There was a STRONG eau de skunk when I let the boys in from the back yard this morning. My immediate thought was "Oh NO, not again!" I'm thinking something had an encounter with a skunk in or very near our back yard and the boys wafted through it. They did go tearing out there sometime after midnight so maybe a cat was passing through.
We didn't do anything yesterday, thank goodness. Not a blessed thing. We'll go to a movie next weekend. After two days of Madsens (7 hours on Saturday and 8 on Sunday), I needed a day for myself just reading and napping and I didn't want to put the boys out again in the rainy weather either. They were good sports about spending all day Sat/Sun outside so it was only fair they got to hang out inside for one.
Tonight I have The Voice to watch. Losing two more people tonight so we'll be down to six and that much sooner to being over. Yeah, it's getting to be time. I want my Monday and Tuesday evenings back.
I finished the Dan Brown book - typical thriller-ish where the coincidences are high and the occasional "come on" moments but the bad guy's motivation was interesting. I'm currently reading a quickie not-quite-chick-lit but verging on it called WHILE WE WERE WATCHING DOWNTON ABBEY by Wendy Wax. Here is a description:
When the concierge of The Alexander, a historic Atlanta apartment building, invites his fellow residents to join him for weekly screenings of Downton Abbey, four very different people find themselves connecting with the addictive drama, and—even more unexpectedly—with each other… Samantha Davis married young and for the wrong reason: the security of old Atlanta money—for herself and for her orphaned brother and sister. She never expected her marriage to be complicated by love and compromised by a shattering family betrayal. Claire Walker is now an empty nester and struggling author who left her home in the suburbs for the old world charm of The Alexander, and for a new and productive life. But she soon wonders if clinging to old dreams can be more destructive than having no dreams at all. And then there’s Brooke MacKenzie, a woman in constant battle with her jerk of an ex-husband. She’s just starting to realize that it’s time to take a deep breath and come to terms with the fact that her life is not the fairy tale she thought it would be. For Samantha, Claire, Brooke—and Edward, who arranges the weekly gatherings—it will be a season of surprises as they forge a bond that will sustain them through some of life’s hardest moments—all of it reflected in the unfolding drama, comedy, and convergent lives of Downton Abbey.
I didn't quite finish the reading challenge because I was not able to post so here we go:
30 Day Reading Challenge
Day 29 - A book everyone hated but you liked
Everyone is a strong word. So. Having just finished the Dan Brown (of THE DA VINCI CODE fame) and having a minor skirmish on 4MA about the author, I will say the books of Dan Brown. For years, I have LIKED thriller-ish books that dealt with courtly intrigue, the Vatican, biblical, art world, Templars, etc., even before Brown wrote THE DA VINCI CODE. They're fun. But Dan Brown was HUGELY successful with that book and for some reason in our culture people love to tear down that kind of success so I've defended him because I don't like bullies. People don't like to be left out on the "cool" bandwagon and it's "cool" to bash Dan Brown. Was INFERNO the best book ever written? No. Was it intended to be? No. Was it entertaining? Yes. And there is nothing wrong with that.
Day 30 - Favorite book
THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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