My Blog Journey Begins

I just started my journey into the blog world. However, I need help from Rudy to post pictures. So our pics are yet to come. I have enjoyed reading and following friends blogs. I love to see pictures of dear friends and read about their exciting lives. My life perhaps, will not be as exciting as others, but it is my life and I love it.

Right now I am really into politics. I am excited by the new VP pick of Sarah Palin. It has made the election more interesting . I look forward to learning more about her. I must admit John McCain was not my first (or second) choice as nominee, but I am more enthused now with his VP choice. It is finally time to have a woman on the GOP ticket.

Reading is one of my favorite things to do. I have always loved to read, even as a child. I learn so much from reading. I have been very interested in Abraham Lincoln the last year or so. I have read many books about him, his family and his assassination. I have learned so much about him and can see what a great president he was. I recently read "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Abe was brilliant in keeping his "rivals" close to him. So close, many were in his cabinet. The last book I finished was a book about John Wilkes Booth. It chronicled the manhunt to capture him and those men (and 1 woman) in cahoots with him. I also learned so much about that time in our American history. It was a really good book on that subject. I still have at least 2 more books to read on "Honest Abe".
Many of you have heard about the "Twilight" series. I am reading "Breaking Dawn" (the 4th and last, thank heavens). I just do not know what the hype is about this series. It could be that the author...Stephanie Meyer...went to BYU and is LDS. But, it is also popular with others. I am forcing myself to finish this fourth book. I have not liked this one at all. Oh well...there are good books and there are books. I guess you win some and you lose some. I just don't like to waste my prescious reading time. Enough said!!!