Hey, look! I'm back. I haven't written every day, but I've thought about it! That's progress of a sort, I guess.
What I'm reading
I'm still reading "Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World" by Linda Hirshman, but I've been side-tracked by several "brain candy" cozies. Right now, I'm catching up on one of my favorite series. I was a couple of books behind, but I'm reading "Seed No Evil" by Kate Collins.On deck: "The Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik and "George Washington's Secret Six" by Brian Kilmeade. The first is for a Facebook reading group and the second is for a real live book group that a friend invited me to. Guess I need to get busy!
What I'm knitting
I finished the "Very Braidy Cowl" in a lovely turquoise Cascade 220 wool that my gentlemen gave me for Christmas, and I'm still futzing with "Garden Gate," a scarf of Zen Garden Serenity 20 in colorway Blue Hawaii. I'm also doing something I've never done before: finishing something started by someone else. Vikki, my friend who is afflicted with the same completion problems that I suffer from, had started a lovely pink/gray variegated " Demalangeni" shawl. She swore she'd never finish it--and she'd already done the intricate portions. She made it partway through the repetitive part--about as far as it usually takes me to get bored with something. I'm not bored with it yet. We'll see what happens.
What I'm listening to
Today on Spotify, I'm listening to Throwback Thursday. I had my fill of Eagles in the past couple of days, following Glenn Frey's death. Dylan's singing now. Now it's Rickie Lee Jones. I know the words to almost all the songs I've heard today (can't do math, though...the lyrics must have taken over the math portion of my brain!).
I'm still reading "Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World" by Linda Hirshman, but I've been side-tracked by several "brain candy" cozies. Right now, I'm catching up on one of my favorite series. I was a couple of books behind, but I'm reading "Seed No Evil" by Kate Collins.On deck: "The Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg" by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik and "George Washington's Secret Six" by Brian Kilmeade. The first is for a Facebook reading group and the second is for a real live book group that a friend invited me to. Guess I need to get busy!
What I'm knitting
I finished the "Very Braidy Cowl" in a lovely turquoise Cascade 220 wool that my gentlemen gave me for Christmas, and I'm still futzing with "Garden Gate," a scarf of Zen Garden Serenity 20 in colorway Blue Hawaii. I'm also doing something I've never done before: finishing something started by someone else. Vikki, my friend who is afflicted with the same completion problems that I suffer from, had started a lovely pink/gray variegated " Demalangeni" shawl. She swore she'd never finish it--and she'd already done the intricate portions. She made it partway through the repetitive part--about as far as it usually takes me to get bored with something. I'm not bored with it yet. We'll see what happens.
What I'm listening to
Today on Spotify, I'm listening to Throwback Thursday. I had my fill of Eagles in the past couple of days, following Glenn Frey's death. Dylan's singing now. Now it's Rickie Lee Jones. I know the words to almost all the songs I've heard today (can't do math, though...the lyrics must have taken over the math portion of my brain!).
What I'm thinking about
Music and movies have been a large part of my cultural life. 2016 has not been kind to those in the entertainment field, with too many entertainers having left this realm already this year: Lemmy, Bowie, Alan Rickman (one of my favorite actors, who would have been on my "free" list), Dan Haggerty, and Frey. I am lucky enough to have seen Eagles perform twice: once on the reunion "Hell Freezes Over" tour and one later tour. Their harmonies were heavenly both times, although it seemed that their hearts weren't in it on the 2013 tour.
These entertainers' passing makes me grateful for the people who are really "in" my life--my family and friends. Still, their deaths--people I've never met--have affected me. The soundtrack of my life, and the world, is a little bleaker without them.
One more thing
I live in a college town, and the students have returned from winter break. How can I tell? Well, my home Internet service slows down at about the same time every evening. Driving in this town has once again become an extreme sport, since we got a few inches of snow earlier this week.This morning when I backed out onto our subdivision's still snow-covered street, I saw where three drivers had slid into the curb in the first 1000 yards of the journey. Yikes!
