My Life Savings

While unpacking I have been finding a lot of strange and interesting things. I tend to be a packrat and I'm trying to break away from this habit. I found my childhood piggy bank (which some how has always been slightly broken) and decided to open it up and collect my riches.


Other strange things I've found are half burned candles and this box that held a coffee can full of foreign coins from when I had a million penpals and awards. See that medal? Yeah, you'll never guess what I won that for. I won the grade 10 Phys. Ed. award. Bwahah! It went to the highest mark in the class, clearly not the most talented at sports. Who knows what other goodies are hidden in these boxes!

Being Sick Sucks

I am not bedridden but considering I have important things that I cannot be sick for this weekend I have been taking it really easy today. Which means I am bored. It's ironic, isn't it? When I am busy (which hasn't happened for many months now) I would kill for a day to myself to just do nothing. I have lots of "I shoulds" too- reading is one of those if I ever plan on getting anywhere near my goal for this year. I'm reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin right now and it's all right but it probably won't be my most favorite book of all time. I think it's a book that I will like talking about more than I liked reading it. I have also been thinking about how snobby I am with books. Maybe I should try and read something trashy? I read a lot of trashy stuff when I was a teenager but now I just start to get annoyed when things are formulaic, predictable and/or poorly written. Please, if you can recommend some good books with substance I would be grateful!

Tomorrow is Stephie's 20th birthday and also the day that we get the keys to our apartment. It feels like such a tease though since we won't be moving any belongings in there for almost another 2 weeks. I desperately want to unpack and start having a regular life again! We have some things at my dad's house so we will take as many of them as will fit in the Kiester tomorrow. I have to spend time getting things together for Cindy's wedding on the weekend and Matt has a job interview on Thursday.

Supposedly my Auntie Joyce and cousin Jamie are coming by tonight. I can't remember the last time I saw either of them so it should be interesting. It's strange because we have a tightknit immediate family but I really am not close to anyone in my extended family at all. I don't even know how old Jamie is but I think she is a teenager and the last time I saw her she was probably 7 years old.

Also does anyone know of or belong to any kind of online blogging community? I think that would help motivate me to keep blogging while I am not traveling. I need to feel like I have a dialogue going with people and that means I need commenters. I do have some lovely people that comment regularly, however, these also happen to be the people that I talk to almost daily anyway. Hahah. It would be nice to get comments from a variety of people- maybe I should try and get into the book blogging community even though I don't blog solely about books? Any ideas?