Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
Posted by terrepruitt on December 21, 2024
I always take a million pictures of our ornaments because I love them. So even though I titled this 2024, you would never know it is from 2024 because the ornaments are the same every year, but I still take hundreds (ok, NOT millions) of pictures!
Slot machine, peacocks, and starfish.
Butterflies and starships.
Angels, hummingbirds, and flowers.
Unicorns and Spiderman!
Angels made of seashells, tea cups ornaments, tea pot ornaments, reindeer, and Christmas trees.
A NEW reindeer – SO SPARKLY! Don’t tell my hubby, but it was a gift!
Snowflakes and – shhhhhh! Another new ornament (a gold Christmas Tree), but it WAS a gift!
A Winnie the Pooh ornament and another starship.
Tigger and the starship.
Starships, Peloton ball, the new reindeer, another starfish, a star, and a stocking! Such fun!
What is on your Christmas tree?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: 2024 Christmas, 2024 Christmas Tree, angels, Christmas trees, Chrsitmas ornaments, peacocks, Peloton, reindeer, seashells, slot machine, space ships, Spiderman, starfish, stars, starship, Tigger, unicorn ornament, Winnie the Pooh | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on September 27, 2024
This is the 10th Friday Photo this year that is of flowers. I love flowers, but of course they don’t last so I love being able to “save” them via photos.
Posted in Flowers, Friday Photo | Tagged: Flowers, flowers pictures, Friday Photo | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on September 6, 2024
I order flowers from the farm we get a produce box from. And while it is nice to have flowers delivered, there are always a few broken ones. Here is this weeks broken off flowers.
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Posted by terrepruitt on September 4, 2024
My niece and I have repeat conversations sometimes. We can vaguely recall having talked about a subject, but sometimes we forget the details. She texted me the other day about Taco Salad. She asked what type of dressing I put on it and I asked her what she put on it and that led to me remembering what dressing was used when I first learned of Taco Salad – Thousand Island. And that reminded me of the story about how I first learned of Taco Salad.
It was the 70s and we had gone to our pastor’s house for dinner. His wife was cooking and talking. She told us how she had put a cake in the oven and then later went to check on it and it wasn’t there. And it turned out she had put it in a cupboard and not the oven. Of course we thought that was a charming story, we laughed and went on with our visit.
But you can imagine what we thought when we saw this woman add all the ingredients for a taco salad in one bowl. And then add dressing. We thought she had kind of “lost it”. We had never seen such a thing. Salads like that were not usual way back then and she HAD just told us about baking a cake in the cupboard.
Of course we learned that she had mixed all of the ingredients together on purpose. The issue for us – my mom and I – was actually the Thousand Island dressing, neither of us liked it. But we ate some of the taco salad because that was dinner. I don’t even remember what she put in her taco salad I just remember how we thought she had made a mistake akin to baking in a cupboard.
And as it turned out taco salad ended up being a meal that both my mother and I loved. We just used things, including dressing, that we liked. My mom would put Catalina or French Dressing on hers, and I don’t use dressing. My husband is not a dressing type of person, so I think he uses salsa and sour cream, if we have it, on his salad. We put what we like in our salad and call it Taco Salad because it has “taco flavored” meat and corn chips.
Like most things when I blog about them then I want to make them or eat them so now I want Taco Salad.
Do you eat a version of Taco Salad? What do you put in yours? What type of dressing do you use?
Posted in Food, Misc | Tagged: 1970s, beef, Catalina, French Dressing, funny story, lettuce, salad dressing, Salsa, sour cream, Taco salad, Thousand Island | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on August 19, 2024
So, hopefully you are stretching every day. And you understand it doesn’t have to interrupt your day. You can stretch during your daily routine. If you like stretching and you make the time to do it separately from your daily habits, that is great. I am all for that, but I know that people are so busy so I am just trying to encourage people to stretch EVERY DAY and give you ideas (or reminders) on how to do it.
Here is a squat. As you can see I am brushing my teeth while squatting. Ok, maybe you can’t actually see because these stretch pictures I have been posting are blurring, but that is ok with me, I am just trying to give you ideas and remind you that you can stretch EVERY DAY!
As always with my STRETCH EVERY DAY reminders I am not describing HOW to do the stretch, but I have already done a couple of posts on squatting so you can look back at those if you would like. What would be really cool, is if you read them while squatting. 🙂
Get Down On It
Squatting Does A Body Good
Garland Or Malasana Or Squat
So, are you still stretching?
