Good morning – TGIF! 
Took an un-plugged night last night. Do you ever do that? I find myself getting so obsessed with checking Twitter, Facebook and the Crackberry that sometimes I just have to slowly back away. Don’t make too much noise…just slowly. back. away… 
Plus, I was busy loving all over this puppy: my new kindle!!!!!
Ben so thoughtfully surprised me with an iPod Nano for Christmas, but we decided since I don’t really run to music, that I’d get more use out of a Kindle.
The Kindle uses "e-ink" on a matte surface, so it really feels like you’re reading a newspaper/book, without the glare of a regular computer screen. That was a big selling point for me – one can only stare at that bright screen for so long!
I bought a case in what other color but hot pink, which even has an extendable reading light. Sweet.
An hour or cough, two, cough might have been spent playing free games on this baby last night too… Hello! Minesweeper!
FYI – I created my own Amazon Store where you can buy a Kindle along with a ton of other stuff. I created categories for Kitchen Essentials, Camera & Electronics, Health & Beauty (including the Teaze!) and more! I’ll add stuff when I think you’ll dig it. 
This morning I dug into a big bowl of Organic Kashi Island Vanilla cereal with unsweetened vanilla almond breeze and a banana for breakfast.
I despise soggy cereal, but I kind of like it when "biscuit" cereal can soak up some of the good stuff.
Especially when its unsweetened vanilla almond breeze! It, combined with the subtly sweet cereal, made for an awesome bowl.
In other news, I woke up to wind and snow this morning, so this girl isn’t going ANYWHERE today!
Well, hopefully I can make it out for a workout, but other than that I’m staying right here in my Muk Luks.
Have a great day!
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Do you buy or are you concerned with buying organic products, outside of just produce?
What are you reading right now?
Nice gift! I used to think I would hate a Kindle, but the more I think about it the more I can see its usefulness.
I’m reading the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series right now.
omg… i got one for christmas too AND the exact same cover
i LOVE it
Hey seeing your scrapper blade at your store reminded me… have you seen this one http://bit.ly/gNbDU2. I bought one at the Cooking Emporium in Ames for my sis-in-law. Works great. Don’t have to worry about the “teeth” falling off since it’s one smooth piece!!
Thanks for sharing the store! Have a great friday!
Awesome! Added it to the store
so lucky! i wish i were staying in today, snuggled up while snow swirls around
i am reading The Lost Girls right now…it’s amazing so far!
I care most about organic produce (and dairy), but depending on the price, I don’t worry much about organic whole grains. I’m reading Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. It’s amazing!
I try to buy organic products as much as I can!
My mom loves her kindle – my dad bought her the new one for xmas as her old one wasn’t working very well.
Kashi Island Vanilla is one of my favorite cereals – I like it more straight out of the box.
Like Tina, I’m reading the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, too, and my new cookbooks I got for Christmas (The Essential New York Times Cookbook, Ad Hoc at Home, Jasper White’s Cooking from New England)
What’s the difference between a kindle and an ipad?
By the way, I love you cereal bowl! So cheerful for a breakfast meal.
A Kindle is just for reading books, periodicals, etc. It does have a browser, but it’s in black and white and not too functional. An iPad is basically (from my understanding) like a dumbed-down laptop/souped-up iPhone. In a perfect world I probably would have gotten an iPad, but they’re expensive, and I liked that the Kindle doesn’t have a “computer screen” glare!
I just got my Kindle yesterday! With the same cover except in red. Didn’t get much time to mess around with it since I spent a little while trying to figure out my wifi password but I know exactly what I’ll be doing this weekend!!
I try to get my dairy products organic, sometimes my meat but not always. WOuld prefer to buy everything organic but it’s price prohibitive for me right now.
I loved the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, just finished “The Blind Assassin” by Margaret Atwood (highly recommend anything by her, especially “The Handmaid’s Tail”. Currently reading “Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth” by James Lovelock.
Handmaid’s Tale!
Ha! Yes…because I’m reading “MAster your Metabolisim” by Jillian Michaels and tells all about the grossness of non-organic food. It’s scaring the bejesus out of me!
I have been looking into e-readers lately and I am so torn! I think I will like it but maybe want more functionality. Right now the Nook Color is on the top of my list.
I just got a Nook the other day and being such an avid reader it was a HARD decision because I love my books and how they look on my shelf! But, so far I am loving it! I think you will too!
Minesweeper=awesome. I can play for hours. I’m putting a Kindle on my birthday wish list.
I’m reading In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan! So far, so good!
