Around Here | This week felt kind of full and hectic, although looking back in my calendar I can’t really tell you why. I know that I didn’t post last Sunday because I spent nearly the entire day binge-watching season 12 of ER, a both wonderful and terrible way to spend a day. This weekend has been largely chill — writing, cleaning, game night with friends, and plans to see a movie this afternoon (current contenders are Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom or Incredibles 2).
Reading | This morning I started reading City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai by Paul French, a historical true crime-ish book about the criminal underworld of Shanghai between World War II and World War II. The story is interesting, but I’m not entirely told on the style — it feels like he’s trying a bit to hard to channel a sort of 1920s voice, but we’ll see.
Watching | The Great British Baking Show is back! PBS is airing an older season that hasn’t been on the U.S. yet, which just debuted on Friday. It was just as charming as ever, I’m so happy it’s I on the air again.
Listening | I need to start a new audio book, but I haven’t decided which one yet. I have A Spy the House by Y.S. Lee (the story of “an elite, top secret corps of female investigators with a reputation for results”), but I might download the second book in Genevieve Cogman’s Invisible Library series, or maybe Sabaa Tahir’s newest book, A Reaper at the Gates. Decisions, decisions!
Loving | On Monday, my family went out to dinner to celebrate Father’s Day. We took a picture at the end of the evening, which basically captures us exactly. I love it.
Experimenting | I’ve been using a Bullet Journal to stay organized and manage my daily to do lists for the last couple of years. I love that it’s not a pre-printed planner, so I can change the way I keep organized when the mood strikes. In June I tried really simplifying how I do things, and I like the new format, so I’m going to keep playing with it in July.
Anticipating | Vacation! On Friday, we’re heading up to the cabin to spend the week of Fourth of July by the lake. I haven’t taken a long time off since I started my new job, so this will be a welcome break. This week is a lot of packing and prepping, along with picking out all the books I’m bringing with me — O love planning stacks of vacation reads, almost as much as I love reading them.
Happy Sunday!
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Your family looks like fun! Enjoy your cabin getaway.
They are fun 🙂
Why is it that our emptier days always seem full?
I have been a bullet journal convert for almost two years now. I won’t go back to a preprinted planner ever again. The freedom to adjust and reformat any portion of your planner whenever something stops working is too great.
Yay for GBBO! I love that show. It is so good and so darn charming!
Enjoy your time at the cabin!
Yes! That’s what I love too. I don’t do complicated layouts or anything, so it’s easy to make adjustments when something feels like it isn’t working anymore.
Happy belated Father’s Day to your dad and have a wonderful, wonderful vacation! I hope you have pleasant swims in the lake if it’s a swimmable lake, and either way I wish you all the best books in the land.
Yup, it’s a good lake for swimming. And the weather has been HOT lately, so I think the water will have finally warmed up enough to enjoy it 🙂
I switched from a bullet journal to a planner by Moleskin that lays flat with the week on one side and a blank, lined page on the other. I sometimes miss the flexibility of the bullet journal, but I don’t miss the pressure/desire/wish to be more creative with my layouts, handwriting, etc.
A week by the lake with good books and good company sounds lovely. Have a wonderful vacation!
That sounds interesting! I might need a different system for some organization at work, so I’ve been poking around at printed planners for that.
I was looking at new nonfiction coming out and I was interested in City of Devils, but I wasn’t totally sold by the description, so I look forward to hearing how it turns out.
And I’ve recently got my husband started on watching The Great British Baking Show and we’re enjoying it so much! It’s delightful 🙂
GBBS is one of my favorite things on TV. It is just so nice all the time.
We’re only on Season 1 of ER. We decided to try Hulu again after you mentioned earlier in the year about it having ER…that picture is great…I hope your vacation went/is going great. So what did you read? Or will you tell us in your next blog post? And which movie did you see? Was it a good one?
It was great! I rounded up vacation reads in a post, but overall they were great! It was a nice mix of fiction/nonfiction and new/old books. Yay, reading vacation 🙂