Thursday, February 18, 2010

Reading Material

I love "Year of..." books. Books like Barbara Kingslover's "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," or my most recent literary acquisition, "The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible" by A.J. Jacobs. I like that someone else commits to a daunting task, and then tells me about it, so I don't have to.

In "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" a family commits to eating only local food. This involves learning to do things themselves, or do without. Their story is insightful, comic, and motivating. Did you know you can make cheese? In a kitchen. In your kitchen. The book is rife with fun facts and hilarious anecdotes, and I highly recommend it as winter-into-spring reading. Prepare yourself for garden-lust.

Today, I picked up "The Year of Living Biblically." I'm only a few dozen pages
in, but the story of an agnostic mentally, physically, and spiritually embracing a literal translation of the Bible, is both humorous, and moving. He hires a shatnez inspector to clear his closet of cotton/wool blends, he learns how to pray, he grows a truly epic beard, and he drives his wife nuts. I appreciate his respectful approach, and that he can still laugh at himself. Mostly, however, I appreciate that he wrote it down, so that I can share in the experience, while sitting in my armchair, wearing cotton/poly blend, drinking milk with my ham sandwich.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Zombification...76% complete

After 17 hours at work, I'm a little fried, but I'm $200ish richer, and the baby dress is a few inches longer. So we'll call it a wash. Six hours later, and it's time to head back for more. Is this commitment, or just dumb? Also, Alzheimer's unit tonight, look forward to STORIES.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Filler post

I have five minutes before midnight to come up with a post. I don't want to fail at my goal on the second day, but interesting topics are not forthcoming, and time is short. Perhaps tomorrow I will write my post before work, not after. I will leave you with a picture of me, and an elephant.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Blog-a-day? Oy Vey.


A new goal for at least the next couple months is a short blog-a-day. A what's-the-haps sort of thing. Today is a knitting/homework sort of day. I currently have 5 projects in the works, but my favorite by far is a sweet little dress for a co-worker's baby, due in a couple of weeks. The pattern is Little sister's dress. I love the boldness of the brown and red colors, a deviation from baby pastels.