Hot exercising Chicks – Week 58
Did anyone accomplish any exercising this week?
Fuzzy Friend Friday – a morning in the sun
In the mornings, this is about Girlie-girl’s usual spot for sunbathing.
And do I mean sunBATHING.
Do you see that little (or maybe Not So Little) pink tongue?
And this last one, reminds me of a swirl if you look at the curve of her head and the curl of the white fur up around her ear.
Hope all of you have a good weekend!
Hot exercising Chicks – Week 57
Another week. It was looking better last week than the week before, did anyone continue to improve?
Discussing the book in the comments
This is a spot where I thought we could discuss the book in our comments.
That way, if you don’t want to read the ‘spoilers’ until after you’ve finished the book, you just don’t look at the comments. Then, when you finish, you can read them and comment to your heart’s content.
Got it!
I actually drove to a nearby Borders at just before midnight to be in a store with all of the excitement and to pick up the new Harry Potter book. Well, little did I know what a crazy amount of people had the same intention. I knew it would be big, but not THAT big.
They had a wristband system where they would call people to get in line when their wristband color was called. They were on the third color and when asked how long each color takes, they told me 1 to 1.5 hours per color. ugh. I promptly went back home to sleep and picked up the book, as originally planned, at Target this morning for $17.49.
NOW – no more delaying – MUST READ.
Flowers for Friday – deck
This is it! The long anticipated final book in the Harry Potter series comes out tonight at midnight.
I’ll be picking up my copy in the morning from Target. I will be under a media black-out until I finish reading it, because I don’t want to accidentally hear any plot details. So, if I seem like I’m hiding in a cave for a while, that is because I will be. 
I’ve been debating about reading it particularly slow in order to stretch it out and make it last longer, but I imagine I’ll be reading at a medium to slow pace instead. I just want to be sure that I’m not reading so fast that I lose the magic of it. And after waiting all of this time, I want it to last for more than just a couple days.
And if you haven’t guessed by now. I still haven’t taken close up pictures of the flowers on my deck.
I do have a far away shot that I took when I was testing out some camera settings and then when I was testing the flickr uploader software.
If you look at the large view, you can see it better.
Unfortunately, at this moment the hibiscus wasn’t blooming. But it has just been a wealth of blooms lately. Its been really really gorgeous.
Well, I’ll be seeing you later. For those of you who read Harry Potter – enjoy the magic!
What kind of flower am I?
I saw this quiz going around at Squirl’s and Ern’s. I often don’t participate in these things, but I was curious, so here is the one it picked for me.
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I guess it is true. It seems like an odd assortment of characteristics to glean from questions about ice cream, leisure habits, and helping friends out with money and moving. But ah well, it is all in good fun.
Hot exercising Chicks – Week 56
Another week has come and gone. Did you get any closer to making your fitness goals?
Weekend
I just thought I’d leave a smalll note about our weekend since it turned out to be a lot of fun. HB had been feeling sick, but on Friday night, we got into a really fun – and funny – discussion of a book he’d read called the 4 hour workweek. Some of the excerpts from it were just hilarious.
Then, on Saturday, he got better in time to go out a bit early. You see, we had a supper reservation at a nice restaurant in a town we’d never visited. And in this town, there are all kinds of shops for tourists. So, we went a bit early and looked in a few shops. One of them was either called Chef’s Gallery or Gallery for Chefs or something like that. It was really fun! You could really day dream of all kinds of ways to spend money on glassware and cookware in a place like that. It was like Crate and Barrel’s glass and dinnerware section on steroids.
We also visited a used/rare bookseller who had all kinds of neat prints on display in addition to the books. You can imagine what I spent my time doing. Yep, looking at all of the prints. Supper was at Luna Rossa (I say this for my own sake, so that I can look back on the name of the restaurant) and we sat back in the cave area. The restaurant is literally built into the side of a cave. The food was Italian and really terrific. We had this amazing dish of antipasto as an appetizer. I could’ve eaten just that kind of food for my whole meal, it was that good.
Yesterday, we went to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I liked it. Some of the other ones stand out for me more as being more exciting or more plot twisting. But this one sets up some important themes that will be used for upcoming movies, so it is important in that way. I think, perhaps, one of the problems I had with it stems from the fact that I just re-read the end of the book recently. Usually, I go into a movie pretty ‘blind’ having not read the book for a couple of years. But this one I had, and I noticed the changes. Not that they weren’t necessary for turning the story into a movie, but they were things that I liked about the book and was disappointed to see changed.
Oh, and did I mention that I finally saw The Godfather? Yes, I finally watched it – for the first time. I liked parts of it. Other parts were pretty slow. All in all, I’m not sure what all of the fuss is about it…. but maybe that is the double X chromosomes coming out in me.
All in all, it was a good anniversary weekend.
Flowers for Friday – roses and hydrangeas
This was one of the centerpieces for my friend’s wedding. I was really excited at the use of hydrangeas in the centerpieces, since I love them so much.
And speaking of weddings, today is HB’s and my 11th anniversary! We have plans to do some fun things this weekend. Hopefully, the weather will stay nice.
Have a good weekend all. 