Vicki’s Comments (group member since May 01, 2018)

Vicki’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Sophie wrote: "Thanks Vicki! I've just had a look and something had gone a little messed up with the autofill. It's all working now and the horns task is linked to a different one of Marty's books."

Cool, thanks, Sophie. :)

@Marty, I noticed that you put a book down as finished yesterday for the mini-challenge. Just wanted to make sure you meant to put it down because the mini-challenge books have to be finished between June 1 and June 15. If you already finished it, you can't use it for the mini. At least that's how I interpreted the directions.

That also answers my question for 3 foods then. lol

Sophie wrote: "They just have to be finished after 9 UTC on 1st June so books you are reading now could count."

Good to know!

Sophie wrote: "If you put a book on the regular tab, you can add the resources as normal. Then if it works for one of the mini tasks, add the mini code (column b on the mini) to column O on the main tab and it'll..."

Thank you.

Can we use the same book in the regular tab and the mini-tab, or will all the mini-task books be separate?

I'm just trying to figure out if I'm missing something. lol I don't know that you need to remove your books. I just never paid attention to that tab until I started looking for my read books that I still can't find.

Sophie wrote: "There's a plus button at the top of the SS. We've hidden the rows so that noone has to scroll too far down to find the currently reading and planned books. Or to add new ones.

This will be done pe..."

I'm not seeing a "plus button." Can you tell me where to find it? the only PLUS I see is to increase the font size. I found an error but still none of my read books are there when I click up or down. Sorry to be a pest but I didn't know our books would be moved and I'm not sure I had added my categories to my last book and wanted to finish it if I didn't. I was able to remember my books that I read though and added them to my shelf.

Also, what is the template-round tab for? I see that Cat has 4 books on it. Is it a tab I (we players) need to worry about/add to?

Where did our "READ" books go on the SS? I forgot to add them to my own shelf for this challenge, but I just added them.

Sophie wrote: "Teddie and Vicki - and so the process of my tbr increasing during a challenge faster than I can read begins."

Oh, don't even talk to me about ever-increasing TBR shelf! lol I'm right there with you! lol

Good morning, everyone. I am starting my first book but have a lunch date with one of my daughters, so I won't finish it until tonight. Excited to start with Just for the Summer

I am really excited to start this one! It should be fun, especially since we have such a wonderful, communicative team. I sometimes can't get on for a day or two if I am watching my grandchildren, but I will be on most every day but maybe not a bunch of times of day.

Yesterday was too fun and special. I have 3 daughters and 2 sons, but only my girls live here locally. I live in the central valley CA, one son lives in So-Cal and the other lives in Oregon, both about 345 miles from me but in opposite directions. Anyway, yesterday morning two of my adult granddaughters made brunch for me and their mother (my daughter, Heather). Fantastic cooks! Scrambled eggs, bacon, fried potatoes, salad with homemade dressing, and a delicious croissant/berry dish fresh out of the oven!!! Yummy!!

Then I went to my other daughter, Becky's house and 5 of her 6 children were there. One of her daughters lives in Southern California (SoCal) so she couldn't be there, but we had a delicious BBQ: carne asada, chicken, corn and potatoes but I skipped dessert since I'd already had the croissant berry dish earlier. Then we played Taboo, adults against the kids. OMG! The kids went crazy trying to get each other to guess their words. lol The I got one word that NOBODY knew, not even my daughter. Nobody had ever heard of the word colander. Guess that dates me? lol But we laughed, cried tears, belly aching laughs! Too fun. Gotta love big families! This week I'll be going out with my other daughter, Kim for breakfast or lunch or something. Sometimes we all get together and other times we split it up like this year, but both are fun.

I told you all about my grandkids and greats, etc. but never mentioned my nieces and nephews. LOL I won't bore you BUT I did just find out that I am getting another GREAT nephew in October, due on one of my daughter's birthdays. :)

Sophie wrote: "I've know got Californian Redwoods joining the vines and weeping willows in my personal forest!


Also known as the coast redwood, this species includes the tallest known tree in the world. Many re..."

I live in California and have been to the CA Redwoods several times and the trees are awesome in the literal definition of the word. So beautiful and a sight to behold!

Catherine wrote: "Helllllooooo I am found! I am excited as this is my first challenge on Goodreads and I have a pile of books to read. My name is Catherine, some people call me Cat. I work for Delta Airlines in the ..."

How awesome! What do you do for Delta? And what mini-challenge? Did I miss something?

Sophie wrote: "Sounds like you've got a wonderful long weekend with yesterday's lunch and tomorrow's plans.

I'm having my dad over tomorrow for a barbeque. Normally we end up going to him, so I'm pretty sure I'v..."

Enjoy him as much as you can!!!! I lost my mother in 2008 and my father in 2012 and I miss them ALL the time!!!! But I was blessed enough for them to have lived until 81 and 89 respectively. But when they pass, it's very difficult! :) Especially on Mother's/Father's Day and their birth dates, at least those are the hardest for me.

Melindam wrote: "Happy Mother's Day, Vicki. In Hungary, it is always celebrated on the 1st Sunday of May."

Well, Happy (belated) Mother's Day! (Are you a mother?) lol

I got FIG tree...figures since fig is a fruit/food. lol

Native to the Middle East and western Asia, the common fig is a giving tree;its fruit has been harvested since ancient times. Your friends and family consider you to be a generous person as well. Whether a neighbor needs to borrow a tool from your garage or a friend asks you for a ride, you're always there to lend a helping hand. You prefer to keep busy anyway, as you have numerous hobbies and actively volunteer to help others.

