Weekend Update

This weekend we got dumped on with snow. I hate snow, so I hibernated. Friday night Nate and I watched It's a Wonderful Life, which believe it or not, I had never seen before. That movie is such a downer! I'm not sure why people watch it at Christmas time every year, it left me feeling really bleak. Saturday I wanted to go to the fabric store to get some supplies but the snow left me stuck inside. I finished reading Murakami's Dance, Dance, Dance and I really enjoyed it. This book was a bit more sexually graphic than his other works, and I'm not sure what to think of that. Guess I could do some literary criticism research, but I'm too lazy. Sunday we scooped a car share car out of its space, and went to JoAnn and Target. I got the string and point turner thingy, then at Target I got a replacement filter for the humidifier. That place was absolutely out of control with Christmas shoppers. I wish we would have been able to go earlier in the morning to avoid the crowds, but the weather left me with few options. The rest of the day I spent making my matching pillow for the one I made in class last week. A nice quiet boring weekend.

All the tv shows I watch are over due to the writer's strike, so I've been reading more. I have some books coming to me in a few days:

Susan Faludi's The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America I can't WAIT to read this

Jean Thompson, ed, Throw Like a Girl: Stories I can't tell if this is drivel-chick lit or if it's good but I saw it on a few year-end best-of lists so I'm gonna give it a shot.

Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders. Will explain why I'm reading this in a few weeks.

Murakami's Hear the Wind Sing, I think this is the last Murakami that is translated into english that I have yet to read.

Finally, tomorrow I'm going to see Juno with Nate, which I'm super excited about. I hope it doesn't disappoint.