It's 2am-ish, I am wrapping up things off a bridge call.
Eating blue cheese spread and watching old movies on TCM.

I went to book club tonight, I didn't read the book Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. It sounded good, had some good gross descriptions of foot binding, thats enough to intrigue me, but the wait list at the library was just too long and I never got it.
So I went for the wine and snacks.

I was doing some work before the meeting and it was wrapping up a bit and I told the boys I was heading out for a bit. Brisk walk. Got there early and was paranoid about being rude so I walked around the block and then back around again to get there right at 7:30. Another totally beautiful house, another gorgeous sunroom. Yeah they hire designers to pull it together for them ...but still!!

So of course since I didn't read the book, and had a glass of wine I had PLENTY to say about the book. Nothing too terrible. The group was a little weirded out by the implication of a sexual relationship between the 2 main female characters. I told them I didn't think it was so weird, I mean the story is about women that really have no one. You can't talk to your family, you are just a commodity to everyone, and just there to make boy babies, so of course if you had someone you shared personal thoughts with that you couldnt share with anyone else, you would feel an intimacy with them, making yourself vulnerable like that bonds you with someone, especially when that person is the only one ever EVER. So if they had sex or not, the closeness and the intimate feelings would be there and unavoidable.

AND I even got to recommend next months read and they went for it!! Alison Clement's - Pretty Is As Pretty Does. I read it awhile back and really liked it and just a few months ago read her latest, Twenty Questions.

Oh yeah and they had a dog too! A older boxer. She smiles! Wags er stubby tail, and just stares in adoration of her person, the daughter of the house. So cute.

So then I come home and I work some more. Do a few bridge calls, and such. But thats just tonight, not every night. But sometimes I don't mind...just don't tell them that. I put laundry away and empty the dishwasher at 1 or 2am sometimes. Tonight it was the dishwasher.

But now since I worked late I can go have lunch with Starbucks Jill guilt free! And maybe go check out Kohl's and Marshalls, buy milk (on sale) from Meijer ($0.99), and put out the trash and recycle bin.

I had a good weekend with Brad.
Saturday we went to the Greyhound rescue place. We spent time with a girl named Pretty, she was very sweet and I could easily have taken her home, been happy and loved her but... we are gonna hold out for a male dog. She was pumped up with steroids like a monster, it didn't show in the pictures, but her ass and thighs were HUGE, like crazy. We heard they pump up females more than the males with steroids for racing, which can bring on cancer, and males are supposed to be more affectionate..but not like she wasn't. But we will hold out for a male. So we will keep in touch with them and visit every couple of weeks till they get one in and he is adoptable.

On the way home we ended up stopping at the casino for buffet. Mostly sad looking old people there, but still nice to just watch. Buffet was decent, great desserts, good coffee, so we got our fill. Then played some nickel slots and went home. Watched Stay Alive, not good but somewhat creepy, Lonesome Jim - liked it a lot and directed by Steve Buschemi, and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu - Good but slow..very slow.