Consumption 15

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)

• I Want You To Be Happy (Jem Calder)
• The Things We Never Say (Elizabeth Strout)
• Wasp’s Nest (Kat Stoddard)
• Girl’s Girl (Sonia Feldman)
• Unprecedented Times (Malavika Kannan)
• Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt (Ben Reeves)
• The Obsessed (Lizzie Buehler)
• The Traveler (Joseph Eckert)
• Make Nice (Ryan Effgen)
• The Shampoo Effect (Jenny Jackson)
• You’ll Love It Here (Natalie Sue)
• The Murder Mystery Mystery (JD Brinkworth)

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

• Burrata pasta with garlicky marinated tomatoes.
• Fire-roasted red pepper burrito.

Television, Movies, and Music (watching and listening)

• We had such high hopes for Vladimir on Netflix. We liked the first episode, it got even better by the second episode, and then it trailed off after a few episodes. We slogged through the end to know how it turned out.
• I’ve been waiting for Widow’s Bay since it was first announced. (Before it was even cast! And we like so many people in the cast.) First episodes have been fantastic. I love this show so much.
• We are three episodes into Last One Laughing UK 2, and it is just as good as the first season.

Added To My Ongoing Mix Tape

• “Up With People” (Lambchop)
• “Glycerine” (Bush)
• “St. Swithin’s Day” (Billy Bragg)
• “Rubber Band Man” (Mumford & Sons + Hozier)
• “Dancing in the Moonlight” (King Harvest)
• “Live is Life” (Opus)

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

• The menu for Bill’s restaurant featuring their partnership with Poppy O’Toole.
• An explanation for how passkeys work.
• A Google search for mocha muffin tops, looking for a recipe that looks like the one the Wolvog likes from dining services.
• A tutorial on how to play the game Birdigo.
• A Wikipedia page for the podcast Sherlock & Co, which our friend recommended.
• The Wikipedia page for the Gaspe Peninsula so I can form a cohesive argument for why we need to visit. (Got to get the facts!)
• A map of the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail.

Micro-Joys

• West Ham lost. Spurs won. We got to listen to Bela Bartok with a mostly peaceful heart.
• We couldn’t get the next Spurs game as we were driving to pick up the kids, so the ChickieNob watched and sent us updates. When our team got their first goal, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song” was playing. We decided that we should continue to listen to said song until the end of the game just in case it helped the team. We listened to Shaboozey sing about being a little tipsy for over 20 minutes.

Mood

• Trying to stay in the present and not catastrophize.

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