• Happy Thanksgiving (American) friends! We’re doing two Friendsgivings – one today, and one on Sunday. (We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving with our families, but will see them for two separate Christmases.) I sometimes get groceries on Wednesday night after I get off the train, and whoa, that was a bit nuts last night! Duh, Kim. I got the essentials for my babies, though.

  • It feels odd that I haven’t updated you on what I’m reading in a while. Which is funny to me (that it feels odd), because for so long, I only read non-fiction (memoirs, sociology books, and sports psychology books), which took me a while to read, so I rarely wrote about what I was reading. Anyway! I just finished Under A Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day. It took me a few chapters to get in to it, but then I didn’t want to put it down. It’s about a woman, Eden, who lost her husband under a year ago, and finds reservations he made for a “dark sky” park in northern Michigan to view the stars, and decides to go. Two problems though – she’s afraid of the dark, and there’s a group of friends (she doesn’t know) staying in the house too. There’s a murder and she ends up getting entangled with that and a bunch of crazy stuff is revealed about the “friends” and about Eden and her husband. Dramz.

  • I just started Annihilation by Jeff VanderMerr last night. I saw the movie with Natalie Portman in the theater (and again at home) and thought it was interesting/trippy and wondered if I’d like the book. Oh my gosh, just in the first few pages of the book, it’s SUPER different from the movie, actually answering a lot of things that made Steven bonkers about the movie! I am curious to see how different it ends up being!
  • We’re having some work done in our yard this week – our driveway is being re-leveled with new gravel added, and the area where we want to put a garage/shed is also being leveled out with gravel added. And a bunch of buckthorns are being pulled out. And a few trees knocked over. The poor cats – they were really scared when this big tree got knocked down. Sorry, babies.

  • The past two nights, instead of hanging with us during dinner and watching a movie (like they usually do, and Starbuck was), Apollo and Khali holed off somewhere, together. Aww. Snuggle buds.

  • We watched part of Armageddon (I don’t care what critics think, this movie is amazing and gives me all the feels) on Tuesday, and watched Crazy Rich Asians last night. I thought Crazy Rich Asians was really fun, and cute. And a bit unrealistic at the end, but whatever. It was nice to be entertained. (OMG that wedding scene – that was insanely extravagant!)
  • I heard on the radio that The Rolling Stones are coming to town in June and noseblood ticket prices are $300 each. What the heck?!
  • The $12 Starbucks giftcard card winner was Kiersten! I emailed it to her. Thanks for playing along!

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