…posting to my blog for the first time in over a year, WHUT. There’s a few technical things I’ve been vaguely waiting to fix behind the scenes, and then there’s LIFE and all that, and… yeah. HI. ‘Sup?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Watching<\/strong>: OK, I was rewatching all of the original Charmed<\/strong>, but I got to around when SOMEONE becomes a SOMETHING (no spoilers)…and I just sorta stopped. I did miss those goofy witches. I watched the first couple episodes of the new Charmed (which is really what sent me back) but it really annoys me that they got such a cool cast of girls and then put this doofy white dude in charge of them a la Giles from Buffy and so yeah I haven’t watched it after the first three. In current TV, I still adore Blackish<\/strong> and Chicago Fire<\/strong>. New TV wise, I am liking A Million Little Lies<\/strong>, even though it 100% has party-of-five syndrome (too many issues in one small group of people), and New Amsterdam<\/strong>, which makes me break down almost every week. But it’s good. Best hospital show in absolutely years. I started watching The Patriot<\/strong> (TV show not the dumb old movie) on Amazon–but I can only watch it when I stay late at work on that laptop b\/c neither my personal laptop nor my home desktop are updated enough to currently watch shows on Prime, yes I’m pathetic, and now that I’ve made a personal vow to leave with the kids every night, well, I haven’t been able to watch anymore of it. But it’s SUPER cool and SO quirky. Oh, but the best, best, BEST thing I’ve seen in absolute years is Killing Eve<\/strong>, which I completely inhaled a weekend or so ago and cannot stop thinking about ever since. So good! So so so sadly I have not been to a movie in at least a few months… I’m having a hard time even remembering what I saw last! OMG THAT’s SO HORRIFYING. \ud83d\ude41 I’ll come back and talk movies in another post if it comes to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reading<\/strong>: I’ve instituted a new system where I read a YA or middle grades book in the morning, on the way to work, and an adult book on the way home. It’s been working great until I get stuck in a book I don’t want to read and then the system sorta breaks down and I listen to tunes instead, HA. Anyway, since I haven’t posted here all year, I haven’t made a book list (I KNOW, DID YOU JUST DIE OF SHOCK!), but I do have goodreads COMPLETELY updated<\/a> (it’s got an app, it’s easier…) so you can check there. Some recent reads I would recommend are:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Adult:<\/p>\n\n\n\n YA\/Middle Grades:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Listening to<\/strong>: I have bought sadly so very little music this year. It’s actually really stressing me out. The three albums I have listened to the most this year are Kylie Minogue “Golden”<\/strong>, Meg Myers “Take Me to the Disco”<\/strong>, and Matt Nathanson “Sings His Sad Heart” <\/strong>(wow, what a step up in quality!!), and I’ve been dipping into Cat Power “Wanderer”<\/strong> in the past few weeks. I do have a list of four albums I think I want from various top-10 lists out there (the latest from Kasey Musgraves<\/strong>, Janelle Monae<\/strong>, Mitski<\/strong> and Lucy Dacus<\/strong>) and I want the boygenius EP (the boygenius that Lucy Dacus is a part of, not any of the various boygenius things that come up when I search iTunes) but not sure it’s out yet? I also want to check out No Name<\/strong>, a female rapper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eating<\/strong>: Cooking all my breakfasts and lunches every week, as I generally do during the school year, and particularly obsessed with Chrissy Teigens’ Cravings 2: Hungry for More<\/strong> book. Everything I make out of it has been delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Drinking<\/strong>: Coke, coke and more Coke. Oh, Coke, why can’t I quit you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Knitting, quilting, sewing<\/strong>: I’ve done a TON of sewing throughout 2018 (9 dresses maybe? tunic\/dress types) and I’ve still got quite a bit of fabric and new patterns to try. I made two new ones from the Lou Box Dress pattern just last month–a knit dress version<\/a> that is perfection (OK, maybe a little wide in the neck but perfection, srsly), and a woven tunic version<\/a> that is basically a wearable muslin. I haven’t got the fit right in the woven for a dress yet. I’m knitting a brioche scarf, and I have a sweater I have sort of gotten back to that I believe I started in January (oops). I want to make that my Christmas break project… we’ll see. \ud83d\ude42 No quilting has happened recently though.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Focusing on<\/strong>: Separating home life and work life. Trying to leave with the kids or as close to it as possible. Not bringing any grading or work home AT ALL. I get it done at school, or I don’t get it done. I’m not going to get into an argument with people about the insanely overworked, underpaid status of teachers these days but let’s just say I’m done letting myself be a victim of a sick system that gets millions of hours of free work from its primarily female workforce. It’s sexist bullshit frankly and were the majority of teachers men there would have been a government-sanctioned revolt a million years ago. But then again, would we even still have public education these days, if it wasn’t primarily women doing all the work????\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, that’s me. How about you? Leave me a note and let me know what you’re reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …posting to my blog for the first time in over a year, WHUT. There’s a few technical things I’ve been vaguely waiting to fix behind the scenes, and then there’s LIFE and all that, and… yeah. HI. ‘Sup? Watching: OK, … Continue reading