I feel like, after a week off — I put up a grand total of one review, and finished a grand total of 2 1/2 books last week; yes, I have a review to write. I’ll do it later today — I’m already wondering if I’ve lost readers… I shouldn’t be that insecure.

That said, I actually enjoyed my slow reading week. I’m doing a lot more running around in the car these days, and so I’m thinking about delving into the world of audiobooks. I have enjoyed the ones I’ve listened to in the past.

I’m doing well on the commenting part of my bloggy resolutions, in part due to MotherReader and Lee Wind‘s Comment Challenge. The deal? It started January 6th, but you comment on five blogs through Wednesday January 26th. Easy peasy.

I’m actually wishing for the snow that’s predicted for here today. We’re off to Hawaii in two weeks, and I want something to be running away from!

Speaking of Hawaii, I’ve picked up two Robin McKinley books (Pegasus and Dragonhaven) and Guys Read: Funny Business to take with me as beach/light reads. I’ll happily entertain suggestions for other beach-ish type books.

Does anyone know of any place I can get a good bookish picture for my new header? (Preferably for free/cheap.) I’d take one myself, but I’m feeling uninspired, and M is too busy to do something for me. I really would love to change up the look of the place around here.

In other techy stuff: How does one go about changing the little icon next to the web address in my browser? Some of you have really cute ones, and dang it, if I don’t want one, too.

And the biggish news: ALA Midwinter is going on, and even if you, like me, are not in San Diego, you can tune into the big awards announcement tomorrow morning at 7:30 a.m. PST. (Which means I’m skipping K’s playgroup because live tweeting #alayma is so much more important than going to playgroup. It has a fairly even chance of being snowed out anyway…) I can’t wait!