Posted in stretching | Tagged: daily stretch, deep squat, every day stretch, garland, Malasana, squat, stretch every day, stretching, stretching while doing | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on July 31, 2024
Posted in audiobooks, Misc | Tagged: 500 Miles From You, A Castle in the Clouds, A Letter to Three Witches, A Man Called Ove, Amanda Elliot, An Island Wedding, Ana Reyes, Ann Leary, Apples Never Fall, Ashley Poston, audible, audiobooks, Audrey Niffenegger, Avery Fynn, Awk-Weird, Battle Royal, Best Served Hot, Bet on It, Better Than the Movies, Brian P. Cleary, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Christina Lauren, Cleaning the Gold, Dave Berry, Donna Tartt, Elizabeth Bass, Emily Henry, Every Reason We Shouldn't, February 2023, Float Plan, Fredrick Backman, Freida McFadden, Gillian McAllister, Girl Forgotten, Helen Hoang, Helen Rolfe, Her Fearful Symmetry, How to Walk Away, In a Holidaze, Janet Evanovich, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Jenny Colgan, Jessica Knoll, Jodi Picoult, Jodie Slaughter, June 2023, Karin Slaughter, Katherine Center, Kerstin Gier, Laura Dave, Lee Child, Liane Moriarty, Libary books, Libby, Libby Timeline, Lilian Jackson Braun, Lily Menon, Love and Other Words, Luck and Last Resorts, Luckiest Girl Alive, Lucy Foley, Lucy Parker, Lynn Painter, Mad Honey, Moonlight and Mistletoe at the Christmas Wedding, Mr. Wrong Number, Naomi Alderman, narrator, People We Meet on Vacation, Pieces of Her, Pip Williams, Project Hail Mary, Quan Barry, Ray Porter, Roomies, Sara Fujimura, Sarha Grunder Ruiz, Something Wilder, Speak, Swamp Story, Tananarive Due, The Bodyguard, The Bride Test, The Cat Who Sniffed Glue, The Christmas Bookshop, The Dead Romantics, The Dictionary of Lost Words, The Do-Over, The Endless Beach, The Good House, The Guest List, The Honey-Don't List, The House in the Pines, The Hunting Party, The Last Thing He Told Me, The Locked Door, The Paris Apartment, The Power, The Recovery Agent, The Secret History, The Sizzle Paradox, The Suite Spot, The Yellow Wallpaper, Things You Save in a Fire, Triptych, Trish Doller, Tundy Oyeneyin, Twice in a Blue Moon, Welcome to the School by the Sea, What You Wish For, When I'm Gone Look for Me in the East, Wrong Place Wrong Time, You Can't Dance to These Rhythms | 4 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on July 29, 2024
So here is what I listened to from October 2023 through July 2023.
Starred ones I really liked. Although I didn’t mark ALL the ones I really liked, just the ones that stood out as I was creating the pictures to post. The same with the red lines (did not like) and red lines with DNF – did not finish. I didn’t go through my notes I just marked things off the top of my head.
I used to think once I started a book I had to finish it. Then I realized I didn’t need to make myself suffer. There are so many books to listen to (read) why listen to one that is making me miserable. So that is why I have a few DNF. I moved onto something I enjoyed.
Unfortunately when I first started listening to books I wasn’t taking notes. Then I realized it would be good if I did because some authors I would rather avoid and there are some narrators I would have to be paid to listen to.
Plus I sometimes completely forget what a book is about and how I felt about it . . . . so that is why I started taking notes. I imagine I will post some of those notes, but first the timeline.
You may notice (or have from other pictures) that there are some series that I like.
Ok, how about these? Have you read any of these? Any thoughts? Do you have any series that you read?
