36 posts tagged “books”
my friend kris of cheap healthy good had a call out to a bunch of her friends to do a blog entry on her pretty popular blog while she was on vacation. me, my friend cindee of little kitchen mouse and rachel of many things except a blog answered the call. (there will be more people as today is only thursday and kris is gone for a week) it was thrilling! i was gonna be read by other people than just mardi who i think i now write this blog for. how does that make you feel, mardi? i now feel like a stalker.
so, i wrote this entry and was very excited to think that i was writing on food! on a food blog! and woot doesn't that make me so in the blogispher! untiiiiiiil i read the comments. i am so sensitive to the fact that i am not super mom which is what my entry is basically about and the comments, just made me again rethink my heroism in the face of mothering. i want to comment back on the comment part of the awesome blog of kris, instead i shall use my own forum to ask my questions and get their expertise as i make my excuses about my life. you know, here. where i talk about my life and, in general, self absorb.
this is my question to the mothers who make their own baby food from their own dinners
1) do you have a sit down dinner every night with vegetables? i know how ridiculous that sounds! truly, but stan* & i don't have a sit down until after the bot goes down. because, he goes down at 7 and when i get home at 6 PM, i have an hour to feed him, bathe him & read him goodnight moon. maybe! we'll get to play too? maybe not. anyway, it's one hour. i don't cook during holden time.
2) what time do you get home time do you get home to your boo? how much time during the week day do you get with him/her? what's your commute like? do you really cook every night? how am i allowed to have children? because seriously, i work from 9 - 5, no biggie right? well, sure - but i also commute 45 min each way (if i'm lucky) and i'm pumping twice a day at work and i feel like i'm just barely hanging on.
ok - i really only have two questions.
my goal though, after reading the comments, is to make tiny changes. not in making baby food but maybe in time management. i am going to take the month of august and get up @ 5:30 am, an hour before the baby, and every other day, run/walk 20 min a day. the days that i don't run/walk, i'm going to clean a room. then the night time will not be spent with the guilt of not having made baby food - which i am not going to do, sorry! - but when i sit down at my couch at 8, after cooking for my husband** to read some book (oh and mardi, i'm looking for some good books to read. speaking of which, have you read julie & julia? i think it's my new favorite book. it's definitely my favorite book of the summer of 2009.) i'll feel like i'm not such a bad mother after all.
* stan! write in your blog!
** stan often makes dinner and i do other stuff ... often, i am still putting the bot down because i say he goes to bed at 7 but it's more often between 7 & 8
so yeah - i'm back to work. it's tolerable. holden loves his daycare lady. i love her for him loving her. i don't really understand much of what she says but it could just be because i'm tired.
on the subway a couple days ago, i think it was this week, i was reading the history of love
(which if you can - read, please) and i see this guy kind of caressing his phone, you know the polishing that goes on because of the face grease. however, it's more loving this cleaning of the phone, more thoughtful and he keeps opening it to the email part and then closing it. so, the next time he opens it i look over his shoulder - what! i'm nosy! - and see that the first two emails are from julia and the third is from alexandra. julia's subject in the first email says "i don't think i understand what is happening" and the body of the email is blank, the second email i don't know what it said becuase the third email, alexandra's, says "i can't wait to spend tonight all alone with you." and the body says - "i get to have you all night long." this dude then opens up julia's first email and sits there for awhile and then finally he laboriously types "i can't love you exactly as you are until i figure out myself."
history of love indeed
and you can buy it at amazon or barnes and noble and if you are in nyc, you can buy it NOW @ books of wonder
jen nails is one of those people who help you see that there is goodness in the world because she embodies it.
please buy her book not because i told you to but because you like to be wildly entertained (especially if you're between the ages of 9 - 12).
Domesticating my corner of Bed-Stuy with pansies
Ha! You can see me in the background.
Saturday was so hot and beautiful. I got up at 9 and did laundry. Unheard of, I know. At the laundrymat, the pope mass was on. I tried to read.
