I’ve been looking for a big fat Sharpie® to drawn some boundaries in my life.
Thanks to Carla, I’ve been thinking about leaving margins.
Even before Tina wrote about it, I was craving more breathing room.
What do you do when you feel overwhelmed?
The heavens declare the glory of God
and the firmament shows His handiwork.
~ Psalm 19:1
My first book of 2013 was a fluffy one:
The synopsis from Amazon:
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence “Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I’ll shut up about it?” ….
*****
In Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, Mindy invites readers on a tour of her life and her unscientific observations on romance, friendship, and Hollywood, with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. ….
In the book, Mindy shares stories from her childhood, college, and working on The Office. It’s part biography, part essay, part girlfriend-recounting-silly-adventures. The persona reminds me more of Mindy’s character in The Mindy Project than her character in The Office. I enjoyed her snarky sense of humor and the not-quite-self-deprecating way she retold some of her misadventures. Making the obvious comparison to Tina Fey’s Bossypants (which she does herself, so it’s OK), Mindy’s book is similar, but not quite as good –it didn’t have as many laugh-out-loud moments or make-you-think essays.
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During my holiday movie-fest, I saw the previews for the new Great Gatsby movie so many times that I am afraid I already have seen the best parts. I think I still want to see the movie when it comes out, but I decided that I wanted to re-read the book first.
I thought at least one of my kids had read it for a high school English class, and I found a copy in my son’s room just in time to pack for for my trans-Atlantic flight. I saved it for my 9.5 hour flight home, and between that time in the air, the hour we spent on the tarmac before take-off, and the hour it took to clear customs, I only had about 10 pages left to read when I got home. (I also did some work, watched a movie, and ate several meals and snacks during that flight!)
I am not going to “review” a classic, but if you are planning to see the movie, you might want to read (or re-read) the book first. Even if I hadn’t been buckled into my seat for over 10 hours, I wouldn’t have wanted to put it down.
What are you reading?
When life gives you 57F at 5:00 am on January 30, you go for a run.
Even if it is a strength day.
Even it will mean back-to-back days with Jillian to fit in all of your planned workouts.
When life gives you 57F at 5:00 am on January 30, you go for a run.
In shorts!
When life gives you fresh-squeezed lemonade, do you drink it?
Two weeks from today is Mardi Gras, which means that it’s almost time for Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent.
I don’t usually give up anything for Lent. Instead, I try to focus on doing things that draw me closer to God and put my faith into practice–daily Bible study, mid-week church services, community service, etc. But this year may be different.
I have been contemplating if I can give up meat for Lent, and it has been on my mind so much that I wonder if God put it there. I haven’t seen any of the movies or read any of the books that reveal the gross, gory and cruel practices that take place before I buy my chicken breast cutlets and hamburger patties at the grocery store, but I know that if I stop and think about what I am eating, I can lose my appetite.
While I don’t think that eating meat is morally wrong, I would be undertaking this Lenten sacrifice for moral reasons–and that’s why I think it is appropriate for Lent.
My husband is willing to go along at home (he can still get chicken shiskebabs for lunch at work), my son is back at college so he won’t be affected, and I still will feed Tiger Lilly her grain-free, lamb-based kibble.
While I won’t be doing this for health reasons, I need to figure out how to do it without relying too much on pasta and pizza.
I know there are lots of great vegetarian cookbooks, but I need to keep things simple, and my husband doesn’t eat tofu, is wary of “interesting” grains, and doesn’t like many vegetables. So far my recipe list includes pasta e fagioli, vegetable quiche, and grilled cheese and soup. If I don’t give up fish/shrimp I would have more options, but I’m not sure that would be true to my moral compass. (I know there also are issues with dairy and eggs, but I am not ready to give up dairy or eggs, even for 40 days.)
Have you ever given up a food or food group for Lent?
Do you have any simple vegetarian recipes for a picky eater?
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