I had a lovely lunch yesterday with 9 friends of mine, and afterwards we went to one of the lady's homes and had dessert. Most of us are mothers with an exception or two.

In California it's almost like having 2 Mother's Days because we have a large Hispanic community and the Mexican families celebrate it on May 10, which was yesterday. Tomorrow is the regular one for the U.S., so I'm looking forward to going to one of my daughter's home where two of my adult granddaughters are making brunch for all of us. It'll be so fun to visit and be catered to! lol

Happy Mother's Day to all of you mothers, dog mothers, cat mothers, and so on. :) I say if you're a mother in any way that Mother's Day is everyday! :)

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@Stephanie, thanks for being our captain. I feel like I've played a version of this challenge before, but if I have it's been a while so it'll take me a minute (or two) to know what I'm doing. I think it's so fantastic that you're a kitty foster mom! We need more animal fostering/rescuing. I always own dogs and it's only been in the past year that I've gotten to where I'm not afraid of cats anymore. My aunt had a MEAN gray alley cat, the only cat I was ever around, so I never liked them until my daughter got 2 a little over a year ago for my two youngest grandkids, Lily (now 6) and Juju (now 4) and over time I have learned a lot about cats. They both like me and I am not afraid anymore of them, but still iffy on unknown cats.

@Melindam, I've seen you all over the place! (In GR, that is.) I've always wanted to play with you and I feel like we did play together in a challenge or maybe 2 but not a lot! I know you're a good player and that you're an excellent participant! If I remember correctly, you live in Belgium, right? I'm glad you have the means to get the books you want. I use my public library, Libby, Scribd, and Amazon's Audible for my ebooks and audiobooks. It's so good to have plenty of resources. What I can't get through one of those nor wait for a book I really want, that's when I buy books. Plus, I subscribe to BOTM so I still get hardback books but I don't read nearly as many of those as I do ebooks. Glad to have you on our team!

@Sophie, a doctor? Quite impressive! And I have always wanted to see London and the guards there. I only know what I hear and I've learned that's not always very reliable. Hopefully one day I can make it there.

@Lucy, I'm a mood reader too IF I don't have a book I have to read for a challenge but that's not very often! lol I do love just deciding on what I feel like reading, though. I feel like I probably should know or be able to figure it out but I don't know...what does SFF mean?

@Suzanne, one thing we don't have in common is a math brain! lol I used to tell my students something like, "Get into groups of 4" as I held up 3 fingers and then realized what I did and I'd say, "That's why I don't teach math." lol I taught seniors for 5-6 years and they had to do senior projects out in the community, and their papers were were 20%. What I could never wrap my brain around is WHY their grade would sometimes go down AFTER they turned in their papers. I always felt like if they had a zero score then why wouldn't it go up? One of the math teachers, Brad Garletts (who had previously been a student of mine) came into my class and showed me on the board how it worked. All I can say is thank goodness for programs because I never did get it! lol

@Ushashi, another brain in our group! YAY! (Not to say you aren't all brains, though!) I feel such admiration for people who have careers like yours and do such important work in fields like cancer. I hope you enjoy Boston. Just curious if you moved there alone or do you have family who also live there or moved with you? I'm glad you now have library access to so many more books! I have one library that I have a library card for but live too far away to get my physical books from...darn it! They allow 100 books for checkout and it's 3 stories high. It's the San Francisco Public Library. I only get their ebooks and audiobooks, but they still allow 25 at a time so that's not too bad. Good luck finding all the books you ever hoped to find!

@Cecily, I went to the most beautiful place ever last summer and I just loved it there! I went to Canmore-Banff, Canada! The waterfalls were the most beautiful I've ever seen! My daughter and her girlfriend went with us and they loved it so much that they went back in December to see it during winter. The Rockies there were so gorgeous! I will definitely go back! There were many things we liked about the communities there as well. You are a lot more brave than I am to have so many animals, but that's very cool.

@Lauri, aloha! Which island to you live on and were you born in Hawaii? We've been to Kauai several times, I was in Oahu WAY back in 1973. We've also been to the big island and Maui both once during the same summer. Thankfully we went before the volcano erupted and went on a tour to see it and we got to see it at night through a telescope and wow, it was beautiful to see! But so sad about the eruption and what some people went through. We miss Kauai, especially...so much greenery!

I think I responded to everyone, but if I missed you it wasn't purposeful. I did want to connect with each and every one of you, so hopefully I did. I'm so excited to play and get to know all of you a lot more. We have quite a diverse group of people, which I love. I've always loved different ethnicities, traditions, cultures, religions, etc. I find it all so fascinating. I happen to be Christian and I used to tell my students that one of my very best friends was Buddhist. All that matters to me is a person who's good-hearted, kind, respectful, and who cares about others. And, you certainly all sound like you're nice and caring people, too. :)

@Marty, yes, I keep very busy with my large family...always something! This year there are 3 graduation ceremonies: Kindergarten, 8th grade, and high school. lol I have 4 months that we have 4 birthdays, only 1 birthday in May and July, but 2-3 in most other months. But my BIG one is October with 7 and December with 6. That doesn't include all of their better halves, for those old enough. lol