My Current Interest

                 I started watching this show one Saturday morning for something to watch and now I am hooked.   What happens is people who are having difficulty selling their home call up the show to help them redesign and redecorate in order to get the house more appealing to buyers.   The show is hosted by Tanya and the redesign is led by Roger.   They perform simple (mostly simple) changes that make a drastic difference.   Each house has its own problems and new solutions are brought to the table each episode.                 After the introductions, the show begins with an open house.   Tanya, the home owners, and sometimes Roger, sit down and watch the comments of the people who came to tour the home.   They take the criticisms as a jumping off point for what needs to be changed.   We are able to see the changes as they happen and then in the end the same people from the open house are brought back again.   The comments are always completely different from the first time around

                I did not expect to like this movie.   Not that I planned on disliking it.   It is simply that action movies are not usually my thing.   The only reason I watched Eagle Eye at all is because my mom saw it in the television listings and wanted to watch.   I did not really care one way or the other so we turned on the television and gave the movie a try.   To my surprise, I must say, I would not mind seeing the movie again.                   The premise is two strangers are running around the country being controlled by an anonymous woman.   They do not know what she even looks like as all their contact is through their cell phones.   The woman has all the details of their lives and uses this to manipulate them into doing her bidding.   The man, Jerry, played by Shia LaBeouf, has been framed as an enemy of the state setting the FBI after him.   The woman on the phone helps him to escape and leads him to the woman of the controlled duo, Rachel, played by Michelle Monagh

               The Shop on Blossom Street is the first book in the Blossom Street Series.   I have read each book in the series, and while I admit I like the older books better than the more recent, I anxiously await for each new book to come out.   Every book introduces new characters and storylines.   As the series has grown, the stories have moved off Blossom Street and there is less knitting, but it is always involved somehow.                                There would not be a series if it were not for Lydia.   The books start with her, and in her own way she keeps everything together.   The Shop on Blossom Street begins with the opening of Lydia’s knitting shop, A Good Yarn.   It is located on Blossom Street in Seattle.   Opening the knitting shop is a big gamble, but it is one she feels she needs to take.   After beating cancer twice and the death of her father, Lydia believes it is time.                 In order to get her business off the ground, Lydia decides to offer a k

                This is a book I tried to read quite awhile ago.   I do not know if it was not what I was in the mood for at the time, or if it was something else that made me stop reading.   No matter what the reason, it was not for lack of interest.   Which is why when I saw this as a book on CD at the library, I knew I had to pick it up.                 My Life in France is about how Julia Child became Julia Child.   She began by moving to France with her husband for his work.   While there she made many lifelong friends and the important decision to enter culinary school.   After her studies and years of enjoying French food, she came up with the idea to write a cookbook.   This project took years of work and revisions as well as battles with publishers.   Ms. Child’s original vision of her cookbook was quite different from the publishing world’s.   In the end everything comes together.   Ms. Child becomes a huge success and a beloved culinary figure.   Sadly, with all the good

                Lately I have been having a hard time finding books that keep my attention.   I wander around the library and while some books may seem interesting, they are not what I am up for at the moment.   Thankfully my mom always has something good to read.   She is the one who gave me A Summer in Sonoma.                 This book is the story of four women who have been friends for most of their lives.   The first one we meet is Cassie.   She is constantly choosing the wrong men and fears she will never find the right one.   After a biker named Walt saves her from an assault, Cassie swears off men.   She keeps Walt in her life, but only as a friend.   Or at least that is what she declares regularly.   The reality is a little different.                 Second is Julie.   She married her high school sweetheart at a very young age.   They have a problem not having children.   Desperately struggling with their money, Julie is pregnant yet again despite the use of birth control.