2023: The Year in Books

Hey 2023, you were a great reading year!

As I've said many times, reading is the last priority in my life right now.  I don't have reading goals but I love to read and I love to blab about it on the internets, so here we are.  Here is an all-in-one list of everything that I read in 2023 and some stats for funsies.  The way that I have (dis)organized this post is to blab and drop stats in the first part, and the second part is a cut n'paste from the book page with the notes that I jotted down as I was reading them.

TL&DR for the first part of this post - all that the numbers show is that this was a great year for books.  But it makes me happy to run it all through Excel.

Weekly Round Up: Christmas Recap 2023

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition I'll tell you about our Christmas eats, a new-to-me workout that I've started doing, the Christmas classic that I finally watched, and some book stuff.

Let's Go Places: The Rust Belt Travel Guide!!!

 

Friends, I got you something for Christmas.  It's a dedicated page on the blog that is a one stop shop listing of all of the cool places that I've found on my home turf.  Announcing: The Rust Belt Travel Guide.  I'll keep it updated in real time as I continue to go places.

Week in the Life: Sunday December 17

Hey friends, we're doing a one week experiment where we hang out each day and I'll tell you everything that's going on in my life (inspired by Stephany's Week in the Life series).  

Somehow a full week has gone by already and our time of hanging out together daily is at an end.  But that doesn't mean that you're SOL if you want more week in the life...because YES YES YES YES KIM IS DOING IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!

Week in the Life: Saturday December 16

 

Hey friends, we're doing a one week experiment where we hang out each day and I'll tell you everything that's going on in my life (inspired by Stephany's Week in the Life series).  Happy Saturday everyone!!!

Week in the Life: Friday December 15

 

Hey friends, we're doing a one week experiment where we hang out each day and I'll tell you everything that's going on in my life (inspired by Stephany's Week in the Life series).  TGIF!

Week in the Life: Thursday December 14

Hey friends, we're doing a one week experiment where we hang out each day and I'll tell you everything that's going on in my life (inspired by Stephany's Week in the Life series).  It's Thursday already???

Week in the Life: Wednesday December 13

 

Hey friends, we're doing a one week experiment where we hang out each day and I'll tell you everything that's going on in my life (inspired by Stephany's Week in the Life series).  Happy Wednesday!

Week in the Life: Tuesday December 12

Hey friends, we're doing a one week experiment where we hang out each day and I'll tell you everything that's going on in my life (inspired by Stephany's Week in the Life series).  Happy Tuesday!

Week in the Life: Monday. December 11

Hey friends, let's do something a little different this week.

I'm a huge fan of "day in the life" posts but every time that I sit down to write one I quickly become horrified by the mundanity of my life and think "I don't want to write this and no one wants to read it". 

But during NaBloPo I was very taken with Stephany's Week in the Life series, and now I find myself motivated to try again. Sometimes you just need to sit down and write the kind of content that you want to see, so we're going to take another stab at this and see what happens.  The worst case is that this will be incredibly boring, the best case is that I might learn something, and the ultimate best case is that some of the other Cool Bloggers might do this themselves (HINT!  HINT!).  In any case, there's not a lot happening this week so I might as well spend my free time doing a bit of extra blogging.

I'm giving myself a bit of a head start by not posting Monday's recap until Wednesday, so hopefully I'll be able to keep up with tracking my fascinating life.

Weekly Round Up: The Leftovers

 

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  In this week's edition we revived our leftover Thanksgiving turkey, I tried a book series that I'd previously had on my "no" list, and I found a good podcast.

Weekly Round Up: a Birthday and a Kitchen Mystery

 

 

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  This week we celebrated a Very Special Birthday with a tiny cake and solved a kitchen mystery.  In my downtime, I hit the Christmas movies.  I predicted a wow, a dud, and a huh, and ended up with a wow, a WOWWWWW WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THIS WAS SUCH A GOOD MOVIE, and as predicted, a huh.