- I finished Becoming! It was well-written and interesting. I loved reading Michelle Obama’s honest perspective on politics and living in the White House. <— that’s what I was there for – her story and a nosy inside view to her life. The “am I enough? yes I am!” message of the book didn’t do it for me (not bashing it, I just don’t need that message), but I can see that appealing to a lot of people!
- Now I am reading Chrissie Wellington’s memoir, A Life Without Limits. It’s a let down after reading such a stellar memoir, but I think almost any one would be. It reads like a casual journal (to me), and there’s actually a bit of a disconnect (to me) with British vs American English. I didn’t think I was going to want to finish it, but I finally gained interest 100 pages in when she started talking about training for triathlons and racing them. I’m still finding the writing style (AND HER) a bit annoying though.
- Our township’s plow hit our mailbox door Monday morning. They damaged parts of our mailbox last year too, but we happened to have a spare to use as a replacement. Now we don’t, and yeah, that door is not going to close. It’s unfortunate this happens. I can totally see it happening year after year though, because of the placement of it on the street!
- They also later hit our recycling can, even though I put it out after it stopped snowing, and cleared the snow on the ground with the snow blower. Picking all that up was fun. Lesson learned – put the cans in the snow!!! Duh, Kim.
- I got my missed shutdown paycheck already. I am grateful they got them to us so fast!
- Someone hacked my Bath & Body Works account and used someone else’s credit card to order gift cards. B&BW caught it and stopped it, all three times. BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, WHY DID SOMEONE HAVE TO HACK MY ACCOUNT AT MY FAVORITE STORE, WHHHHHYYY?!?!
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Ugh, that sucks about the hacked account and the plow hitting all those things! Are they hitting everyone’s mailbox as they go down the street? That’s awesome that they got the missed paycheck to you so fast 🙂 I’m working on the audio book of the Michelle Obama book now. I’m still on chapter 1 though.
Everyone has different style mailboxes that either stick out or don’t in different ways. So they hit some but not all!
I was happy to get it so quickly!
Ooo, let me know what you think as you listen to more of it!
I’m glad you enjoyed Becoming! I loved when she dished about life in the WH and I also loved how honest she was about how she didn’t really want Barack to become president. It’s such an all-consuming job for the entire family!
Oof about the mailbox! Is there any way to make sure the mailbox doesn’t keep getting smashed? That’s so annoying to have to deal with that constantly!
Yes! I loved that too! It made me feel happy for her that he is mostly done with politics now and can be together more (I mean, even though they did great with that during).
I think we’d need a new mailbox design, set back more, with less sticking out over the street!
Oh no! Poor mailbox 🙁 And poor recycling bin! Clearly this is a rough time of year for things that need to sit on the road’s shoulder, ha.
Ha ha, it really is!!!
Oh no, that spilled super can is so sad, but maybe the mailbox is sadder because it will require replacing. Is it possible to move it back, or are you stuck with that placement by some kind of rule?
And your B&BW account, noooo! That seems like such a random thing to hack into, but I guess those scents and candles really have a cult-like following and good re-sale value!
The mailbox is in the right placement. I think if we moved it back, the mail person wouldn’t be able to reach it? I am not sure why they keep hitting it, lol. It was even more messed up this am (we got more snow last night).
Ha ha, that must be why they did it!!! And so weird they hacked it and used someone else’s CC.
WHO HACKS A BATH AND BODYWORKS ACCOUNT?? I mean, seriously…that is so dumb.
The adventures of your snowplow-hit mailbox and recycling can would make a funny instagram account – bet you could make #hitbyaplow trend!
Yeah, and uses someone else’s CC?!
OMG!!! Ha! I hope I don’t get enough content to start an Instagram account for it!
Why would they hack your account??? That sucks! And was the guy driving the plough DUI??? Jeez!
Keeping my fingers crossed my friend will lend me her copy of “Becoming” soon!
We are really wondering about the plow guy! Like, why doesn’t he raise the plow to mix our box? It’s back far enough from the street. Sigh.
YES! I hope she does!