Currently reading The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up and Infinite Home. Picked up 5 books from the library (Fates and Furies, Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Norther Michigan Farm, American Salvage, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Mothers, Tell Your Daughter) and if you can’t tell from the titles, I’m getting prepared for my winter reading challenge. I also got two books from NetGalley. GIVE ME ALL THE BOOKS!!!
Thanks to everyone who joined me and Steph for Show Us Your Books! We have a bonus edition coming your way on December 29 and the next regularly scheduled one will be January 12, 2016.
For those who asked, the criminal justice book I read for work is Cold Serial: The Jack the Strangler Murders by Brian Forschner. You can buy it from Amazon or his website (where you can also learn about the crimes, see pictures, and other cool shit)
SERIAL STARTED AGAIN THIS WEEK!!! Did you listen? To say I am intrigued by this story would be an understatement.
Finished my first Whole30. Lost just about 10 pounds, a few inches, and learned a ton. Will be sharing my experience next week.
My daughter turns 9 on Sunday. NINE. How is that even possible? I mean, I am filled with crazy amounts of gratitude because I hit the kid jackpot with this one but still. She’s 9. We had her friends party last weekend and four of her friends slept (I use this word loosely. VERY loosely) at our house. We had a popcorn bar for them. If you plan to do this, make sure you have 80 billion bags of Gummi Bears because that’s what they will go apeshit for. Trust me.
Had these songs on repeat: “Blow” by Theory of a Deadman, “America’s Sweetheart” by Elle King, and “First” by Cold War Kids. Very different types of songs that make no sense together. But such is my eclectic taste. Listen to Elle’s song and tell me it’s not awesome.
Found out that the 10 episode miniseries or whatever it’s called for Prison Break debuts in March. I. CANNOT. WAIT. I am also looking forward to the return of many shows I enjoy like American Crime, Bloodline, House of Kevin Spacey, Better Call Saul, Orange is the New Black, and Silicon Valley. And John Oliver. Or as he’s known in our house, the reason we have HBO.
Since I always miss the confessions post, I’m going to start doing a confession of the week in these recaps. Here’s my first: This week, at the child’s cheer gym, I was talking to another mom who, last week, made some arrogant, unnecessary comments (no joke, cheer moms are worse than pageant moms) so she sort of already left a bad taste in my mouth. Then, this week, she called “rhinestones” “rhiMestones”. I confess that I can’t talk to her anymore because I have zero patience and tolerance for people who mispronounce words that under no circumstances should be mispronounced.
Laughed at these
We have a full weekend with the child’s family birthday party and a trip to see Santa at the beach. Hope you guys have a great weekend, too! Make sure you stop by next week for a recap of my Whole30 and an edition of Judging Covers with the Husband!
I’m so excited for Serial too, and the topic this time around seems really interesting too. I can’t believe that the cheer mom mispronounced rhinestones, I mean it’s not even that hard of a word!
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Another great post. Awesome on the “sleep”over. Lol on the gummy bears. Looking forward to your posts next week. Congrats on the whole 30! Stay away from that negative woman ! Surround yourself with the white light and don’t accept any negativity. Your weekend sounds wonderful! Happy birthday to your daughter and enjoy every minute of the beach and Santa. Love. Steph’s. Momma.
Thankfully her daughter is (for now) on a different squad than mine so avoiding her is pretty easy!
That vocabulary one is so me.
I wouldn’t talk to that dumb b anymore either.
Kudos on the Whole 30!
Bloodline is back soon? Fabulous. I have been watching nothing…like really, I don’t know the last time I watched a show. I am pretty caught up on The Affair and sort of current on Criminal Minds and have watched nothing else.
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I think it’s coming back mid-year which is still sooner than I thought. Now if they would just announce if there’s going to be a new season of Longmire, I’ll be all set.
How are you liking Infinite Home? I’m really back and forth on whether or not I want to put it on my list. Count me in on the LOVING THAT SERIAL IS BACK list. Last season, I didn’t start listening until all the episodes were out so this whole “waiting” thing is going to be a challenge.
Congrats on the success with Whole30! And happy birthday to the child!
