Musings

Time // 10:10 a.m.

Place // At my desk in my office. I contemplated writing somewhere else to spice it up, but I’m feeling lazy this morning. 

Eating // A banana and chocolate chips… my plan to eat healthier and move more in March has gotten slightly derailed.  

Drinking // Bigelow Lemon Lift tea


Reading // This weekend I started Jeff Chu’s investigation/memoir Does Jesus Really Love Me? A Gay Christian’s Pilgrimage in Search of God in America. I’m about a third done and so far it’s just excellent. Unless things go awry in the end, I think I’ll be rating this one pretty highly.

Time // 8:51 a.m.

Place // At my desk in my office — I need to get out more. 

Eating // Chobani Greek yogurt, peach flavored

Drinking // Bigelow Lemon Lift tea

Reading // The only book I finished this week was The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan, despite feeling like I was reading a lot. I think I got into a mode where I wanted to read All The Things and ended up reading nothing. But, I’m hoping for some reading time today to finish a couple of April releases: David Sedaris’ Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls and Mitchell Zuckoff’s Frozen in Time.

Time // 8:31 a.m.

Place // At my desk in my office… this is starting to be a theme, isn’t it?

Eating // A buttermilk biscuit with strawberry jelly from a smitten kitchen recipe

Drinking // The Republic of Tea Blood Orange Cinnamon tea

Time //8:15 a.m.

Drinking // Whittard of Chelsea English Rose Tea, same as last Sunday morning.

Reading // I decided to have a personal, mini-readathon this weekend. I have four books on my list: Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman, Lessons from the Heartland by Barbara Miner, Big Data byv Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and Kenneth Cukier, and Me Before You by Jojo Moyes.

True story: I bribed a librarian (after a brief conversation about my general reading interests) to constantly stick new/interesting things in my hold queue. Best. Thing. Ever. It’s like Netflix for the library, now!

Time //11:40 a.m.

Place // At my desk.

Eating // Homemade chocolate chip cookies, the breakfast of champions.

Drinking // Whittard of Chelsea English Rose Tea, a tea I actually brought back from London when I studied abroad there about five years ago (I know, it’s ridiculous I still have it). But, I’m down to my last few bags and am feeling really sad about it — this is delicious tea, and I don’t know when I’ll be able to get more!

Because I live in a town without a dedicated bookstore, I can never buy just one book when I get the chance to go book shopping. I always bulk up my online orders to get free shipping, and I can’t walk out of bookstore (new or used) without bringing a pile of books home with me. And this weekend was a perfect storm of book magic: an online order arrived at home just before I took a trip to the Twin Cities that involved a wonderful book binge at a new-to-me Barnes & Noble with a fabulous used books section.

My books in/books out goal too

Not to worry, I didn’t forget about my last book list of 2012: the books that got away. These are books that either came out in 2012 that I wish I had gotten to read or books that I bought in 2012 that have languished on my shelves unread. This list isn’t exclusive to books published in 2012, but includes several books that have come out in the last couple of years. There’s also a poll at the end of this post to help me pick which of the books I bought I should make a priority to read first.

I’m the same way when I pack books. I am always aggressively optimistic about how much time I will spend reading over my holiday vacations, particularly Christmas. In my brain, I have the next several days to laze about and do whatever I want (i.e. read). In real life, I’ll be spending a lot of time just goofing off with my family… which is awesome.