# 59 Take a cooking class

This is something I have wanted to do for a long time. I really love cooking and I especially love trying to make new things. My sister swears that my kitchen is set up to have my own cooking show. haha.

Classes weren't really achievable before moving to Texas. I tried to sign up for a cooking class over the summer at Whole Foods, but I got put on the wait list. The super nice lady at Whole Foods said that she would put me on their mailing list so that I would know right away when the new schedule came out so that I would get into the class that I wanted. Well I got that email this week...and C decided to treat me to the couples cooking class the week of my birthday!! How exciting :)

I am enrolled in the Date night: Couples in the Kitchen class on October 25 at Whole Foods. Click here to sign up! We will learn how to make Italian Wedding Soup, Caprese Salad, Gnocchi with Wild Mushroom Ragout, and Tiramisu. I LOVE tiramisu! This should be a great, fun, romantic time. Now I just have to wait for the end of October. I will update after the class.

#52 two more books

Something Blue is the sequel to Something Borrowed. I thought that Something Borrowed was a bit slow and not all that entertaining, but I still wanted to read the sequel. I have to say that Something Blue is MUCH better than its prequel. This novel is told from the other friends point of view. Perhaps it was just a difference in the friends personalities or the author became better, but I really enjoyed the book. About half way through I couldn't put it down!

Publishers weekly:
Giffin's sophomore effort-which tells the story that her bestselling Something Borrowed did from a different character's point of view-stars such an unsympathetic narrator that it's a little like reading a Cinderella story featuring one of the wicked stepsisters. Perhaps beautiful Darcy Rhone isn't really wicked, but she is one of the most shallow, materialistic, self-centered and naïve 29-year-olds around. Ostensibly a high-powered PR person in Manhattan (though she never seems to work), Darcy spends most of her time shopping, partying and getting ready for her wedding to perfect guy Dex. But an alcohol-fueled Hamptons fling with one of Dex's pals, Marcus, starts to break Darcy's perfect life down; and discovering Dex hiding in her best friend Rachel's closet really shatters it. Pregnant with Marcus's baby, Darcy decamps for London, where she crashes in high school pal Ethan's flat and annoys the heck out of him with her endless shopping and complete disregard for her impending motherhood. But after a good lecture from Ethan, whom Darcy has started to fall for a little, Darcy embarks on a self-improvement plan, thereby demonstrating she can think about someone besides herself. And if readers don't mind the first 200 pages in which she doesn't, they'll enjoy her happy ending and the few surprises along the way. Fans of Something Borrowed, too, may relish the "she said, she said" fun.


Sophie Kinsella may just be my new favorite author. I recently started reading her shopaholic series and love it! I just finished the first one Confessions of a Shopaholic. The way that Kinsella writes makes you fall in love with her characters and who can't relate to a little over indulgence her and there. I will soon be reading the second book in the series, can't wait :)

Publishers Weekly:
Add this aptly titled piffle to the ranks of pink-covered girl-centric fiction that has come sailing out of England over the last two years. At age 25, Rebecca Bloomwood has everything she wants. Or does she? Can her career as a financial journalist, a fab flat and a closet full of designer clothes lessen the blow of the dunning letters from credit card companies and banks that have been arriving too quickly to be contained by the drawer in which Rebecca hides them? Although her romantic entanglements tend toward the superficial, there is that wonderful Luke Brandon of Brandon Communications: handsome, intelligent, the 31st-richest bachelor according to Harper's and actually possessed of a personality that is more substance than style. Too bad that Rebecca blows it whenever their paths cross. Will Rebecca learn to stop shopping before she loses everything worthwhile? When faced with the opportunity to do good for others and impress Luke, will she finally measure up? Rebecca is so unremittingly shallow and Luke is so wonderful that readers may find themselves rooting for the heroine not to get the man although, since Shakespeare's time, there's rarely been any doubt concerning how romantic comedies will end. There's a certain degree of madcap fun with some of Rebecca's creative untruths; when she persuades her parents that a bank manager is a stalker, some very amusing situations ensue. Still, this is familiar stuff, and Rebecca is the kind of unrepentant spender who will make readers, save those who share her disorder in the worst way, pity the poor bill collector.