Thursday Favorites...

My list of favorites for this week:

Book: Digging to America by Anne Tyler

Public Radio Show host: Scott Simon - for sounding giggly (ok, high) during parts of Weekend Edition last week

TV show: Still Gray's Anatomy... but WTF?? Who has to "decide" between Chris O'Donnell and Patrick Dempsey?

Abuse of a SlimFast product: Dipping the peanut butter cookies into actual peanut butter

Sin: Going to a free preview of The Da Vinci Code tonight. I haven't read the book - read Angels and Demons and found it trite and hard to care about. Someone should really talk to Dan Brown about his use of exclamation points (!!!). Oh, and if you have to create tension at the end of every single chapter to keep your readers interested you're doing something really wrong.

Person: My cousin... she lives on the East Coast and I haven't seen her in almost nine years (really?!? holy cats. I seriously need to plan a trip). She called last night and she helped me put this complicated relationship with my dad into perspective. It's interesting - we have lived at least 1000 miles apart our entire lives but we are so alike. More like a sister than my actual sister.