September 9 – September 15

This week, The Boy bought his first power tool – a 30 dollar drill. He has now drilled holes in a number of pieces of furniture and in many walls happily, and offered to make me a bookshelf.

I had a similarly adult transformation: I bought my first wine glasses. Those of you who have known my longstanding proclivity to drink wine from cups – plastic, if you have it – realize what a monumental five dollar purchase this was!

However, I decided that tomorrow will be my first day of the Whole30 challenge, and my wine glasses will remain unfilled for the next thirty days. This nutritional mind-body transformation better be good… now excuse me, I need to go hard-boil some eggs.

Reading:

• Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Dinner: A Love Story by Jenny Rosenstrach
• Agorafabulous! by Sara Benincasa

Listening To:

• Tom Waits – The Mule Variations
• The Last Five Years
• The sound of holes being drilled

Watching:

• Still auditioning Up All Night
• Daily episodes of “Liberal Propaganda” – The Boy’s choice of The Daily Show, Bill Maher, Colbert Report, or the Rachel Maddow Show.
• It stands to note that I voluntarily watched a football game this week. In a bar.
• An episode of Breaking Bad. We are also auditioning LOST replacement shows…