Sunday Salon: Holiday Harrassment

Happy Sunday, my friends! I decided I'd better write my musings on Saturday and pre-schedule this post, as tonight is my husband's company holiday party. I'm not sure how perky I will be tomorrow morning, after a full evening of drinking wine, eating fattening food and talking until I am hoarse. I really don't know when to call it quits, and my husband usually resorts to dragging me out kicking and screaming. Hey! I am a stay-at-home mom, and I live for these things!

The kids were back to school this Monday, so I was ready to hit the ground running, getting my schedule back to normal. Unfortunately, most of the running involved shopping, not official exercising, so I didn't come anywhere near the number of miles I needed to walk off all that food I ate last week. On the bright side, all of my holiday shopping has been completed. Maybe next week I can hit 20 miles! As it stands, I have walked 130 miles so far in my 100 Mile Fitness Challenge. I would really love to hit 200, but I'm going to have to stay focused!

I've been having a ball reading all of my Shelf Discovery Challenge books. I've knocked out seven of the ten so far, the most recent being Wifey by Judy Blume. Holy moly people! I believe Blume picks her target audience, and then does her best to push them riiiiiight to the very edge. I don't remember the last time I laughed that hard, or read that much smut! I also read The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson, based on a whole load of glowing reviews. Such an amazing book, really. Look for that review in early January. I continue to listen to The Given Day on audio, and should finish it next week. The kids and I are also listening to Catching Fire on audio in the car, and we are all spellbound. (So much that my daughter is up in her room listening to The Hunger Games on audio AGAIN.)

I finally did a tally on the number of books read this year. Based on what I expect to post for the next few weeks, it appears I will have reviewed 113 books. There are a few more that I read, but just don't have room to post the reviews, so they will go in next year's count and I'll call it a day!

I've signed up for a few reading challenges for 2010 this week. I'm starting on my post for next Saturday with some more. I'm still waiting for some kind soul to sponsor a Graphic Novel Challenge. I've got my list ready. When I was browsing through the Novel Challenges website, I noticed one that I thought was entirely clever. It is the We Didn't Start the Fire Challenge. You know the Billy Joel song, where he rattles off like two million historical and pop culture references? So you just have to read about some of the things he sings about in the song. I really don't know if I can take another challenge, but this one is almost too cute to pass up.

Next week is going to be a big pile of insanity. Just to help you appreciate all the fun, I'm looking at track and football practice, band concert, a school event at Barnes & Noble, book club (we read The Hunger Games...hopefully we get a better turnout this month), field trip to Epcot, the middle school Winter Ball, track meet and football game. So if you notice that I'm not socializing as much as normal next week, please don't take it personally. Serenity now.

Hope you all have wonderful, calm Sundays. See you around next week!