tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53494764401098611982024-03-05T21:18:40.865-05:00The Amazing Adulthood of AlexisThe World's Slowest Reader Blogs About BooksLexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.comBlogger529125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-64227027406400656102018-10-20T18:09:00.000-04:002018-10-20T18:09:03.503-04:00RAT Hour Eleven<span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.84px;">My eyes are getting tired. I think I should take a break and eat dinner. I'm not as young as I used to be! Once I finish my current magazine, I have another in line, and I received yet another in the mail today. I'm glad I have the Read-a-Thon to help me get caught up. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine, October issue</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Number of books read since you started: part of two different magazines, all of one magazine</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Pages read since last update: 38</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Running total of pages read since you started: 339</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Amount of time spent reading since last update: 114 minutes (more or less)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Running total of time spent reading since you started: 506 minutes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Mini-challenges completed: None - less blogging and more reading this time!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two chocolate chip cookies; water; four White Castle cheeseburger sliders; Loaded Baked Potato Pringles; some dry-roasted peanuts; gumdrops; currently eating Haagen-Dazs Rocky Road ice cream - my favorite!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px;">I'm going to go make myself some dinner and then try to get back to the reading!</span>Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-11350780594984347402018-10-20T16:05:00.001-04:002018-10-20T18:01:18.419-04:00RAT Hour Nine<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.84px;">Better going these last couple hours. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine, September issue; Food Network magazine, October issue</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Number of books read since you started: part of two different magazines, all of one magazine</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Pages read since last update: 96</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Running total of pages read since you started: 301</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Amount of time spent reading since last update: 97 minutes (more or less)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Running total of time spent reading since you started: 392 minutes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Mini-challenges completed: None - less blogging and more reading this time!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.84px;">Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.84px;">What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two chocolate chip cookies; water; four White Castle cheeseburger sliders; Loaded Baked Potato Pringles; some dry-roasted peanuts; gumdrops; currently eating Haagen-Dazs Rocky Road ice cream - my favorite!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 15.84px;"><br /></span>Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-47744306355117035812018-10-20T14:20:00.000-04:002018-10-20T14:20:10.618-04:00RAT Hour Seven<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Still making slow progress. I'm easily distracted, but I'm doing well at staying off my games. Not so well at staying off Facebook. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine, September issue</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Number of books read since you started: part of two different magazines</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Pages read since last update: 53</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Running total of pages read since you started: 205</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Amount of time spent reading since last update: 99 minutes (more or less)</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Running total of time spent reading since you started: 295 minutes</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Mini-challenges completed: None - less blogging and more reading this time!</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two chocolate chip cookies; water; four White Castle cheeseburger sliders; Loaded Baked Potato Pringles; some dry-roasted peanuts; gumdrops</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">I ate lunch and have been doing some serious snacking since my last update. Getting tired. Maybe I should take a nap?</span>Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-24706088579517009062018-10-20T12:18:00.003-04:002018-10-20T12:18:44.856-04:00RAT Hour FiveStill going strong!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Title of book(s) read since last update: Rachael Ray Every Day magazine, July/August issue; Food Network magazine, September issue (I'm SOOO far behind on my magazine reading)</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Number of books read since you started: part of two different magazines</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Pages read since last update: 47</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Running total of pages read since you started: 152</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Amount of time spent reading since last update: 85 minutes (more or less)</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Running total of time spent reading since you started: 196 minutes</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Mini-challenges completed: None - less blogging and more reading this time!</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</span><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; float: none; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; width: auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two chocolate chip cookies; water</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15.84px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">Back to it. The last couple of hours I got distracted. Going to try to focus more this time!