Time and Place // About 9 a.m. at my desk at home. The company I work for gives employees an extra day off for their birthday each year. Mine is technically tomorrow, but I decided to take my vacation day so I can recover from vacation for the Fourth of July. I have an exciting day of laundry, cleaning and reading planned before I have to go to a school board meeting tonight.
Eating and Drinking // Water and strawberry yogurt
Reading // Despite packing a bunch of books for my trip to the cabin for the Fourth of July, I only finished one during the trip — The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman (I absolutely loved it). Earlier in the week I also finished The Fever by Megan Abbot (I thought it was a good read, but not very memorable).
Reading, Part II // I’ve been on a huge comics kick lately. Since I figured out how to use the ComiXology app on my tablet, I’ve been diving into comics (collected editions and single issues). I feel like this warrants a full post (someday, maybe), so for now, here’s what I’ve been enjoying: Saga, Y: The Last Man, Ms. Marvel, Hawkeye and The Wicked + The Divine. I’m really enjoying it, but I can see how reading comics might get expensive…
Listening // The boyfriend and I finished the audio book of Countdown City Ben H. Winters on our drive to the cabin. Detective Hank Palace is one of my favorite characters, and I love the big questions this series is asking — How do we act when the world is falling down around us?
Cooking // I made a batch of chocolate chip cookies last week. They were good.
Blogging // Last week I shared a wrap-up of books read in June and shared some plans for July.
Promoting // Slate’s “Who Won the World Cup of Arm Folding?” made me laugh just a little bit too much.
Loving // I brought a bunch of old books up to the cabin this weekend and let people go through and take what they wanted. I managed to give away a bunch, which was so fun — I love seeing books find new potential readers.
Avoiding // I probably should go grocery shopping today, but I think I’m going to put that off until tomorrow.
Wanting // I want today to be a relaxing but productive day. I’d like to start off being 28 feeling calm rather than mildly frazzled.
Anticipating // I don’t have any special plans for my birthday tomorrow, but I think it’ll be a fun day — I know we’ll be getting ice cream at work in the afternoon!
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Happy birthday! You’re so young! 😀 I think the best birthdays are the ones that are unplanned and just flow. Enjoy your day.
Happy Birthday! I’ll be 28 this month too. May you awake tomorrow calm and not in any way frazzled.
Happy Birthday!!! I hope it is everything you want it to be.
Happy birthday! 🙂
Happy Birthday Eve! I hope you got to do at least a little relaxing today.
I got a lot of relaxing done — probably too much, since I didn’t get any of the little projects done that I wanted to finish!
Wait – Comixology? Why didn’t I hear about it before? I need to check it out.
Happy Birthday tomorrow! I hope you have a fabulous day!
ComiXology is a great app/service. I’ll work on writing something up about how great it is for reading digital comics sometime soonish.
I hope you had a nice day, and even more I hope that your Birthday is wonderful!! Wishing you another year of growing and happiness!!
Happy Birthday tomorrow! So cool that your work gives you a day off for that. I’m thinking I need chocolate chip cookies now. Those look so good.
Because it’s a news organization, we get very few company-wide holidays — the paid birthday vacation is a little perk to make up for that, I think. I love it.
Happy Birthday! Looking forward to your thoughts on Y: The Last Man.
Happy Birthday!!
Happy happy birthday! Maybe someone will give you a Comixology gift card for your birthday (is that a thing?) and then you can read a whole bunch more comics guilt-free. 😀 😀
I have no idea if that is a thing or not. I would love one of those though. I’ve dropped a ton of money on comics in the last few weeks!
I’m glad that in honor of our birthdays you posted a photo of Hannah!
Happy belated, Kim. Hope you had a good one…despite being at work but glad you got ice cream. 🙂
Happy Birthday!
Those cookies and your 4th of July at the lake both look/sound ideal!
Happy birthday! I have the comics app because I bought a comic by someone who came and did a program at the library, but I never use it! Maybe your post about it will get me hooked.
Hope you’re enjoying 28! Many happy fun years to come!