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Sep 01, 2013 05:06PM
Right now I'm 2 ahead for the overall challenge, so hopefully I can maintain the momentum and keep reading. Most of the books I read will probably be done during the weekends, so hopefully my weekends won't get too busy!
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Darn, sad to hear that we dropped. I haven't looked yet. I read one book slowly the last few days, as I had some other things to do but I finished it up today, read another book today and am 10% into my 3rd book. Hopefully we'll shoot back up with the reading we've already started out with for today. :)
Bummer, we can still make it up easily enough though!We have 1 Triple Threat and 21 Bouncing Cupcakes to turn in from August. I was waiting for the month to be over because of the series - makes it easier to keep track of - but I'll be turning them in after I get home! :)
I'm back (sort of) in the swing of reading so hopefully I can contribute to our number going up next week. I'm on page 100 of one book and have read the first chapter of another. A headache is making it no fun to read today, which sucks because this is my day off! I'll take a shower and see if that makes me feel better, then get back to the books.
I turned the TV off and listened to 2 discs while I worked on my tapestry and did the dishes. Which puts me half-way through disc 5 of 10 of The Lost Hours by Karen White. I am liking this book a lot. I will try to finish it tomorrow since I'm off.
I'm glad I didn't plan a BBQ or anything for today. This is what the weather is here today, complete with flood warnings: 
Been lounging around all day but instead I have been sleeping the day away. Every time I lay down to read I get drowsy and nap.
I finished another book today, and hopefully I can keep up my momentum of 1 book each day or two! Sadly I have tons of homework to deal with as well, so I'm not sure :/
Been making my way through
. I like it but I'm a little bored of the formula for the night so I am thinking of starting something from a different genre to accompany this one.
I'm home, yay!I got home last night after a fairly irritating drive. I started off getting stuck behind a caravan of "oversized load" vehicles on a road where I couldn't pass them and ended with traffic due to an accident about 20 minutes from my home.
I was hoping to get two audiobooks done on the drive, but I got up a bit to early and had to forgo my second audiobook in exchange for loud music to keep me awake, lol. I did listen to Storm Front though!
I'm off to catch up on everything. Glad to be back in business as normal. :D
We've had the addition of a few new Teams,
Who are also sharing our TTRC dreams.
It only seems fair they should get a chance,
at all those puzzles that hold you, as well as entrance.
But I don't want to leave you out of the fun,
so you'll get an opportunity, too, at those NOT done.
I'll give extra hours to Banana Mania, Forest Green, and Pewter & Cadet Blue,
who also has a lot of members who are new, too.
Still, all the rest of you are granted forty-eight.
“Rev Your Engines!” to get a running start at the gate.
I've given you some important links below.
Remember, there are more links in Post #1, to the puzzles, you know?
Okay, 48 hours to you, and 72 hours for the Teams that are new.
I'm excited! Let me see how many cupcakes you can accrue.
Oh! By the way, your time starts now!
Stop reading this and get working. Holy Cow!
Here is where to post!
Cupcake Puzzle Crazy 48 Hour End for Old Teams
Cupcake Puzzle Crazy 72 Hour End for New Teams
Captain Cupcake's World of Puzzles & Cupcakes - All Puzzles & Cupcakes since the beginning of Round II. Make-up Cupcakes will be put here, until we can transfer them to the individual months. Links to puzzles are also at the top of each column on the spreadsheet.
August Puzzles for Cupcakes
June/July Puzzles for Cupcakes
May Puzzles for Cupcakes
Hmm. I think we've been pretty good about earning all our possible cupcakes. Maybe not for May since we didn't form until Mid-May and didn't have a full team until June. Vicky has been keeping track of our cupcakes.
So.., I wasn't around last night because it was Grandmere's wake. I don't know if I'll be around tonight because I really need to mow my lawn. Then I need to fix my computer. It worked fine this morning when I synced my IPOD. But then I tried to turn it on when I went home for lunch and all of a sudden it doesn't recognize me as a user. Hopefully I can just do a system restore.
Yay! I was able to restore my computer to a previous date. I have no idea what happened. I have a habit of closing the lid before it's fully shut down and I wonder if that caused a problem this time. I noticed when I opened the lid it immediately did something before I even hit the power button.
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We have all the June/July/August Cupcakes from Puzzles. I've done about half of the May puzzle today but got an e-mail from Captain Cupcake about a situation that might give us more May cupcakes. Waiting to hear back about that before I carry on with the rest. :)
Just picked up my baby girl from her first day of preschool. When one little girl was dropped off she was screaming and crying for her mom and mom was crying and the teacher urged the mom to just go. Lola is like "Mom, will u stay with me at school?" then we get there and she is like - See ya. No good bye, no acknowledgement when I left. Nothin!
My daughter was like that when she started school.
