Over the weekend

• I finished the new Jennifer Weiner book, Then Came You.  I would highly, highly recommend it - especially for anyone thinking of alternative family building.  In the beginning of the book, you might think twice about the tone but then you'll like it.  Excellent read!  Jennifer Weiner is one of my favorite others.  Top picks for her: Good in Bed and In her Shoes. 
• I saw Captain America.  I was disappointed.  The Avenger trailer at the end of the credits was the best part of the movie.  I love comic movie but lately they have been stinkers.  You can skip Green Lantern (unless you rent it and can pause to gaze at Ryan Reynolds to your heart's content)
• I was also dragged under duress to see Harry Potter.  I haven't read the books and I've only seen a few of the movies.  If you are not familiar with Harry Potter - you will be extremely confused in this movie.  I was like what? until about 40 minutes in.  It was good and I liked the end, Harry Potter fan or not.
• I took my last birth control pill.  I gave the pill packet a kiss for good luck and threw it in the trash.  
• Last night I started reading Jen Lancaster's If You Were Here.  This is her first novel and I had high hopes, but it's exactly like her other books.  I can only take so many footnotes.  If you haven't read Jen Lancaster before, the first two books are the best.   By Such a Pretty Fat, she gives into her ego and it's a bit tortuous.
• I read lots of IF blogs.  Like too many.  I kept telling myself put the laptop away, but they are like candy (so addictive).
• Had a weird chat with a good friend.  She's my age and would like to have a baby but hasn't found the right guy yet.  She is dating someone and is (purposely?) forgetting birth control.  Every month she thinks she is pregnant.  Every month we have a period talk, should she test conversation.  This is fine when you're 16...when you're 35 it's a little redundant and it's a LOT insensitive when your talking to an infertile woman.  Anyway, I've distanced myself from her due to this and some of her other issues and this weekend she reached out to me.   We talked about it and she apologized for being so self centered.  Overall a happy ending, I guess.  

Did you do anything exciting over the weekend?  Perhaps jet off to Paris?