Happy Valentine's Day!

It's the middle of Feb and I'm having a great day. It started when I got to work to find Valentine's Day flowers for L and I.
Then I got home to find a new pair of PINK five finger shoes, new necklaces and a watch and some candy. Woo hoo!
We were pretty low key tonight. I fixed L's favorite pasta dish ( recipe coming soon) and chocolate covered strawberries. We watched our new favorite show, The Unpoppables, then finished the night with a book.


My kind of day.


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Today we...

crafted for two hours. We painted, used stickles, made scrapbook pages and painted some more.
We did home manis and pedis. Ahh...nice new colors.

We also watched Legend of the Guardian. I still can't figure out how to bring a web image to blogspot. It was a good movie-kid friendly.

It was nice to have a pure goof off day.

A Nice Surprise in the Mail

I picked up the mail today and found this gem inside. I received this medal for running a 1/2 and full marathon in a single year. While I'm proud that I ran both, adding the miles together makes it even more special.

Book Report: Still Alice

As a follow up to reading Lisa Genova's excellent book, Left Neglected, I finished her first novel, Still Alice. This book was also really good, but really sad. 49 year old, Harvard linguistic scholar, Alice, has early onset dementia. In the beginning of the book, she's pretty normal and forgets a few things, but by the end, she can barely recognize her husband. It was good, but very sad and depressing. I liked it, but wouldn't read it again.

Vent Hog

It may look like Reggie is just resting, but really her entire body is over the heating floor vent. She loves to lay on it. Goofy girl.

A Look Out My Window This Morning

Book Report: Left Neglected by Lisa Genova

Wow.
What a great book. I finished it a few days ago and I'm still in awe.
The story takes place outside of Boston, where 36 year old Sarah, lives with her husband and three children. She works as head of HR of some big company and she is busy all. the. time. She is always multitasking work, home, etc and is always exhausted. But that comes to an end when she's trying to dial a phone number while driving 70 miles and hour and she suddenly realizes everyone is stopped and she's not.
After she awakens from her coma, she feels great. But then the doctors discover she has Left Neglect, which means her brain in the right hemisphere was damaged and she doesn't recognize anything on the left side. Her turmoil of rehab, recovering and realizing that she isn't going to be the old Sarah again takes up much of the book. But in the end, she finds a way to find peace.
I would highly recommend this book. The topic is fascinating and Lisa Genova writes with such style you won't ever want to put this book down.


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