On a quiet Sunday afternoon

First off, the Nancy Mitford book, The Pursuit of Love, is wonderful (wanted you to know, Sara!).  In some odd way it reminds me of Shirley Jackson's 2 autobiographies of raising her children.  Those are called Raising Demons and  Life Among the Savages....well-worth a hunt.  I have a copy with both of Jackson's and have read them several times, and they always make me laugh.  Just daily stuff that we all experience, but so hilarious.

And Woodboy and I saw the movie, John Carter, last night and enjoyed it as well.  Not sure of the reviews for it, but since we liked it so much, doesn't really matter what others think.  Had a bit of steampunk spun into it and that's always a treat as well.  Love steampunk.

And now are planning on having sweet Indian boyfriend over for dinner. Both he and oldest son have birthdays on Tuesday, but oldest daughter made SIB's cake early since he's in culinary school in the evenings during the week.  His family usually goes out for ice cream on birthdays, but that's sort of blasphemy here at our house.  We do love our cake!  So, his chocolate chip cake is in the oven, and I already baked oldest son's German chocolate this afternoon.  Wanted to do it early (and will refrigerate it) in case the oven acts wonky later on.  We'll eat alfredo sauce/linguine for dinner with some veg. and watch cooking shows afterward.  The nice thing about SIB is that he loves the Food Network like we do.

Hoping tomorrow can be a chilling sort of day.  I have this area next to my bed I'm considering making into sort of an altar, and want to work on that. Just a little quiet spot to settle me when I need it.  For many fundamentalist types, it sounds vaguely odd to do that sort of thing.  No matter.  I ain't crazy.