SuperPoints Invite

I'm taking a little break this week but just received a 50 extra points SuperPoints invite and wanted to share it with you :)

http://superpoints.com/join/t7hbyk

The Pub Food Test

Take this quiz and let me know what you are! :)

You Are Cheerful Fun

You are a sympathetic and comforting person. You have a soothing influence. When it's time to let loose, you remain low key. You're not going to get worked up about anything. Your friends can count on you to make them feel better. You are understanding and reassuring. It hasn't been a good night unless you feel completely relaxed and rejuvenated.

The Pub Food Test

Catching Up!

Yay!  My friend Kitty is down from Washington this weekend and brought me Mockingjay to read.  I am already a few chapters in.  It's a bit slow right now but I am sure it will get much better soon!  I hope to be finished reading it by the time she goes back home on Sunday.

I am also reading a moving book about a young, religious Jewish woman with cerebral palsy.  I never read two books at once, but My Life on Wheels came highly recommended.  I think I am just taking a break from it to read Mockingjay, so I am not exactly reading two books at once LOL

Passover ends tomorrow evening.  I am so ready to eat bread!  We have a tradition of going out to dinner to end Passover so we have to decide where we want to go! :)

Lastly, I am asking for a bit of advice.  I went to a dinner tonight where a woman got on my nerves with all of her unintelligent questions, her hoarding of the food (it was served family style), and by the end just her presence.  What do you do when you are seated by someone like that and can't change seats?  I eventually got up and walked away for a bit for lack of a better idea.

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

For Love or Money

Doug Ireland (Michael J Fox) is a concierge at The Bradbury, an exclusive New York hotel.  He is really good at his job, taking special care of the hotel's customers.  He walks their dogs, sends their birds to voice lessons, etc.  His dream though, is to open his own hotel.  When he meets a rich man (Christian) who might help him to achieve that dream, he will do whatever it takes!  But what about Andy, the perfume saleswoman he likes?  Is she more important than Christian's money?

This movie was really cute.  Michael J Fox did an excellent job as Doug.  Anthony Higgins (Christian) played the role of the rich jerk perfectly.  But Gabrielle Anwar (Andy) was not a great lead actress.

I love watching films from the 90s.  They are so different from big-budget films today.  Have you seen this movie?  If so, what did you think of it?

Babysitting Expert

I am an expert at babysitting...sleeping children LOL

I babysat close to 10!!!!! sleeping children tonight.  The youngest boy (about 4 months old) had never had a babysitter before.  I actually consider it a big honor that his parents trusted me enough to be his first babysitter (even though he was sleeping).  I was also his older cousin's first babysitter (he was about 4 weeks at the time).  I love babysitting sleeping kids because I can just read a book or play on the computer.

I wish I knew what to do with them when they were awake LOL

How old were your kids the first time you left them with a babysitter?  (I have a cousin who is over 2 that has never had a babysitter!!!!!)  If you don't have kids, do you ever babysit?

Rain

It's raining...I'm cold and wet from taking the dog out.  I think I am not going to put up an interesting blog post tonight ;)

P.S. Happy Birthday to my sister!

Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin

After reading two books by Emily Giffin, my mom and I decided to buy her other two books that are out.  The first one I read is Love the One You're With.

Ellen Dempsey has the perfect marriage to her husband, Andy.  One day as she is walking down the street, she passes the one that got away, Leo.  All of a sudden all of these feelings come flooding back to her, and she can't get Leo out of her mind.  They start talking again...

I really wanted to know what was going to happen in this book.  I needed to know if Ellen was going to stay with Andy or go back to Leo.  I don't think this gives anything away, but I was really unhappy with how the book ended.  Emily Giffin writes some questions for a reading group guide at the end of every book, and one of the questions after this book is "Do you think Ellen made the right decision in the end?"  I think this shows that the author expected some people to not like the end!

When you read books, are you ever really unhappy with the ending???

2012 TBR Pile Reading Challenge - 19/50 

100+ Books In a Year - 27/100