Ten Things

1. I went to dinner and a movie with some dear friends last Friday night. We had dinner at a French cafe downtown that specializes in crepes. My first crepe experience; it was tasty and more filling than I thought it would be. One of the movie previews was for Gone Girl, a movie based on the best selling book that I had not read. The preview, and MMD's endorsement of the book, piqued my interest.

2. I read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. I started out disappointed that there were two narratives - but the book really needs two narratives for the story to work. It's entertaining, at some points thought provoking (like the paragraphs about "Cool Girls"), and I really liked that it is so abnormal. It does have some, kind of a lot for me, bad language (to go along with the toxicity of the characters). I found it difficult to put down - I really wanted to know what happened, and then what was going to happen. I would classify it as a Read if you like weird thrillers.

3. Squirms has been helping me in the yard lately. She likes to dig in the "sand" (dirt) and pick "weeds" (flowers, mainly amaryllis and crown of thorn blooms) while I pull weeds. Please don't get the impression that I'm actually helping our yard look better. More weeds have shown up in our grass since I started trying to rid the grass of weeds and I leave piles of the weeds I pick on the sidewalk because I usually abandon my task to chase after her somewhere. Plus, sand toys all over the sidewalk help the overall effect of "Warning: small kids and exhausted adults live in this house. Nothing looks clean, tidy, or neat."

My Helper.

 4. We also put aloe and this purple plant in a decorative pitcher (from our wedding decorations) for the back porch.

5. MMD brought me presents for my birthday. This adorably clever Manatee that holds tea leaves (get it?? Mana-tea!!) is one of them. 

6. Shelby Ann is Squirm's best friend. Squirms chases her around the yard yelling "Shelbeeee. What you doin?"

Best friends.

7. The Great is not a fan of real food. We've tried banana, avocado, and apple. It's getting difficult to trick him into opening his mouth when I have a spoon in my hand.

8. I like this picture of me.

9. R has been working hard to re-finish the family table we bought. The table is done and he has almost completed the chairs. The Squirms and the Great have already began using it - it's lovely.

10. It rained, stormed really, all day Saturday. It was beautiful. Squirms came out of her room wearing a hat and carrying her two swim suits and said "beach?"