January 2024 – November 2023
April 2024 – February 2024
July 2024 – May 2024
Posted in audiobooks, Misc | Tagged: Adam Silvera, Annabel Monaghan, audible, audiobooks, Barry Lyga, Betsy Aldredge, Blake Crouch, Caroline Hulse, Charlie Huston, Christina Lauren, Countdown, Dark Matter, David Dosa, Did Not Finish, DNF, Dog Days, Edited, Eight Dates and Nights, Elin Hilderbrand, Emily Belden, Emily Henry, Emma Lovewell, Fix Her Up, Fractured, Happy Place, Harper Lee, Hello Goodbye and Everything in Between, How to Love Your Neighbor, Husband Material, Jeff Haden, Jeneva Rose, Jennifer E. Smith, Jennifer Smith, Jonathan Maberry, Karin Slaughter, Kelly McGonigal, Kelsey Rodkey, landline, Last Chance Books, Libby, library books, Lies, Live Learn Love Well, Lynn Painter, Making Rounds with Oscar, Material Witness, Matthew Quick, Mr. Malcolm's List, Nora Goes Off Script, Patient Zero, Plus One, Rachel Beanland, Rainbow Rowell, Riley Sager, Same Time Next Summer, Sarah Adams, So We Meet Again, Sophie Sullivan, Soren Sveistrup, Suzanne Allain, Suzanne Park, T. M. Logan, Tessa Bailer, The Adults, The Break-Up Book Club, The Chestnut Man, The Dragon Factory, The Honeymoon Crashers, The Hotel Nantucket, The House Across the Lake, The House Is on Fire, the joy of movement, The King of Plagues, The Love Wager, The Missing Files, The Motivation Myth, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, The Other Black Girl, The Silver Linings Playbook, The Soulmate Equation, The True Love Experiment, They Both Die at the End, This Is What Happy Looks Like, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tools of Engagement, Triptych, Wendy Wax, When in Rome, You Shouldn't Have Come Here | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on July 23, 2024
So how do you pick a book to read/listen to? I pick a book depending upon what I want to listen to. Primarily, I love to listen to lighthearted Rom Coms. I like to know how – basically – it is going to end. But sometimes I need a break from those. Most often I want a book fast because I just finished one and I want another one to listen to so sometimes I just will pick a book that is available. That method has led me to some very enjoyable books. Then I can look for books by that author or even books that the narrator has read. Looking at this list you may see that I have listened to a few books by the same author (Mhairi McFarlane, for one). I don’t like to read the entire book description because it often gives too much information away. Some books have started on a something-is-wrong-with-the-character but I know her “secret” because the summary said, “Joy is trying to keep her divorce a secret.” Well, that takes away from half of the book because the author wrote it as if IT WAS A SECRET. That is just an example. So I try not to read the book description or the reviews which I don’t put much stock in. So sometimes I am rather surprised by a book.
I am posting screenshots in batches because I am hoping to hear from you. And I think a batch of 10ish screenshots is enough to go through at a time.
Here are the screenshots of January 2024 thru November 2023.
February 2024 through April 2024 is here.
May 2024 to July 10, 2024 is here.
How do you pick a book? Have you read any of these?
Posted in audiobooks, Misc | Tagged: Adam Silvera, All the Light We Cannot See, Anna E. Collins, Anthony Doerr, Ashley Poston, Before I Do, Between Us, Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop, Curtis Sittenfeld, Did Not Finish, DNF, Don't You Forget About Me, Elanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Erin La Rosa, For Butter or Worse, Gail Honeyman, Hawkeye, If I Never Met You, It Started With a Dog, It's Not Me It's You, January 2024, Jenny Colgan, Julia London, Julia Whelan, Just Haven't Met You Yet, Just Last Night, Lina Chern, Linda Urban, Love at First Spite, Lucy Foley, Mad About You, Match Me If You Can, Mhairi McFarlane, November 2023, Play the Fool, practice makes perfect, Rom Coms, Romantic Comedies, Romantic Comedy, Ronald Dahl, Sarah Adams, series, Sophie Cousens, Stephanie Butland, Susan Wiggs, Suzanne Park, Talk Santa to Me, Thank You For Listening, The Bookshop on the Corner, The Bookshop on the Shore, The Cheat Sheet, The Christmas Bookshop, The Christmas Clash, The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae, The Do-Over, The First to Die at the End, The Invitation, The Lost and Found Bookshop, The Off Limits Rule, The Roommate Situation, The Temporary Roomie, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Tiana Smith, You Lucky Dog | 2 Comments »
Posted by terrepruitt on July 15, 2024
More of my Libby Timeline. My first Libby Timeline post was about July 10, 2024 through May 2024, this one is April 2024 through February 2024. I started listening to library books in February of 2023. A couple I have liked so much I purchased them and have in Audible. I re-listen to books. Do you?
I have not re-listened to all the ones I have starred, those are the ones I recognized as really having liked without having looked at my notes. Books I didn’t like are indicated with a red line. Some have a red line AND I didn’t finish so those are the “DNF!!” ones.