</span>Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-44621621126035919362018-10-20T10:14:00.004-04:002018-10-20T10:14:56.488-04:00It's That Time Again!!!It's time for the 24-Hour Read-a-Thon!!! My favorite time of year (and October's is my favorite RAT) and I'm once again reading from sunny South Florida. Here's how it's going so far:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Title of book(s) read since last update: Rachael Ray Every Day magazine, July/August issue; Food Network magazine, September issue (I'm SOOO far behind on my magazine reading)</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Number of books read since you started: part of two different magazines</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Pages read since last update: 105</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of pages read since you started: 105</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 111 minutes (more or less)</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 111 minutes</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Mini-challenges completed: None - less blogging and more reading this time!</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: none; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two chocolate chip cookies for breakfast</span></span></span><br />
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I've been spending a lot of time on my various devices lately, so reading has really taken a backseat. I'm using today to get caught up on magazine reading and maybe start a new book. My wonderful book club - the Treasure Coast Book Club, which we started one year ago today, has kept me in books for most of the year. We meet about every six weeks and talk about life, eat yummy delicious food, maybe drink a little wine (gin, in my case), and discuss the book selection for that meeting. I love getting together with these wonderful ladies (and one guy...sometimes) - we were already friends before the book club, but now I feel we are much more consistent in our friendship and it has definitely brought us all closer together. I'm hoping our last book club meeting of the year in early December will be well-attended, so we can close out 2018 with a bang!Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-77054997963512994662018-04-28T23:46:00.000-04:002018-04-28T23:46:12.109-04:00RAT: Hours 15 and 16I'm calling it quits. My eyes are failing me, which is a new thing recently...I'm squinting because they are tired. I guess that's what happens in your forties. Tomorrow is my birthday and I'll be 41, so maybe it's time to update the prescription on my glasses!<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine, April issue; Rachael Ray Every Day magazine, April issue</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Number of books read since you started: part of two different magazines and three full magazines</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Pages read since last update: 71</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of pages read since you started: 436</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 90 minutes (more or less)</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 690 minutes</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two bacon, egg, and cheese Toaster Scrambles; some honeydew melon; water; four leftover Buffalo Chicken Biscuit Sliders for lunch; more water; <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the BEST cheese in the world (found at Aldi's, of all places) - Pepperoni Marinara mozzarella; sour ball candies from Cracker Barrel; yet more water; Jimmy John's for dinner; wate; Cherry Coke for the caffeine factor; Jelly Belly jellybeans; more water; some mozzarella cheese; Cheez-Its; gum; more Jelly Belly jellybeans (I think I was eating to keep myself awake!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This has been a really productive Read-a-Thon for me. I haven't been reading as much lately as I usually do, so it was nice to have a day with nothing else to worry about, so I could get caught up on some of my magazines. I'm going to keep plugging along with them, so I can soon start on our next book club read,<i> Do Not Become Alarmed</i>. I hope you all have had a successful Read-a-Thon, too, whatever that means to you. See you in October!</span></span></div>
<i></i><i></i><br />Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-18816963450073951882018-04-28T21:56:00.002-04:002018-04-28T21:56:32.846-04:00RAT: Hours 13 and 14Found myself getting distracted again. Social media is the devil!<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine, April issue</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Number of books read since you started: part of two different magazines and two full magazines</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Pages read since last update: 29</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of pages read since you started: 365</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 90 minutes (more or less)</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 600 minutes</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two bacon, egg, and cheese Toaster Scrambles; some honeydew melon; water; four leftover Buffalo Chicken Biscuit Sliders for lunch; more water; <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the BEST cheese in the world (found at Aldi's, of all places) - Pepperoni Marinara mozzarella; sour ball candies from Cracker Barrel; yet more water; Jimmy John's for dinner; water; Cherry Coke for the caffeine factor; Jelly Belly jellybeans!</span></span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Still feeling up to reading, although this is the time of night I usually start falling asleep. Hope I can make it a little further!.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-4630572652409254782018-04-28T19:53:00.002-04:002018-04-28T21:56:47.404-04:00RAT: Hours 11 and 12I feel good about the last couple of hours...very productive!<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Title of book(s) read since last update: Rachael Ray Every Day, March issue; Food Network magazine, April issue</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Number of books read since you started: part of two different magazines and two full magazines</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Pages read since last update: 116</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of pages read since you started: 336</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 90 minutes (more or less)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 510 minutes</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two bacon, egg, and cheese Toaster Scrambles; some honeydew melon; water; four leftover Buffalo Chicken Biscuit Sliders for lunch; more water; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the BEST cheese in the world (found at Aldi's, of all places) - Pepperoni Marinara mozzarella; sour ball candies from Cracker Barrel; yet more water; Jimmy John's for dinner; water; Cherry Coke for the caffeine factor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">How are YOU doing this Read-a-Thon? How many pages have you read? How many books (or magazines)? What's been your favorite snack? See you again in a couple more hours!!!</span></span></div>
