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3 days until nominations can start coming in!

And as a little bonus, if you blog about KH and KC, and one of your readers goes by hand eye and leaves some nominations, I'll send both of you some little* pre-contest prizes.  Just be sure that anyone who nominates gives you credit for showing the way.

Do any of you know about the 30-day Declutter Challenge?  I learned about it from Facebook, and have found it not that difficult to keep up with. Today, I cleaned out a junk drawer.  A couple of the days I was able to take off, as not too long ago I thinned out both my closet and my shoes.  I will say that, in cleaning out one place which I will not mention (!), there was a BOATload of Backstreet Boys things.  Magazines, trading cards, posters, ticket stubs, bags that carried what we bought at concerts, concert programs. . .  

No one in this house ever goes halfway when becoming a fan of someone or something. I was surprised, though, by the sheer tonnage of BSB memorabilia.  I don't remember it being like this with the Spice Girls.

*"Little" as in, can fit in a letter- or business-sized envelope.

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4 days until nominations begin!  Have you landed on your choices?

I think I've decided who will go into the Hall of Fame this year, so my responsibilities are down to collecting nominations, seeding, making the draws, finding matching photos of the nominees, creating each poll, recording results, posting results, making up prize packages, sending prize packages out.  

You know, the easy stuff.

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5 more days, and you can start nominating Knitters' Hunks and Knitters' Chicks!

A couple of you have already let me know who your nominees are, but I'm not putting anything in permanent ink until next weekend.  I know from personal experience that sometimes names pop into your head at the very last minute.

It's been sort of a quiet Saturday here.  My headache eased up enough to allow me to read a bit.  I'm giving a book I began a while ago a second chance:

Elizabeth Keckley (the titular dressmaker) is a heroine of mine.  Naturally, anything having to do with Lincoln fascinates me, too.  Mary Lincoln was quite a piece of work --- I doubt that anyone with less patience and kindheartedness than Abraham would have been able to build a life with her.

My Hero of Heroes.

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6 of one, half a dozen of the other. . .  days until Knitters' Hunk and Knitters' Chick nominations can begin!

I'm not feeling all that wonderful today.  For the last three or four days I've been battling sinus headaches, and it has finally taken its toll.  Just going back to bed has been my default.

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7 days until you can nominate for Knitters' Hunk and Knitters' Chick!  (For those of you who prefer smaller numbers, that is 1 week.)

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8 days until you can nominate Knitters' Hunks and Knitters' Chicks!

(This always comes to my mind when I hear "8"!)

I finished Eleanor Oliphant this morning.  Just after writing my post yesterday, the book took a sharp, serious turn, plot-wise.  I was still engaged, but the tenor changed dramatically.  Still, it's a book I recommend.  And now I'm on to choosing my next read.

I made a trip to Dollar Tree today, to pick up a few odds and ends.

The index cards were an aim, as I use them during the contests.  The crosswords book is to satisfy a puzzle itch.  The pattern book was a complete surprise, laying on top of a messy scrum of all sorts of things.  It was as if it were saying, "I've been waiting for you!"

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9 days until you can submit Knitters' Hunk and Knitters' Chick nominations!

I am late to a lot of parties.  I scarcely ever go to movies, so by the time I watch a film via streaming, or borrow a DVD from Netflix, everyone's fever has come and gone.  Since I read non-fiction almost exclusively, novels that everyone else has long since read and fawned over don't often appear on my radar.  Hence,

If memory serves, Kathy's daughter talked about this book in one of her reading posts over the last few months.  Briton read it long ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it, and it is his copy that I've borrowed and am just sailing through. What an engaging read.  Most of you have probably already read it;  did you like it this much?