I’ve read in the car, on my couch, in my office, at the restaurant and even at Barnes & Noble.  I’m looking very forward to taking it camping with me this summer as well.

Sure there are things that could be improved but the less than advertised battery life is not going to keep me down!  Can’t say I’m thrilled with the way ebook prices are fluctuating either.  I mean some of the ebooks are going for more than a hard cover!  That’s in insane.  I won’t pay more for an ebook than I would for a mass market or trade paperback.

Going digital means that I’ve also discovered a whole new set of authors!  Those that are published exclusively in digital format.  Granted, I’ve read some horrible books but I’ve also found wonderful new favorites like Moira Rogers.  I loved the 2 books already published in the Southern Arcana series and can’t wait for the next one to come out.

Will print ever go away?  It’s so hard to say.  Right now I wouldn’t buy a magazine in digital format.  I’ll continue to buy hard cover copies of books that I want in my forever library (the one I’ll use when power is out and my nook has no charge or when the end of the world comes and I can’t leave my house) and there will most likely be those books I want NOW rather than waiting for the digital version to be released.

Really,  I love this thing!  Love, love, love it!

Really, it’s cool!

I wish I had been that cool!

At least it is for people who live in climates where they get snow.

On Facebook, as soon as it starts snowing, people start posting about it.  About the cold, the crappy driving conditions, the lousy drivers, the shoveling or snow blowing, snow days and missing warm weather.  And then people start to make snide comments like, “Oh, you live in XYZ, you can’t seriously be surprised by the snow!”

Seriously?  No, we aren’t.  But it’s something that a good portion of us love to hate.  Or once loved and now understand why people hate it.  It’s the great equalizer.  We know it’s coming but we’re still kind of surprised when it shows up.  Because living in an area where you get snow can be tough and sometimes it can be fun to commiserate with someone else who knows exactly what you are going through.

Once, when I was young and foolish, I loved winter.  Now that I’m getting night blind, old and crusty  – winter is not my favorite season!  Except when I’m inside.  Reading a book or watching TV.  And watching beautiful, fluffy white flakes drift gently down from the gray sky.  Then the girl child wants to go to the mall and I hate it again.

If I had gotten hot chocolate I would have happily sipped on it until it was gone.

But I got the sucky coffee and sat with it in my hand because, well, it’s cool to drink Starbuck’s coffee right?

And tea – drinking tea, to me, is grown up.  My mom always drank tea.  Carried tea bags in her purse so she wouldn’t be without if we happened to be somewhere that didn’t have tea.  Mom drinks her tea with a bit of cream and a bit of sugar.  Me? I think most tea is nasty.  Except for Bigelow Vanilla Chai tea.  Which rocks!  With way too much Spenda and 2% milk.  I slurp with satisfaction as hard core tea drinkers everywhere shudder and roll their eyes.  But I don’t care because, damn it, I like it!

Strangely, drinking most alcohol is not ‘grown-up’ to me.  Drinking wine is a grown-up thing to do though.  I hated wine as well but when on a tour of the Fingerlakes with my hubby and some friends a thousand years ago because I wanted to be grown up and accepted and do the ‘cool’ thing.  Amazingly to me I found quite a few wines that I liked.  That I still like.  And most hard core wine drinkers shudder and roll their eyes while I ship my sweet wines.  Do I care?  Nope.  Cause I like Red Cat (in the 1.5 liter bottle please) and Ravat 51.  And I drink them in excess with friends.

Are there drinks you have that you see as ‘grown-up’?  Or am I just a freak of nature?  *grin*

See, I’ve got an obsession with shiny, new things.  Everything from computers, to books, to college classes.  I’m scared the new will wear off and I’ll quit.  Again.

I’m good at quitting.  No, really, it’s okay.  I can be honest with myself.  Quitting and excuses are two things I excel at.  It makes finishing things I start very difficult.  Not impossible.  Nothing is impossible.  Just freeking hard.

So I’ve got myself a pretty English class (which the last time I tried I figured would be an easy A but ended being an easy D), a sparkly Psychology class, a Sociology class that gitters and idiot Math.  That one is kind of a a dull mud brown.  But it does have a new, still in the plastic, never opened CD ROM with an access code that belongs only to me.

Muddy Math is online but the rest are on campus.  Which scares the shit out of me.  Because I don’t like people I don’t know so much.  I like being in new places with people I don’t know even less.

But damn it – I really want to be a nurse.  For a myriad of reasons.  All of which are very good and most of which are private.  Not cause they are not good but because people I work with might read this blog.  Yikes!  One of the reasons has to do with retirement though.   Not mine but hubby’s.  And an RV- that is another reason.  It’s a good one.  Which maybe I’ll share.  Maybe not.

I *heart* my blog.