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What I'm Digging
I am looking forward to summer!!! I get a catalog from Athleta or Title 9 on a weekly basis (or so it seems) and I'm drooling over the cute/sporty sundresses. The clothing aisles at Target are drool-worth too.

I am also perusing the Seed Savers catalog. I really doubt I'll have time to grow my own seedlings from seeds and will probably hit the nursery again for starters, but a girl can dream, right? Looks like it's time to pull out Animal Vegetable Miracle again!

What I'm Watching
We finished up Big Love Season 2 before it was due back at the library (w00t!). I really enjoyed the family dramas and the intrigue with the fundamentalists. The one thing that I think is pretty odd though is their secrecy within the family. Honestly, I would do a doubletake if I met someone with two wives (or husbands), but I wouldn't stop shopping at their stores or ostracize them. I think it would fascinate me. Am I in the minority on this? Polygamy itself doesn't offend me, it's the other terrible things that tend to go hand-in-hand with it (abuse and neglect, welfare fraud, etc.). Just sayin …

We also just picked up Samantha Who from the library and have watched about 4 episodes. It is cute and entertaining, though I am a bit skeptical that it can hold my interest long-term. Also got Season 2 of Chuck … as I have not yet watched Season 1, this is less useful that it might otherwise be.

My new favorite show for running is Biggest Loser. It's very motivating. If the 300+ lb. people on there can do these challenges, then surely I can finish my 6 mi. run without too much whining, right? But every time I watch it I am grateful for my Tivo. 2 hours long, tons of commercials and also break downs and interminable weigh-ins and discussions on who's getting kicked off. I can whittle the whole thing down to around 80 minutes. God Bless you, Tivo. What I'm Reading
I finished up Back to the Bedroom. It was a cute, fun, light read with interesting characters.

I also read Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, one of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. It was another winner with a couple of interesting mysteries/conflicts and very clever and funny resolutions.

Now I've moved on to Columbine, a thorough and fascinating account of The Columbine High Massacre that occurred almost 11 years ago in Littleton, CO. The author, David Cullen goes very in-depth into the motives of the killers and the sequence of events that led up to the killings. He also details that day itself and the aftermath of the investigation and the lives of the victims and their families and the community. It is pretty hard to read, but very worthwhile.