hello monday!

not much going on here. another day like i like~dark, gray, rainy. except that i have to get out in it today :( on my way to the chiropractor and to pick up a few groceries. not feeling too great--sore throat, lingering headache...i'm hoping it's just the change in weather. i do not want to be sick!
i'm on a real reading kick right now. that stack of books is some of the ones i've bought recently that are just begging to be read. we have a great half-price book store that has a great clearance section. i got most of those for $1 (and they're the big, soft-cover ones that i love!)
here is what i am reading right at this moment (well, obviously not right at this moment, but you know what i mean!) i am trying to be more diligent about reading the bible daily, even just 1 page every day. i just love the new book on acts~can't wait until we study that one! and that is the first anna quindlen book i've read. it's kind of slow so far, but i'm staying with it!
we've had the perfect weather to snuggle under a blanket and read.
just a few random things from around my house.

a few weeks ago, i got the most beautiful pitcher from crate and barrel. i don't shop there very often, but every once in a while, i'll go there and wander around forever looking at all the beautiful things and decide on a few. well this particular day, i decided on a glass pitcher. it wasn't terribly expensive but i liked it and seeing as how we drink so much tea, i thought how much i would enjoy pouring my tea from this particular pitcher. i placed the bag with my beloved pitcher, carefully wrapped, in my car and so began my much-anticipated-enjoying-many-years-pouring-tea-from-my-beautiful-pitcher journey.
or not.
a few days later my pitcher sat on my counter, looking so pretty filled with tea. as i was cooking, i took my big bottle of olive oil out of the basket, poured it in the pan, started to put it back, when it barely hit the pitcher. i looked down and the entire top of the glass had broken off in one ginormous piece! tea slowly went everywhere. i was so sad and mad! the only things i ever break are ones in which i've spent more than i normally would.
so the other day when mom was here, we found ourselves in ross~where we both bought a cute little pitcher with a red top...for $3.99.
i will probably have it for years. if you have not been to bath and body works lately, get yourself over there before these candles aren't on sale anymore! all of their small candles are $5! what a deal! since i'm still on a pumpkin kick, i got sweet cinnamon pumpkin--it smells just like fall!
and here is my little ikea plant that sits peacefully in the window at my sink. apparently, when we're out of town, cosmo lounges there and eats the tops off all the leaves.
aside from the obvious fact that the leaves are half the length they were, i won't go into how we know he does that.
let's just say that story would involve the words "tons of paper towels", "disinfecting spray" and "glad i was wearing shoes." :)