This week in weather…holy shit, winter please go away. I’m done with you and your snow and your cold as fuck temperatures and your snow days and your general unpleasantness. Enough already.
This week in reading…after much debate with myself and input from Instagram, I opted to start The Girl on the Train over The Martian. You know those months where almost every book you read is amazing and you can’t decide which one is your favorite? That has been the past month for me. More information on that coming in Tuesday’s Show Us Your Books linkup (can you believe it’s time for that already?)
This week in cooking…I love, LOVE peanut butter and I love foods that have peanut butter as a base. Cookies, sauces, and my personal favorite, peanut butter soup. I made it this week for dinner and whenever I do, I’m reminded how easy it is (and inexpensive, too) and kick myself for not making it more often. If you guys want the recipe, let me know and I’ll do a post.
This week in TV…I forgot The Following started this week. I’ll be catching up on it over the weekend, time permitting, along with the premiere of American Crime and the most recent episodes of Justified and Better Call Saul. My husband has been binge watching House of Lies with Don Cheadle. I’m not a huge fan of it. But I was a huge fan of both movies we watched last weekend, The Judge and Whiplash. Guys, seriously, see both of them. Whiplash is INTENSE and The Judge is just a great movie.
This week in creativity…For Christmas, my in-laws gave me a book of writing prompts, 642 Things to Write About. I’ve been going through, writing stories in my head, but not actually writing them down. So I started a little pet project blog with my responses to the prompts. You’re supposed to hand write them but I’m too wordy and run out of room and plus, I can’t lose a blog but I can lose a book so I started a site. When I have a few entries, and if you guys are interested, I’ll share the link.
This week in getting healthy…Remember I shared a few weeks ago that some test results showed my vitamin D levels are low? Well, I’ve been taking supplements and wow, do they make a difference! I’m sleeping better, have energy to get off the couch and do things like exercise (T-25 Beta cycle), and my depression seems to be at bay. I haven’t felt this good in a long time.
This week in wanting to scream in someone’s face…There’s a blogger I semi-follow and I read a post she wrote a day or so ago, a “getting to know me” post and in that, she said that she is put up on a pedestal. Um, full of yourself much? Yes, you’re a popular blogger and all but a pedestal? Really? I hope she meant something more along the lines of “put on display” and it was just poor wording in the post because if it wasn’t, and she really thinks people put her on a pedestal, I don’t think I can follow her anymore. (Actually, upon rereading it, most of the post was a humblebrag, including her pouty face in the makeup room of The Dr. Oz Show. If you’re that pouty to be on TV, stay home. No one held a gun to your head and forced you to do it).
This week in 40 by 40 progress…One of the items on my list is to volunteer somewhere meaningful to me. I’ve been researching and trying to pick and I finally decided that I’m going to apply to be a CASA (court appointed special advocate). Child welfare is an issue that’s very close to my heart, and this is a perfect fit. It’s an intense commitment but one I’m very excited for.
This week in making me laugh…
Have a great weekend! I’ll be cramming all my errands and chores into Saturday because of a competition on Sunday. Hope you get to do something a little more fun than that. See you back here on Monday!
