1.18.2007

Bookswapping List

Well, I found my December list of books to send and receive through Google's cache. Bookrelay-forums.com may be gone forever. With it goes my Mellonhead's Garden Blog. I"m thinking of renaming this blog, since I really loved that name. Or I might just delete this one and start a new blogger blog with that name (is it taken?). For now, I need a place to store my list - and this time I"m keeping a copy on my PC.

Books I Have Sent:
Itsy-Bitsy Spider and What Does Baby See? to Pyan
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen to Inkkafl.. - arrived
Bet Me to Helly77
the switch to Rosie for giz-angel's M-Bag - mailed and arrived!
Dragon DelaSangre to DianeO (bookring)
Ender's Game to Bibliocrates (these took a side trip to caseyw! oops!)
The Corrections to Bibliocrates
Wings (The Bromeliad Trilogy, Book 3) to Aramada (bookmooch)
Booked to Die to Bookmoocher arrived
???? to mystery partner for New Book for a NewYear Book Exchange
More Spagetti, I Say to nwpassage
The Sky's the Limit to nwpassage (bookray)
Your Inner Physician and You : Craniosacral Therapy and Somatoemotional Release, 2nd Ed. to bookmoocher
Witchling to noumena12
Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind to Potok-fan
An Idiot Girl's Christmas (bookring) passed on to marinaw

Books Ready to Send:
???? to Heaven150 for Fall into Books Sweeps (waiting to hear where and how she's doing)
Hot & Bothered to Juliet for RVBB (waiting for trip to PO)
Silver Flame to ??? for RVBB
Revolutionary Women: Gender and the Socialist Revolutionary Role to AlterEgoZoe
Love Overboard to ??? for RVBB
Liberty Falling to caseyw (waiting for me to gather a few surprizes for caseyw)

Books TBR:
The Smile of the Lamb to Karinalyssa
A House for Mr. Biswas to Saraddee
My Cousin Rachel: Is She Angel or Fiend? to Sanddanz
One Door Away From Heaven to Giz-Angel
Angry Wives Eating Bon Bons to bookgal
A Promising Man (About Time too) to ?? for RVBB
White Oleander (bookring)

Candy-is-Dandy, Teachie and katybean's M-Bag:
The English Patient to candyisdandy from me
RABCK to candy from Noumena12
several books on their way from midwinter

Books Headed This Way:
Beauty's Release from wss4
Encyclopedia Brown finds the Clues from caligula03
Sushi for Beginners from totoroandmei
The Cryptographer from fireflywishes
Kick Ass from nmz
Sex, Lies And Vampires needmorezoloft
The Ha-Ha from krin155
Neurotica from Rosie
Milk in My Coffee from Sand
Jane: a Novel from appaloosatb
Mama, Let's Dance from appaloosatb
Maria Looney and the Cosmic Circus from appaloosatbMore Beautiful Braids from appaloosatbThe Old Synagogue from appaloosatb
White Oleander from bibliocrates
Pride and Prejudice from Katayoun
Rebekah: Women of Genesis by Orson Scott Card (Catwoman)The Right Address by Carrie Karasyov, Jill Kargman (FamFatale)
Bookcrossers that been superstars for one reason or another:
southernfryed (all 12 Left Behind books RABCK)
FifthElement (in trade sent 3 books!) sent 2 books
KimKerry (sent bookbox for release challenge with 10 or 11 books!)
JenLuvsBooks (RABCK)
tireddeb (RABCK)
edited 12/21/06

Inspiration

Reason, Season and Lifetime
..
People always come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.
When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do.
..
When someone is in your life for a REASON,
it is usually to meet a need you have expressed outwardly or inwardly.
They have come to assist you through a difficulty,
or to provide you with guidance and support,
to aid you physically, emotionally, or even spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend to you, and they are.
They are there for the reason you need them to be.
...
Then, without any wrong doing on your part or at an inconvenient time,
this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
...
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they just walk away.
Sometimes they act up or out and force you to take a stand.
What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered and it is now time to move on.
...
When people come into your life for a SEASON,
it is because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn.
They may bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done.
They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy.
Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season.
And like Spring turns to Summer and Summer to Fall,
the season eventually ends.
...
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons;
those things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person/people (anyway);
and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas in your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being part of my life.
...
Used with permission
~©Brian A. "Drew" Chalker~