animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

v-day

Yesterday was a pretty good day for Valentine’s Day. We haven’t celebrated the holiday in years, but since it’s also Brian’s birthday, we do celebrate that. Brian even took a well-deserved day off work. I spent the morning working on PDS stuff. I was hot on the trail of something …

volver

This was another subtitled movie (Spanish). I’ve seen more subtitled movies in the past few months than I have seen in my entire life. The movie was ok. It had some pretty funny dialog in it, but you had to be paying attention. The storyline was unique and Penelope Cruz …

(500) days of summer

Plot-wise, this was a typical date-type movie. But, the story had an interesting twist–instead of telling the story chronologically, the scenes were from a single random day in the relationship of the two main characters. Not that this is an original concept or anything, it was just well-done. I would …

more progress

Today, Brian installed a ceiling fan/light combo in our library. Slowly, but surely, the upstairs is getting some attention. We also bought a door for the office. So, I guess painting the door, door trim, and window trim is next on my list. In comparison to painting the room, that …

dead ringer

My mom goes to a lot of book sales and is always picking new stuff up for me. I had never heard of the author (Lisa Scottoline) of this book before, but I’ll pretty much give anything a shot, so I put it on my reading list. I was pleasantly …