<br />Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-20434859299053686062018-04-28T17:57:00.001-04:002018-04-28T17:57:24.961-04:00RAT: Hours Nine and Ten<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I swear I read the whole two hours, but I only made it through about half of what I read before my last update! Wonder why...</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Title of book(s) read since last update: Rachael Ray Every Day, March issue</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Number of books read since you started: part of two different magazines and on full magazine</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Pages read since last update: 38</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of pages read since you started: 220</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 90 minutes (more or less)</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 420 minutes</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two bacon, egg, and cheese Toaster Scrambles; some honeydew melon; water; four leftover Buffalo Chicken Biscuit Sliders for lunch; more water; <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the BEST cheese in the world (found at Aldi's, of all places) - Pepperoni Marinara mozzarella; sour ball candies from Cracker Barrel; yet more water; Jimmy John's for dinner; water; Cherry Coke for the caffeine factor.</span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ten hours in and the time is going faster than ever!!! I'm going to really crank out some pages before I get too tired this evening.</span></span></div>
<br />Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-18173812849206127632018-04-28T16:03:00.001-04:002018-04-28T16:03:31.818-04:00RAT: Hour EightI've behaved myself much better in the last two hours! I even finished another magazine!!!<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine, March issue; Rachael Ray Every Day magazine, March issue</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Number of books read since you started: part of two different magazines, and one whole magazine</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Pages read since last update: 71</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of pages read since you started: 182</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 90 minutes (more or less)</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 330f minutes</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two bacon, egg, and cheese Toaster Scrambles; some honeydew melon; water; four leftover Buffalo Chicken Biscuit Sliders for lunch; more water; the BEST cheese in the world (found at Aldi's, of all places) - Pepperoni Marinara mozzarella; sour ball candies from Cracker Barrel; yet more water</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I'm on a roll, so I'm going back to the magazines. The dinner break will be upon us soon and I want to get as much done before then as I can!</span></div>
<br />Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-28188125087458195182018-04-28T13:55:00.000-04:002018-04-28T13:55:00.293-04:00RAT: End of Hour 6Still finding myself distracted...but I read more this time than last update. Making lunch was unavoidable, but some of the other stuff was not, lol.<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine, March issue</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Number of books read since you started: part of two different magazines</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Pages read since last update: 34</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of pages read since you started: 111</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 90 minutes (more or less)</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 240 minutes</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two bacon, egg, and cheese Toaster Scrambles; some honeydew melon; water; four leftover Buffalo Chicken Biscuit Sliders for lunch; more water.</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Just a quick update and now back to the reading part of the Read-a-Thon!.</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-56949719293098271802018-04-28T12:03:00.001-04:002018-04-28T12:03:15.725-04:00RAT: Entering Hour Five<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Slow reading going on here. I keep getting distracted. But at least I'm reading, right?!</span><br />
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine, March issue</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Number of books read since you started: part of two different magazines</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Pages read since last update: 20</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of pages read since you started: 77</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 90 minutes (more or less)</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 150 minutes</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; color: #cceedd; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.4px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two bacon, egg, and cheese Toaster Scrambles; some honeydew melon; water.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #cceedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 12.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I'm going to go make my lunch and get back to it. I'm going to try to not be so distracted this time around!</span></div>
<br />Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-21598624080017755682018-04-28T10:14:00.003-04:002018-04-28T10:14:57.795-04:00RAT: Entering Hour Three This is just a post for my own information...I like to keep track of this stuff.<br />
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Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine January/February issue; Food Network magazine March issue.</div>
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Number of books read since you started: finished one magazine, read part of a second magazine.</div>
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Pages read since last update: 57</div>
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Running total of pages read since you started: 57</div>
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Amount of time spent reading since last update: 60 minutes (more or less)</div>
