mini goals met
Who says a week of sloth at the beach isn’t a wonderful thing. Sometime during the week I: destroyed my 2014 reading goal. At 52 as of today with one in the works and other likely to come. And then 7...
View Article2014 Year in Review: Bookworm Edition
I fully accept that I’ll never be as good as Liz at book reviews, but I want to do better in 2015 than I am in 2014 which is five finished reviews and 27/30 Tumblr drafts that were unfinished book...
View Article#GoTheDist 2014: Complete
Despite starting 2015 with a day of complete sloth, I’m very proud of myself. Totals for December: 269,271 steps 110.97 miles walked 31.99 miles biked Totals for Q4 826,110 steps 340.76 miles walked...
View Article#GoTheDist: 2015 goals
And I ran out of room in that post… 2015 goals: Steps: 3,400,000 steps Miles Walked: 1,500 Miles Biked: 400 and some explanation: I really wanted my steps goal to be 300,000/month but I’m really not...
View ArticleReview: 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived
On the one hand, I’m thrilled that I’m finished with one book and actually reviewing it less than two days in to 2015. On the other hand, I’m tempted to call this book at least 91 people too long,...
View ArticleGoTheDist: 2015 week 1
I hate you Mother Nature. I’m probably not going to get 285K steps this month due to the polar vortices/Alberta clippers/whatever you want to call it. I’m OK with that because: I’ve been to the gym 4x...
View ArticleReview: The Story of Sushi
The author has no affiliation with the California Sushi Academy. He paid for all sushi consumed in the course of his research This book made me crave sushi for the entire week that I was reading it....
View ArticleReview: Kid Me Not
Now, listen—if you put a baby in front of me, rest assured: that baby is gonna get cuddled, spoiled and adored. But even as I’m loving on that beautiful infant, I know in my heart: This is not my...
View ArticleSteven A. Shaw vs. Food
This originally started as a review of his first book Turning the Tables, which I realized two-thirds of the way in that I had indeed read it. My LibraryThing confirmed it. Oh well, it was still a...
View ArticleReview: Bleachers
After Rake left they named it after him. Neely was gone by then, of course, long gone with no plans to return. Why he was returning now wasn’t completely clear, but deep in his soul he’d always known...
View Articlesometimes I should try that listening thing
“Why are you beating yourself up? You know you always bounce back.” ~ @FatGirlvsWorld, #GotheDist fearless leader This was the end of a two-day freak out during which I was worrying about not hitting...
View Article#GoTheDist 2015: January totals
my final January totals are: 285,009 steps 117.62 miles walked 81.54 miles biked I’m most proud of the biking goal because it represents a return to the gym which was something I really wanted to do....
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book’em messy shelves
Before After AKA two friends’ organized shelves make me feel guilty. I really don’t read dead tree books all that often and I had some that I’ve long since replaced with e-books. Speaking of books,...
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Fire Inside: Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Memorial, Survivor Tree and Reflecting Pool from site of former Murrah Building I’m reading The Fire Inside by Steve Delsohn after reading about it in an AskMe that was recently linked in...
View ArticleWinter Wonderland rescues February
The shots of the frozen Hudson have been awesome this winter. I got a few I liked last weekend on the train, at sunset and on the Intrepid but decided this weekend was likely my last chance to go...
View Article#GoTheDist: February 2015
Well I knew February was going to be a challenge, and it was. But two strong days on the last two days of the month made it better than I hoped/expected. February Totals: 276,898 steps 114.9 miles...
View ArticleConfessions of a Designated Fat Taxi Driver?
aka a two-in-one review because I started and finished two books in the last three days Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver by Eugene Salomon and Jennifer Joyner’s Designated Fat Girl. Two very...
View ArticleQ1 Update: 2015 Alphabet Soup Challenge
With one quarter of the year about gone, I’ve read 24 books! Yep, my no crap before Memorial Day went out the window, but oh well, it’s reading. I’ve also left 17 unfinished. I’m in very good shape to...
View ArticleQ1 #GoTheDist in the books
so… remember that mileage I planned to pick up in April or May or maybe Q3? I did. In March! My March totals: 365,682 steps 151.93 miles walked 64.55 miles biked HoLY SHIT. This is my best month ever...
View ArticleSecond Hand Rose
The Lower East Side Conservancy Tour‘s meeting site, “the former Yiddish Arts Theater (now a multiplex)” is Second Avenue in a nutshell. And while the tour of the Jewish Rialto is one I’ve wanted to...
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