Category — Microblog Mondays

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Beyond the fact that I cannot stop snickering about the term “lady backpack,” I need to scream that I HAVE A LADY BACKPACK, which means that I am finally — FINALLY — fashionable. It will only last for a hot second, but I need to grab it while I can.

I hadn’t been using my lady backpack (lady backpack!) because I realized that I was schlepping around half of our house with me every time I went out, and I didn’t need most of it*. I didn’t need all of my notebooks; I just needed one. I didn’t need a laptop or iPad for a trip to the grocery store… ever. Even with my glasses anxiety, I could make do with one pair of backup glasses when I was under one mile from our home. I was like a goldfish, the stuff I was carrying growing to the size of my bag.

So I switched this fall to a small purse that fits just a handful of items. Wallet, extra glasses, a box of cinnamon mints, one notebook. I don’t miss carrying all of those things that I brought with me under the heading of “what if.” What if I need an entire first aid kit while I’m out purchasing groceries? What if?

But now I’m switching back. Not because I need that other stuff but because I want to be fashionable for once in my life.

How big is your purse? And how much stuff do you carry that you never use?

* Just to give you a sense of how much shit I brought with me that I didn’t need: I once discovered that sonic screwdriver I made out of toilet parts at the bottom of my purse and realized I had carried it with me for months — MONTHS — without knowing it was deep down in my lady backpack.

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I just learned that fantasy birding is a thing. As someone who wants to be a birdwatcher but is incapable of convincing herself to wake up early to go birding, I am fascinated. Oh, and I get a little nauseated looking at the world through binoculars. But I really want to be a birder and like to play games. This is how it works:

Using eBird, a citizen-science database run by Cornell University where birders log their sightings, players select single locations on a map each day, and get credit for a bird if a real-life birder spots that species within a 10-kilometer radius that day.

Sign me up. As in, I just signed up for an eBird account. Now to use it.

What are you trying to get yourself motivated to start?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.

Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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Burger King is testing the Impossible Burger in the St. Louis area, and if it performs  well, they’ll send it out to all 7,200 stores. I am equal parts optimistically excited (the reviews of the burger have been great) and pessimistically realistic (why get my hopes up before it happens). There are vegetarian options out there when we’re on the road, but this would be a game-changer for us.

I really like veggie burgers.

I mean, I also like salads, but sometimes you just want to blend with the crowd.

What are you looking forward to right now?

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If you asked me three years ago if I liked mystery books, I would have told you no. It was a genre I avoided. Loved fantasy, loved science fiction, loved non-genre fiction. Didn’t love mysteries.

But I went from not liking mysteries at all to pretty much only reading mysteries. I’m currently making my way through Brittany Cavallaro’s Charlotte Holmes books. (They are so much fun.) And Agatha Christie. And I just finished the 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. (Fantastic except for one tiny thing in the ending.) And Maureen Johnson’s Truly Devious books. (Loved them.)

I don’t know what changed, but I stopped avoiding mysteries and finally embraced them.

Are there any genres you once avoided and now love? Or vice versa?

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I just learned a new word: Waldeinsamkeit.  It means “the feeling of being alone in the woods” or something close to that.  Which implies peace: finding a peaceful moment while you’re on your own in a dense forest.  Which doesn’t sound peaceful to me… at all.

I’m an indoor kid.

I don’t really cherish my time in nature.  I like bodies of water, so if there was a word in German that captured the feeling of being engaged in a good book while on the beach, I’m all over that.  But barring that, I don’t really crave finding solitude in the woods.  While I am fond of the concept of trees, I don’t spend a lot of time with them.

What’s a new word you’ve learned recently?

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Are you also doing #MicroblogMondays? Add your link below. The list will be open until Tuesday morning. Link to the post itself, not your blog URL. (Don’t know what that means? Please read the three rules on this post to understand the difference between a permalink to a post and a blog’s main URL.) Only personal blogs can be added to the list. I will remove any posts that are connected to businesses or are sponsored post.