What Are You Reading?

So one of my unofficial 30 before I'm 30 things to do is read more.  I didn't put it on my list because it is a hard thing to quantify.  What is more?  I gave myself a break post-graduation.  For obvious reasons, it was hard to get motivated to read anything for fun after doing so much reading in grad school.  My fun reading this summer consisted mostly of wedding magazines, which was a blast!  But I am ready to get back into some good fun book reading again.

Some of it is to better myself -to always keep learning and growing - and some is for fun!  I am still reading The Happiness Project (I got stalled out for a bit), which is great.  So I've started a reading list on my blog to keep track of what I've read and what I want to read.

What are you reading?  I need some more suggestions!

Buoy

I dislike Sundays.  It means that Monday is around the corner and since I am working part time (for a few more weeks anyway....know of a full time job for me???) it means getting up with my alarm tomorrow and going into work.  So about 4pm on Sundays I try to start savoring every last minute of the weekend.  This weekend has been great.  We stayed home (two weekends in a row!!! a new record!) and have been cleaning up and cleaning out all weekend.  Slowly but surely our townhouse is coming back together after the wedding bomb went off.

So I figured I would post something on this gloomy rainy Sunday that should make everyone smile!  Pictures of our puppy Buoy!  Buoy is the best!  He was our very first wedding present, given to us by my awesome cousins!  So Happy Sunday!  I hope his cute little face brightens your Sunday as the weekend fades into Monday!  Enjoy!

                                                 Buoy helping fold laundry

                                                Buoy curled up in his bed

                                               Buoy loves to play with ice!

                             Buoy playing with his best bud!  My niece Macki.

Behind: Always Playing Catch Up

I can't believe how long it has been since I posted!  Sorry!!  I feel like I am always behind, always trying to play catch up.  Maybe one day I will be ahead of the curve?  Maybe?  Even when progress is made, it still feels like I'm twelve steps behind.  This is the first weekend since May that I have actually been at home.  It is pretty amazing. I got to do a little bit of shopping, got to sleep in and best of all - I wasn't in the car driving anywhere!!!

We FINALLY started going through all of the boxes of wedding presents.  It was like Christmas!  I forgot how many amazing things we got!  For about a nano-second we had a clean but together kitchen - then all of the chaos from the boxes erupted everywhere.  It looks like a bomb went off.  I'm not even going to post it because it is that crazy.  However - I did enjoy my first glass of wine last night out of our new wine glasses.

This morning, while I am writing this, I am enjoying coffee from one of my new coffee mugs (I say mine because I am the only one who drinks coffee, tea, etc and uses the mugs).

Ahhh chirp.   It makes me happy.  Britt hates our every day plates that I picked out.  They are Lenox Chirp (http://www.lenox.com/pattern/index.cfm?fuseaction=patDetail&wid=1&patId=1804)

I'm not even sure they are really me....but the colors make me happy.  I am picturing winter and no sun and being blah and these colors making me happy.  Almost all of the plates, etc are put away - we still have to find a few more in a box, but hopefully after today the kitchen will be put back to normal.  Britt is at the Bears game - so that is his project when he gets home.  My project today is to clean upstairs and get our master bedroom and closet put back together! This means trying to clean out some stuff too. Wish me luck! I need it!