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Reflecting on My 30 Days of Fun

Last night for my very fun 29th day of fun I went out with Kittvator and Wonder Boy to listen to Death Cab for Cutie. Several of my girlfriends were also at the show and the show was really good. It was a pretty awesome way to spend a Friday night.

Tonight for my last day in the 30 Days of Fun I am attending a slumber party with a bunch of awesome ladies.

I have loved the 30 day experiment and intend to do it again. The exercise did help me better develop the habit of regular blogging. My 30 days of fun was more complicated. When I set out on 30 days of fun, I assume it would be easy. Fun! But it was hard. It was way too hard.

It’s an odd feeling to have come to the conclusion that I simply am not having that much fun. It’s such a sad statement. That said, I’m glad I tackled the 30 days, lame as some of my “fun” activities were. And now I have given myself the much larger assignment of trying to make my life more fun and figure out what’s impeding the fun right now.

I think one aspect of fun is your mindset. And mine hasn’t been the most positive. As a private 30 Days activity, I am going to try and pursue a Gratitude Journal. Typically, when I hear people talk about gratitude journals, where you document at least one thing each day you are grateful for, I think they’re a little cheeseball. But if it works, then so be it!

Have you ever found yourself getting caught up in the tedium of life and moving away from what keeps things fun? How do you do you get back to a fun place?

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Days 27 and 28 of My 30 Days of Fun

On vacation my mom lent me The Disappeared by Kim Echlin. It’s about the genocides in Cambodia, which I didn’t realize when I started reading it. A lot of the storyline is taking place in Phnom Phen, which is somewhere I’ve been. It’s so surreal to be reading about a place thousands of miles away and to know you’ve been to the place being referenced.

Over lunch the other day I was talking with a co-worker about her recent trip to Paris. I love talking about travel. Love it. I’m not one of those people who is all gaga for Paris but I love it in the way I love any town in another place. It’s fun to be in other cultures. It ignited my travel bug. This year Wonder Boy gets to pick our travel destination. He better get on it because I’m getting antsy!

Yesterday I had fun at lunchtime watching co-workers watch what I was eating. I had instant Kraft macaroni and cheese and some vegetarian chicken nuggets. Everyone with a child under the age of five was like, “Seriously?” But it was delicious.

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The Breaking Dawn: Part 1 Soundtrack

I make no secret of my love of obsession with the The Features, a band out of Nashville. And I’m not too proud to admit that I read the Twilight books and have seen the movies. Two days ago the lineup for the soundtrack of Breaking Dawn: Part 1 was announced on Twitter, two months before the movie comes out. I was pretty much ecstatic to see that The Features have a track on the album.

It’s a little hard to read, but this is how the soundtrack for Breaking Dawn: Part 1 lines up:

  1. The Joy Formidable: Endtapes
  2. Angus and Julia Stone: Love Will Take Youu
  3. Bruno Mars: It Will Rain
  4. Sleeping At Last: Turning Page
  5. The Features: From Now On
  6. Christina Perri: A Thousand Years
  7. Theophilus London: Neighbors
  8. The Belle Brigade: I Didn’t Mean It
  9. Noisettes: Sister Rosetta (2011 Version)
  10. Cider Sky: Northern Lights
  11. Iron and Wine: Flightless Bird, American Mouth (Wedding Version)
  12. Imperial Mammoth: Requiem on Water
  13. Aqualung and Lucy Schwartz: Cold
  14. Mia Maestro: Llovera
  15. Carter Burwell: Love Death Birth

I am super excited for more people to get introduced to Features!

Check out the trailer for Breaking Dawn: Part 1. (Wonder Boy – close your browser! You will consider this is a spoiler.)

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Proposals and Oreos

Last night Wonder Boy and I spent time with Chaos and Loving It and her boys, our nephews. It was a night of fun (my 26th) for sure. They are all about to set out on a great adventure to California. I am jealous but also sad about the long distance relationship I have to maintain. See, I found out last night that my youngest nephew and I are getting married! I think the age difference could be a problem (he’s two-years-old), but I’m willing to let that go.

Lest you think I forgot about day 25 of fun, fear not! Monday was such a Monday. Coming back from vacation can be such a beast. But I survived the work day and then headed over to the gym. The whole time I was working out, all I could think about was a milkshake. Seriously, my old gym closing might have been for the best. That place was right by a McDonald’s and for some reason, when I work out all I want afterwards is some dairy. Anyway… on Monday I was obsessed with milkshakes but had no place nearby to get one. So my craving shifted and when I went home I completely canceled out the working and sweating by eating (lots of ) Oreos. And they were delicious.

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Review of The Paris Wife

I have a new review online at BookGeeks of The Paris Wife: A Novel by Paula McLain.

It’s a pretty well-known fact Ernest Hemingway was intimately familiar with alcohol. Travel just about anywhere in the world and you’ll find a bar with a sign reading “Hemingway Sat Here.” Some other commonly known facts about the American author include his fame for writing some memorable novels, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, reputation as a ladies’ man, involvement in an expatriate art movement in Paris during the 1920s and, later in life, committing suicide.

These facts do not tell the true story of the man. Paula McLain gives us a much better glimpse in The Paris Wife: A Novel by focusing on Hemingway’s relationship with his first wife, Hadley Richardson.

Read the full review on BookGeeks.

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