Weekends are for Chaos: Coffee, Aliens, and Showers

This past weekend was crazy. Blink and you’ll miss it, I think I saw an alien at one point, and also my sister, and maybe there was cake. I swear to God the “rest on the weekend crowd” is full of absolute nonsense or possibly has access to one of those time turners that Hermione Grainger was exploiting in Harry Potter. We don’t talk enough about how that girl was really open to jacking around with things for someone who was portrayed as straight laced. She full on put Rita Skeeter into a prison trapped as a bug with just zero remorse. She is not one to piss off.

On Saturday I was gone all morning on my standing coffee date with my husband. Then took my teenager to Japanese for a lunch birthday that I accidentally crashed. I know that seems suspicious, but I was sitting at my own table in another room, because it’s Japanese and it’s delicious and I like to read at restaurants like a creep sometimes, when the group felt bad that I was alone and invited me to join them and the mom that came. I’m lucky my daughter has such awesome friends that they weren’t completely horrified to have an elder such as myself there. And they are awesome and funny and give me hope for the future. Only to drive home and do some work for all of 45 minutes before hitting the road again to watch the Alien movie. See this movie. You will be horrified. If you’ve seen it, you know what I mean. Also, I will explain it in the spoilers, but I will never look at a Flux Capacitor the same again. And breathe.

Then Sunday I had a wedding shower. I scooped up my sister, and we celebrated the beginning of fall…maybe…Starbucks had pumpkin items so I think that is legally the official start of fall. Things have been a little chilly around here, but it is the kind of place where it can be a beautiful 65 one day and 93 the next. I’ve also heard we get more rain than Seattle and I believe that. After our sister club fall kick-off, we filmed a little Insta reel. One of us looked great, one of us made a weird face. This is the price I pay for being the nerdy sister instead of the athletic, fashionista sister. Then we busted off to the shower, now wondering if we should have thrown on some sweaters. Hers would have been one of those cute giant finger crochet ones, mine would have dinos on it. Instead, we are stuck heading to the shower in the inappropriately summery dresses we were wearing, disappointing our pumpkin flavored drinks. The view we had was stunning, the bride was beautiful, but I still had books to read, what else is new tbh, and kids that probably needed to be forced to shower so 3 hours later we hit the gas and she tucks and rolls out of the car back at her place so I can get home.

And yet another weekend passes where I didn’t finish anything I needed to. I see too many movies, but seriously see Alien, and do too little home maintenance. I really, really needed to run the carpet cleaner. Nothing demure and mindful about that.

Donna

Donna is an author and engineer with 15 years of IT experience and a lifetime love of literature and cinema, especially horror. She has written a paranormal Holiday novel, What Creatures Are Stirring. She holds and Electrical Engineering Degree from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from Western Governor’s University. Donna is passionate about reading and the importance of access to books. She loves writing about her favorite books and movies and sharing it with her readers.