Consumption 12

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)

• Lina & June (Genevieve Wheeler)
• Make Me Better (Sarah Gailey)
• Sophie Standing There (Meg Mason)
• It’s Not What You Think (Clare Mackintosh)
• You & Me (Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees)
• Life Out of Order (Audrey Niffenegger)
• Greedy (Callie Kazumi)
• Life Hacks for a Little Alien (Alice Franklin)
• Kitten (Stacey Yu)
• Yesteryear (Caro Claire Burke)
• A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder (Louise Candlish)

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

• Sauteed spinach and grilled tofu on a bed of rice, drizzled with sesame dressing.
• An udon noodle soup with jammy eggs.
• Pasta e Ceci.

Television, Movies, and Music (watching and listening)

• We finished Taskmaster, Season 20. Every season is fantastic, but we particularly liked this group.
• We finished The Diplomat. I still like it, and I’ll watch the next season, but I’m okay waiting for it.
• Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. Wow. Just wow. I saw the first movie (and read the book) many many many years ago. And then I recently saw something about the fourth movie and decided to jump straight to it without seeing the 2nd or 3rd (which I’m now going backwards in time and watching). I loved it so much. I thought it was sweet and moving and fun and heartwarming, extending the definition of family and what it means to love someone and always have them with you, even after they’re gone.
• We started the new Traitors US (season 4). We skipped season 3, though we may go back to it. But we like season 4 a lot.
• Travel Man. We love Richard Ayoade so much. We just started with Season 1. You get to laugh and see beautiful places. What’s not to love?

Added To My Ongoing Mix Tape

• “Everyday People” (Sly & The Family Stone)

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

• A set of metal chopsticks at H-mart that are currently sold out
• A recipe for allium-free salsa fresca
• Hodges Figgis – Irish bookstore
• How to watch luge training at Lake Placid
• Pea flakes — a guinea pig treat I want to get Quentin from Chewy
• MOMA’s Refik Anadol’s “Unsupervised” page

Micro-Joys

• Telling the kids about a Harvard Lampoon spoof circa 1998 featuring Simon Armitage competing in biathlon while we watched actual athletes compete in biathlon. (P.S. I wish I could find said article because I refer to it often.)
• The Wolvog casually dropping the term “Monobob” into the conversation.
• Going on a snowy hike with the ChickieNob.

Mood

• Trying to keep my focus and not get distracted by the noise.

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