I just started reading American Wife and I am loving it! I can’t wait to go home tonight and READ! Have you downloaded many books on the Kindle? You can store a bunch right? Enjoy your snow day!
I’ve only downloaded one so far – Fall of Giants by Ken Follet. I bought it at Costco the other day, but am taking it back so I can just read it on my Kindle! Ps I LOVED American Wife!
I LOVE my kindle! I take it with me to work everyday, reading it on the bus as well as on my breaks. It was a surprise gift that I received from my Dad last Christmas. I’ve had it for over a year now and have only paid for a few books. I regularly check the Top 100 Free books on the Kindle site and have read a lot of really great, FREE, books that I never would have heard of otherwise! The titles sometimes are hit or miss, a lot of them are Christian fiction or romance, which isn’t my thing, but there are quite often great mystery/crime novels that I love! Right now, I’m reading Little Women, but next up I’m going to read The Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch. Have fun with your new toy!!
I try to buy organic foods as much as I can but most of the time they are too expensive.
Yes I definitely eat organic – especially the Dirty 13: apples, bell peppers, carrots, celery, cherries, grapes, kale, lettuce, nectarines, peaches, pears, strawberries, and potatoes and of course my meats too chicken – grass fed beef etc. Unless it has a really thick skin like banana, oranges or avocados I don’t mind paying the extra cost for the organic version. I also don’t cook or store anything in plastic because of the BPA. Jillian Michael’s book does a great job of outlining the health benefits of eating organic – check it out! : )
I started reading “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet” BUT I have to return it to the lib. Sad face!
Login into your library website and go to your account, unless someone is waiting for it, they’ll let you renew your items for three more weeks.
Happy Reading!
Just finished Water For Elephants and loved it. I’m not reading anything now but I’ve got a long list of “want-to-reads” that will hopefully be available at the library this weekend.
Loved that book too, and can’t wait for the movie to come out starring ROBERT PATTINSON! Siggghhh….
I’ve been following your blog for a while now but this is my first comment! I have already tried a couple of your recipes…BBQ Chicken Quesidillas & Ultimate Cookies, YUM! I got a Kindle for Christmas and I am LOVING it! I was a little concerned it would give me a headache but the E-ink is amazing.
Thanks for commenting! I know – I love the e-ink. I wouldn’t know the difference between it and a real book, I don’t think!
I love my Kindle. I got it in October and its changed my life/my commute. Just finished reading One Day which is only $5.00 on Kindle. I would recommend it but it definitely not what I expected. I loved American Wife too!
Just a tip: you can make your font on your Kindle smaller by pressing the Aa button to the right of the space bar. Maybe you already knew that and just made it bigger for the photo, but I just wanted to tell you in case you didn’t!
Hehe – I made it bigger because I am blind as a bat – even with contacts in!
I looove to read and when the kindle first came out I thought I would hate it because I was under the impression that “it’s like staring at a computer screen for hours”….then I saw one in store and got to play around with it and LOVED it – the screen is so different = awesome. The last GREAT book/s I read was “The Hunger Games” trilogy. It’s about the same reading level as Twilight…but it’s AWESOME I tell you..
I have that same cover for my Kindle! Love, love, love it! I’ve had mind since September and I travel a lot for work, so it’s been wonderful. I feel like I have an entire bookself in my purse, since I have so many different books to read on my Kindle.
I am reading The Help. It is so good! I buy organic food for my 17 month old daughter (esp. dairy, meats and produce) but don’t for my husband and I. Not great logic, but it is so expensive to buy all organic!
Aside from produce, I like to buy organic non-GMO tofu and organic dairy. I’m a vegetarian, so meat isn’t an issue.
I’m reading The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest! I loved the first two and the third is just as good so far!!
The Kindle looks neat! That would definitely be a selling point for me as well, I would hate to have the glare of the computer screen for so long! As for the organic issue…I try to buy organic produce whenever I can, but being in college I’m tight on money. But I do also try to buy organic meat. I recently watched Food, Inc. and read Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food and am currently reading his Omnivore’s Dilemma so I am learning a lot. It is definitely opening my eyes! Since organic meat is so expensive, I am sticking more to veggie foods and grain and wild fish based meals. I would like to keep learning more though!
Just a tip for your Kindle that a friend told me when I got my Kindle. Turn off the wireless function unless you are downloading or using the web. Otherwise you will have to charge your battery quite often.
Great tip!!
Ahhh! A kindle! I have yet to get mine! Oh, it’s so beautiful!
Love that kindle cover! Everyone in the bloggy world seems to have gotten one this year. I’m reading Born to Run. Love that book.
I got a kindle for Christmas (total surprise!) and immediately bought that case in lime green. I love the little light!
