Monthly Snapshot :: January 2015

Current Obsessions (On Repeat)
Pork Roast and Sweet Potatoes
Winter/Root Vegetable Stew
Audiobooks before bed
Yoga
Working overtime
Coworker's 90's radio station

Favorites
Book(s): The Girl Who Played with Fire (Stieg Larsson) and Coming Apart: The State of White America (Charles Murray)
TV Show(s):
Film(s):
Music: Touch (Shura) and You Call and I Come Running (mix tape)
Recipe(s): Dill cauliflower mash, crockpot chicken and gravy, roast sweet potatoes, Arabic meatball soup, coconut coconut flour cake, this chicken soup
Social Media: Pinterest and Feedly (blog rss) for inspiration
Game/Software/Tech Thing: Diaro (organized and synced writing ftw)
"Analog" Thing(s): Ceramic waffle maker, sweater defuzzer
Item of Clothing: Black suede leather boots, Canadian mittens
Wellness Related Thing: Yoga videos (specifically this and this), small attainable daily/weekly goals, consciously taking time off of work to regroup
On Going Project(s): My etsy shop, yoga, weekly letters to friends
Thing(s) to Learn About: Bag gardening, reheeling boots/shoes, thrum knitting
New Experiences: Buying postage online, biweekly cooking days, making hand sanitizer
Memories: Winter boot shopping, container gardening seminar

101 in 1,001 Update
In August of 2013 I made a list of 101 things I wanted to do in the next 1,001 days. This month I completed the following:
Write 300K (19 January 2015)

Stats for this Month:
Visual media: 0 episodes, and 0 films
Reading: 6 books (including 2 audiobooks)
Exercise: 3 miles walked, 4 hrs 6 mins of yoga, and 50 mins of meditation completed
Writing: 4,187 words (6 blog post, and 0 stories completed)

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Earth Day aka "Green Love" 2008

Leafy Tree Pendant from OneElf Earth Day’s fast approaching and I’m super excited. My ‘hug a tree’ shirt’s ready and waiting and I’m impatiently counting down the hours. Yes I’m a giant geek, but it’s the one day where spreading the green love is totally socially acceptable. Although I will still try and refrain from yelling at people who chuck plastic bottles in the trash; I will not refrain from rolling my eyes at people who look at me funny when I remove perfectly good rolls of wrapping paper from the trash. It’s going to be fun. However since it is Earth Day I know everyone’s being berated with things like ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ and ‘turn the water off when you brush your teeth’. Important, yes, but I think there’s a bit of a bigger picture that gets missed in all that, so I’m going for something different. I’m not going to talk about it, at least not today. Today I’m talking about worms. Yes, I’m finally writing a real entry about something, and yes it’s about worms. ...

12 on 12: September 2015

I had forgotten to do my 12 on 12 on the 12th this month so when I went out on Saturday I was only all too willing to get a bit snap happy. The day started out back in my old neighborhood at the annual library book sale. I stocked up and then we headed to my favorite places to shop: the farmers market, Trader Joes, and Wegmans. After that, we stopped off at the Stone Quarry Hill Art Park since Saturday was also the Smithsonian's annual Museum Day Live . The park was beautiful, we had a nice walk and even ran into a wedding party. We took the long way home and had a great time meandering through the country looking at old barns, cows, and windmills.

Teaser Tuesday - July 29th

Lack of perspective in literature (or in readers) often causes a contemporary condition I've heard referred to as "presentism"; that is, a disposition to judge all literature by the narrow standards of present time and present culture. This leads to the phenomena such as the denunciation of classic novels such as Huckleberry Finn , on grounds that they deal with issues such as slavery, women's civil rights, ect., in a way not consistent with the notion of present-day political correctness. - "Presentism" The Outlandish Companion by Diana Gabaldon Teaser Tuesday is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading . For other contributions click here .

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