A Relaxing Weekend

Dan and I didn't really do jack this weekend, and you know what? I LOVED it! My living room and kitchen are now clean, my dining table is cleared off and dusted, and the only things on it are two pilgrim statues that I have out in honor of Thanksgiving. Oh, and our laundry is now put away (all 5 loads of it!), our bed had the sheets changed, and our bathrooms are cleaned. I LOVE it! Oh, and Dan got paid on Friday, so we mailed in our last payment on our bed, which means we paid it off two months before our "no interest/no payments" time frame ended. Yay!

Well, we did do a few fun things, too. Friday night we went out to eat and then went to Borders, since Dan had a gift card from my mom that he wanted to use. We had both decided that we spend too much time just vegging out in front of the TV, and we really want to spend time doing more meaningful things, like reading. So we each got a book; he got one called The Eight (I think it's a conspiracy novel or something, much like The Da Vinci Code. Don't quote me on that, though) and I got a Sandra Brown one called Envy. OMG, it was so good!! I read the whole thing in a weekend; it was one of those that you truly can't put down. And, it was really well-written, too. I highly recommend it!

Now I'm reading a book that Dan got me for Christmas called Mademoiselle Boleyn. That, of course, is excellent (and right up my alley). I absolutely love books like that. The only problem is that I don't want to read too many of them, since one of my goals is to write a historical fiction novel before I die, and I worry that reading a bunch of these books will replace my own ideas with the authors'. Oh well. It's an excellent book, though. I think I also need to read Twilight; there are so many people raving about it, and the movie comes out this Friday. I resisted reading them for awhile, since I'm a contrary sort who doesn't like to read something that everyone is all gaga over, but I learned my lesson with Harry Potter. I REFUSED to read them for the longest time, thinking, "Why on earth is everyone so crazy about a damn wizard?" Yeah, then I read them and I was HOOKED. I think I read the entire series in a month. I got so invested in the characters that I cried--repeatedly--in book 7. So, I learned my lesson, and I'm going to give Twilight a try. Vampires and whatnot aren't really my thing, but then again, wizards weren't either, and we all saw how wrong I was about that!