Ahh, 3 day weekend! I am so glad that I can watch Downton Abbey tonight without the Sunday night blues hanging over my head. Why can't all weekends be three days?
Plan B went into effect - we had dinner at the nearby Aspen Social Club which has a great cozy theme on a cold day and saw Promised Land. The movie stars Matt Damon and is the story of a global natural gas company which goes into rural towns and convinces land owners to lease their land to the company so they can drill for natural gas. Fracking is a controversial issue that I know very little about - the movie definitely had me thinking and wanting to know more about the topic.
Reading
This week I posted two reviews - one of a YA book, 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson which was fun and entertaining. The second was for The Tell by Hester Kaplan which is darker and more of a psychological study.
I have been listening to Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen and loving it - I can tell it will be a book I gift for birthdays - I already have some recipients in mind! I am reading a light book on this holiday weekend - Hedge Fund Wives by Tatiana Boncompagni.
Is this a 3 day weekend for you? How are you spending the weekend?
Sorry you didn't get to see a play. We don't have tomorrow off so we're huddled indoors (it's the coldest day of winter so far) today. Will probably read, knit and make the bed up with clean sheets :)
ReplyDeleteAw, sorry the play didn't work out for you. Julie and I bought tickets to Memphis at that booth last summer and had a great time. Our weather is pretty warm so we're grilling out today.
ReplyDeleteOh, you live in a wonderful part of the world! The endless opportunites to have plan B's, C's, and D's is at your fingertips :D Living in Houston, Texas...well, the opportunities are limited and are at different parts of the city...so by the time you go to plan B, the place may already be closed since it took over an hour to get there ;) LOL! Great post!
ReplyDeleteMy mom *loved* "Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake"--she told me I should wait until I'm older to read it because I'll appreciate it more then. ;)
ReplyDeleteHow much do you usually save with the TKTS booth? I've always wondered but have never tried getting tickets there. I feel like if I lived there I'd do it all the time lol!
ReplyDeleteYou so called it -- Lots of Candles is for sure a gift book!!! Glad you're liking it.
ReplyDeleteLong weekends are the best. My kids have off school tomorrow too so for us it's actually a four day weekend. Everybody's catching up with sleep so that should make this a happier house to live in!
ReplyDelete3-day weekend here as well; so nice. I adored, Lot's of Candles and Plenty of Cake as well. I could really relate to what she wrote (same age as author).
ReplyDeleteCarrie is right, I did love Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake. I started listening to the audio as I drove to pick up another daughter from college... and ended up stopping along the way to purchase a hardcover copy, too! There were so many great passages I wanted to go back and reread.
ReplyDeleteSorry you weren't able to see Annie. We should give TKTS a try - I've heard the lines are shorter at South Street Seaport.
How have I missed the Aspen Club? I'm going to have to check it out.
ReplyDeleteI know TKTS! When we honeymooned, part of our time was in NYC and we got tickets for "Nine" at TKTS. We had no idea what most of the shows even were; we just wanted to go to a Broadway (or, in this case, an off-Broadway)show. Sorry your plans didn't work out but it sounds like Plan B was just as fun.
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