Lit and Life

Happy Sunday from grey and rainy Omaha! So very happy that it's a long weekend (hope it is for you, too!). It's been a busy week here, filled with a lot of fun things, but I'm needing a day to just rest and recover. In fact, it might just be a day spent curled up reading. 

On last week for my summer Life Goes On photo - can't believe summer is unofficially over already. Going to do my best to enjoy the fall this year. Might be buying a lot of mums just so we continue to have blooming flowers later into the year so things don't look so bleak so soon and winter doesn't feel as long. 

Last Week I: 

Listened To: I finished Isabel Allende's Ripper, which finally all pulled together although I'm not sure it was in time to save the book for me. Just started Harriet Constable's The Instrumentalist, which I learned about at our library's annual Book Bash the other night. Historical fiction, based on a true person, featuring Antonio Vivaldi? Count me in! 

Watched: Lots of volleyball, our Huskers' first football game of the season, and several episodes of Only Murders In The Building. 

Read: I started Ruth Ware's The Woman In Suite 11. 

Made: Teriyaki stir fry, salads, and meats for a taco bar we had last night. 

Enjoyed: Book club Tuesday, the library Book Bash on Thursday with friends, dinner Friday with my niece and her husband who were in town for a concert, and an impromptu engagement party last night for Mini-him and Miss C. 

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This Week I’m:  

Planning: I think this will be a quiet week. With the house having been cleaned for company twice this week, there's not a lot of that to be done which should give me time to get back to some family genealogy work. Or maybe a furniture project. 

Thinking About: How smart I was to make a little of the food for last night as possible. Cake & queso from Costco; carnitas, tortillas, chips, salsas, and guacamole from one of our fave Mexican restaurants; and margaritas brought by the bride-to-be's parents. Still busy getting everything pulled together but so much more relaxing than trying to make everything myself. 

Feeling: Tired, y'all. This girl is not used to having so much going on in her life! 

Looking forward to: It's "get my hair done" week and you know how much I love that excuse to just sit and be pampered without guilt. 

Question of the week: Are you celebrating the end of summer or mourning it?