I just finished:
It was pretty good. I'm going to give it to Cindee. Food Network was mentioned and since I just got cable for the first time in years, I have to say that that's pretty much all I need in a book (not true, I also need adjectives). There are receipes at the end. Good times! I mean it. This is not a true book review but more of a, hey! guys? I still read books. Since moving to Bed-Stuy, I've read 6 books. That's 6 books in 21 days and despite my new years res to read 'good for me books', I have yet to accomplish that.
Happy Spring!
oh you internets! you make my life cranky sometimes. i really enjoyed my post that you ate. i hope it tasted good because this next one is not gonna taste as sweet.
so what did i talk about?
1) i read a book:
it was balduci like, if balduci is now a type of book. he wrote absolute power. a cat and mouse book where the mouse gets claws. it's basically another bag of mental doritos. taste good but makes you feel a bit like you've got a salt bloat afterwards and you think "maybe i should look at another orange food like an orange or a carrot". come on, you know what i'm talking about. don't make that face. do not. i read a good book soon. shut up! i will. in the meantime, it means that i only have 4 more books to read this year. it's 3 weeks from the end of the year, right? about that? we'll see. so much pressure.
2) on friday night we went to this holiday party for the place i did just grace. it was at this amazing loft like place and was a blast. there was a woman of a certain age there (her words, not mine) who started hitting on stan right after we mentioned we were newlyweds. she held his hand and said to me "you'll be at the audies soon". then she explained that the audies are the oscars of recording books. i love that she didn't say i'd be nominated or would win. i'd just be there ... probably supporting her. i'd tell you who she is because she's vaguely famous but i'm kind of sure that she's the kind of woman who googles her name which reminds me, i haven't done that in awhile.
3) on saturday, we went and saw b brian argotsinger in the santaland diaries at the gallery players in brooklyn. i'm not using any kind of smoke machine when i say he was brilliant. in fact, you have like 4 times left to see him, please go. and, if you don't believe me that he was brilliant, then maybe you'll believe his review. it's on the webpage i sent you for the santaland diaries. and if you think, no ! i will not link, then just look at him in costume.
in honor of the upcoming new year and my new year resolution of reading at least one good book a month, i decided to read a good book. this book i guess was good. i mean it was old and had been around awhile therefore rendering it a classic but man, it was like pulling teeth getting through it. in the real world, where i am queen of taking a book and reading it in a night (see the following book) this book took me 2 and a half weeks. i just could NOT get into it. i guess it's cool that we had an anti-hero, i'm usually a huge fan. yes, deadwood, i am looking at you but heathcliff needed to be beaten up. a lot. also, the girls were such brats. all of them. stupid book - i do not like you and would never recommend it in a million zillion years. luckily, this opinion will not break a book's reputation that has been out about oh, TWO HUNDRED YEARS - so go out and have a nice day everybodies!
this should have been called lord john and the gay blade. the author is obsessed by homosexuality. she's graphic in the whole butt sex and she loves to make gross generalizations about the feelings of the gays. it's so so so so so soooooooooooo weird. but i finished the book and will probably read the next one in the series of lord john and i'm a gay gay gay gay faggity gay gay ho MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. that's ho mo. not ho moo. gay.
i read two books over the weekend. i know the name of one and i guess the other was so bad that i've forgotten anything about it. but with faith and patience, perhaps by the end of this entry, my memory will step up. it's doubtful though because i do not, will not, can not eat fish. (i totally can but i will not and do not so raspberry out of my mouth with my sweet little tongue to you judgers of me and my anti-fish campaign.)
