Dewey’s Readathon

Gah, late start! I’ve never gotten up so late on a #readathon day before so I’m not ready to actually start reading. This is not a good way to start the day. Poop. Oh well, I’m gonna rush through work and hopefully be ready to start by 7:30am CT… fingers crossed.

And here’s the first meme of the day. The intro survey, (same questions as always and I’ll be honest and say I started to pre-write this post last night but didn’t because I figured the way things were gong they’d change the survey and I’d be scrambling to start over, lol.)

1) I’m still stuck in Chicagoland and will be reading, primarily, from my bed — with TW and three puppies.
2) Tough question for me this year, which is not a good indicator of how things are going to go today… I think, maybe Jeanette Winterson’s “The Daily Gate”
3) Even harder question since none of our snacks are really calling to me (yet) — I guess the mango lime pear salsa.
4) I’m really tired. Last week was rough and I didn’t get nearly enough sleep last night. Darn it.
5) I have participated many times before and the one thing I’d LIKE to do over again is that whole taking the day (or half day) before #readathon off of work. It didn’t happen again this year. IT MUST HAPPEN IN APRIL when we do it again!

Now, on to work so that I can get on to reading … and pumpkin cream cheese muffins for breakfast.

Oh boy, what a day (week?). Totally not ready for Dewey’s Readathon tomorrow but also very ready for the #readathon because I really enjoy it so darn much.

We have snacks, even though we aren’t super excited about any of them.

We have books, though I don’t seem to have any YA or any graphic novels. And, I don’t have anything downloaded to Kindle that I plan on reading tomorrow, either. Oops.

I do have a lot of children’s fiction, non-fiction and poetry and some travel guides, so that will save me when I’m starting to get tired. I’ve also got a lot of adult non-fiction and that might be a problem unless they’re really interesting. We shall see.

First up, in the morning — finishing the last 100 pages of The Astronaut Wives’ Club. (We also have to drive the boy across town so we’ll get an hour of listening to Dexter’s Final Cut, so that will be a nice morning break from print.

Every time a #readathon ends, I say “I’m going to take the day before #readathon off of work, so I can prepare (or at least a HALF DAY.)” and I never seem to be able to do it. Something always comes up and I just can’t take the day (or a half day) off.

This year it’s even worse because TW has to drive to Wisconsin tomorrow to pick Prince J up from school which means our normal after work shopping for #readathon snacks was a bit of a bust. We went to Whole Foods tonight and spent a ton of money on nothing that really looks all that fun, to me. I’m sure it will be fine but I’m just not excited about most of it. Tomorrow we’ll run into TJ’s before we grab our Starbucks and maybe I’ll find something more interesting?

Ho hum. I think we’ll go to Fresh Market before the spring #readathon — I think they have better #readathon snack food….

And, someone has to run to the library tomorrow to pick up a whole bunch of holds — otherwise my plans for #readathon books will be shot and I’ll have to re-think the whole day (and TW’s mom probably won’t have enough books to make it through the day, either.)

So yea, totally unprepared and I sure wish I’d been able to take the day (or half of the day) off. I’m still looking forward to it, though. I do love #readathon.