A weekly round up: eats, watches, workouts, and reads. This week was wonderfully anti-climatic after last week's drama: my ears are working and the weather was beautiful. Nothing much happened, and I'm good with that.
Eats
The best thing that we ate last week was a repeat easy dinner: Jo Cooks sheet pan sausage and pierogies
The worst thing that we ate last week: whatever Hubs had that took him down hard with a stomach bug, which was most likely a meal that was served at a work event. We had a quiet weekend with very informal meals.
Workouts
The usual! 30 minute cardio treadmill sessions five days a week, and lots of body weight strength. I'm regaining my pushup game after being sidelined by a rib injury for a few months. I've mastered six sets of 6 pushups each, but learned the hard way that my body isn't quite ready to move up to sets of eight pushups.
We started the week with a nice fake spring, which finally melted off the foot of snow that we've had on the ground since January. Then fake spring went out and real winter came back in, but at least we had a taste of the warm stuff. Here is the dusting of snow that we had on Sunday, and we got a couple of inches again today.
Watching
Talk about an anti-climax: I finished all of the Alfred Hitchcock movies!!! Every last one of them!!! There are still a few posts worth of recaps to come, so blogging wise the journey isn't quite over yet. And don't feel bad for me since I got to watch 53 [mostly] incredible movies and I have a nice little watch list of related ideas to work my way through. Plus I need to finish season seven of Outlander, and start season two of The Pitt and season three of Gilded Age so I guess I will find something to do with my time.
Speaking of things to do with my time, Hitchcock's second movie, The Lodger, was inspired by Jack the Ripper, and I knew that I had crossed paths with JR recently. It turns out that when I was scrolling through the archives of The Rest is History podcast (rec from Nicole!) that they did a five part series on every last detail of the case. Between dog walks and hiking the series flew by fast.
Reading
I finished The Age of Innocence for CBBC, which was...eh, give me a minute I'm still processing. The ending definitely made the book, but I'm torn on whether it was worth the effort to get there. It's always fun to read a book with friends, and I love Engie's write ups, so it's all good.
I'm still slowly savoring Inhale, Exhale.
And then there was an extreme DNF. I had an audible credit that I needed to use up, so against my better judgement I got Keira D'Amato's memoir, Don't Call It a Comeback. I don't follow too many runners these days, but she was always a great podcast interview, and sounded like such an interesting person.
I listened to the first hour of the audiobook, and I can't explain exactly what, but something about it majorly rubbed me the wrong way. I realized that I would rather do anything with the remaining eight hours of listen time than to finish the book.
This is only the second time that I've ever done this, but I didn't just DNF, I returned it and got my audible credit back. All that I can say is that this book gave me the ick. There was such a vibe of "I had problems, so I started running, and then I started running more."
What's Next
A quiet week at home this week and then I'm getting back on the road!!!
Peace Out! Have you ever gotten a refund for a book that you didn't like?
Sometimes the anti-climactic weeks are the best weeks you know? And your meals always look yummy! So sorry the hubs was down with a stomach bug. Those are SO awful!
ReplyDeleteWay to go on the push-ups! 36 is a lot!
I like Keira D’Amato’s book, but I did get a similar vibe. As I think you commented on my reading recap, I hope she has lots of things other than running to bring joy to her life. It would seem she does, but the book really only focuses on the running—which is sad. I think I’d like a book about a multi-faceted realtor, comedian, mother, good friend runner, which from other accounts is what I hear she is!
Stomach bugs are the worst! Has it sufficiently passed that you are out of the woods?
ReplyDeleteHooray for completing your AH rewatch! What a fun project! I think I have a post or two of your recaps to read yet and I look forward to the final - and to your thoughts on the project as a whole.
I am loving season two of The Pitt, so I am excited for you to get to it.
(This is Suzanne.)