Good reads, freakish cleaning, and I've found me some purty shoes
The wedding photo-lookin' didn't happen today. I ended up getting up and doing a freakishly long cleaning job on our place. Once I get going past a certain cleaning level, I get neurotic and can't stop. Vacuuming? Done. Cat bathroom? Spotless. Litter boxes? Brand-new-spankin'-clean (but no, I wouldn't eat anything out of them). I even managed to get the wet vac going and spot cleaned some of the carpeting. The final part of the evening including a run through the closets to augment the donation pile, where I discovered that I own a cute pair of peach sandals! Huh. I think I bought them last summer. Or 2005? Heh. Clearly I do not clean out the closet as often as I should. Since summer is wrapping up here (it rained today, which means we need to start battening down the hatches for 10 months of soppitude), I guess I'll wear them sometime in 2008.
On to the good reads! Does anyone else have ADD with the books? I can't read less than 3 books at a time. I've tried. There's just something wrong with me so that if I have one shiny book in front of me, I want to be able to switch to another one the next night and dig into that one. I'm such a squirrel. Anyhoos, right now I'm reading Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft by Simon Houpt. It's fabulous. The book even includes plates of the art, so in addition to being well-written, it's a gorgeous book. Go reserve it at your local library, or even better, buy it if you have room/money/love art.
I'm also reading The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters by Sarah Susanka. I'm a huge fan of her Not So Big House series, but this book... eh. I want to like it, I really do, but I think it's a bit too New Age-y for me. It's also due back to the library in 4 days, and I can't bring myself to really push to finish; another indicator that I don't really like it.
But book #3 is another strong recommend, and that's Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World by Liza Mundy. It's dense and long, but timely and brings up a lot of good questions and points. Gee, can you tell I don't read fiction? OK, off to bed! Happy week y'all.
On to the good reads! Does anyone else have ADD with the books? I can't read less than 3 books at a time. I've tried. There's just something wrong with me so that if I have one shiny book in front of me, I want to be able to switch to another one the next night and dig into that one. I'm such a squirrel. Anyhoos, right now I'm reading Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft by Simon Houpt. It's fabulous. The book even includes plates of the art, so in addition to being well-written, it's a gorgeous book. Go reserve it at your local library, or even better, buy it if you have room/money/love art.
I'm also reading The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters by Sarah Susanka. I'm a huge fan of her Not So Big House series, but this book... eh. I want to like it, I really do, but I think it's a bit too New Age-y for me. It's also due back to the library in 4 days, and I can't bring myself to really push to finish; another indicator that I don't really like it.
But book #3 is another strong recommend, and that's Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction is Changing Men, Women, and the World by Liza Mundy. It's dense and long, but timely and brings up a lot of good questions and points. Gee, can you tell I don't read fiction? OK, off to bed! Happy week y'all.
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