Mailbox Monday -- November 30
Happy Monday, everyone!  I'm back from my mental health vacation, unfortunately, and now I'm playing catch up.  (Forgive me, but I had to "mark all as read" in Google Reader.  Y'all were busy bees while I was gone!  As I'm still without a home computer (UGH!) there was no way I was going to get through all of those posts any time soon, so I figured it was best to start fresh.) I hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving, and I appreciate you stopping by my b

Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my friends celebrating today.  I hope you have a wonderful time with your loved ones.  We'll be spending the day with Serena and her husband, cooking, eating, chatting, and making bookmarks for a church bazaar next month. Before we begin to eat, we sometimes ask one another what we are thankful for this year.  One of the things I'm thankful for is all of you.  Thanks for stopping by Diary of an Eccentric from time to time and sharing your thoughts.  I appreciate each and every one of you and hope you all have a wonderful day!

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS by Quentin Tarantino
Serena and I went to see Inglourious Basterds as soon as it hit the theaters, and not being a huge Quentin Tarantino fan, I didn't have high expectations for the film.  However, I absolutely loved it (read our review here), and when

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS by Jeff Kinney
The Girl loves Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, has all the books, and even waited in line for about 2 hours at the National Book Festival to meet him and have her books signed.  So when the fourth book in the series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid:  Dog Days, was released in October, she bought a copy rig

Mailbox Monday -- November 23
It's time for another Mailbox Monday, where book lovers share the books they received in the mail, purchased, or otherwise obtained during the past week.  This fun weekly meme is hosted by Marcia from The Printed Page. Here's what I received last week: For review: