The Sunday Salon - July 19

This past week has been a very busy one. My oldest has been participating in track this summer and his first track meet was Wednesday night. He's been participating for three years, and this is the first year that he placed in every event (although they give participation ribbons to everyone). He got fourth in frisbee throw (the kids version of discus), fifth in long jump, and second in the 50M run.

While we were at the track meet my husband was in Canada for a business meeting. He had a bit of unusual excitement on his trip. The man that he was sitting next to on the plane got asked by some teens to give his autograph, and my husband noted that his name was Bruce Greenwood. Evidently my husband chatted with him during the flight, but had no clue who he was at the time. Later he looked him up and found that he played Christopher Pike in the latest Star Trek film.

I thought it was really cool that he got to sit next to Captain Pike, um, I mean Bruce Greenwood. Unfortunately he didn't get his autograph. He did say that he was reading the script for his next movie during the flight - it's a Canadian horror flick called Cell 213.

In other news, we added a new piece of furniture to our house this week. You can see from the above photo just how enthusiastic the cat is about my picture taking.

In the past two days he has completely destroyed the hanging cat toy. It's a bare plastic tube with a little pathetic hairy tail now.

It's always nice when you buy your animals something (like a semi-expensive cat condo) and they actually play with it.


Today I'll be reading:

I know I won't finish both books, but I hope to read a little bit from each book today.

Reviewed last week:

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

Saffron Dreams by Shaila Abdullah

Read but not yet reviewed:

Fragment by Warren Fahy

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

We Take This Man by Candice Dow & Daaimah S. Poole

The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall

I'm currently reading:

Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison

Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox

Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson

Abandoned:

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman - He has some intriguing stories in this book, but I'm just not in the mood to be reading dark tales right now.