- Grocery store order (via app) and pickup services have been a godsend. I’m an anxious shopper – I worry about finding everything I want, and about not being efficient as I navigate across warehouse-size stores to find it. I don’t enjoy shopping. So to have someone else gather all the things I want from around the store, and me not put random things in my cart because I ordered ahead of time? Amazing. Picking up my order takes me about twenty minutes, compared to the hour+ I would spend driving to the store and shopping. Time is money and I greatly appreciate this free service.
- I just finished Ellie Kemper’s autobiography My Squirrel Days. She’s a great story teller and there were many laugh-out-loud moments for me while reading. The book is a collection of random stories from her childhood, improv, and (paid) acting days. A lot of the criticism of the book said she’s too young to write and has nothing worthwhile to share (no big hardships/major lessons learned), but I think the whole point of the book was to share silly stories and make the reader laugh. And I did!
- Now I’m reading The Martian. It’s one of my favorite movies, and I enjoyed Weir’s second book Artemis, so I thought I’d give it a try. So far it’s very sciency (which I remember people saying about it), and a bit crass, but I’ll stick with it. I like seeing what is different from the movie.
- I keep having nightmares about our old townhome. One of the nightmares this week included Data – we had just left him there. Sigh. Stupid cold giving me these stupid dreams.
- A blog thing I keep forgetting to mention – at the end of each post is a link to the “previous” and “next” (if applicable) post. The problem is, it’s not chronological by all posts, but appears to be chronological by category. It’s another thing i want to figure out how to fix (along with the comments not being a link). But I still don’t know php/if I can edit my theme, so I am not getting very far with that.
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How sweet to gift Declan his very own Apollo bag!
I love Ellie K – thanks for the recommendation. As for her being too young, WHATEVER. I read an autobiography by Anna Kendrick a while back and I swear, she would not stop talking about how small she was. Glad I only paid $1 for that book – boring.
If you love her, you’ll love this book. I think she captured her humor well in written form!
Ha, that does sound boring. A bit too repetitive?!
Ooh, The Martian is one of my favorite books. I still haven’t watched the movie! I’m so scared it won’t live up to my expectations.
Also, I’m laughing at the comment above me, saying Anna Kendrick’s book was boring. I *loved* her memoir. But I also adore Anna Kendrick, so maybe that’s why. It’s just so funny to me how people can have such vastly different opinions of the same book. Perspectives are crazy things!
I love the movie so much. I watch it a few times a year (and even keep a copy on my phone). You’ll have to let me know if you ever watch it. Already I’ve noticed some differences, like they never mention he’s a mechanical engineer in the movie. And the TV show he watches in the Hab is not Three’s Company.
Oh funny! What did you like about it? Maybe the same things I liked about Kemper’s book? And we’re lucky there are so many different books and styles for all of us! It would be boring it we all liked the same stuff! 🙂
Yuck, those nightmares don’t sound like any fun! Though I guess nightmares are never fun…otherwise they’d just be dreams! Oddly enough, I dreamed about my first apartment in Chicago last night (that I was still living there with one of my roommates from that place, etc.). Must be something in the air!
Oh weird! It must be! Have you dreamt about it before? What was it about? I am always dreaming that we are staying there, like, renting it from the new owners for a bit. Sigh.
I don’t think I have! Fortunately it was pretty innocuous – just that I was coming back after being home for Christmas and one of my roommates who lived in that apartment with me was there – but I think it was the first time I’ve “been in” that apartment since I moved out (even if it was just in my mind, haha).
Aww good, I am glad it wasn’t something freaky weird. Ha! But I do wonder what it means that you are thinking about it! Moving on the mind?
I can try to take a look at the PHP to see if I can help with fixing the link thing. How frustrating that you have to deal with that right now.
That nightmare about Data and your old house makes me sad! I hope the nyquil knocks you out into a dreamless and recuperating sleep tonight.
Thanks for offering! I don’t even know what to send you, other than access to all my php. I am wondering if it’s just hard coded that way. It’s so odd.
The Nyquil is not working, in knocking me out. I was up for two an a half hours last night! At least I can take a nap today if need be!
Love that photo with Apollo and the apron.
Thanks! 🙂 He’s such a ham!