghetti.
The gloomy, rainy weather we have been having this week makes me long for the fall I know will be here soon. This inspired me to dig back to some of my great previous fall photos. Hopefully I will have the opportunity to get some new pictures before the snow falls!
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. So this book could be hit or miss.
