I should be writing about Oxford today, but last night was crazy, and I never got around to sending myself the pictures, which is the story of my life. I went out to dinner last minute, and was running around doing chores before that. When we got back from dinner, we watched the Democratic Convention, […]
Month: July 2016
TV – The Mindy Project – Season 4 (Hulu)
I’ve loved Mindy Kaling since she was on The Office. I own her first memoir. I listened to her second earlier this year. I watched The Mindy Project for the three years it was on Fox, and when it was cancelled I was sad, and joyful when it was picked up by Hulu. But then […]
Movie – Deadpool
We’ve finally reached the last of the movies I watched on the airplane coming back from England. I’d been really excited to finally see Zootopia, and I’d felt a completionist’s obligation to finish up the Hunger Games movies, but Deadpool…I don’t know why I didn’t see it in theaters. I was pleasantly surprised to see […]
Book – Me Before You
What is a classic book trope that ladies like to read over the summer or on vacation? Romantic novels! What’s the year’s biggest romantic novel turned into a major motion picture, therefore bumping up it’s readership? “Me Before You” by Jojo Moyes…except also not? So here’s the deal. There’s a lot of stuff in this […]
Personal – Getting Older
I celebrated a birthday recently, and unlike the way that you hope they’ll be when you’re a child, birthdays have a tendency to become anticlimactic as you get older. Sure, you now have to add one to the previous age you said when telling your age, but you feel like your same self. I feel […]
Recipe – One-Pan Lemon-Parmesan Chicken and Asparagus
I was going to write a different post today, but my computer borked out on me yesterday, and I wasn’t able to send the pictures to myself. Tragedy! Fortunately, yesterday was a productive day. I visited the new Aldi in my neighborhood, and since I had a $10 off $40 purchase coupon, I wanted to […]
Movie – Ghostbusters
Today I’m going to do something a little different. You may have noticed in the past that if I write a movie review, it’ll end up being a few weeks after I saw the movie itself. I like to think that this is because it’s giving me time to ruminate on a subject, but reality […]
Book – Beauty
In the past few months, Goodreads started a program for its users where it would send you a daily Kindle deal. These are books that appear on your “to-read” list, which are currently on some kind of sale over on Amazon. Back in late May before I went on vacation, a Kindle deal came up […]
Recipe – Barbecue Pulled Chicken
The Boy and I had a fairly quiet 4th of July. We went for a hike on Teddy Roosevelt Island, and I got to see a whole bunch of ducks lined up on a log. If you know anything about me and my love of farm animals, you know that as soon as I spotted […]
Personal – Dancing at Weddings
The Boy and I were at a wedding this weekend for a good friend of mine, and at the cocktail hour before the reception began, a small group of us stood around talking about the evening ahead. We were excited about dinner, about meeting more of the bride and groom’s friends, but mostly , we […]