More than 30 days and no blog! Shame on me! Was I lazy/tired/bored/annoyed? or Was I cold? I really don't know. Perhaps it was the month to hibernate!

Every year sometime during the tail end of winter, I hibernate, away from public view. Mostly because, if I don't I can become quite crabby! But I see that winter is receding (although not today) but last week we had some warm days and the upcoming week is also going to be on the warmer side. So, the outlook is brightening.

So what have I been up to the past month?

In short, I was playing host to my father, who was visiting for couple of weeks. Unfortunately it was too cold to take him around and there was not enough snow to take him skiing somewhere. The problem was that I was at work and busy at that, and he was probably bored out and yearned to get back to warmer weather. Unlike my sister, who has two kids, that can be quite entertaining, I have two cats, who are really not entertaining as kids.

I moved desks space at work. And went from being comfortable to miserable. But my office lot is cool and they have organized to have it more comfortable. Ah... well... it remains to be seen when it will get done.

Whilst hibernating, the best thing to do is eat, watch movies and read. I highly recommend not starting anything that is critical or crucial or has long term repercussions. So, I did exactly that.

So, in the last 6 weeks, I put on 5 lbs! (Dang! Now to work on getting it down!)

Along the journey of putting on 5lbs, I read The Last Templar. If you liked Da Vinci Code, then this is a good read too. I just disagree with ending. It would have prefered if the author had left it open ended. That is everyone can make up their own mind to believe in the Templar or not. Also, mindlessly read,  If Tomorrow Comes (Sidney Sheldon) and currently reading some other random book whose title eludes me right now.  [Edit: The book currently in hand is The Jester by James Patterson]

And I watched movies such as Coma (1978) (did not think it was too frightening, book was of course better), The Family Stone (eh! ok!),  The Sentinel (mediocre at its best), Mission Impossible III (actually liked it, but I think the first one is really the better one, to think of it, I have not see Mission Impossible II), The Lavender Hill Mob (Awesome! with a capital A), Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (dark as the book, pretty good), Flightplan (2005) (Wanted to watch this, for Sean Bean, pretty decent, but nothing to write home about), Snatch (again.... I needed the laugh, and boy does this deliver!), The Queen (Helen Mirren is awesome), Prime Suspect 6 - The Last Witness, Breach (left me wanting more details), and I have no idea what possessed me to watch Tenerife, but I did.

Oh! I also did a bit of running around, getting paperwork done for Taxes (groan!) and travel itineraries for Nashville, TN and then, of course Barcelona, Spain!