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It’s Wednesday, which has been my long-time work-from-home day, so I’m sitting in the living room, enjoying the lit-up tree and the money pit my collection of Department 56 houses in the pre-dawn darkness. The cat got her Christmas present early (a catnip infused scratching board three times as big as she is herself) and is literally rolling on it, enjoying the good life (and, with a bit of luck, not tearing up my furniture.)
Wednesday also means the book/reading meme, yeah? This week, I come armed with visual aids! (and apologies to those who’ve already seen this on facebook—I know there’s some overlap.)
finished
Re-reads of the holiday parts of Winter Solstice and Coming Home, Rosamunde Pilcher, and a re-listen to The Twelve Clues of Christmas, Rhys Bowen, also for the holiday fluff. I swear I went and looked for something new to take care of my need for treacle, but every time I searched for ‘holiday’ I’d end up with David Sedaris, which, while amusing and topical, was not what I was looking for. I totally agree with his skewering of the holiday excesses, but while I’m in the middle of trying to pull off yet another balancing act between expectations and something meaningful, I don’t need him snarking in my ear about the very idiocies I’m trying to avoid.
So. ::breathes deep:: I went back to the familiar. At least I didn’t fall all the way into the abyss and haul out the Jan Karon?
now
Vienna, 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna, David King – a little non-fiction to go along with all the Regencies I tend to default to.
I also got re-started listening to Proven Guilty, the Dresden book I abandoned for the fluff. At some point, I will run out of audiobooks in this series and my ears will not know what to do w/o James Marsters.
next
The promised visual aid,
Ta da! The stack of books I have checked out from the library. No idea what’s next, just that it should be from this pile, but (knowing my brain), probably won’t be.
And now is the time I go take a page out of Fly Lady and get dressed down to my shoes and see how much tidying and decluttering I can do with my phone in my pocket on speaker and mute and the day’s conference calls in the background.
♥ Have a good day, everyone.
Wednesday also means the book/reading meme, yeah? This week, I come armed with visual aids! (and apologies to those who’ve already seen this on facebook—I know there’s some overlap.)
finished
Re-reads of the holiday parts of Winter Solstice and Coming Home, Rosamunde Pilcher, and a re-listen to The Twelve Clues of Christmas, Rhys Bowen, also for the holiday fluff. I swear I went and looked for something new to take care of my need for treacle, but every time I searched for ‘holiday’ I’d end up with David Sedaris, which, while amusing and topical, was not what I was looking for. I totally agree with his skewering of the holiday excesses, but while I’m in the middle of trying to pull off yet another balancing act between expectations and something meaningful, I don’t need him snarking in my ear about the very idiocies I’m trying to avoid.
So. ::breathes deep:: I went back to the familiar. At least I didn’t fall all the way into the abyss and haul out the Jan Karon?
now
Vienna, 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna, David King – a little non-fiction to go along with all the Regencies I tend to default to.
I also got re-started listening to Proven Guilty, the Dresden book I abandoned for the fluff. At some point, I will run out of audiobooks in this series and my ears will not know what to do w/o James Marsters.
next
The promised visual aid,
Ta da! The stack of books I have checked out from the library. No idea what’s next, just that it should be from this pile, but (knowing my brain), probably won’t be.
And now is the time I go take a page out of Fly Lady and get dressed down to my shoes and see how much tidying and decluttering I can do with my phone in my pocket on speaker and mute and the day’s conference calls in the background.
♥ Have a good day, everyone.
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