Sunday Salon | Book Chatter

I know many of you got another taste of winter this past weekend but here, it’s a glorious 85 degrees. The flowers are blooming so with every breeze I am greeted with the wonderful smells of spring. With that, comes sneezing so I dosed up on allergy meds and took it easy today. The Girl and I hit the library. She came home with a full bag of books whereas all I found was a copy of The Old Man and the Sea.

I love to read with The Girl because with her, it’s all about cozy. She opened up her windows and we flopped onto her bed and dove right in. She chose a mystery, and I chose to continue with Heft by Liz Moore. At first, it seemed a little slow but now…about 100 pages in, I am unable to put it down. Along with that, I am also reading some other books, one of which is A Visit From the Goon Squad. I don’t know why but when the weather gets warm, all I want to do is kick back with a book. Outside, or inside by a window. Warm weather equals reading to me.

I have a lot of reviews to write as I have been a reading machine, but with work being so crazy and me, unable to shut my brain down after work, writing the reviews has been a challenge. No worries though, they will all get written. I am just trying to figure out the best use of my time these days. Balance has always been a concern with me and lately, it’s been more difficult to juggle it all. Between play rehearsals (yep, another show) and basketball playoffs and school stuff, I am just wiped out. I know many of you go through the same thing and knowing that there are others like me, trying to keep it all together and remain sane, makes it a lot easier to deal with.

On another note, the gym is going well. I am really enjoying the early morning workouts, but I have gained 5 lbs! I seem to recall this happening before when I worked out, but it’s not supposed to work that way. After a month of hitting the gym, I expected to see something. Anything, but not 5 lbs. I am just going to keep plugging along and hope it all evens out soon.

This evening, we are picking up take-out and plan to watch The Help. I’ve seen it, but The Hub hasn’t so that’s the plan. Hope you are all well and that you are out enjoying your Sunday.

Here it is, nearly 7pm my time and I am just now getting to my Sunday Salon post. If time moved any faster, I’d miss it.

Today started off good. I made bacon and eggs and we settled in to a great Sunday morning, finished off nicely by two cups of cinnamon coffee. BUT…The Girl’s Toastmaster’s speech is due this Friday which means that memorization needs to happen between now and then and let me tell you, it just was not happening. She got irritated with me (unbelievable, I know) and I got majorly irritated with her attitude. The next thing I knew, there was screaming and yelling.

BUT, we had plans to hit the zoo so we put the speech aside and figured that some fresh air and sun, is what we all needed. The Boy had his oral surgery last week and was still out of it, so the fresh air would do him good too. What we didn’t expect were crowds of people. It has NEVER been that crowded before. The parking lots were full and I was already on edge but we tried to make the best of it.

After The Girl flipped out over two chimpanzees fighting over an apple, I just about lost it. I went off and stared at the giraffes for awhile and tried to lose myself in their eating routine. I know their fighting scared her, but it was so interesting to watch and there was no way we could since she screamed her special, high-pitched scream, the one that only an eight-year-old girl can do. I mean really, if there had been any glass nearby we would have been in trouble.

So, we left. Drove home. Picked up stuff to BBQ and then got all bickery (my word) when the meat was overcooked. It’s me, I know it’s me. I am on edge. I don’t particularly care for hordes of people and everyone at the zoo just rubbed me the wrong way. You don’t knock on an enclosure to wake a big cat up and you certainly don’t use a spray bottle to try to wake them up either. Everywhere I turned, I saw dumb people.

The overcooked meat has been put away. The speech has been shortened by at least a minute and I am about to dive back into Wish You Were Here, which ironically is about people being together in a small confined space (cottage by the lake).

I won’t be able to catch-up with everyone’s blog posts tonight but I will catch-up with everyone tomorrow morning. Oh, and if you had a day like mine, I am sending you calming vibes to get you through the evening.

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