So which May puzzles do we need to do? We only need to submit one of the picture ones right? I'll take a look and see if there's any Doublets or crosswords to do.
I did #11, 13, 15 & 18 from May. But my eyes hurt and I need to get off the computer. Hopefully the spreadsheet will be updated tomorrow and we can see what others we need. It looks like they've added all of the ones Vicky did.
Vicky were any of the puzzles you did ones that more than one person can do? #18 is a doublet but I don't know if we can all do it or if just one person needs to do it. I'll go ask.
I did not like
when I read it in high school, but OMG, the movie was amazing. One case where the movie was better than the book.
Sent #128 & 129 for the new Sept Cupcakes.
Thanks Brooke. Today is the day where I'm alone at the office almost all day. I will see if I can get another puzzle or two done from May. Will depend on how much the phone is ringing.
NP Mary. :)Sent #130. I'll try #131, but I'm not good at the word wheel ones, if someone else is able to get it done before me. :)
I couldn't get any done. Will try tonight after I take my daughter shopping for a new bathing suit and some school supplies. Are we missing 130 & 131? I haven't checked out the september ones yet. I'm pretty good at the word puzzles & the jigsaws but I suck at the sliders. It takes me forever to do those and many restarts.
I just sent in a bunch of puzzles for the May catch-up. Unless I got one wrong, we're good there. Although as always feel free to do any 
puzzles as we get more options when more of us do them.
I just sent in #131. I think it's correct, but there is one clue I'm a bit iffy on. I'll let you all know when I hear from Captain Cupcake. :)
I did a couple of the word puzzles for May. But I'm beat and going to bed. I don't think I'll be up early enough to do any in the morning. As far as I know, there's only a deadline to get older puzzles done. The Sept ones should be good throughout the month.
Mary: Harry Dresden's Love Slave wrote: "The Sept ones should be good throughout the month."Yup.
Its so quiet, is everyone off reading?
I am. :) Trying to finish this book (on my Kindle) tonight, but hubby is getting sleepy so I don't know if I will be able to before he heads to bed with it to read.
Just busy with family stuff for the weekend. Wish I was reading.
He went to read before bed, I was only at 80%, so I'll finish it up after he goes to sleep. :)Sorry you are unable to read Sarah.
I'm actually in Boston right now and I'm finishing up some books on my flights!!! Right now about a third into A Thousand Splendid Suns. It's really good so far.
The kite runner is amazing. Definitely one of my all time favorites; hopefully this one will be just as good!
Boston! You are about 2 hrs from me. I spent the day at Rocky Neck State Park in CT with a friend, my daughter and my daughter's friend. I had my Kindle read to me this morning while getting read and I'm going to have it read to me now while I get ready for bed.
I'm going to a Woman's Expo at the Hartford Civic Center tomorrow with a couple of friends. I'll probably have my Kindle read to me in the car. It's 30min each way so an hour of listening ought to make a good dent in my Kindle book. It's not long.
Oh nice Mary!!! Boston's great- it's my second time visiting and it's already one of my favorite cities. Tomorrow I have to leave though and return to Wisconsin :(
Just did the Sunday Update. We are at 661 books read and have 725 with our BAP. We are at 53% of our goal which is 12% above "on-track".Go Team! :D
We are back up to 5th place. Way to bounce back team!
Yeah team, cause it sure wasn't me who helped. My reading has slowed down this past week. Working on three books right now and missing out on all my BR and BOTM reads. I am so behind.
I'm behind too. But I got through disc 3 of an audio today. I would be done with disc 4 but for some reason Itunes locked up on my phone and I couldn't listen in the car on the way to my TOPS meeting and back. It's 20min each way so that cost me 40 min of listening. I had to reset my phone to get it to work again.
My book count has gone significantly up. Since school started I haven't been able to read a ton during the week, but each weekend I finish at least one book if not 3 or something!!!
The “Cutthroat Competitor Cupcake” is coming!
This is a cupcake that’s NOT fooling around.
Hard to conquer, but your BAPs will surely mound.
You thought the “Triple Threat” was hard to earn?
This one’s NOT vinegar; yet, neither is it sauterne.
This cupcake counts as ‘cuatro’ – which translates to four.
With a 350,000-word-endurance, these books are worth tons more.
This Captain will give you four BAPs to really increase your points.
After all that page turning, this isn’t one that disappoints.
I finally finished
I'm currently reading two books:
and
, and I'm about to add
into the mix sometime this weekend. I need to return White Lies and Camel Club SOON so I need to get through them both as fast as possible.Other than that, work is busy and random hours but i am off tomorrow so I hope to get some more reading in.
I finished 2 up today. The Mackenzies Boxed set by Liliana Hart and Crystal Gardens by Amanda Quick. As a team we are at 673 books. Maybe we can hit 700 over the weekend.
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