Bury Christmess

The chaos of the season is upon us and I can hardly get a breath!  Between the confused Fed-Ex man that has left a door tag requiring a signature on each of the outside doors to our house, the tower of boxes brought down from the attic filled with our Christmas cheer and the Russian roulette of opening multiple Amazon boxes, I forgot to tell you about my prize!!!

Pam at Living Rancho Delux, had a little giveaway a few weeks ago and I won!!  She was giving away a copy of The Beekman Boys Heirloom Cookbook. I have always been interested in the boys, mainly because I have a little hometown version of my own.  I was so excited to win and I got a wonderful little package in the mail this week, complete with chocolate!!! 

Today is back to the chaos of setting up Christmas, but come happy hour I know I will get to sit and sip and glance through my new cookbook. Thank you Pam!!

Books, Books, Books

Every year my Christmas gifts seem to have a theme. One year it was the kitchen Christmas. I got pots and pans, all kinds of kitchen gadgets and cookbooks, it was one of my favorites. One year was my electronic Christmas. I got an ipod, a laptop and a DS. That was a good one too.

This year was my book Christmas. My husband got me an awesome book that I was really excited to read.

It took a little doing, but I am finally really into it. I have the Swedish movie in my Netflix queue and that will be next on my list. I think the American version of this movie will be out sometime this year and I would like to have read it and seen the foreign movie before hand.

I also got an old favorite from my aunt.

Stephen King is one of my very favorite authors. He has written some real stinkers, but the good ones, are oh-so-good. I have wanted to read this one for awhile. I have heard it is more like his older books (The Stand, Misery, Carrie) and those are my very favorite works. It is a big one and is going to require a commitment. No laundry or dinner for days!

I also got some knitting books and a great decorating book from my wish list on Amazon. My sister and her boyfriend got my a gift card to the big A, so I will be getting more reading material for sure.

I used to be a huge reader, back in the days before knitting and facebook. I would like to get back to that. I have decided to read more this year and these new books are a good start!