Consumption 6

This is a monthly series, published near the end of the month summarizing what I found, ate, watched, googled, and felt this month. New categories added from time to time.

Books Added to My TBR (e.g., books I just learned about that I’m excited to read… maybe)

• The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer (Ragnar Jonasson)
• One of Us (Elizabeth Day)
• Caller Unknown (Gillian McAllister)
• The Magician of Tiger Castle (Louis Sachar)
• Mad Mabel (Sally Hepworth)
• Seduction Theory (Emily Adrian)
• A Beginner’s Guide to Dying (Simon Boas)
• Loved One (Aisha Muharrar)
• O Caledonia (Elspeth Barker)

Notable Meals (new recipes, old favorites, and restaurant items we ate this month)

• Adjusted this cucumber salad to remove the fish sauce and add cubes of tofu
• Potatoes dauphinoise
• Trader Joe’s appetizers for dinner

Television, Movies, and Music (watching and listening)

• Season 2 of the US Traitors. The US Traitors is infinitely less interesting than the UK Traitors because people enter already knowing things about the other people because they were on reality television shows. In the UK, at least in the first three seasons, everyone entered as strangers.
• We started Murderbot, which is pretty funny. We’re a few episodes in.

Added To My Ongoing Mix Tape

• “Children’s Crusade” (Sting)
• “Solfeggietto in C Minor” (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s piece played by Tzvi Erez)

Tabs I Left Open (things I Googled and left up on the screen)

• Warby Parker glasses
• The Threatened Swan (two people I knew were going to Amsterdam)
• Weasley family (could not remember Bill – up until 1 pm running through men’s names until I finally googled it)
• Seasoned baked potato wedges with ranch (Nitty Gritty)
• Finger puppets from Folkmanis
• Mrs. Meyer’s fall multisurface cleaner options
• Agafia Lykova’s Wikipedia page
• Pictures from the defunct Fred Flintstone Park in South Dakota
• An article about Xando, the defunct restaurant that merged with Cosi. I could not remember the name of either place
• Menu for a fish restaurant opening in DC this fall that I want to take the Wolvog to when he’s home for Thanksgiving
• An article about visiting Framlingham Suffolk

Micro-Joys

• We went to hear Tituss Burgess perform, and he brought people up to the stage for a Q&A session in the middle of the concert. One woman mentioned that attending the concert was her birthday gift, and everyone sang “Happy Birthday” to the woman. She burst into tears. It made me happy to see someone else so happy.
• While Josh was at a conference, I gave myself a special treat book for while he was away. These are books I save up to read when I need a book I know will be a really good book. This time, it was Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz.

Mood

• Super sad that the kids are going back to school soon.

What about you? Let me know what you’re eating, seeing, listening to, googling, feeling this month.