Last Monday, I observed Victoria Day (Canada). This Monday was Memorial Day in the U.S. and so I saw fit to celebrate that as well.

This all resulted in a Mondaze Report holiday, which I felt fully justified in taking. A well-deserved rest from the hamster wheel, spent in my case lazing beside my neighbor's pool with margarita in one hand and People magazine in the other. Both Mondays, as it happened.

This week at ChickAdvisor H.Q. brings, as if you haven't noticed, a flurry of events, for all of which I am winging my way to Toronto to help facilitate. Such things have fully occupied my time, and the prospect of having a few days of sheer "me" time has me giddy and even sleepless. For this reason, aside from skimming through People's gossip columns, I have not kept up with the latest news and headlines. My life will have to suffice for commentary.

Current event that has captured my notice (unfortunately so): unending chatter about Brangelina's twins. Zzzzzznore. Next!

Book I'm currently reading: Crime & Punishment. Chicklit? No. Pretentious? Yes. People look at you differently when you're carting around a Dostoevsky tome versus, say, Danielle Steel. Good readin'? Yup, but it's a work in progress. Kinda wish I was on readthrough #16 of Pride & Prejudice instead.

Movie in the DVD player: SpongeBob. Having kids reinvents you. Plus, after 26 zillion times through the movie it actually grows on you. I'm starting to see profoundness in it, and while that should scare me it hasn't yet. I really should concentrate on my book, probably.

My personal beauty secret: getting enough sleep. Not that I'm actually getting better looking, but I notice the decline when I fail in this department.

Most recent shopping spree: today's trip to Target. How anyone can get out of that store without spending $200 is beyond me. I went intending to only buy a new handbag and, well, things got ugly. For what it's worth, this is the satchel I picked out...

Perhaps I should have been working instead of pawing through cute accessories available at a very reasonable price, but it was a holiday. And so I took it. What can I say-- I'm just rebellious that way.