this here book, set in texas, did not suck. in fact, maybe because i stayed up until 2 am to read it (i read it all on sunday - why? i have no idea, it wasn't THAT good.) the who done it actually surprised me. it deals with family shit and that's aok in my book as long as it's not too sad for too long i can take it. i'm really bad with sad though. when i saw leaving los vegas, i actually cried for like an hour after the movie. i'm pretty sure that's why i do not see overly depressing movies any more. it's like how sarah won't see any drug theme tv or movies this year ... but mine is less a new years resolution and more of a i'm a pussy who cries too easily and sinks into fantasy like a confict sinks into crime. (raspberry for that analogy. you're allowed to slap your screen. ouch. thank you.) so, um yeah - the devil's backbone will not make you furious as so many of the books i read make me. oh my gosh - speaking of furious, i watched csi: miami again last night. that show is so bad ... and i love getting mad at it. seriously, how is that show still on the air? the only way i can figure is that there is a drinking game out there that says has you drink everytime david caruso opens his mouth or takes off his glasses. also! why did emily procter get work done on her face? i think its just her lips, but come the f*ck on. WHY? does any one remember ansley? oh, lord. i miss that southern trixie with her smart, goofy ways.
i did not remember the name of the second book so i asked my husband and he told me. i will not, however, start eating fish.
the main character is a hardend detective with a chip on his shoulder battling bad guys in basically a reality show gone to gore. it's ok. you can bother if you want. but really, folks, you do not have to.
well, gang - i'm at 45 books with 7 to go. i tink i can.
first of all, it's clemintine season. are you eating the delicious little orange orbs? do it!
here's fun. me and sarah actually put up a new kill. enjoy. we're actually going to make an effort to do this more. by effort i mean, we're aware that we have this website.
this is actually the second peter abrahams book that i've read. the first has stayed with me for awhile and at the time, i think i gave it a wishy-washy review (ha, me give a wishy washy review? that's like saying bonnie hunt ever had a shot at having a successful sitcom. i miss bonnie hunt. bonnie, i know you're reading this. after the writers strike, please put some pen to paper.) anyway, this second sweep at peter abrahams has convinced me that i'll be reading his library. i mean, not his personal library, i have absolutely given up b&e's, but his you know stuff that he's written. i have been furioiusly trying to find the book that i read of his before, end of story, and i can't find where i blogged about it. did i forget to blog about a book? could i actually be one more book ahead in the 52 books this year? hmmm. COULD I BE BREAKING OUT OF THESE CHAINS? anyway, nerve damage is nice and suspenseful and a little scary. so you could totally read this book if that's what you're looking for in a book. also, it's november so this is the time for this kind of book.
i'm sort of embarrassed because i had said i was going to read a lot of other books before this, but the library put them back on the shelve before i got to pick them up. stupid second job, stupid library bur mostly, stupid michele. no. it's really stupid second job.
i think that i dislike my second job more than i dislike the movie wedding crashers, but it could also be a draw. i have 15 more shifts to go at second job and i will never work in retail again. this, of course, is the second time i've made that decree. so, take this grain of salt - you may need it later.
movies i really liked? 28 weeks later. that shit was good. it was even better than 28 days later.
seriously people of america, why was arrested development cancelled?
in other news, i finished the black daliah
this book was fantastic. my only regret is that i had already seen la confidential and this was pretty similar in the whole '40's noir feel. granted it was written by the same author, so there you go. stan said that he had read a book of his last summer which doesn't feel like this, so i'll keep reading this james ellroy who the critics love and sports fans, i think you should too.
hellos.
recently, i read this book:
it was one of the books that i just picked up at the library. technically, stan picked it up for me because i was at my other job but not to get biblical and stuff, he's now sort of an extension of me. yeah, right and gina gershon says no to projects.
this book was a pretty nice mystery. apparently, this was a sequel and i think much of the mystery i had with the lead could have been revealed if i had read the first book. well, maybe i will. it's good. but maybe read her first book, "case histories" before "one good turn". jackson brodie, the lead, is lovely and complex and brooding. the way she sets up all the characters and their lives is a bit of a jungle but push through. it's good enough.
gosh, don't trust me and my book reviews - it's good enough? next year, i definitely need to read inspired literature.
also - this woman follows all of her titles with "blah blah blah: a novel". no shit, kate.
