Consumption 20

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)

• Hide and Seek (Andrea Mara)
• Sharpen Your Knives (Lauren Ho)
• As We Fall Through Time (Claire North)
• The Bluff (Wade Rouse)
• Sleepers in the Snow (Joanne Harris)
• The Vanishing Jury (Anthony Horowitz)
• Murder Most Cryptic (Alys Cummings)
• The Murder Planner (L.C. Tyler)
• The Heights (Ian Rankin)
• Revenge Plot (Stephanie Wrobel)

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

• Melted brie, maple balsamic marinated apples, and apricot jam sandwich on toasted bread.
• Nooch’s chicken delish: “Crispy chicken strips, iceberg lettuce, tomato, delish sauce on a warmed pita.” So so so so good.
• A brown sugar cinnamon steamer from Heritage Coffee. It was like a hug in a cup.
• Skinnytaste’s spinach ricotta pizza from her cookbook. I have plans to tweak it next time — less ricotta/add steamed broccoli — but it was pretty good, as is.

Television, Movies, and Music (watching and listening)

• Have I Got News For You. I only lasted one episode. I enjoyed it, but by the next week, I realized that I didn’t really want to rehash the news, even with comedians. Reading the news once was fine (no, it’s really not), but I don’t want op-eds or late night talk shows to chew it over again.
• We put off the last episode of Ted Lasso, but we finally watched it last week. It was sad, but not too sad. Kind of a perfect end. I hope it’s back for another season.

Added To My Ongoing Mix Tape

• “Oh Love” (Kingfishr)
• “White Flag” (Dido)

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

• A website about lopapeysa sweaters.
• TOAST clothing’s DC store.
• A website for Seaham beach near Newcastle, which has an unusual amount of sea glass.
• The menu for Nooch, a vegan restaurant in Windsor, Ontario.
• Flavour list for Icelandic Provisions’ skyr.
• A website for a company that does barge bike trips. You bike during the day, and get on the barge at night to sleep.

Micro-Joys

• Getting falafel and seeing Some Like It Hot with a friend who totally gets it.
• Hearing Brian Liu play his arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Cygnets as an encore to his Prokofiev performance.
• Hugging my cousin so hard and crying in the parking lot because I was finally getting to see her off FaceTime after 8 months.

Mood

• Unsettled about the future.

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