Happy Weekend

It's the first day of a four day weekend. So I didn't have an alarm this morning. It's a wonderful thing to not have an alarm on for a Thursday. It was the beginning of a good day.

Then, I made a trip to Barnes and Noble. :) Ah, my own little slice of heaven. I bought three books, all of a historical note. I bought Machiavelli's The Prince, a book about the Italian Renaissance, and a book about the Medici family. Italia. La dolce vita...I miss Firenze. But one of my teachers mentioned The Prince the other day and said that it was about King Ferdinand of Spain. On any tour of a Medici property in Firenze you were told that this book was about Lorenzo the Magnificent (a Medici). It peaked my interest that I have heard that the book was about two completely different people, so I bought it and am hoping to be able to read it sometime.

And I cleaned my bathroom today. It took forever, but darn, that bathtub looks fantastic. I'm proud of myself. :)

This weekend, I'm fish sitting for Ash. She put Spike out on the table in the living room along with his food for me to take care of him. I hardly get to see the guy since he's in her room all the time. He amuses me. I've turned the TV on twice today - both times to watch reruns of Daily Show and Colbert Report - rerun of both Wednesday night and Thursday night episodes. Both times, Spike has turned around from facing the back wall to facing the TV and has been watching the TV. I don't know if he does that in Ash's room, but it's amusing.