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Running total of time spent reading since you started: 60 minutes</div>
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Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme</div>
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Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.</div>
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What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two bacon, egg, and cheese Toaster Scrambles.</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-37771272725847942052018-04-28T10:07:00.002-04:002018-04-28T10:07:36.732-04:00Read-a-thon Radness! End of Hour Two UpdateYes, I'm doing Dewey's Read-a-Thon once again. I've only missed one or two since it started, back in October, 2007. I did get a late start this morning, beginning at 9, instead of 8, but I'll make it up tomorrow morning. Here's the opening survey:<br />
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1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? As always, sunny south Florida!<br />
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2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to today? I'm catching up on magazine reading (I'm like two or three months behind on my magazines), so if I make it to a book, that's the one!<br />
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3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? I have some Jelly Belly jellybeans...<br />
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4) Tell us a little something about yourself. I am a reluctant reader these days...life is so busy. But the book club we started locally six months ago is still rolling along and I am loving it!!!<br />
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5) If you participated in the last Read-a-Thon, what is something you'll do differently today? I DID participate in the last RAT, and I will try to read more hours today. I didn't do so well last time...<br />
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Back to the books (er, magazines)!!! Happy reading, everyone!Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-44915273751736838372017-10-21T22:01:00.002-04:002017-10-21T22:01:36.441-04:00RAT: Hour FourteenGetting sleeeeeppyyyy... I was distracted THIS time around by TV and I took a break to play a game on my Kindle, too. I just needed to take a break from reading. I'll probably get another hour or so in, but, honestly, I'm kind of feeling like going to bed.<br />
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Title of book(s) read since last update: Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook.<br /> Number of books read since you started: part of two books; one magazine.<br /> Pages read since last update: 20<br /> Running total of pages read since you started: 294<br /> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 120 minutes (more or less)<br /> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 720 minutes<br /> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme; Traveler's Log; Readathon Memories; Thrills and Chills;<br /> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.<br /> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two Eggos with margarine; water with lime; half a leftover meatball sub; the vaguely racist-sounding "Oriental" flavored ramen noodles; High Road Aztec Chocolate ice cream - do yourself a favor and get some of this stuff; more water; Crab Rangoon; egg drop soup; an egg roll; vegetable fried rice; cashew chicken; sweet and sour chicken.<br />
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Going to try to keep plugging along. My book is good, but my eyes are droopy.<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-43249881776924108142017-10-21T20:02:00.000-04:002017-10-21T20:02:35.294-04:00RAT: Wrapping Up Hour Twelve - Halfway Through!I made good progress over the last two hours. Hubby has abandoned the Read-a-Thon and now has the living room TV on, so I may not make as much progress in the next two hours. The good news is that I finished my magazine, and I am now on to a medical thriller. This book is the third in the series and, from past experience, should be a fast, engrossing read!<br />
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Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine; Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook.<br /> Number of books read since you started: part of two books; one magazine.<br /> Pages read since last update: 65<br /> Running total of pages read since you started: 274<br /> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 120 minutes (more or less)<br /> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 720 minutes<br /> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme; Traveler's Log; Readathon Memories; Thrills and Chills;<br /> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.<br /> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two Eggos with margarine; water with lime; half a leftover meatball sub; the vaguely racist-sounding "Oriental" flavored ramen noodles; High Road Aztec Chocolate ice cream - do yourself a favor and get some of this stuff; more water; Crab Rangoon; egg drop soup; an egg roll; vegetable fried rice; cashew chicken.<br />
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The squirrels are remaining quiet, perhaps they have gone to bed. I'm getting a little sleepy, so I might make some coffee to try to stay awake. I will probably take a break around 9:00 to watch a little TV with Hubby and give my eyes a break. Happy reading!<br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-65400576504403011302017-10-21T18:01:00.000-04:002017-10-21T18:01:13.292-04:00RAT: Winning in Hour Ten!!!The squirrels have been behaving themselves in the last two hours, so I've been able to get more reading done. In the middle of a dinner break right now, so...<br />
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Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine<br /> Number of books read since you started: part of one book; part of one magazine.<br /> Pages read since last update: 51<br /> Running total of pages read since you started: 209<br /> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 120 minutes (more or less)<br /> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 600 minutes<br /> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme; Traveler's Log; Readathon Memories; Thrills and Chills;<br /> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.<br /> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two Eggos with margarine; water with lime; half a leftover meatball sub; the vaguely racist-sounding "Oriental" flavored ramen noodles; High Road Aztec Chocolate ice cream - do yourself a favor and get some of this stuff; more water; Crab Rangoon; egg drop soup; an egg roll.<br />
