Monday Madness Link Up 11.9.15

Happy Monday and welcome to the second link up of November Twenty Fifteen!

It was another low key weekend over here. I went and got my hair done on Saturday morning. I added a few more highlights and had some angled bangs added.

Nick met me at the movies afterwards.

We saw Spectre, the newest James Bond film. I tried to get Nick to stand in front of this gigantic movie cut out, but he wouldn't do it. Overall, I thought it was another great Bond film. The newest ones always have really great stories, stunts, and special effects. My favorite part was probably when Bond took out two guys while he had his hands tied together and was blind folded. James Bond is such a bad ass. However, I mostly like the newest set of James Bond movies because of Double Oh Hotness himself, Daniel Craig.

Dude looks good in a suit. He's in the top five of celebrity crushes.

We ended up watch Skyfall on Sunday because I could not remember a thing from that movie.

The rest of the weekend was spent working on the blog, doing chores, and hanging out with my littlest love!



My Reading List

I have always loved reading. It's the perfect hobby for a Michigander. You can read by the lake during the summer and spring and enjoy a good book wrapped up in blankets inside in the fall and winter. Here's my list of current reads. Share your book suggestions in the comments!

Currently Reading:

Goodreads Synopsis: THE SECRETS OF MIDWIVES tells the story of three generations of women devoted to delivering new life into the world—and the secrets they keep that threaten to change their own lives forever. Neva Bradley, a third-generation midwife, is determined to keep the details surrounding her own pregnancy—including the identity of the baby’s father— hidden from her family and co-workers for as long as possible. Her mother, Grace, finds it impossible to let this secret rest. For Floss, Neva’s grandmother and a retired midwife, Neva’s situation thrusts her back 60 years in time to a secret that eerily mirrors her granddaughter’s—a secret which, if revealed, will have life-changing consequences for them all. Will these women reveal their secrets and deal with the inevitable consequences? Or are some secrets best kept hidden?

On Deck:

Goodreads Synopsis: Thirty-nine year old Rachel is having a really bad year. After losing her job and breaking up with her boyfriend, Rachel has inherited her late aunt's house, her beloved border collie, and a crowded rescue kennel, despite the fact that she knows almost nothing about dogs. Still, considering her limited options, she gamely takes up the challenge of running the kennel. And as Rachel starts finding new homes for the abandoned strays, it turns out that it might not just be the dogs that need rescuing.

Goodreads Synopsis: The only piece of information that Summer Davis takes away from her years at Peninsula Upper School -- one of the finest in the Brooklyn Heights-to-Park Slope radius, to quote the promotional materials -- is the concept that DNA defines who we are and forever ties us to our relatives. A loner by circumstance, a social outcast by nature, and a witty and warm narrator of her own unimaginable chaos by happenstance, Summer hangs on to her interest in genetics like a life raft, in an adolescence marked by absence: her beautiful, aloof mother abandons the family without a trace; her father descends into mental illness, haunted by a lifelong burning secret and abetted by a series of letters that he writes to make sense of his feelings; her best friend Claire drifts out of Summer's life in a breeze of indifference, feigned on both sides; and her older brother fluctuates between irrational fury and unpredictable tenderness in an inaccessible world of his making. Uncertain of her path and unbalanced by conflicting impulses toward hope and escape, Summer stays close to her father while attending college, taking him to electro-shock therapy treatments and trying to make sense of his inscrutable past. Upon his departure for a new and possibly recovered life, Summer begins to question the role of genetics and whether she is destined to live out her family's legacy of despair. But it is only when Summer decides to leave New York herself and put off a promising science career to take care of her great-aunt Stella -- bedrock of the family and bastion of folksy wisdom, irreverent insight, and Sinatra memorabilia in a less-than-scenic part of the Pennsylvanian countryside -- that Summer begins to learn that her biography doesn't have to define her...and that her future, like her DNA, belongs to her alone.

Goodreads Synopsis: Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time, flourishing in the friendship of a singular man who recognizes in her a kindred spirit. 
Granddaughter of the reigning doyenne of Newport, Rhode Island, wise beyond her sixteen years, Pell Davis is poised to take her place at the pinnacle of society. Yet she and her young sister still long for the mother who ran away from them when they were children so that they could be raised by the father they adored. Pell knows that Lyra felt she loved them best by leaving. But with her father now dead and her sister veering dangerously into fantasy, she will travel across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately….

Linking up Jenn and Jessi today !

Monday Madness Link Up 11.2.15

Hi! I hope everyone had a really fun Halloween ... and happy November!

On Saturday night I gave our candy to our neighborhood kids. It rained the whole time so there wasn't a great turn our and most kids were in their winter coats or ponchos so I didn't even get to see many costumes! However, it was still fun. I used cheapy LED battery powered candles to line our front walk way and it turned out to look pretty cool. Scout was Yoda this year for Halloween and he was a hit! The kids and parents loved it. I heard things such as "Yoda puppy," "Bye Yoda!" and I had one kid run down the driveway back to his parents and excitedly tell them, "That dog was Yoda!"

I also found some time to catch up on Bravo's Ladies of London. Let's talk about the Carolines.

Caroline Fleming (left) needs to stop wearing blue eye shadow. It's hideous. Something about her just seems a little off. Caroline Stanbury (right) is the biggest bitch ever. I don't think she's a nice person in real life either.

After work on Tuesday I'm hoping to head over a local blogger event. I've never been to a blogger meet up, but I'm looking forward to meeting other bloggers in my area and support a local shop!

I have two other fun events towards the end of the month. Can't wait to blog about all of them!

Finished The Geometry of Sisters over weekend and it was really good.

Nick and I watched 3 Days to Kill. It was really weird. So weird that I can't even tell you why. Did anyone else see it?