Life: It Goes On - March 2

Happy Sunday! Cold here today; but the sun is shining, so I'm trying to pretend it's warm outside. Heading out shortly to go visit friends so that illusion will be shattered shortly. 

Celebrating our girls this weekend - Miss H and Ms S share a birthday on March 1. This year I decided to have flowers delivered to both of them. Yesterday discovered that Miss H was out of town so not home to get her flower delivery. Then I got a call from the florist in Alaska saying that they didn't get any response when they knocked to delivery Ms S's flowers! Thought I'd managed to deliver flowers the only year that both deliveries were going to end up frozen on the front step! Fortunately, got Ms S's delivered and Miss H had a friend come and get hers before they froze so they will both get to enjoy them. Miss being able to do birthday celebrations around the dining room table like we used to do! 

Last Week I: 

Listened To: I finished Jennie Field's The Age of Desire and started Bill Clegg's Did You Ever Have A Family? Not to far into that one yet, so the jury's still out. The Age of Desire suffered from being too long and following in the footsteps of The Hunter, which was so well read and such a good book. 

Watched: A lot of college basketball, The Voice, and a whole lot of stuff that's unremarkable.

The Magic Candies

Read: Raced through The God of the Woods and loved it. Now I'm finishing Isola by Allegra Goodman. Then I'm on to Lian Dolen's latest, Abigail and Alexa Save the Wedding. 

Made: Mac 'n' cheese and beef and bean enchiladas. Been managing to make enough each time I cook to get a few meals out of each thing. 

Enjoyed: Went to dinner with friends and then saw the Oscar-nominated animated shorts. Think we all agreed that some of them were a little strange and none of them really wow'd us, but it was still a good night!

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This Week I’m:  

Planning: Will be having family descend to celebrate my dad's 90th birthday toward the middle of next week, so this week will be about getting the house cleaned and food ordered for that. 

Thinking About: There are a few small projects that I want to get down in the next week so I'm pondering how to get those done. 

Feeling: Frustrated - we were so close to spring last week and now we're looking at snow in the forecast this week. I know, I know - it's only March, but ya girl was really loving not having to wear a coat. 

Looking forward to: Fingers crossed that this will be another quiet week. 

Question of the week: Are you watching the Oscars tonight? We're not going to get home in time to watch the red carpet, which I'll be sad to miss. Hopefully in time to watch some of the awards.