This Week I'm:
Listening To: Podcasts (including Criminal, Pod Save America, and Classical Classroom), NPR in the mornings, and Sam Smith's new album, after listening to him on an NPR interview.
Watching: The World Series, football (it's quite the bleak year for this fan), Disney's 2017 Beauty and the Beast (I loved it in the theaters; in rewatching it, I was as big a fan), and Bridget Jones' Baby.
Reading: Starting a new book today, Beverly Gray's Seduced by Mrs. Robinson, about the making of the iconic movie, The Graduate. I just finished Andy Weir's Artemis, which I'm reviewing tomorrow. I enjoyed it a lot.
Planning: On continuing work in my office this week. Doesn't it feel like I'm always talking about working in this little room? It does seem to be a room that is always in flux as things change around here. One of these days, I'll finally decide what it's real purpose is!
Thinking About: Yeah, it's one of those weeks when my head's aswirl with so many things I can't even seem to alight on one thing long enough to finish that thought.
Enjoying: A quiet day yesterday while BG was off to spend the day with friends and Miss H took a four hour nap in anticipation of a very late night last night with her best friend who is on leave from her post in Virginia.
Feeling: Like I need to get busy cleaning but I'd much rather be doing organizing and decluttering things.
Looking forward to: A very quiet week. Again.
Question of the week: Last week a lot of you were surprised that I had already started shopping for Christmas. I couldn't possibly get it all done if I didn't start early. My question for you is, how do you find the time to get everything done for the holidays that needs to be done? Start early and spread it out or devote the month of December to getting it all done?
Happy 35 years!! You don't seem old enough to be married for 35 years.
ReplyDeleteI can't even think about shopping. At the last minute my daughter signed on for club volleyball and the cost nearly gave me a heart attack. I told her we would be cutting back to make up for it but she is giving me hints at what she wants for Christmas and clearly she did not get the message about budget.
I always mean to spread it out and get everything done in a nice organized pace and for the most part I've gotten better but there's always something that seems to come up last minute that sends me running to the stores to fight through the crowds. I hope to spend some time this week getting the menu for Thanksgiving nailed down and starting on Christmas prep though we will see if it happens. Have a great week!
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