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Going to try to keep up the momentum! Let's hope the obnoxious squirrels cooperate.Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-82629173864300898382017-10-21T16:01:00.000-04:002017-10-21T16:01:22.400-04:00RAT: Hour EightFeeling good! Still being distracted, but trying to read, too.<br />
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<br />Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine<br /> Number of books read since you started: part of one book; part of one magazine.<br /> Pages read since last update: 26 (see above re: distractions)<br /> Running total of pages read since you started: 158<br /> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 120 minutes (more or less)<br /> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 480 minutes<br /> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme; Traveler's Log; Readathon Memories; Thrills and Chills;<br /> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.<br /> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two Eggos with margarine; water with lime; half a leftover meatball sub; the vaguely racist-sounding "Oriental" flavored ramen noodles; High Road Aztec Chocolate ice cream - do yourself a favor and get some of this stuff.<br />
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Dinner time will be upon us in the next couple of hours. In grand Read-a-Thon tradition, I will NOT be cooking. I think we'll be ordering Chinese. So, let's get back to all that reading!!!Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-50553409168256461292017-10-21T14:05:00.003-04:002017-10-21T14:05:45.596-04:00RAT: Hour Six and Counting!Still being distracted by squirrels and Facebook, dammit. And lunch. I did take a break to make and eat lunch. I'm going to buckle down the next couple of hours, because my page total is just pathetic!!!<br />
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Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine<br /> Number of books read since you started: part of one book; part of one magazine.<br /> Pages read since last update: 25 (see above re: distractions)<br /> Running total of pages read since you started: 132<br /> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 120 minutes (more or less)<br /> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 360 minutes<br /> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme; Traveler's Log; Readathon Memories<br /> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.<br /> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two Eggos with margarine; water with lime; half a leftover meatball sub; the vaguely racist-sounding "Oriental" flavored ramen noodles.<br />
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Okay, doubling down NOW. I mean, after I do this <a href="https://gabsaboutbooks.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/crossword-puzzle-deweys-oct-2017.pdf">bookish crossword puzzle</a> for the next challenge!Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-86253933266092525512017-10-21T12:04:00.000-04:002017-10-21T12:04:04.989-04:00RAT: Heading Into Hour Five!Still being distracted by the squirrels and Facebooking about squirrel drama... But also by challenges. Not much reading got done these last two hours.<br />
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Title of book(s) read since last update: Food Network magazine<br /> Number of books read since you started: part of one book; part of one magazine.<br /> Pages read since last update: 25 (see above re: distractions)<br /> Running total of pages read since you started: 107<br /> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 120 minutes<br /> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 240 minutes (well, not all of it reading, obvs)<br /> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme; Traveler's Log; Readathon Memories<br /> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.<br /> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two Eggos with margarine<br />
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Going to eat lunch now and try to ignore the stupid squirrels. And Facebook. Facebook is the biggest time suck!<br />
<br />Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-20503284936682104112017-10-21T10:03:00.000-04:002017-10-21T10:03:03.030-04:00RAT Hour TwoComing down to the end of Hour Two and I've been a bit distracted. We currently have a squirrel in our wall and it is driving me NUTS (no pun intended). Plus Facebook and other stuff. But I finished a book I'd started pre-Read-a-thon and have now begun some magazine reading! Hubby is in the bedroom reading comics, while I lounge out on the couch.<br />
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Title of book(s) read since last update: <i>Drowned Ammet</i> by Diana Wynne Jones; Food Network magazine<br /> Number of books read since you started: part of one book; part of one magazine.<br /> Pages read since last update: 82 (see above re: distractions)<br /> Running total of pages read since you started: 82<br /> Amount of time spent reading since last update: 120 minutes<br /> Running total of time spent reading since you started: 120 minutes<br /> Mini-challenges completed: Opening meme; Traveler's Log<br /> Other participants you’ve visited: None, yet.<br /> What I've eaten/drunk: Coffee; two Eggos with margarine.<br />
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I'd like to focus more on reading for the next two hours, instead of being distracted by stupid squirrels and whatnot. Back to it!Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-81638655785632435072017-10-21T08:04:00.000-04:002017-10-21T08:04:03.646-04:00Read-a-Thon: Hour ZeroWell, it's been a while since my last RAT. My birthday weekend complicated things in April, and I can't remember if I participated last October or not. I think I read, but didn't blog? Anyway, trying to get back on the blogging wagon...<br />
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1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? Overcast South Florida<br />
<br />2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? Finishing my current read, <i>Drowned Ammet.</i><br />
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<br />4) Tell us a little something about yourself! I'm a busy lady these days, so I haven't blogged since last summer. Still reading, slowly, but not at the rate I would like to be. Oh! And I just joined my first book club yesterday!!! Our first meeting is in November!<br />
