Yes, it is Tuesday, Feb. 26, and our Christmas tree is still sitting, fully decorated, in the living room. I'm really, seriously not sure when (or if) it ever will be undecorated and put away. Oh well...that's what happens when something I need to do is not right in front of my face -- it becomes forgotten. Needless to say, there are a lot of 'forgotten' things to be done around the house.
Life has been pretty good the last two weeks -- quiet, fun, regular ol' stuff. I am feeling calmer than I have in a while. I feel like I have more time that is not 'frantic-feeling.' I still have lots of paperwork to deal with, and office things to do, and taxes to think about starting, but it now seems like there is time to deal with stuff without feeling panicked. It's nice. I also have started getting on the treadmill and doing yoga afterwards on a relatively regular basis. I do think that is helping.
Our friend, Dick, in CO, called last week and told us he is pretty sure his dog, Lulu, is pregnant. Yea, Ty! We'll know more next week, probably. In the meantime, I am getting ready to plan our drive to CO to pick up a puppy. I can't believe we actually might have another puppy in the house. We're excited about it, but at the same time we sometimes think we're nuts to do this again (for the 5th time). But -- why not be nuts?! It's just way too fun having lots of dogs in the house. Of course, it will be interesting to see how Brenna likes (not) having yet another puppy in the house, and particularly interesting to see how 'Mr. Jealous' will react to having a puppy around. I think he will enjoy it because he still likes to play and Brenna just doesn't want to roll around on the floor anymore.
I went to the book group meeting with my neighbor, Mary, last week. We were supposed to have read "At Home" by Bill Bryson, but none of us got very interested in it. Each chapter on it's own had interesting parts, but as a whole, none of us felt connected to the book. So, instead of talking about the book in depth, we yakked. It was nice, because we got to find out a bit more about each. The next book we're reading is Barbara Kingsolver's "Flight Behavior." Her books are always good, so I imagine there will be more discussion. We'll see.
I watched a really good movie ("Running With Scissors") two weeks ago while Mark was watching MMA fights upstairs with his friend, Geoff. It made me want to read the book because it was hard to believe that this poor kid actually was raised in such a dysfunctional manner and managed to survive, much less write a book about it! It was really funny, sad, heart-warming, lots of emotions, but mainly just "wow, what an interesting bunch of people." It was really good. This last weekend I finally watched "The Help" (Mark was at a bar with Geoff and some other folks watching more MMA fights). It, too, was a really good movie. I need to watch more movies.
Mr. Grumbles is sitting here next to me doing his little grumbly/growly thing, trying to get my attention. He is so silly. He makes the funniest noises. Anyway, I guess I'd better go pay attention to him.
And that's it for now.
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