Weekly Roundup 03/27/2009

Even though this was last week, I'll add it here as I'm starting this new weekly roundup with little events from throughout the week. Rob put a little chicken and vegetables on the grill last Thursday, so I didn't have to cook. I just cut up the veggies and put them on the skewers for the kabobs. So lately our indoor cat, Madison, who is not allowed outside, has had an itch to run out the door every time it opens, and since he was in and out the french doors in the kitchen, she either made her way out then, or N2 let her out of the front door. N2 has a habit of holding the screen door open.

Anyway, later that night as he was cleaning up the grill and bringing in supplies, he called me into the kitchen as he was letting "a" cat in the door to ask me if it was our cat. See, lately there has been an influx of cats in the neighborhood, and there are a few that look similar to Madison, so I guess he wasn't sure. By the time I figured out what he was saying, the cat shot by me and into the living room, which was dark, so I wasn't able to get a good look at the markings of the cat, and it was all just a blur. The cat shot through the foyer as Rob and I were in pursuit, which made it run faster and hi-tail it under the desk in the den. As we were just standing there assuming we had some random cat in the house now and trying to figure out what to do, we started tisking and meowing trying to make "our" cat come out of hiding.

Finally, I headed toward the kitchen with the idea of rattling the cat food bag which usually brings our cat running. Standing in the kitchen doorway was "our" cat looking at me. I reached down to touch her just to make sure it was Madison, and she politely turned around and went and sat down so she could look out the french doors in the kitchen. She was probably wishing she could get away from her crazy humans.

Apparently, while we were trying to figure out if the random cat was still under the desk and if it was our cat or not, she had eased out and gone back to the kitchen. I announced several times, with some relief that it was our cat...It was Madison. Relieved that we didn't have some weird cat invading our space.

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What I read this week:

Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
This one fell flat for me. Phury didn't grow on me like the other characters have throughout the series. Even with all of his issues, I expected more. The Wizard was a total annoyance... I was just ready for him to shut it! As with the previous book in the series there were a lot of subplots, and in this instance, they turned out to be of more interest than the main characters.


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Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
This one wasn't as gripping as the first 4 of the series. I too was a bit disappointed with how Jane was handled, but it wasn't a big deal. The book seemed like a collection of plots beginnings for new books in the series that happened to occur as V.'s story moved along. Maybe a little too much plotting for the future and not enough attention paid to this story.


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Vampires Are Forever by Lynsay Sands

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars



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