The further into the week it is, the harder getting up at 5 AM feels. You’d think that would be worst on Monday mornings, but oddly enough, it feels toughest on Thursdays. The problem isn’t so much the waking-up-at-5 part; I usually respond to my alarm–which is a fairly pleasant wind-chimey thing, nothing raucous–just as it goes off. It’s the getting-up-at-5 part, which has to happen in order to accomplish everything I need to do […]
I think that this is where it started, back in June, at City Landing for our first dinner in Boston–I’ve really had a thing for berries this summer, and I trace it right back to this simple but glorious salad. SALADS Summer Berry Salad Strawberries, Dried Blueberries, Candied Pecans, Blue Cheese, Raspberry Vinaigrette 10 Fresh strawberries, surrounded by Haymarket (collaged with Diptic) Sadly, I didn’t take a photo of it, as I got straight to eating it. […]
Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas John Scalzi (Twitter) (Facebook) (Goodreads) Audiobook read by Wil Wheaton (Twitter) (Facebook) (Tumblr) Tor Books (2012), hardcover (ISBN 0765316994 / 9780765316998) Science fiction/satire, 320 pages Source:* Purchased audiobook (Audible Frontiers, 2012: ASIN B0088U1CCO) Reason for reading: Personal *I received an ARC of Redshirts, signed by the author, at Book Expo America 2012–and I’ll be keeping that, even though I decided to listen to the novel instead of reading it. […]
I still feel like it was a good idea, but it didn’t really go as I’d hoped–there was only a very small turnout for my Book Purge Giveaway this weekend, and I have to admit that I was a little disappointed by some no-shows. But with that said, I really do appreciate the few people who did come by and take some books away! Getting to where I live does require deliberate effort–it’s really not […]
Time: The first weekend of August, 2013–starting the draft of this post on Saturday evening, intending to finish and publish on Sunday morning Place: My side of the bed, with the iPad Eating and drinking: I have my bedside (nearly always at my side, wherever, to be honest) glass of water, and that’s it till breakfast, which will probably be Kashi cereal with fruit and a biscuit. Unless that’s not what I feel like eating […]
Now that we’re through the process of buying the house, Tall Paul and I were talking about stress yesterday–his has dropped noticeably, while mine seems to be increasing. What makes the difference for him is that we’ve now entered the phase where he feels more in control over things; buying the house involved waiting for other people to make decisions and take actions, but actually moving into it is about practicalities, logistics, and DIY. What […]
After a couple of weeks of cryptic remarks and references buried in blog posts, I was able to spill the story yesterday. (If we’re Facebook friends, you may have read the short version already. This is the just-slightly-longer one.) Tall Paul and I started down the road to home ownership back in the spring. It’s been a bumpy one, and we’ve been keeping our progress–and the frustrating lack of it, sometimes–quiet. But we’d just gone […]
