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Hello Lovelies!!

As I mentioned last time, I got this fantastic week in review idea from Anna who is flawless and you should definitely check out her blog.

Anyway...this week I--

Went to a delightful group dinner at The Silk Road (one of the nicest places in town!). It's a tapas restaurant so all the dishes are very small, but if you go with a big group, it's fun to take a bite of each dish. We enjoyed some sangrias and got one of each dessert on the menu! There were only 5, but it was a fun thing to do.

Learned how to knit! Check it out--I'm working on a scarf, I hope.



Watched It's a Wonderful Life for the first time this year. What a perfect Christmas movie.

Started watching season two of American Horror Story.

Went to see The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.

I put down a book with no intention of picking it back up for the first time in a long time.

I started reading Allegiant!

I read this delightful blogpost at Hopeless Romantics about rating systems. I think I'm going to be implementing the little cupcakes!

And I got Fangirl from one of my friends for Christmas!!

I've been sick, so I missed out on a few things. A "leaving" party for one of my work friends. I should have gone, but I was just so tired. I wanted to crawl into my onesie and write this blog post and go to bed. So that's what I'm going to do!

What about you lovelies? Did you do anything good this week?

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  1. The cable was out in our house earlier today, so I got lots of time to read today without being distracted. Mostly just relaxing this week =) I hope you feel better soon and yay for cupcake ratings!

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    1. That's simultaneously the best and the worst thing! It always sucks when the cable goes out but yay for extra reading time! Thanks for the well wishes--this cold is a persistent little guy!! Thanks for commenting!!

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