Showing posts with label hobbies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hobbies. Show all posts

Thursday, September 18, 2014

If you had an hour to yourself, how would you spend it...


I saw this prompt somewhere and it is actually hard.  If I were completely honest, I would probably spend it cleaning.  Isn't that the most boring thing you've ever heard?  EVER.  But if by chance my house was just cleaned by our cleaning ladies, then I would probably go to yoga.  Which is not boring but something I do almost every single day, so perhaps still not a very exciting answer.

So lets pretend I have a clean house and have already gone to yoga.  And I find myself ALONE.  In my house.  With no one.  OMG the possibilities are endless.  I would maybe walk to Starbucks and purchase a soy misto and walk quietly home sipping my coffee without 100 questions about bugs, plants, could a plane land on us, why do bees sting, etc. (I love these questions so much, but silence would be an interesting change).  Then I could sit outside on my back porch, continuing to drink my coffee while flipping through US Weekly or Real Simple or the other 800 magazines I have stock piled.  Maybe I would talk on the phone and REALLY listen to the other side  because little people are not requesting something from me.  Maybe I would take a bath because that sounds indulgent and light candles and play my ipod and have lots of bubbles.  I could write a letter to a friend so they get some snail mail for no reason except fun!  I could get a pedicure.  Ooh a pedicure.

Well, it sounds like I would have no problem filling a single hour.  What about you?  If you had an hour to yourself, how would you spend it? 

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Books I Read This Summer

This summer I read 25 books.  I think that is pretty good.  I love sitting outside and reading when my kids are sleeping.  Or laying on the couch.  Or on vacation.  So pretty much anytime and anyplace. Here are some of my favorites with a link to a synopsis.  I am currently reading Sharp Edges and it is freaking me out.


Read more about this book here! 
This is the same author of A Hundred Summers if you've read that! 


Read more about this book here.  
This was a really fast read and something different.  You are rooting for the main character the whole time even if he isn't always the kindest of characters. 


Read more about this book here. 
I also read this book really fast when we were in California.  I liked it, but at some points felt uncomfortable because the main character (a mother) is addicted to pain medication.  You just can't believe some of the decisions she makes as a mom.  Drugs are bad.  

Read more about this book here. 
This book is about a family who is troubled but go on vacation with one another.  It took a bit for me to get totally involved, but I enjoyed the writing style.  

Read more about this book here. 
This book was long people.  Over 700 pages.  But my two besties Tori and Maureen read it at the same time, so I knew I had to power through.  I really did like it, it was extremely well written but this poor guy.  Nothing ever good happens to this fellow.  But seriously, it is worth it if you can commit to the length! 

Read more about this book here. 
After the Goldfinch, I needed something light and this one was perfect.  Another fast read, you can relate to the characters fast and for some reason the ending really surprised me!  

Read more about this book here. 
This is actually written by J.K. Rowling but she wrote under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.  It took me a little while to get hooked, but then I couldn't put it down as I was trying to figure out who did it!  I am waiting for the second one on the library hold list! 

What was the best book you read this summer?
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