  I must say that I am quite proud of myself!! I just added a couple new sections to the left of my blog - adding links to other blogs I like, and books I'm reading! I figured out how to code all this new stuff in all by myself! I didn't even have to ask Ked to help me. Of course if I had royally screwed it up I would have yelled "Keeeeeeeeeeeeedddd!! " =) I've made a commitment to read 24 books this year. It may be a little ambitious, but hey, shoot for the stars and if you hit the moon you've still made progress! I've finished two so far and I'm cooking on the third. I remember those lazy summer days as I kid when I would just read and read and read.
That's probably why I had to get glasses in second grade and my eyes are so bad now! When I first got my glasses the eye doctor told my Mom to tell me to go outside more often. My Mom said "she does, she sits outside and reads! " I'd read on the porch, in the tree (and spy on the neighbor boys while peering over my book! ) and late at night in my bed with a flashlight! I just couldn't get enough. I'd see how many times I could finish the library reading program in the summer, cooking through it at least twice if not three times. Somewhere during high school and adulthood some of the joy of reading was lost. Maybe it was the Business Law book that I just couldn't stay awake through, maybe it was Statistics or just the fact that I was being forced to read. But I just didn't enjoy it as much. And then, when I did enjoy it, I felt guilty for sitting curled up under a blanket for hours on end with a book I just couldn't put down.
Part of me said, "read, read faster and just get through it! You can't stop now! " And two hours later the laundry still needed folded, the dishes were in a pile, and the dirty bathrooms calling my name. Maybe reading wasn't as pleasurable because in the back of my mind there was always something else to do. I remember a comment one of my professors in college made my freshman year. He said, "whether or not you finish college, keep reading. As long as you are reading you'll continue learning and growing. " So I've decided to recapture that joy of reading this year.
Now that I'm finally done with school maybe I can appreciate it more. Yes, there will always be the responsibilities calling my name, but a half hour, an hour, or occasionally that sweet dessert of a few hours, won't hurt. As for now, my bed is calling my name. Actually, Ked is calling my name first. He's asking, "What's a chord?
" as he strums on the guitar we inherited from my Dad. Ked is a singer, musician, and rockstar at heart. He wants so badly to learn to play the guitar this year. He found some internet site tonight, and learned 2 chords, but he doesn't know what a chord is. He's telling me, "this is E, and this is C." But the guitar is so out of tune they sound the same!! Needless to say, he's strumming away on C and E, well we think anyway. I suppose that's better than just randomly strumming away imagining he's a star like he used to do.
Let's see if I can remember enough of my music training to teach him how to read music and what a chord is. Oh, if this blog only had audio, you would truly enjoy this bed time concert!! He's got the Johnny Cash look down, wearing all black tonight. Let's hope the talent follows! ROCK ON KED!
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