Your place or myspace?

Another month later and here I am again! It seems the weeks are flying by and I can't believe we are halfway through 2007 .... I still haven't got used to writing it yet...

Well, first, formalities. No of course I didn't get pregnant last month - ha! As if! - I was unfortunate enough to get my period two days early this month so it's been and gone already. Leaving me with another four weeks to have fun and try not to think about it...

Hmmm, good luck on that last one GG

Anyway, back to May. It wasn't a bad month at all. We had lots of lovely dinners out, met up with my girlfriends a few times and enjoyed many a glass of wine, and we went away for a week to sunnier climes. It was lovely to chill out, enjoy the sunshine and read some good books.

Two recommendations come to the fore:

1. The Time Traveller's Wife - god, I LOVED this book. Fab, fab, fab. Couldn't put it down, didn't want to finish it either. Very enjoyable. There is so much to love about this book, it wouldn't be fair to point to one or two areas, just read it. And love it. I promise you will.

2. An Interpretation of Murder - by Jed Rubenfeld - this was an interesting and enjoyable book. I loved the whole murder-plot-character development scenarios, enjoyed the NY cop, the usual "stubborn and fiesty" young woman and the charming psychoanalyst. It really was good. I felt, though, that the addition of Freud, Jung et al, was a little unnecessary. It read well, but it didn't add that much to the story for me - it was more like the addition of Freud attempted to make the book more appealing, but for me it added little... and when you read a book that mixes both historical fact and fiction, it's hard to know where one ends and the other begins... It's hard to know what to trust.

A final point before I move on - ok, so the end result wasn't the most dramatic but I certainly see this one being a Hollywood movie in a year or two.
Not sure who would play good cop - Leo di Caprio perhaps? The jury's still out on the other characters, for now.

What else has been going on in May? Well, the hubster has set up a myspace website at last. Lovely man!
It's here: http://www.myspace.com/leejcornell
What a talented guy (yes, I know I'm biased, but honestly, listen in and appreciate his writing talents!) I'm v proud of him!

And as for June - oh there are quite a few things planned. We're off to a black tie dinner next week for hubster's job. He looks quite the James Bond in his DJ (or at least, he could get a job refereeing snooker in the future if he's ever out of work!). I am without a tiara sadly (it's apparently a "black tie and tiara" ball) - I think with some relief really! And who really keeps a tiara in the house? Brides, I guess.... Well, to be honest, I did wear one to my own wedding, but that was my something borrowed, so I'm just going to have to go naked - at least, on my head anyway...

This weekend our place is going to be filled to brimming. My wonderful brother and one of my wonderful sisters are coming to visit, along with their respective boy/girl friends (also wonderful!). I'm so looking forward to having them here for the weekend! They arrive tomorrow night into Heathrow.

I've planned a bit of a late supper for us all to kick start the weekend - Nigella's "muglai" chicken, sweet potato and lentil dhal, and the usual naans and basmati rice. Oh, and ton's of booze.

[God, that's one of the good (?) things about infertility; being able to get trashed on a regular basis!]

I've been busying myself sorting out beds and bedding - two in the spare room, two on the sofa bed in the living room. I've stocked up on milk and bread, and lots of crap food, like crisps and things (normally banned from our house!). I've just got to pick up some hangover fry-up food from the local butchers tomorrow and we're sorted for the next few days. We've a weekend of partying, eating and drinking planned and I'm going to enjoy myself. I best do anyway, hubster has made such a wonderful effort in planning all of this! It's my birthday and he's arranged dinner out on Saturday night, and even a cake! (unheard of in our previous seven years!)

OK, that's it for now... off to read some other blogs before dinner ... next time I write I hope to be full of details on this party weekend!

GG