Life: It Goes On - July 13

Happy Sunday! What a noisy week we've had here between several nighttime thunderstorms that woke us up and work being done in the kitchen for three days. One night we had no water in the kitchen, the next we had no stove or microwave, every thing that's normally in the top drawers or out on the counters is in boxes in the dining room. I don't know how people survive months long renovations! 

Last Week I: 

Listened To: Henning Mankell's Faceless Killers. Next up is Robert Edsel's The Monuments Men...I think. At least I'm going to start it on audio, but I'm wondering if it might be one I'd be better off reading digitally. 

Watched: The first season of Running Point, a couple of episodes of Only Murders In The Building, and Wicked. 

Read: I'm still reading Elin Hilderbrand's Summerland, but I'm going to have to get that one finished up soon because Friday I picked up Fredrik Backman's My Friends, which I'm anxious to get to. I wanted to get the audiobook version but I'd be waiting months for it yet. 

Made: I haven't cooked a single thing all week! The Big Guy cooked a couple of nights and we've eaten out the rest of the week. 

Enjoyed: Guys, I picked out the materials for our kitchen weeks ago and since then I've been afraid that I wouldn't like them or they wouldn't look good. Now that everything is in, it makes me so happy to walk into my kitchen! 

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This Week I’m:  

Planning: It's not that we weren't planning on painting the kitchen walls, but now that the new tile is up, I'm going to have to paint sooner than later. Luckily we already have the paint so we can get started today. 

Thinking About: Paint colors for the cabinets. Because we can't stop once we've started! 

Feeling: Not as relaxed as I had expected to feel after a four-day weekend. When I scheduled these days off, there was nothing on the calendar and I thought it would be a nice, quiet time. Instead, because BG was off visiting clients the better part of the time people were here, I had to be "on" AND it was non-stop noisy for the big chunks of the past three days. I'm going to need to schedule another long weekend soon. 

Looking forward to: Book club this week, where we'll be discussing Remarkably Bright Creatures. 

Question of the week: Now that we've past the half way point of the year, what's your favorite book so far in 2025?