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Showing posts with label Hunger Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hunger Games. Show all posts

April 5, 2012

Thankful Thursday #66

This image really has nothing to do with all the things I'm thankful for, except that it makes me giggle and I'm thankful for that.  Image courtesy of monicawiesblott.blogspot.com
This week I'm thankful for...
  • the Portland airport and of all its lovely amenities including local cafes, local bookstores and free Wi-Fi
  • the friendly Alaskan bush pilot I met at the airport who regaled me with fascinating tales
  • the Hunger Games series and time this week to finish reading the last book
  • the feel of my youngest niece slipping her hand into mine
  • bedtime readings of  "Catching Fire" with my middle school niece and nephew
  • laughing so hard with my oldest niece that I almost peed my pants
  • exploring a cemetery with my nephews
  • suggestions from my oldest niece on how to improve my current disaster of a novel
  • the Columbia River
  • graceful, white windmills stretching their arms wide over Oregon
  • the sound of my husband's voice on the other end of the line
  • my nephew's freckled face and the fact that he is enamored with Judy Blume's Fudge books
  • wind in my hair
  • the tingle of joy as I board the plane that will take me back home

March 29, 2012

Thankful Thursday #65

image courtesy of abovethelaw.com
This week I'm thankful for...
  • going to the movies on a school night
  • the smell of steam from the dryer mixed with the scent of rain
  • rainy Saturdays perfect for curling up to read
  • my former students (now pre-teens) who come to my classroom after school to talk about The Hunger Games trilogy.  I try to convince them to join Team Peeta.  They roll their eyes and say things like "Of course, you'd like Peeta.  You just don't get Gale."  Then I kick them out of my classroom for blasphemy.
  • falling asleep in the middle of a good book and dreaming about it
  • my new umbrella that doesn't go tulip in the wind and rain
  • This morning while getting ready for work, I hit the shuffle jackpot.  You know it's going to be a good day when your iPhone spits out this delicious combination of songs:
  1. Future of Forestry: Colors in Array

  2. Stevie Wonder: Uptight

  3. U2: Beautiful Day

  4. Bob Dylan: Buckets of Rain

  5. Joe Anderson: Hey, Jude

  6. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts: Love Is All Around

  7. Richard Shindell: Are You Happy Now?