Monday again.  They just keep coming around, don’t they?  I had a super active weekend – on Saturday I ran the Finn McCool 4-Mile Odyssey, an obstacle race in Buffalo.  I fell in Cazenovia Creek, went down three slip ‘n slides, and rolled around in a mud pit, and it was awesome.  And then on Sunday, Steve and I joined our friends Zan and Paul for a hike to the Eternal Flame, which I’ve heard is Buffalo’s quintessential must-do hike.  It was a crazy fun weekend, although I am now running on fumes because I do not have the sleep reserves to support all this activity.  But it didn’t leave much time for reading.

In fact, reading pace was slow all week due to the continued sleep woes we are currently experiencing in our house.  I’m not going to spend an entire paragraph complaining about how little I am sleeping, because you all know already.  So I don’t need to explain why I am such a slow reader lately.  What I did manage: I finished up Minimalist Parenting, which I told you last Monday was a lot of common sense, but a nice vote of confidence.  I still feel that way.  I don’t know that it added anything to the discussion, but it did make me feel better about Steve’s and my ongoing attempts to right-size our life and responsibilities.  Then I picked up Book Scavenger, a light and fun middle grade adventure.  Again, nothing earth-shattering, but about all my brain could handle.

Finally, even though I still don’t have much mental capacity, I turned back to Love and Freindship – Jane Austen’s juvenilia, which I am reading for Austen in August.  Teenaged Jane can’t spell, half her characters are “dead drunk” a good portion of the time, and every single person in every single story is a despicable, disgusting excuse for a human being.  I love it.  I have been quite literally wiping away tears of laughter from the awesome ridiculousness of it all.

Reading plan for the week is to finish up Love and Freindship and then, most likely pick up Breakfast with Buddha from my library stack.  I also have The Martian checked out, but in order to read that one I am going to have to pry it away from Steve.  So I think I’ll let him finish it rather than starting any fights about it.  Unless he decides to be poky, in which all bets are off.

How was your weekend?  What are you reading this week?