Week-in-Review: All the Things...

It's been a couple of weeks since I've put a week-in-review up. My nephew got married last week. G had a dance performance. Mother's Day was last weekend and we saw the play Matilda on Monday. We've done lots of planting and put in some veggies and flowers. School is almost out and it's the last month of get-everything-done at school with the Book Fair, school performances, projects, and a field trip.

My sister married into a Tongan family back in the day, and they always know how to throw a party, with lots of dancing and amazing food. DH and G got up on the stage and learned how to do a dance. It was hilarious!

                           

G's final ballroom performance until the dance festival in a couple of weeks.

Finally got my veggies planted along with a few violas and marigolds to round it out! And I threw together some frozen margaritas after our hard day of planting and gardening!

We saw "Matilda" Monday and it was so much fun. Tim Minchin wrote the music and lyrics. If you haven't heard anything by him, you should go check him out.

Last Week I:

Read: Small Spaces by Katherine Arden, The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell, and Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly

Listened to: Someone Knows Something Season One. It's a cold-case podcast and it's really fascinating. Believed by Michigan Radio from NPR. It's all about the victims of Larry Nassar and how it all went down for so long. It's triggering but a very important story to listen to.

Watched:

TV:

Unforgotten on PBS, Chernobyl on HBO--wow, so good. There's even a podcast to get more show notes and facts about what happened, a behind-the-scenes look. What We Do in the Shadows is just the best thing on TV right now for being funny. It's a good time and it's something I need right now. And a little bit of the NBA playoffs if I have time.

Movies: 

Over the last few weeks we've seen Shazam!, Avengers: Endgame, and The Kid Who Would Be King, and my horror movies were Overlord and Cold Moon (so dumb it was good....)

I need to get my movie reviews up soon!

Made: fresh guacamole and pico de gallo for tacos, snickerdoodles for fun, and lots of stuff on the grill from asparagus to hamburgers and brats and Kabobs.

This Week I:

Am currently reading: My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Argos: The Story of Odysseus as Told by

His Loyal Dog by Ralph Hardy, The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esme Weijun Wang, and The Sense of Style: A Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Stephen Pinker.

Am currently listing to: The Library Book by Susan Orlean and On the Come Up by Angie Davis

Am looking forward to: G getting out of school for summer! It'll be crazy but we both need the break. Camping Memorial Day weekend. It's supposed to rain this weekend but if it lets up, I may plant a few more flowers this weekend. We're also planning on seeing "Detective Pikachu" Sunday!