The Kindle looks really interesting but I’m just not convinced that I would like reading from a screen – I prefer to hold an actual book.
I too just finished The girl that kicked the hornets nest. LOVED it. And am sad that I am finished with the series.
I am not reading NutureShock. VERY interesting!
“now”, not “not”
I just read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I loved it! I am planning to listen to the next one so I am waiting for the audio book from the library. I can’t wait!!!
I’ve been drooling over the Kindle, but I can’t get past the $10/book price. I do all my shopping at Amazon – for household goods like paper towels, TP, shampoo, etc. I haven’t been to a Wal-Mart or Target in over a year! Amazon saves me so much time.
Personally, I don’t buy organic produce because of the cost. Just wash an apple before you eat it, and you’ll get rid of any residue. I do love Kashi cereals, however. But I buy them for the taste, not because they are organic.
Congrats on the Kindle! I got one for Christmas, too. I love the E-ink because I’m avid outdoors reader in the summertime. Where did you get that case? I really want a case with a light for mine. Thanks!
I got it on Amazon – which you can buy through my new store
http://astore.amazon.com/iogiea09-20/detail/B003DZ168E
That should read “an avid outdoors reader.” I read and can write, trust me! (: LOL.
Where is all your snow????? I buy local as much as I can. I have a garden & freeze/can, an aunt & uncle that raise both pigs and cows for our meat & a local butcher for most of our other meat. We also have tons of fruit trees and bushes. I’m working on getting farm fresh eggs this spring. So, no I don’t usually buy organic. I just finished True Colors by Kristin Hannah (LOVED IT! Make sure you have Kleenexes!) and now am reading Water for Elephants.
Love the pink case for your Kindle! I’m currently researching an e-reader and am torn between the Nook (wifi not color) and the Kindle. How did you decide? Any other readers have pointers to help with the decision? Thanks!!
Im also reading The Help right now and its soo good so far!
Do either allow you to “borrow” books from the library without having to pay for them? That would be a bog seller for me! Right now I listen to audio books on my ipod touch and I checkout audio books from the library so it’s free!
I meant “big”
I have mixed feelings about a Kindle. It would be SO convenient but I’m such a traditional book lover!
I’m currently reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma. It’s a great read.
I don’t want a kindle, but I do want an iPad! My brother has one, and you can buy books for it just like the kindle. Maybe someday! I’m reading “In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollen right now. It’s really good!
I am reading American Wife. So good!
Reading American Wife.
E readers are slowly growing on me!
I just finished reading “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” – AmAzInG! Also, I have an ipod touch and I just listened to the audio book “The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner” (extra extra AmAzInG!) while at work this week. Now I am waiting for the library to call with the audio available of “The Girl That Played with Fire” (or whatever it’s called) so I can listen to that at work and during my ubber boring treadmill sessions!
You got me hooked on Almond Breeze! It’s so weird how it’s not really good plain but with cereal it is TDF!
I try to buy organic items such as apples, strawberries, carrots, green onions… I’ve purchased organic milk, but it is super expensive here – $8 for a gallon. I’m trying to watch for items with chemicals in them, less salt, sugar, fat, etc.
We try to buy “all natural” products – no artificial flavors and colors. Besides that I like to buy organic produce (the dirty dozen) but many items aren’t available to me or are way too overpriced. I like to buy eggs with added omega-3′s and try to buy local especially in the summer. Also, when I buy ground beef or ground turkey, I buy it in the tube or from a butcher, not in a see-thru carton because that has most likely been injected with artificial coloring. I plan to have my first garden this spring. I have read that produce from your garden and locally produced has by far way less chemicals than commercially produced.
Enjoy the kindle!! My fiancee got me one for Christmas last year and it totally changed my life. I read SO much more now. Love it! I agree with you about the eink screen too….The new nook colors look pretty awesome, but they have traditional lit screens which is a total turn off for me.
I just finished Elegance of the Hedgehog and the first two books in the Shiver series. Elegance of the Hedgehog was great and if you liked Twilight, you will probably enjoy Shiver.
I have the same kindle! I need a case for it though…
I’m debating between a Kindle or a Nook. I don’t really like the computer screen look of the Nook. I can absolutely see it being a headache inducer! Does your cover/light really light the whole screen?
I love my Kindle! My boyfriend’s mom gave it to me for Chrismakkuh.
Right now I am reading Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and Little Bee, both amazing New York Times bestsellers. I just finished reading Hummingbirds and the Hunger Games series.
Kindle makes is super easy to read more than one book at a time, which is great for someone with a touch of ADD like moi.