Monthly Snapshot :: August 2014

ON REPEAT
Cheater pickles
Roast chicken in the convection oven
Paleo wraps

Writing
Listening to audiobooks while knitting
Nightly TV episodes

FAVORITES
BOOKS: Howl's Moving Castle, The Night Circus, Anil's Ghost, and Medium Raw

TV SHOW: The Newsroom, Outlander, Flashpoint, and The Killing
KNITTING: Hemlock ring blanket
MEMORIES: Burlington with my sister (thrift shopping, the world's largest filing cabinet, and the swings down by the water), the MFA and the ICA, game night, coming home, farmers markets and library visits, cleaning out the wardrobe, the reenactment at the Canal Village, free night at the zoo, day trip to the Binghamton zoo, afternoon up on the hill looking through books and then going out to dinner

101 IN 1,001
About a year ago (August 2013) I started a 101 in 1,001 project. Below is a list of goals I completed or finished in the last month.

Host a game night (10 August)
Attend a reenactment (24 August)
Follow up or finish all the series that I've started (books and tv) (15 August)
Make a list of my 100 best experiences (13 August)

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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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