Adjusting - To this new job. I used to have a job where I spent a lot of the day walking. Now I have a computery desk job. This makes me unlikely to want to spend my evenings with another computer. Also, it makes me fat from sitting at a desk all day. With that in mind, it's not surprising that I've joined my new co-workers on their daily lunch walks that get me up and moving away from my desk and burning off a few calories. The bad news is, when you spend your lunch breaks walking, a good half hour of reading time disappears from your day.
Reading - Occasionally. LOL. No, seriously, though. April wasn't a total wash of a reading month for me. I did finish The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood and Ender's Game for the book club that I very occasionally join. The Wicked Girls was good, and so was Ender's Game. I'd been meaning to read Ender for quite a while, so it was good to get that final push to pick it up. I also read a big chunk of Five Days at Memorial which I have been anticipating and avoiding in equal measure. Finally, this time when I chose it at random, I didn't say, "Argh, non-fiction, I don't think I can!" I actually picked it up and gave it a shot. It's compelling but also jaw-droppingly depressing.
Spending - A great day in NYC with a bunch of friends!
Freezing - Seriously, the cold weather just won't quit. My dad got us 5 game "season" tickets for a minor league baseball team in our area, but you have to use one set of tickets each month of the season. We had fun eating overpriced ballpark food and clowning around with the mascot, but let me tell you something is really lost in watching baseball when it's like 45 degrees and windy out. Brrrrrr.
Cheering - For the 24 Hour Readathon. I totally missed the under-publicized deadline for signing up to cheer, but that didn't stop me, I went "rogue" instead and had a great time cheering for the ridiculous amount of people that were signed up this time around. However, having missed the official deadline, it kind of sucked because I had to go back to using the sign-up linky to find blogs to cheer for, and lots of people signed up and didn't participate or participated by Tumblr. Is there a way to cheer for Tumblr users? I mean, I'm pretty clueless about Tumblr, so maybe there is a simple way, but I couldn't find it and, unfortunately, couldn't cheer for those folks. However, I did make up a great rhyme or two to cheer Readathonners on Twitter, and seriously, I had a ton of fun. Thanks to Andi and Heather for not just keeping the event going but working to make it even better every time!
Crying - Over Patchy. One of our "stray" cat colony that is never quite stray enough. Almost exactly a year after his brother went missing, Patchy got hit by a car. You never quite feel like you did enough to help the cats you didn't mean to pseudo-own, but you can't figure out how you could have done more under the circumstances and the whole thing ends up in a morass of a sadness and mostly undeserved guilt. The moral of the story? Save another animal lover some heartbreak. Adopt a cat, and get it fixed so it won't make lots of other (homeless) cats that some poor sucker won't want to watch starve and will feed and love and be heartbroken over when they can't take it in because they already have a zillion cats and the inevitable occurs. :'-(
Celebrating - It's birthday season for my family. April is littered with birthdays here on the ranch. My mom, dad, and two aunts all celebrate this month. It's a month full of cake and cards stuffed with cash which is fun but hard on the ever-fattening recent desk job convert and those with ailing bank accounts.
Planning - To start blogging again. For real. But here's the thing, I've decided not to let myself start until I have a good stockpile of posts to schedule out. I'm shooting for eight. Counting this one, I have about three whole and four halves done. Wish me luck - I do miss this blogging thing!
That's what I've been doing. What have you been up to?
I haven't been reading much either, so I totally understand. My life is crazy these days! Your NYC trip sounds like so much fun!
ReplyDeleteYou've had a pretty good month! It's good to hear that you're adjusting to the new job. It's always fun to go rogue during the readathon. Sometimes that's the best part along with listing gigantic piles of books that you're not going to read. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI've just finished reading Milkweed by jerry Spinelli and noticed it was on your wishlist. Would you like it? :)
ReplyDeleteYay for April! For me and mine it means 5 birthdays including my own, so it's a big month in my neck of the woods as well.
ReplyDeleteSo sad to read the cat saga -- a sucker for the furballs:)
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