Month: May 2015

This Week

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On Monday

It started raining (and just never stopped!).

I started a new book.  Whistling Past the Graveyard, if you’re interested.

I made us a salad for dinner.  This salad to be precise.  It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last.  So. Damn. Good. (Ew, please ignore that gross plastic fork…)

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On Tuesday

It was Cinco de Mayo!

We went out to dinner for Lori’s Birthday.  I ate a raw oyster and I don’t feel like I ever need to do that again.

We announced that we’re taking her to Hawaii in January.  She cried, then I cried because I’m a sympathy crier like whoa.

Ice cream followed, naturally.

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On Wednesday

I wore my rain boots on our coffee walk.  It wasn’t really wet enough for them but hey, when you own rain boots, you look for any excuse to wear them.

I made mini pancakes while Joey cooked us dinner.  Because I’m weird and needed a test run with the recipe I plan on using for Mother’s Day Brunch.  Joey doesn’t seem to mind having a fridge stocked with pancake minis.

The Rockies played a true double header.  And lost.  Twice.  Please, no more!

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On Thursday

I picked up two boxes of cupcakes for an office birthday and wondered “if neither I nor the cupcakes returned to work, would anyone notice?”

I watched Joey bowl for the last time this year.  The league’s over and that means I can’t tease Joey about never bowling a 300 again because he’s used up his lifetime supply already.  Till next year 🙂

I read 4 pages of my new book before realizing, A) This is boring and B) I’m so tired!

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On Friday

I woke up to find a break in the rain so I grabbed myself an outdoor morning run.  Those make me happy.

Was fifteen minutes late to work.  But I brought cupcakes so…

I predict the Rockies game will get rained out and I’ll be totally cool with it because that just means I get to put my pajamas on right after work, sink into the couch and watch a movie.  Maybe I’ll make a pizza dough.  Maybe I’ll realize pizza dough takes too long and order take out instead.

Happy Weekend to you all!

A Book Review: Hemingway’s Girl

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Before my massage last Saturday, my mom showed me a list of books she wants to read.  Sidenote: It was handwritten on three sheets of lined paper because my mom is cute like that.  It was mostly classics.  You know, stuff you probably (or should’ve) read in school, like Fahrenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird and Animal Farm.  A lot of it was stuff I haven’t read but want to!  Classics are classics for a reason.  They’re the backbone of our literary history!

The book I just finished was so not on that list.

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You know, I should probably stop assuming anything by or about Hemingway means I’m going to love it.  That assumption might work nine times out of ten, but that tenth one might turn out to be horribly boring and hard to get through because you’re thinking “Is anything interesting going to happen?!” the entire time you’re reading it.  Case in point: Hemingway’s Girl by Erika Robuck.

This one is about a girl named Mariella who works for and is also attracted to Hemingway, who happens to be married at the time.  Turns out he’s attracted to her too but there’s that whole being married part and that other part where Mariella meets and falls in love with another guy.  The whole thing takes place in Key West and can I just say I like European Hemingway way better than Key West Hemingway.

Overall, the entire book was just so… vanilla.  The story wasn’t interesting, the characters weren’t captivating, the writing wasn’t fine-tuned.  Plus there was that part where Robuck decided to have Mariella and Hemingway refer to each other as “Papa” and “Daughter” and it got majorly weird.  Oddly enough, the last few pages of the book were told in letter-format and I actually kind of liked that.  I’m a sucker for a good letter-style book.

In other words, if you come across this one, skip it.

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What was the last really good book you read?

What was the last really bad book you read?

Do you have a favorite “classic”?

In other news, my mom and I just decided to create a two-person book club to take down those classics!