Initially I thought I would post all the screenshots in one post, but then I thought it would be too much because my hope is that you will scroll through the pictures and maybe point out a book you have read and let me know what you think. Or you may see one that intrigues you and have questions or research it to read. Scrolling through a few pictures at a time is easier than all at once.
There are a couple that I didn’t actually borrow (and missed when deleted those) because they are not audiobooks.
Do you listen to audiobooks?
Posted in audiobooks, Misc | Tagged: Abigail Johnson, Ali Hazelwood, Allison Ashley, Angie Hockman, Ann Liang, Ann Qguirre, April 2024, audible, audiobooks, Below Zero, Betting on You, Britney Spears, Cara Bastone, Cody Rigsby, Crystal Cestari, Did Not Finish, Die Trying, DNF, Dream On, Echo Burning, Every Duke Has His Day, Every Time You Go Away, Everyone is Beautiful, February 2024, Girl on the Run, Goldy Moldavsky, Happily Ever Island, Happily Never After, Heather Hepler, Hello Stranger, I Hope This Doesn't Find You, If You Could See the Sun, Instant Karma, Jack Reacher, Jayne Denker, Jennie Wexler, Jenny Colgan, Jo Segura, Just Say Yes, Kaitlyn Hill, Katherine Center, Killing Floor, Lee Child, Libby, library books, Love from Scratch, Lynn Painter, Marie Rutkoski, Marissa Meyer, Peloton Instructor, Raiders of the Lost Heart, Reacher, Ready or Not, Real Easy, Running Blind, Sam Lipsyte, Shipped, Simon Winchester, So That Happened Katie Bailey, Sunrise by the Sea, Suzanne Enoch, The Ask, The Lost Husband, The Neighbor War, The Only Purple House in Town, The Professor and the Madmand, The Rom-Com Agenda, The Woman in Me, Tripwire, We Were Beautiful, Where It All Lands, Witch Please, Without Fail, Would You Rather, XOXO Cody | Leave a Comment »
Posted by terrepruitt on July 10, 2024
Here is my Libby Timeline. I thought I had deleted all the BOOKS I had borrowed accidentally. But when I was going through the screenshots I saw at least one. I don’t read on my phone so if I borrowed a book I returned it once I realized it was a eye-read book and not a listen-to book. I know I really liked a lot more than I “starred”, but I wasn’t looking at notes when I starred them so I was just going off of my initial “OH! I loved that book.” I indicated books I didn’t like with a read line. And the ones I didn’t like and Did Not Finish, I indicated with a red line and “DNF!!”. I also listen to books on Audible.
I was going to do reviews without spoilers but then I started taking notes to help me remember a book and they ended up having spoilers. I didn’t start taking notes when I started listening so not all the books I have listened to have notes. I wish I would have because there are some that I don’t remember some key things about. Oh well, an opportunity to listen again.
Every once in a while I think I will post my notes, so maybe I will. I will just post them as I took them . . . maybe . . . but for now there is this.
As I was uploading the screenshots, I decided I don’t want to post all 57 in one post, so this is only from May 2024 to July 10, 2024.
I also wanted to note that I usually return books right away, but since I have been trying to make notes on them, sometimes I get a new one and when I have a moment to take notes I do, so it might be a day or two. I kept the Tattooist for almost as long at the lending period because I wanted to listen to the end again. So the dates may be a bit wonky.
Posted in audiobooks, Misc | Tagged: Amy Poeppel, audible, audiobooks, Beth O'Leary, Bonnie Garmus, Bryony and Roses, Darling Girls, Death at Morning House, Eileen Garvin, Heather Morris, I Owe You One, Jenny Colgan, July 2024, Lessons in Chemistry, Libby, library books, Limelight, Lindsey Kelk, Little Beach Street Bakery, Love Your Life, Maureen Johnson, May 2024, Morgan Matson, Musical Chairs, My Not So Perfect Life, One a Night Like This, Promchanted, Sally Hepworth, Sarah Adams, Small Admissions, Sophie Kinsella, T. Kingfisher, The Christmas Wish, The Enemy, The Flatshare, The Good the Bad and the Dumped, The Hollow Places, The Match, The Music of Bees, The No-Show, The Party Crasher, The Road Trip, The Rule Book, The Switch, The Tattooist of Aushchwitz, The Wake-Up Call, The Wizard's Guid to Defensive Banking, Thornhedge | Leave a Comment »
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