Hesitant Housewife

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Funny Friday - Baby Edition!!!

Start the weekend off right, post something funny on your blog! Link up here and promote yourself and make us laugh at the same time!

My theme this week is babies...

This is what dads really do when we go out for awhile.

Baby Fight! from Olivia Munn

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Took a week off...

So, I don't know who noticed, but I took a week off of blogging. I've been in a funk. I had some thinking to do. Nothing huge, but some small changes I am trying to make in my life. To put it bluntly, I'm bored. Oh, so very bored. So I am volunteering at the local library and my daughter's school and looking into possibly going back to school in the next few months. I have a tendency towards depression, so it is not a good thing for me to not have a purpose during the day. I ran out of work to do for my job, so I'm not working from home anymore. I am not the stay at home all day type. I can't do it. So I am in search of a new life... what that means, I have no idea. But I'll let ya know when I find out.

Books #25-28, 3 I hated and 1 I loved...

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
I wanted to love this one! It sounded so good! A lonely, widowed man sends away for a mail order bride, hoping to make a happy life and start over. But... bleh. It was boring. I can see how the author tried to make it this suspenseful, lusty novel full of betrayal and heartache. But, all I got out of it was a lot of whining and wasted paragraphs full of plotting revenge that never quite pans out. The main characters were not likeable in the least, and the ending was just plain weird. I don't recommend it.

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Oh my gosh, I loved this one. Such an epic story, filled with fairy tales and mystery. A four year old child is found on a boat dock in Australia in the early 1900's. She does not know her name or where she came from. All she has with her is a small white case and a book of fairy tales. She spends her adult life trying to find out who she really is and when she passes, her granddaughter picks up the trail. This book was so good and everything a good mystery should be. Usually I have mysteries figured out halfway through, but this one had me guessing until the end.

The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes

Urgh.. that's all I can say. Have you ever started a novel and found yourself thinking.. "Did I miss something? Is there a prequel to this book that I should have read?" From the beginning of this book I just felt as if the author was assuming that I knew certain things...where certain characters came from.. but I didn't. It just didn't make sense to me. I stuck out though in hopes that it would all make sense in the end, but it didn't.

The Reincarnationist by MJ Rose

This book was ok, not great. I just felt like I was reading the Davinci Code or something, and I didn't like the Divinci Code. I was bored about midway through.

I know these book reviews make no sense and are ridiculously short, but I've been busy and this is my way to keep track of the books I read.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Hot Seat Question #4

Welcome to the Hot Seat! Each week, I give you a situation to ponder. Some will be silly (this is me, after all). Some will be serious. Some will be though-provoking (but not many... I mean come on. You know I can only go so deep). I am going to give you several possible responses and you can choose one, or of course, leave your own. It's just a fun little social experiment and a way for us all to get to know each other.

Now, here is your fourth scenario:(this has actually happened to me...)

You are strolling through a parking lot when you spot a fifty dollar bill lying on the ground. There is a group of people walking a few feet in front of you.. did they drop it? It looks like it's been there awhile. Do you ask them, or just take it? What do you do?

a. Woo hoo! Free money! Grab it and run directly to Target.

b. Ask the group of people in front of you, who, of course, say that yes, they did drop it. They snicker amongst themselves and you are left feeling like they were lying and just took your free money.

c. You conscious will not let you pick it up.. it feels like stealing.. what if someone comes back looking for it?

d. Stalk the money for a few minutes behind a car to make sure that no one is playing a trick on you...(like the ones on TV where they attach fishing line to it and you are left chasing the fake money through the parking lot.Then Howie Mandell jumps out and laughs at you.) Slowly and casually, you saunter past the money and try to look shocked. Say very loudly "Oh my, fifty dollars!! I better hurry into this Starbucks and see if anyone lost it!... If not I will donate it to poor starving children in Africa!" and then walk off, pretending to pray.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?