Currently: January 22 edition

Obsessed with the Goodreads app. I love the little rush of achievement when I get when I can mark a book the app recommends as one I've already read. I also like update my progress for books that I'm reading.

Done with days of dizziness. On Friday, I was slightly dizzy all day. As usually, the feeling intensifid when I changed the position of my head and sometimes it got worse for no reason at all. Atypically, after dinner, I got the worst headache on the right side of my head. The headache didn't alleviate the dizziness. I went to bed at 9:30 on Friday night and woke up at 3:30 on Saturday morning because I went to bed so early. 

Stressed about: It's been a difficult week. My brother broke both his arms and had surgery this week. My husband came home from picking Lily up from gymnastics with complaints of pain in his lower back. I'm super sensitive about him and back pain because he's already had one surgery for a herniated disc in his lower back. And then Wednesday (the same day as my brother's surgery) he got in a car accident.

Finding funny Saturday morning I was eating my yogurt with the pictured spoon. This spoon doesn't match the rest of our silverware. Once I was cleaning out my purse and I found this spoon in my purse. I had been out to eat with some friends and I can only assume it fell off the table and into my purse. It seemed funny after waking up at 3:30 in the morning. 

Oversharing: The lobby of the branch of the police station we went to for my husband's accident had this display in the lobby:

I'm still puzzled about what this display says about American law enforcement. There wasn't any contextual information that I saw, so I guess it's open to interpretation. I don't know if these are guns ones that KCPD used in the field or if they were confiscated or what. I suspect that the United States is one of the few countries that would have a display like this in a police department.

Also this happened and it made me lose faith in the future.

Currently: January 15 edition

Currently I'm...

Obsessed with painting my nails. As a part of one of my New Year's Resolution in service of a never-ending goal, I decided to keep my fingernails decked out in the fun and festive palette of nail polish that clutters our bathroom closet. Three weeks in, I'm on my third color. I mostly love the extra-special fancy feeling that the glints of color on my fingertips provide and the forced minutes of doing nothing more strenuous than tapping out a blog post on my phone that the paint drying time necessitates. And yet, the little nicks and chips that develop in the otherwise smooth facade transport me back to my angsty preteen days in which my jeans needed to be re-pegged several times in the morning to get my tight-roll in the optimal position, my socks had to perfectly match my shirt (slight fading of a pair of socks meant they got surreptitiously discarded into my mother's sock drawer), and my morning curling-iron-hairspray-teasing bang routine could leave me in tears. While I have probably retouched my fingernails' paint job more times than is healthy for my psyche and my brain (paint fumes), living with the imperfections inherent in me doing my own nails and also doing the dishes reminds me that I survived all the internal and external drama of growing up and that I'll survive whatever comes my way in the future, even if my nail polish doesn't. 

Done with (literally speaking) knitting this scarf and reading these books. I used up some leftover yarn to make this scarf. 

Stressed about the weather. I love bad weather as long as I don't have to go out in it. This week the weekend was fine but the work day weather was really not conducive to a 45 mile commute. I hate having to make the decision to bail on work to get home safely. 

Finding funny: Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling. I'm a sucker for a clever turn of phrase. 

Oversharing that I only left the house twice during the three-day MLK Day weekend. Once to take recycling to the bin. I barely have to leave the carport to dump the recycling so I'm not sure if that qualifies. The second time was to go get a burrito the size of my head from Longboards. 

Terrible Movie Poster Quotes: The Revenant Edition

The Revenant is a beautifully done movie.  The cinematography is amazing. The supporting cast is great. Here are my terrible movie quotes. 

"The wilderness was really crowded!"

"Leonardo DiCaprio does excellent...with the material he's been given."

"Hugh Glass is the Energizer Bunny."

"Leonardo DiCaprio emotionally reenacts the tauntaun scene from Empire Strikes Back."

"Hugh Glass's and Jim Bridger's life stories are the stuff movies are made of, but not really this movie." 

Terrible Movie Poster Quotes: The Big Short Edition

We just saw The Big Short. We really enjoyed it, but it inspired me to write some terrible movie poster quotes.

"The best movie about the financial meltdown I've seen all year."

"McKay's movie about the financial crisis was more fun than the actual financial crisis."

"A great ensemble cast... I barely recognized Ryan Gosling."

"Steve Carell's finest and most emotional performance since Anchorman 2."

"Christian Bale is never better than when he's wearing some other guy's stanky shorts."

Currently: January 8 edition

Currently I'm...

Obsessed with comfort reading. There are some books that I want to return to when I feel stressed or depressed. I finished Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman for the second time. Other comfort reads include Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.

Done with days getting longer. I'm really into a cold, dark winter this year. It seems to have passed too quickly and not been cold enough. 

Stressed about taking down our Christmas decorations. I'm not really ready to take them down, but we are 9 days past Epiphay and the only thing we've accomplished is to swap out the front door wreath and to take down the Christmas cards. 

Finding funny: Good Mythical Morning. It's good, clean fun for the whole family. Plus their North Carolina accents remind me of my friends, the Tates. 

Oversharing: I've felt really tired and stressed this week, and probably on the verge of bringing sick. My parents suggested that they might come to visit this weekend and I cried because, while I love to see them, I am so tired after spending the weekend with them. They decided not to come.