I've Gone Over To The Dark Side...

I finally gave in and bought an e-reader.  Since it does more than just allow me to read e-books, I figured it was worth getting.  There are a few books I would like to own, but would not necessarily like to pay $25 + for the hardcover edition, or find space in the house to store said hardcover.  So, the Nook Color was Matt's big gift to me this Christmas, and I also got one for him.  (Technically, we bought them together, and today, so they were an afterthought as far as Christmas goes.)


The Nook is simple enough to use, but the touch screen keyboard drives me nuts.  I am a touch typist, and having to tap one letter at a time is MUCH too slow and painstaking a process for me to endure it for more than about five minutes.  I can post short updates to face book from the Nook, I can also download free e-books from the library, either the public domain ones I can keep, or the newer ones that I can borrow.  They check themselves back in, evidently. 
Of course, I get this new contraption, and right away I've loaded it full of Nac Mac Feegles.
Crivens!
What have I done?!  Why, I've purchased and downloaded all the Tiffany Aching stories, that's what I've done!  Books I read the first time from the library, and would like to own, but don't have room to keep.  Now I can own them, and even better, I can find them when I want to read them, and I can even search for certain passages electronically! 
(Hm, for some reason the grammar checker on this program doesn't like the previous paragraph much.  The Feegles must have frightened it!)
(There.  I broke it up.  It likes that much better!)

I shall add some photos of the Nook, and of the quiche I made this evening, and the other Christmas gifts I opened yesterday.  They consist mostly of fitness related games for the Wii.  This is a (probably) vain attempt to get my ever more flabby old body back into some semblance of shape.  If I play the fitness games regularly, and do my time on the treadmill, I may just manage to reign in the mddle aged weight gain.  (I hope!)
All in all this has been a good holiday season for me so far.  (I think Matt has found it enjoyable also.)  It has certainly involved a LOT of consecutive church services!  We more than made up this year for not being together as a congregation last Christmas!  We were at church Friday night, Saturday morning, and again this morning!  I love my church family at St. Paul's, and it was a special joy to be able to spend our Christmas with them again this year.  Every Christmas since 1995, except last year when the snowstorm prevented it.  We also got to spend time with Mike and Nancy Rogers, good friends also of long standing, and always a welcome sight.  I suspect the gift cards they gave us are going to be consumed by the wee electronic book devices. 

That is about all my still somewhat sleep deprived brain can come up with this time out.  As you can see, I was busier this season than I thought I would be, so I didn't make it with the daily gratitude posts.  But I am grateful for the people who make it worthwhile to celebrate.  For friends and coworkers and family.  All of you are treasures, and I try to keep you close in my heart.