Thoughts from the weekend
That’s really all the materials to build our garage?! Yesterday is a funny movie! What are the lyrics to “Eleanor Rigby” anyway? I’m ecstatic to use this rain as an excuse to stay inside. Related: I thought I was going to run more in September....
Reading Update! (9/25/19)
Last week my work team decided to start a quarterly book club! We’ll read one book from one of the following genres a quarter: memoir, thriller, chick lit/romance, sci fi/fantasy; then discuss it. We drew memoir as our first genre, and we’re all going to...
Reading Update! (9/18/19)
Wednesdays seem to be reading update days… shall we just go with it? We saw The Goldfinch last night. I spent a month reading this book this year, so I really wanted to see the movie version, despite its poor critic reviews, because the story was fresh in my...
Reading Update! (9/11/19)
I had an unusual amount of time to read last weekend and this week! I don’t expect to keep reading this much (for me), sadly. I finished The Woman in the Window. It confirmed thrillers aren’t my preferred genre. I didn’t like the main character, and...
2018 Reads
Last year I started reading regularly but I didn’t start tracking (via a spreadsheet and Goodreads) my books read until this year. But I did blog about them! So I did a bit of bookkeeping (hee hee) this weekend and went through the “Books” category...
Hi! I’m Kim, a 40-something-year-old living in northeastern Illinois with my husband Steven, and our cats, Khaleesi, Apollo, Starbuck, and Eddard aka Ned. My current main hobbies are running, painting rocks, flying, reading, and eating. I follow a vegan lifestyle and am employed by the federal government. I write about a variety of topics and consider this a “life” blog – a place I can share anything that’s on my mind. Please visit the “About” page to get a better idea of who I am! 🙂