Windstorms and mammograms

• We have been under a Wind Advisory for the last two days. Winds have been 50+mph sustained with gusts up to 75mph. It is nearly impossible to breathe if you are facing into the wind, and it will literally stop you in your tracks. (I mean that literally, not just saying literally.)
• I did not do Random Friday last week, and not one person noticed.  I blame this on the Readathon, which I did not participate in. I find that if you don't participate in big blog events that not only do you not get the visits from the participants, that all traffic stops for a few days after. I suspect it's because everyone's readers get overloaded and they have to work through all those posts. It's remarkably like being punished for not participating.
• I blogged about the Princess's new quilt and my new purse this week, both of which I'm proud of.  It has recently been brought to my attention that people don't enjoy sewing posts (in general, not specifically here) so that likely explains the lack of comments.
• Wow, I'm just negative here today, aren't I?
• To be positive- last week I had a health scare. During a routine doctor visit my brand new doctor discovered a lump in my breast. She got me in for an ultrasound and mammogram the very next day, so I only had to worry for about 30 hours, but it was a scary 30 hours. It turned out to be a harmless cyst and now I have my baseline mammogram out of the way, but it could have been much scarier.
• I totally failed to hold up my end of the Where in the World are you Reading? meme this month- I was supposed to post yesterday. My pictures are loaded and queued up for tomorrow, hopefully you'll forgive me.
• It's the time of year where I start thinking about what books I absolutely have to read before the end of the year. This year, the list is HUGE. I'm working on writing that up for Monday. I'm sure you can't wait.

What I Read The Last Two Weeks:

• Close Enough to Touch by Victoria Dahl. I already reviewed this one.
• The Sleeping Night by Barbara Samuel. Also reviewed.
• Death Masks (The Dresden Files, Book 5) by Jim Butcher. I'm about halfway through. I've made it slightly farther than I did last time I attempted this one, and I think I've decided that the problem is the book. Even though Dresden has been awake for something like 42 hours now, and things are clearly GOING to happen, it seems like nothing much has really happened at all.
• Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David von Drehle. I am loving this one, takes me to my history major roots. Social history was always my favorite. I could do with a little less labor union detail though.
• Sullivan's Woman by Nora Roberts. I've read so little of this I probably shouldn't even list it.
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. I've waited months (years?) for this to make it to my library and now that I'm reading it, I'm pretty meh on it.