Exceedingly Mundane

I haven’t really blogged much lately about what’s been going on with us. Tim had a big project that kept him busy at work for a while, although most of that is over now. He stays busy with golf, and I can always keep myself occupied with the computer and reading. Then there’s Netflix and all of the movies we’re getting in regularly and watching. So, basically things have just been humming along. Same ole, same ole, which is great, but it doesn’t make for very interesting blog posts!

We’re going to get pretty busy soon, though. The Saints reported for training camp yesterday at a local private college just a few minutes from our house. Practices start tomorrow morning (Friday). We’re hoping to get to go to several of their practice sessions (all of them are open to the public this year, both morning and afternoon sessions) Then, preseason will start and then the regular season. It took me several years to learn to like and even love football, but I do now and I’m excited about this season. Tim is always really hopeful about the Saints, but of course now, after their success last season, we really do have a legitimate reason to be excited! 🙂

Yesterday was a busy day for us, but a good one. Tim took a day of vacation and we spent the day together. I blogged about it on my photoblog, and posted some photos; you can check it out here.

Let’s see, I’ve been doing a fair amount of cooking. I’ve been making a concerted effort to try some new recipes lately. I blogged about several of them a week or so ago, and I’ve also made a couple of new ones since that post. I made a Beef and Noodle Bake that we liked, as well as a Sausage Skillet Dinner that we both loved. Of those two, the sausage one was definitely my favorite, and I’ll make that one again. It was easy and fairly healthy too. We both love sausage, and even though I used low-fat turkey sausage, it was still really good.

We’ve been watching a ton of movies. I keep a list on my sidebar of all of the movies we’re watching this year. In the last couple of weeks, we’ve watched Ghost Rider, The Prestige, RV, Premonition, Yours Mine and Ours, Click, Shooter, Breach, Akeelah and the Bee, and several others. Of those, my favorite (by far) was Akeelah and the Bee. After that, I probably liked Yours Mine and Ours, Click and Premonition. Both Click and RV had a fair amount of crass humor, and we liked Click better of those two. Shooter was a good movie, and we liked it, but beware (there’s a lot of shooting, obviously, and a lot of head shots where they take people out with a sniper’s bullet). We had been told that Prestige was better than the Illusionist, but I liked Illusionist better (maybe because I saw it first!). Anyway, we have more coming from Netflix and I’m looking forward to more free movies 🙂

As far as books, I’m humming along with my reading. I’ve been going to the library which really helps me. The deadline to return them helps me read them in a timely manner, so I tend to read more when I have library books and a definitive date to finish them by. I need to do some book reviews, but I really sort of hate to do them. I’ve read several books, and while they are slightly different, in some ways they are very similar. Most of them are either Christian fiction or women’s fiction, or series books. Basically, I liked them all, and they were all very light and enjoyable to me. I hate to write reviews because that’s really all I have to say – I liked them, and I enjoyed reading them! For the record, I’m up to 57 books read so far this year, for a total of 17,125 pages read. I’m hoping to surpass my goal of last year, and so far I’m on track. We’re going to enter our busy time of year soon though (football and then hunting season), so I won’t get as much reading time in, but I still hope to at least meet my goal from last year. I really do love to read 🙂

Have a great day!