Lunching in Cars with Books

Somedays I like to go by and pick up a salad for lunch, go to a parking lot near work (often in front of Joann's and behind Olive Garden :)) and read. I only get a single itty bitty hour for lunch. Why is it some hours DRAG by while your lunch  hour flies on a rocket ship at wharp speeed?! Anyway on some days I would rather save the gas driving home and grab a quick meal and a good book. I don't like to be at the office if I absolutely do not have to be so a parking lot seems to be my resting place some days.

Today after waking up an houra and a half earlier to get three kids off to school on time I was too tired to do anymore driving than neccesary. I found myself at Rosa's for a nacho salad and a parking lot with my new book in hand.

Drew think's it is dangerous for me to be in a parking lot alone in a car, but I always lock my doors and am always surrounded by busy people coming and going from the shops whose parking lots I am borrowing.'

It is incredibly refreshing to sit, alone, usually completely uninterrupted for an hour a day. It reminds me of the feeling I had when I went to the movies by myself. Sometimes I just need to be reminded that I can do anything I want all by myself.

I have been on a book scour ever since finishing Bossypants. I tried to get into another Emily Giffin book but it just was not there for me. I went to Hastings the other day to see what they had going on and came across a book that my Nana has been reccomnending to me...
 it is a story about a 50 something woman's progression with Early Onset Alzheimer's... sound familiar?!  Nana found this book to be very inciteful and hopeful so I picked it up on sale.

However I am headed to the lake this weekend and did not want to spend my weekend in a ball of tears (I save that for my nights) so I came across a lovely Nora Roberts book (also on sale)...


 promsing to be romantic and light hearted... and the main character is a wedding photographer, just what I am looking for to relax with.

Tonight I am making chicken and rice for the kiddos and Kelsey and I are off to her Cheer Texas meeting!