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It has a very similar writing style to You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine which was a DNF (and, incidentally, the author of Infinite Home thanks the author of You Too in the acknowledgements) but the characters are more intriguing which is keeping me going. At a slow, slow pace but I’ll finish it. I don’t know that I’ll recommend it. Maybe. On the fence.
Rhimestones. Hahaha! My old boss, who was an attorney and now a judge, used to say suposeBly. HOW DID SHE GET THROUGH LAW SCHOOL LIKE THAT? Ha! I’m excited about Serial too, but I followed the story pretty closely, so I don’t know that it’ll be as exciting as the first season. I still love Sarah and the way it’s set up, so I’m all over it. The Magic of Tidying up is going down over winter break! Yes to PITNB and Silicon Valley. I also LOVE Veep and can’t wait for American Crime Story.
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Ugh. *OITNB. Haha!
SupposeABLY? No. All the nos.
American Crime Story is the OJ miniseries, right? I can’t decide if I’m going to watch it or now. Who am I kidding. I totally will.
Rhimestones? Haha, wow. I was SO stoked to hear Serial was back and I’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to start it: it needs to be when I can give it all my focus and attention. I also just found out about a Netflix series debuting on the 18th that looks INCREDIBLE (and very Serial/Dateline-esque) called ‘Making a Murderer.’ Yes. So much yes.
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At first I thought I misheard her. Then she said it again. Nope, I heard her right the first time. Sigh.
I need that Netflix show in my life. Not even kidding.
How is Tidying Up? I am trying to decide if I want to read it or it is full of a bunch of obvious statements…I have been listening to an audiobook so I missed serial this week. I need to catch up! I am excited! And I am excited for your Whole 30 post!
Happy bday to your daughter!!!
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Ah I love observing “other mom” behavior but rhimesthones?
I wasn’t all that excited about Serial until I watched a little of a segment about it on the Today show this morning. I’m still on the fence about listing.
Rhimestones??? Really? I can’t even… That reminds me of this VP at my previous employer who always said “Valentimes” instead of Valentines. Seriously? How are you a VP of a company?? #stopwordabuse Happy Birthday to your daughter 🙂
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You kicked that Whole30’s ass! That’s awesome.
I have never heard of Elle King. I try to stay abreast of new music, but I’m old, and it’s hard. I do know Theory of a Deadman and Cold War Kids and me gustan mucho.
Happy 9th birthday to your little human!!!!
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I’m really curious about Serial being such a recent case that’s still in the headlines and how that will effect the show. Boy do you love Elle King! I had heard and enjoyed her song Exes and Oh’s but never given it a further listen until you raved about it. I now have it downloaded to my phone for my driving tunes this weekend!
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X’s and O’s keeps playing in my head and my little granddaughter said
“They always want to go but they never want to leave!” Is how she feels about coming to my house! So sweet. Makes my heart sing.
Correction on the X’s and O’s lyric I quoted
They always want to come but they never want to leave!
I shouldn’t comment after 3 wines late Friday night!
Lol!
All of those images up there at the end of your post apply to me.
I don’t know that I run into adults who can’t pronounce things. That’s a gem (a gem…get it?)
RhiMestones? Oh, no. No, no, no. No.
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I watched an episode of Dance Moms not too long ago and was horrified by…well, just about everything expect the kids, who actually seemed well-behaved an nice despite their teacher and moms. I thought of you because I wondered if that was just for show or are cheer moms the same way? My pet peeve word is “supposeBly”
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i listened to the first ep of serial for season 2! i’ll probably wait until my drive home for xmas to finish them. i loved “…Tidying Up” and can’t wait to hear what you thought. i haven’t really implemented it yet though!
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I love the Memes. I can relate to them all, but especially number #3. I am NOT a domestic goddess! Congrats on completing your Whole 30 and I’m anxious to hear your insights. Getting healthy is one of my BIG goals this year. It’s been a BIG goal almost every year since time began but this year it is going to be the BIG goal that gets ACHIEVED. I’m confident that typing things in ALL CAPS just makes it more likely. Or annoying. 🙂
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Nine? Eek. My daughter turns nine in March. She probably wants to have friends over but I can’t handle it. Our house is too small. But we will have a party OUTSIDE the home.
Yay for Orange Is The New Black. I’m also looking forward to Fuller House. It starts in January.
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