Enumerated Update

This week is spring break for us, and therefore, this list will be short and sweet.

1) GOOGLE READER:  Let's have a moment of silence for the Reader.  Google announced last week that Reader will close in July.  I use the reader regularly, but I imagine life will go on without it.  However, what concerns me more is the future of Blogger, and the announcement was definitely a harbinger of doom for the blogging platform.  The idea of converting five years of archives to WordPress makes me shudder.  Admittedly, I sided with Apple in the great Apple v. Google war, but please, Google, in the name of all that is decent, please leave Blogger intact.

2) ZOE'S MAXI SKIRTS: My friend, I'm going to come clean with you and admit that I have watched the first and second episodes of the fifth season of the Rachel Zoe Project.  Also, I could not agree more with Zoe's (very pro) position regarding maxi dresses and skirts. While I don't have a closet-full of maxi length clothing, I have had several versions of maxi skirts for the last... let's just say throughout my adult life, and that covers several iterations of the maxi trend.  A black maxi skirt is a wardrobe staple, and I can see huge potential for a similar skirt in white as well.

Gwyneth Paltrow's character wore a maxi length black skirt with a charcoal sweater in A Perfect Murder (1998).  While there are websites that covered the character's wardrobe (the clothes were that good), I cannot quickly put my hands on a pic of the exact outfit. (I did, however, find this site that shows a few scenes from the movie.)  Anyrate, every woman I know replicated that look and wore it to work at least weekly for years.  In short, it was an instant classic.  Therefore, I am siding with Zoe in her debate with buyers over whether or not maxi lengths are for the masses.

3) HINDER: Back in 2007, I was attending a conference at a local hotel. Apparently, the group Hinder was in town performing and was also staying at said hotel.  Some conference-goers observed the lead singer mistakenly enter the conference area, take in all of the vendor booths and exhibitions, and hurriedly backtrack his steps and safely leave corporate America behind.  When a friend of mine relayed this story, I quizzically asked about Hinder, having not heard of them. When our buddy, JT, gave me the ol' I-can't-believe-you-don't-know-who-they-are look, I reminded him that we had twin seven-month-old babies at home, and hadn't slept more than three hours per night since they arrived. I was hardly on top of the music scene.  At that point, we were barely on top of the "showering daily" scene.

At some later point, they appeared on my radar, and I downloaded an album.  The album has been collecting dust on our iPods, and I'm quite sure I have never listened to a single song -- until this weekend.  During shuffle, a Hinder song came blasting out of our wireless Bose speaker, and William George turned on his heel, positioned himself in front of the speaker and began dancing.  Hinder has finally found an audience at our house. 

4) BEAUTY: Ever wonder why we love beautiful things?  No one is exactly sure, but we are beginning to study the mathematics of attraction more and more.  See the NYTimes piece here. 

My children are giddy about not being in school this week, and we will probably be logging lots of play time.  There will be a post or two this week, but mostly we'll be riding bikes and whatever else the duo want to do during their break. 

How about you? How are you spending your week?