<br />5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to? I wasn't a part of the LAST Read-a-Thon, but I have participated in almost all the other ones. I'll mostly be using my tried and true methods of slowly consuming one book at a time, though.<br />
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Happy reading!Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-63030900564612524022016-07-09T20:51:00.002-04:002016-07-09T20:51:11.887-04:00Review: Show Me the Way by Jennifer Lauck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wow. It's been like four months since I posted anything here. Well, I'm not dead, but life seems to be getting in my way more than normal. I'm still working hard at my Jamberry business, which takes up a lot of my spare time, so I am not reading as much as I used to, and I'm certainly not blogging much at all, or even reading others' blogs. I do miss it, but I love my newest job, too, so I tend to do the thing that brings in money.<br />
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I read Jennifer Lauck's <i>Blackbird </i>last year, and then the sequel, <i>Still Waters</i>, and now this third in the series of memoirs. I finished this back in February, so I have no idea if I can recall enough of the book to do a really solid review, but I'll try. This installment covers Lauck's experiences in motherhood. It was both funny and sad, like all of her work. It was good. I can't really think of much else to say about it, since I don't remember much. I remember that I liked it, though.<br />
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Four out of five Whatevers. Recommended for those who have read the rest of the series, for anyone struggling through parenthood, or those who just enjoy memoirs in general.<br />
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2016-4Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-11679859949208858422016-03-05T19:19:00.003-05:002016-03-05T19:19:44.028-05:00Review: Downside Girls by Jaine Fenn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This Kindle book was a review copy from Library Thing Early Reviewers. I'm glad I received it. I finished this book a month ago, but I've been so busy that I haven't had the time to review it. It was short, only four short stories that take place in the world Jaine Fenn created for her longer novels. It's a world in which some folks live on the Topside, where gravity is normal and life is much like it is for us today. Then, there are the Downsiders, those who live...underneath. Where, if you fall, you fall into nothingness, so there are nets to catch those who can't hold on. The two worlds don't often mix, and those on the Topside view Downsiders quite negatively. Then, there is a third category of people, the Angels. They impose the will of the people, taking out those in the public eye that have broken the public trust.<br />
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These four stories tell of four women who live in this world. There isn't much to say about plotting. It is there, and the situations these women find themselves in are interesting, but these are short stories, so plot is only a snippet. Setting is the main character here, and Fenn does an excellent job drawing one in to this world she has created. Such a good job, in fact, that I now want to check out one of her regular length novels.<br />
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Five out of five Whatevers. It kept me coming back, took almost no time to read, and has inspired me to look for more from Fenn.<br />
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2016-3Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349476440109861198.post-11163880729253030102016-02-14T19:08:00.003-05:002016-02-14T19:09:43.912-05:00Review: Breaking the Rules by Barbara Taylor Bradford<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, THIS, I believe, is actually the final installment (so far) in the Emma Harte series. I thought the last one was, but not so. This book follows M, an unknown young woman (although the reader does suspect she is somehow related to the Harte family, as this is in the series) as she begins her pursuit of a modeling career in the US. You know that she has left home and family behind, but not why. It is clear that she is running from something.<br />
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I didn't love this one as much as I have others in the series. It takes a while for the reader to warm up to it, as M is basically a stranger to us for the first half to two-thirds of the novel. Eventually, her real identity is revealed and the book takes on the more familiar trappings of a typical Barbara Taylor Bradford book, bringing in the other characters we've come to know over the course of the series.<br />
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One thing I didn't like about this entry in the series is that things seem to happen way too fast to M. She meets Larry Vaughan and falls instantly in love with hime. She becomes a modeling superstar almost overnight. It's not realistic. And it's not something I remember from the other books. Maybe I am forgetting some of that, and maybe it was more glaring in this novel because the beginning of the book was a "mystery" as far as M's true identity was concerned. Like, maybe when the insta-love and insta-fame happens to a Harte, it's less glaring? Because the Hartes are clearly the cream of the crop, so it's kind of expected that they will continue to be blessed in every way...<br />
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Three out of five Whatevers for this one. I only really got into it about halfway through, when M's real identity was revealed. Definitely should be read by completists, intent on finishing the series, but don't read it as a stand-alone, for sure. The original is still the best...<i>A Woman of Substance</i> is unequalled in the rest of the series.<br />
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So, we just found out this week that the company I just joined, Jamberry, is expanding into the UK! I'm really excited. I'd love to break into this market. If anyone reading is from the UK and interested in a direct sales business that is really rewarding, come visit my Facebook page, <a href="https://facebook.com/alexisvelozijc">https://facebook.com/alexisvelozijc</a>, to learn more about Jamberry. Better yet, send me a message and we'll chat, I'll send you a sample, and walk you through the company. You could get in at the beginning of a business that is really going to explode in the UK! Okay, I'll cool it for now. I don't want my blog to turn into a giant Jamberry marketing tool. I just love what I'm doing right now and am very excited about it.Lexihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06867226903227387373noreply@blogger.com0