Mr & Mrs Sicky Sickson of Sicktown

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We have spent the last week sick here at the McKeon home.  Both Mark and I are still fighting off whatever this current crud is.  And therefore have spent a lot of time doing little else but sleeping and watching television.  But I've learned a few things.  Like when you rewatch half of the Harry Potter movies (5, 6, 7.1) it just makes you want to rewatch 7.2 and reread all the books.  But then you realize that you don't own 1-3 only 4-7, because years ago before 4 came out someone loaned you 1-3 so now you must go buy them because when you reread them you want to start from the beginning.  When your sister-in-law tells you about this show that's in the Netflix instant queue and how it's strangely addicting - believe her.  Cause you will definitely spend the next two days watching nothing but Storage Wars, resulting in very weird drug induced storage-locker-swap-meet-horders-type dreams.  Not to mention experiencing crazy-drug-induced-sick dreams in general.  You decide that you now pretty much know what hot-flashes feel like because you have spent days switching from completely freezing to dripping in sweat in such rapid succession that you don't know how to dress anymore.  You learn that you can survive on nothing but chicken ramen, chicken noodle soup, and chili for every meal (and when I say every meal, I mostly just mean one, cause let's face it you're not very hungry) - because for some reason that's all you want to eat.  Oh and maybe a little chocolate ice cream when the 'hot-flashes' are really bad.

So that's what we've been learning here.  What have you learned lately?

Does This Post Make Me Look Fat?

So remember that time I said I would be better about posting?  Yeah, me too.  But you will be happy to know that I am alive and well.  Been keeping myself busy reading and sewing and eating.  And lately I've mostly been eating Creme de Methe Chocolate Cake!

You see we had a really fun Relief Society activity a few weeks ago that was a service auction.  What is a service auction you ask?  Well I will tell you.  Everyone who comes writes down a service/talent they have that they can share - like taking photos, sewing a bag, making a cake, etc...  And then they all answer questions about themselves and each question is worth points and points equals money to bid on services.  Got it?  I was lucky enough to be the auctioneer at this service auction, which gave me the ability to close any auction on something I really wanted and sell it to myself. (Bwahahahaha - I am drunk with power!)  Which is how I won Erika Smith's oh-so-delicious 3 layer Creme de Methe Chocolate Cake.  She brought it to us on Sunday evening and since then I have been eating it everyday for breakfast dessert.

It is amazing.  And it worked out well because I auctioned off my babysitting talents - which she won, so it's a nice little trade we got going.

Friday Feature and BookSneeze

So there's this blog called Hey Nonny and on this blog there are 4 girls who write Monday through Thursday about their random notings, and then they ask a guest to be the 'Friday Feature'.  And this week it's me!  I was excited to be asked to put my two cents in about nothing in particular.  So check me out and find out who I've got a crush on.

Also my sister-in-law Meghan (Mark's sister, not to be confused with my sister-in-law Meaghan, John's wife, Mark's brother, not to be confused with my brother John - whew! Anyone else have this name problem?) told me about this website BookSneeze.  They send you free books so that you will read them and review them.  Um, yes please.  So I made a separate blog so I can well, sneeze about books I suppose.

So there you have it- if you don't get enough of me here, I'm all over the place these days

Lost in a Good Book

As you know I love, love, love to read. I'm pretty much always reading something and often times more than one something. I usually have one book in my purse and one by my bed at all times. But now I've hit a point where I don't know what to read next. In fact I've been reading Life of Pi a little on the slow side so that I don't run out of things to read. (Which is just ridiculous - the slow reading, not the book. The book is excellent.) So that's where you come in - I want suggestions. I'll read pretty much anything, so any genre is OK with me. I especially like a good series so I can read the whole set in a row... So let me know your favorite books and what you just couldn't put down to the point of neglecting spouses, children, jobs and homes.

To quote Abraham Lincoln, "The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.” So you see if you suggest a good book you'll be my best friend. Isn't that great incentive?? I thought so.