I'm baaaack

I got a new laptop; therefore I must resume blogging. Otherwise, how will I fill the endless hours I will now spend at hip coffee shop d'jour? (aka Starbucks.) Actually I have not been to a coffee shop with my laptop yet but once I do...look out, world. You are unprepared for a level of nonproductivity such as this.

Actually, I have been quite productive lately, if by productive you mean producing things that are not entirely necessary. I suppose artsy-craftsy is the better term. For Christmas, I got my brother Michael a collection of recipes that I will cook for him. He is a vegetarian now but may as well be a tunatarian because I swear that's all he eats. If he cooks canned tuna, rice, cheese and hot sauce and bullies me into tasting it one more time, I will flip out. If he goes to Subway one more time and brags about how he was able to trick the Subway employee into giving him a tuna sub and a veggie sub with a side of tuna for the same price, I will flip out. Hence, the gift.

I also got a Kindle for my birthday and I've got to say, it's one of the greatest things ever. I now have every book I want to read, ever, right at my fingertips. It has already come in handy on the long train rides to and from Chicago. I mostly read classic literature, and anything over 100 years old is free due to public domain, so I am in book heaven right now. I finished up "Great Expectations" and am now ready to finish "Vanity Fair." I find that I read much quicker with my Kindle because I've cut down on the losing of books/forgetting of books. It's also much easier to read different things at one time. I tend to read at least 4 or 5 different books at a time, so when I go on trips, it's annoying to drag all those along. (And then I usually don't end up reading them all anyway.) Now, I can bring the entire collection and read the whole time, or not read a single word, and I've still only toted along something that weighs about 4 ounces.

I love my new Kindle so much that I have named it (Kendall) and am knitting a cozy for it. I will post instructions for this once I am done. I am making it up as I go, so the instructions do not exist yet.

So, that's all I've been doing lately in the way of all that is unimportant.

By the way, stop reading my blog posts and telling me in person how much you liked it. Comment on it so everyone will know how much you love me. Every time I get 0 comments on a post, God kills a kitten.