Category: Family

Friday Five: What’s hot today…

ONE ~ I’m going to see Tim McGraw perform tonight! I can’t express how excited I am about this concert; I’ve wanted to see him perform for years. The icing on the cake: Lady Antebellum is opening! I’ve already gushed about how much I love them HERE. The cherry on top of the icing on the cake: My husband and I are spending a childless night together in Seattle. Hoping to relive my college days. 🙂

TWO ~ I started reading Ken Follett’s World Without End this morning. It’s been awhile since I read an “adult” book, but I’m a big fan of the epically fascinating Pillars of the Earth, and World Without End is a follow-up of sorts. It takes place in the 1300s and even though I’m only on page seven, I’ve already read about a thieving eight-year-old girl and her father, whose hand was chopped off because of his own stealing. What’s not to like?

THREE ~ I have a new nephew! Gabriel was born May 19th and weighed in at 8 pounds, 5 ounces. My husband, daughter and I are making the ten-hour drive to Mountain Home, Idaho (you’re jealous, I know!) next weekend to visit the little munchkin. Look at those chubby cheeks!

FOUR ~ I’m obsessed with Savvy Authors. If you haven’t checked it out, you need to. Right now. There are too many features to name here, but I’ll try to list a few: workshops, word count/page number trackers, pitch fests, forums, chat rooms, expert resources, critique groups, agent listings, an auto critter… seriously. It’s an amazing resource with supportive and generous people. There’s a $30 a year membership fee to access all the good stuff, but I assure you, it’s well worth the money!

FIVE ~ One of my all time favorite TV shows is Sex and the City. I’ve seen every episode at least once and the movie more times than I care to admit. If you’ve never watched it (and aren’t easily offended), I definitely recommend it. Rent season one at Blockbuster or from Netflix and I promise you’ll be hooked. The movie’s sequel comes out May 27th and I’ll be there (with my mom, SATC’s second biggest fan!) to see it. Can’t wait to be reunited with Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda! **Plus, did you hear Aidan’s back?!

Friday Five

So, I’m planning to make my Friday Five a regular feature. Today… five things that are making me very happy this week! 

Number One: My husband and I, after years of hemming and hawing, finally signed up for Netflix! Full of excitment, I packed our queue full of new releases and TV series we’ve never seen. Since I’m a newbie, said queue was a complete cluster with zero organization, though I didn’t know any better. When we got our first DVD delivery on Saturday I was all kinds of excited, until I saw that we’d received Six Feet Under SEASON TWO, discs one and two. Yeah, seeing as how neither my husband nor I have seen Season One, we didn’t want to start with Season Two. So, feeling like a bit of an idiot, I sealed those discs right back into their convenient little envelops and tucked them into the mailbox on Monday, then immediately organized our queue. Imagine my surprise and delight when on Wednesday (a mere two days later!) Six Feet Under Season One, discs one and two arrived! Talk about quick turnaround! So, I’m a satisfied and happy customer and an official Netflix convert.
**In case you’re wondering, Six Feet Under is kind of awesome… I highly recommend it if you haven’t see it! 

How has it take me so long to jump on this bandwagon?!

 Number Two: I’ve read two amazing and completely different books this week – 

 

And 

 

Click on the covers to visit the authors’ websites to learn more. Next on my reading list? An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. 

Number Three: The new season of Bravo’s Real Housewives of New Jersey starts Monday! I’m a total Bravo junkie and will watch pretty much whatever they air, but RHONJ happens to be one of my all time favorites. If you didn’t see Teresa’s table flipping fiasco last season, you must YouTube it immediately. Seriously, these women are so completely over the top, but there’s something about them (with the exception of Danielle, I think) that’s genuine and intriguing and oddly endearing. If Dina, Caroline, Teresa, and Jacqueline lived in my neck of the woods, I’d totally want them as friends!   

 

  Number Four: Tomorrow night I get to go see him: 

 

 

Jason Aldean

Sing about:

 

Big Green Tractors

And them: 

 

Brooks and Dunn

  Sing about:

 

Red Dirt Roads

 I’m just a little excited!

 Number Five: Last, but certainly not least, my precious girl who makes me happy every day of the week. After receiving a form rejection email yesterday, I told her I was feeling a little sad. She replied, “That’s okay, Princess Mommy. I still ‘lub’ you.” How could I possibly stay in my I’m-the-world’s-biggest-failure funk after something like that?  

 
 

Isn't she the cutest?!