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The Sunday Salon: A Lazy, Rainy, Glorious Day

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I normally wake at 4:30am so imagine my surprise when I stumbled out of bed and saw that most of the morning was gone. It was 9am! My internal clock was completely thrown off because it was so rainy and cloudy out. It felt really nice to get some extra sleep but I’ve sort of been dragging all day because of it.

Luckily, we didn’t have any big plans today.

I went to the mall and bought some Christmas presents.

I went to Target and roamed around aimlessly.

Came home and took a short nap. Yes! Even after waking up so late.

I started Kings of the Earth, for real because I had planned to start it last week and didn’t.

I also started In Defense of Food but it’s a bit too “angry” for me at the moment.

I made soup with all of the fresh veggies I picked up.

Now I plan to make some coffee and catch-up with all of you. It’s supposed to rain for the next three days. The Girl is hoping it won’t since she has a walking field-trip that she is really looking forward to, but I LOVE a nice, steady rain.

So what have you all been doing today?

The Sunday Salon: The Farmer’s Market, The Pet Fair and Stuff

Farmer's Market

Happy Sunday! I rolled out of bed this morning and hit the local Farmer’s Market. It’s been years since I’ve gone. One could easily get carried away there but I was good and only picked up a few things. Granted, some things were eaten while there so this photo is missing a few items and I gobbled up the hot tamale that I picked up there too and of course I forgot to include the fresh eggs. Nothing like a fresh tamale for breakfast. Jack cheese, peppers and white corn…yum!

After that, we hit the pet fair but The Girl had a horrible stomach ache so we had to turn back. We managed to see a few cute animals but couldn’t really check any of them out with her writhing on the floor. I think we are getting close to getting another pet. Maybe within the next year.

Sunday Salon

Right now we are cleaning up the house. It’s not the funnest thing to do but after a week off, it has to be done. If I get it done quickly then I can do some reading later. I am reading The Reapers are the Angels and it’s totally bizarre. It’s perfect that I am reading it before Halloween because let me tell you, it will creep you out. I am about halfway done with it and there were parts where I just opened my eyes wide and thought…oh no…he IS going to go there. Think of a world where Zombies are called “Meatskins” and Slugs. Ick.

Later on, we are supposed to have dinner with friends. The Girl seems to be bopping around just fine now so perhaps it was just too much “goodness” at the market that did it.

I was out and about all weekend so I missed the read-a-thon entirely. Hope you are all getting some much-needed rest.