My vacation from my blog lasted much longer than my vacation from work did! I'm back and with lots but not lots to discuss.
First, I had a marvelous Christmas and a wonderful vacation from work until we went back. Then, the first week back, my office laid off some people. I still have a job, but it's a bigger job than it used to be. I'm grateful that I am working, I just wish I could get a handle on it so that I wasn't working 10 -11 hour days.
Just as I was starting to get a handle on the extra work, to add to my stress, I got a summons for jury duty. My first ever. I hoped that the trial would be settled out of court and I wouldn't have to go in. Not with my luck - I got to go for jury selection. And another credit to my luck, I got chosen for the jury. I spent 2 days (and one evening/night) at the courthouse. On the one hand, it was very interesting and I enjoyed seeing the inner workings of a trial (since my limited knowledge is based on what I picked up on TV and movies) but I didn't like making the decision of if someone was guilty or not-guilty. Since I am a little nervous about what people can find online - that's all I am going to say about it here. Great learning experience, hope to never have it again. :)
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"I cannot live without books."
Thomas Jefferson
"When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship."
Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you."
Winnie the Pooh
"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it." The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery
"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
"Because when you're imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile."
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
"Even for me life had it's gleams of sunshine."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
Winnie the Pooh
"I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true." Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
"His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him."
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"I told Dad about yesterday...I told him how I made all those mistakes.
'But you kept on playing?' Dad said. His eyes got wide when he said it. I could tell he was proud.
'Everybody does,' I said. 'You can't just get up and walk away every time you mess up. You'd never get anywhere."
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
"And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it."
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.”
Winnie the Pooh
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
"'Were they not satisfied where they were?' asked the little prince.
'No one is ever satisfied where he is,' said the switchman."
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Thomas Jefferson
"When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship."
Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
"If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together, there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you."
Winnie the Pooh
"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it." The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery
"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
"Because when you're imagining, you might as well imagine something worthwhile."
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
"Even for me life had it's gleams of sunshine."
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
Winnie the Pooh
"I've heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true." Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
"His own heart laughed, and that was quite enough for him."
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
"I told Dad about yesterday...I told him how I made all those mistakes.
'But you kept on playing?' Dad said. His eyes got wide when he said it. I could tell he was proud.
'Everybody does,' I said. 'You can't just get up and walk away every time you mess up. You'd never get anywhere."
A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
"And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it."
The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo
“Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would I'd never leave.”
Winnie the Pooh
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
"'Were they not satisfied where they were?' asked the little prince.
'No one is ever satisfied where he is,' said the switchman."
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"It didn't matter. He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about."
Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet by Jamie Ford
"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
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3 comments:
Jury duty!?! I think I could find interest as you did but I sure don't want to ever have to. I'd rather read about it. Did you get paid? I will call you.
Yea! I'm glad to see an update! I always seem to get that darn jury duty summons. I actually forgot to turn in my exemption this last time and I had visions of paying a crazy fine or something but when I called them they were very understanding and just had to turn in the exemption late. The time before that, when we were living in Dallas, I didn't have a good excuse and I went in and got all the way up to the jury selection part. The case had to do with drunk driving and somehow I managed to reveal that I was a Mormon....so that was the end of that....all the people around me were like, oh man I should have used that! I was so relieved not to be picked.
I'm glad you survived lay-offs! Hope you're not working too hard! :)
I suppose because you work so much and do so well that your job is stable - yes? I hope all the extra work doesn't weigh you down. How are YOU?
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