week's end.

Oh man, I am really ready for the weekend. What are your plans? We don't have all that much scheduled. We are, of course, going to MK's spinning class tomorrow and a long training run on Sunday morning. And we'll be watching the Final Four games tomorrow night and going to dinner up at my brother's in-law's house in Orinda on Sunday night. A nice and casual spring weekend...hope that you have something good planned!

And, for your weekend reading, here are some links of interest...

• Loving this throw - especially the price point on it. 

• Hannah - my sister-in-law - started a new blog all about her reads and you'll love it!

• This NYTimes Magazine piece from a couple weeks ago about public schools. 

• San Francisco Date Spots according to Eater.

• I really want to buy this side table for our patio. Thoughts?!

• We are a strong PB&J house - this is a great NPR spot. 

• Bay Area real-estate is nuts. Nuts!

• Mike sent me this song this week - happy listening!

hamilton.

For Christmas, I got Ben tickets to Hamilton through a special Facebook offer and we went this past week! Full disclosure, I figured it would be entertaining enough, but was skeptical it would live up to all the hype. But wow. I was wrong. So very wrong.

Hamilton was brilliant. It lived up to and exceeded everything I had heard. Lin-Manuel Miranda is our modern Shakespeare, not to mention the choreography and set were both shows in and of themselves. The morning after I bought the full album and have been listening to it on repeat since. If I could go back for another round tomorrow, I would be there in a heartbeat. A couple months ago, I listened to this Fresh Air interview with Lin Manuel Miranda, and now I am finally reading and watching everything on the musical I can get my hands on...here are a couple good ones in case you are interested...

• Back in 2009 when Miranda visited the White House (I should have appreciated this more at the time!)
• CBS Sunday Morning
• When they went back to the White House in 2016
• The Atlantic - How Lin-Manuel Miranda Shapes History
• SFist Review of Hamilton
• Carpool Karaoke 
• Tony Awards Performance

bee in the bonnet.

Do you guys watch Samantha Bee? Ben and I love her and look forward to her weekly episode to watch! She is a weekly dose of sanity and humor for me. Much needed! But this segment of last week's episode has been stuck in my head since. Really? WTF LA? Only 12,000 people voted in their recent mayoral election....and that was after half a million people march in LA. Only 12,000 could show up to vote? So frustrating. So so frustrating and just had to vent it out...marching in pink is cool but showing up to vote and actually doing something after is where it is at.

sigh....

windbreaking.

I know, I know. I have been terrible on posting the last couple of weeks. I'll make it up to all three of you at some point soon! In the meantime, happy Friday. I am on a plane coming back from Dublin and I just bought this windbreaker from Cotopaxi. Cute, right?!