A collection of little things

-- Last night I finished making dinner 20 minutes early. This never happens – usually I start late and forget how long things take and we’re all sitting down to eat at 7:15pm. Oops. So this time I thought that 5:40pm was probably an unreasonable time to ask everyone to eat, so I sat in the bedroom and pretended dinner wasn’t quite ready yet. It felt like that rice krispie commercial – the one where the mom hangs out in the kitchen for hours doing nothing, and then she poofs some flour on her face and brings them out like she’s been working for ages? Yep, that one. It was kind of nice.

-- Henry was playing on his tablet the other day and he got mad at his game. All of a sudden he screaches “JESUS!” … yeah, that might be my fault. I’m trying to curb it, but habits are hard to break. C looks at me and says, “That’s all you.” Which it is. I told him to say “Darn it” instead. Probably still not acceptable in mixed company coming from the mouth of a three year old, but I was at a loss of how else he could voice his frustration with his Minion going off the edge of whatever.

-- Tonight is the birthday celebration of a friend we haven’t seen since her wedding more than a year ago. We keep meaning to get together but it doesn’t happen, so I was happy when her husband invited us. It’s a surprise, but I’m pretty sure she doesn’t read my blog. Now I’m checking my blog traffic to be sure. Okay, I’m incapable of analyzing that shit. No, I don’t think she reads. Me. I don’t think she reads THIS.

-- I’m thinking of taking my twitter off private for a weekend and tweeting at a couple people I REALLY wish would follow me so I could reply to their tweets. Would that be weird? Do you think it would be successful or would those people just think I’m a crazy stalker lady and all of a sudden I’ll be blocked?

-- Saturday I have a baby shower to go to from 1pm-4pm, and C is taking the kids to Disney with our neighbor and his kids (the shower is for the third baby/first boy for neighbor and wife, but they are traditional women-only-at-the-shower folks). So I have the WHOLE DAY to myself. I think I’ll do nothing, or at least that’s the plan. I’ve got the shower and then I might join a friend for a Trader Joe’s run, but otherwise it will be me and my book and/or tv. It’s not often I get much time to myself so it’s exciting.

-- I put off reading a book for more than a week because I downloaded the third book in a series (eLibrary) and then could not remember the first two hardly at all. I looked up summaries (surprisingly hard to find) and still no. I had vague recollections, but I didn’t know if that would make me enjoy the third at all. Goodness, it was so good. I think I’m adding the full series to my reread list. Girl of Fire and Thorns trilogy by Rae Carson, if you’re interested. The first two are excellent (I do remember most of the storyline now) but the third I think was the best. My only problem with it is how much emphasis is put on her plain looks and weight. It is CONSTANT for the first book, but it drops off a little by the second and barely there on the third. I can only assume it’s as she gets more confident in herself. Anyhow. Good series.

-- How are you doing on your Lent goals? I have been completely unsuccessful, but I think an unexpected goal came through in this last month – really enjoying being with my family and making an effort to have a good time with them. So while I haven’t been documenting my happiness as I planned on doing, I have been making a more conscious effort to BE happy, so there’s that. And not drinking – yeah, no. I held out for the first two weeks, and then I just had a couple drinks on the weekend, but now I’m back to a drink with dinner. I don’t see a problem with it, but it was hard to not have a drink with dinner when my husband was.